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[rrneck]

19. This place is made of words.

It's a linguistic lens that excludes the bulk if meaningful human interaction. There are no Shakespeares here, just people throwing words on a wall. There are some words I won't use here because I can't imagine anyone here annoying me or hurting me enough to use them, or out of deference to their sensibilities because of the nature of the place. That doesn't mean I won't use them elsewhere because its my right to use language as I see fit.

I think what we are discovering with DU3 is that we aren't as homogeneous a group as we thought we were. To my mind only one thing really counts here - votes. If we want to fix this country we need to find common ground. That common ground is money. The 1% has our money and we want it back. If we're going to get our money back a lot of women are going to have to get used to cooperating with guys who will stare at their chests and call them baby, and a lot of men will learn to walk on tippy toe. We've been working on that problem for 15,000 years so I don't expect a solution any time soon.

Language is plastic and people will bend and stretch it almost beyond recognition. Its like jello. You can mold it any way you want. And it's really hard to physically hurt someone by hitting with a handfull of jello. I always try to remember that in a shit throwing contest it's not how much you throw, it's how much sticks to you that counts.

I bet if we all got together in real life we'd get along pretty well.