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Seconded.
no. AI was a stupid forum. If you want to talk about political issues do it in CI or preferably don't do it online.
allot of people liked it.
Cant say I had time for it, but some people seem to enjoy wallowing in a realm of tl;dr
kt before i didnt like you mostly because of how ugly you are but now you are just a terrible poster
i second ai, it wont be very active, but you cant talk about politics or any specific subject matter in ci because it won't be taken seriously
Yeah and any attempt to do so would be bombarded with 'you're a faggot' and 'this is a terrible thread oh jesus I'm bored and just want to talk about meaningless shit' comments.
Exactly.
Although I didn't post much, it sure as hell was the most interesting forum to read through on my "politically active" days.
I thought that AI really was a fantastic forum and it really should be brought back. If it was CI then people would just flame as much as they could without actually flaming. If that makes sense.
I told my friend that casual discourse was back up and running and he didn't want to join because the forum he liked best was Armchair Intellectuals. And it wasn't here. Just throwin' that out there.
use casual intercourse for now
ai will return when there are more people
right now it would be three threads with mr die and someone who got sucked into his web of insanity
casually intercourse instead of going to college
We have more users now, and victrola can't seem to defeat my arguments in Flames so he edits my posts, so yeah.
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Yeah, when socialism ended and capitalism came, poverty went through the roof and everyone emigrated. It was the largest exodus of people since WWII. Thanks capitalism.
The USA, Russia, DPRK, India, UK, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Israel, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Canada, Europe in general, most of Africa, generally the entire world, etc.Quote:
bringing china to the un: who cares if china is part of the UN
Hoxhaists still overthrew the government. They also fought against the military dictatorship in Brazil and against the various military dictatorships of Turkey, not to mention fought against the Colombian government in cooperation with FARC, have seats in the Ecuadorian assembly, etc. Hell, probably the most popular place for Hoxhaism in the West is Britain.Quote:
overthrowing the ethiopian government: wow what a worthwhile achivement that is - just look at all of the historical sights and valuable resources that ethiopia has to offer any would-be ruler
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how about you fuck off back to your world of make-believe where communists rule all nations
As a former mainly AI poster, I actually prefer talking about politics in CI nowadays.
AI threads tended to devolve into very stilted, needlessly formal arguments that tended to kill conversation rather than encourage it. Injecting some real(TM) humour into it and maybe getting a bit derailled now and then isn't necessarily a bad thing.
to be honest and i am not being sarcastic or facetious flames often and consistently yields more intelligent debates than pretty much any incarnation of ai has
ya AI pretty much sucked. (not the mods fault)
edit: suggesting EB. (unless there already is one and I just don't have access to it.)
well i mean think about it. there are titans of ai who are the smartest people ever like exodite and pansophist and nine castles was awesome in ai and so were you and many others
but flames has people who will say fuck the rules of debate i'm just going to argue my ass off without caring if i use naughty words or offend someone else and basically proved that, at least the greats of flames (of which there were more than there were greats of ai) were far, far better than the average stool water that the dregs of ai churned out, under protection from "no flaming" rules.
i mean if ai were more selective and had a greater number of really cool posters then it would've been amazing. but it allowed by its very nature an astonishing amount of ass gravy.
also because you wouldn't let me forumban people for being retarded. :(
Remember when I was elected Smartest Poster in AI?
At risk of being undeservedly self-deprecating, that's when I knew AI was completely full of idiots. It was formulaic. On the bright side, it taught me that I can win any election by following a simple formula because I'm me.
Perhaps a partial solution would be to allow moderate flaming, but only in the context of a logical argument.
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But to allow simple "retorts" of insults would just make it Flames with limitations on the topic of the OP but nothing after that.Quote:
42 USC 1983 says you can't do that because it's considered a violation of civil rights. You stupid cunt.
that's much worse than flames. flames is insults, arguments and jokes all "integrated". it's not just <argument> <insult> <joke>.
if someone can propose to me an ai that would work and have sustained activity i'll definitely implement it. i just don't see a need when we can have and are having debates in flames that are intelligent and entertaining. (yes, because it's flames, there's also some retardation and idiocy, but you take the good and you take the bad.)
AI with democratically elected mods who answer to nobody but the people, man.
It's like America.
Commie.
You take it all and there you have....
THE FACTS OF LIFE!
THE FACTS OF LIFE!
There's a time you got to go and show
You're growin' now you know about
THE FACTS OF LIFE!
THE FACTS OF LIFE!
When the world never seems
to be liiiiiiiiivin up to your dreams
And suddenly you're finding out
THE FACTS OF LIFE
are all about you, you, aaaaaaaall about yoooooooooou!
i was trying soooo hard to remember that but i couldn't
you take the good, you take the bad, and there you have
my opening statement.
sit, ubu, sit.