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[MagmaMcFry]

I had an idea, though. I was thinking that since Yahoo's trying to make tumblr more kid-friendly, the community should go on overdrive. Porn, gore, gorn, and other offensive material makers and uploaders: churn out more of it. Social Justice Warriors: find more things to brand as offensive and be more agressive. Fandoms: be more ridiculous and bring your stuff into even more irrelevant things. Scare the lessers off.

Or how about someone kickstarts a Tumblr clone without the restrictions, and everyone migrates there.

[Slayerhero90]

I had an idea, though. I was thinking that since Yahoo's trying to make tumblr more kid-friendly, the community should go on overdrive. Porn, gore, gorn, and other offensive material makers and uploaders: churn out more of it. Social Justice Warriors: find more things to brand as offensive and be more agressive. Fandoms: be more ridiculous and bring your stuff into even more irrelevant things. Scare the lessers off.

Or how about someone kickstarts a Tumblr clone without the restrictions, and everyone migrates there.

That might work better. If it's done though, might as well send a screw-you to Yahoo as we leave.

[tomio175]

I had an idea, though. I was thinking that since Yahoo's trying to make tumblr more kid-friendly, the community should go on overdrive. Porn, gore, gorn, and other offensive material makers and uploaders: churn out more of it. Social Justice Warriors: find more things to brand as offensive and be more agressive. Fandoms: be more ridiculous and bring your stuff into even more irrelevant things. Scare the lessers off.

Or how about someone kickstarts a Tumblr clone without the restrictions, and everyone migrates there.

That might work better. If it's done though, might as well send a screw-you to Yahoo as we leave.

1. Make Tumblr clone
2. Everyone goes there
3. Yahoo buys it, ruins it
4. Repeat for infinite money.

[SealyStar]

Making a pre-Yahoo Tumblr clone is actually a good idea for exploiting... Tumblr-ites to gain money. If only I had any of the relevant technical skills.

[kaian-a-coel]

By the powers granted to him from the god of swagyolodope.

Oh my... I'm so sigging this...

[OREOSOME]

By the powers granted to him from the god of swagyolodope.

Oh my... I'm so sigging this...

Ia! Ia! Swagyolodope Fhtagn!

[Hanslanda]

At work, a coworker said this:

"What about that little kid in Korea? He's gonna fuckin' nuke us. Or some sand-{YEAHNO} is."

... Goddamn it people.

My reply, "Actually, I'd be MUCH more worried about a white person nuking us than any other ethnicity. Think about this, what two nations have the most nuclear weapons? USA and Russia. What COLOR OF PERSON is in the majority in both countries? Probably white people. Ergo, we are far more likely to get nuked by a white guy (Or Obama, I guess, but he doesn't seem the 'nuke 'em' type.) than any ethnicity you might be racist against."

For note, I am indeed slightly racist (If you would call it that.). I am somewhat distrustful of French and Japanese people, for no reason I can discern, but I don't hate them. I find true racism like the crap I hear living where I do to be quite ignorant and pathetic. A gut instinct thing is one matter, I have no choice in automatically not trusting Japanese people, but I can work past it with practice, and it makes me feel AWFUL when it comes up. CHOOSING to hate someone based on arbitrary bullshit like color, place of birth, or religion is fucked up.

[Skyrunner]

Well, to play the devil's advocate here, neither Russia nor the USA are as unstabled as or threatened as North Korea. Even a mouse will bite when backed into a corner and such, and in this case the mouse has one hell of a set of incisors.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

To play devil's devil's advocate, the mouse's incisors have severe tooth decay.

[IronTomato]

Well, to play the devil's advocate here, neither Russia nor the USA are as unstabled as or threatened as North Korea. Even a mouse will bite when backed into a corner and such, and in this case the mouse has one hell of a set of incisors.

I've never felt like the USA has been feeling actually threatened in my lifetime. To me it seems like we (the USA) are always doing this:

1: Some civil war starts a million miles away.

2: We can make a difference!

3: Military spending.

4: National debt.

[Skyrunner]

A small nuke or two won't do much damage(that the US can't recover from), but it fits the definition of being nuked.

[frostshotgg]

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Unless you are 12 or younger, then you forgot 9/11 and the time immediately after it. That's the 1 single time when I've been alive where people have actually worried about the safety of their nation. The World Trade Center, even in name, represented the power of America and capitalism as a whole. For many people, the red scare was still in clear memory. But the WTC showed that capitalism had prevailed, and that America was still the center of world commerce. And then, almost out of nowhere, this iconic symbol of power was instantly erased, all with 2 planes some almost-nobodies had taken. People were legitimately terrified of it. That is the only time in my memory that the USA has actually been threatenend.

[Hanslanda]

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Unless you are 12 or younger, then you forgot 9/11 and the time immediately after it. That's the 1 single time when I've been alive where people have actually worried about the safety of their nation. The World Trade Center, even in name, represented the power of America and capitalism as a whole. For many people, the red scare was still in clear memory. But the WTC showed that capitalism had prevailed, and that America was still the center of world commerce. And then, almost out of nowhere, this iconic symbol of power was instantly erased, all with 2 planes some almost-nobodies had taken. People were legitimately terrified of it. That is the only time in my memory that the USA has actually been threatenend.

(To continue the trend of devil's devil's advocate. )
You recall the aftermath of this as well, yes? The USA brought all of it's not-inconsiderable resources to bear upon the individuals responsible. Yes, we didn't catch Osama until many years later, but we definitely, DEFIANTLY made a very big show of tearing the Middle East up looking for him.

If North Korea NUKED us... There would no longer be a North Korea within about 24 hours of their launch. Yes, it would be a very unpleasant state of events for the USA AFTER they obliterated NK, what with China having nukes and all, but I do not believe such an attack would not provoke extreme retaliation from us.

[Graknorke]

Pfft, please, I've played DEFCON, you don't have to tell me about nuclear war.

[Gukag]

At work, a coworker said this:

"What about that little kid in Korea? He's gonna fuckin' nuke us. Or some sand-{YEAHNO} is."

... Goddamn it people.

My reply, "Actually, I'd be MUCH more worried about a white person nuking us than any other ethnicity. Think about this, what two nations have the most nuclear weapons? USA and Russia. What COLOR OF PERSON is in the majority in both countries? Probably white people. Ergo, we are far more likely to get nuked by a white guy (Or Obama, I guess, but he doesn't seem the 'nuke 'em' type.) than any ethnicity you might be racist against."

For note, I am indeed slightly racist (If you would call it that.). I am somewhat distrustful of French and Japanese people, for no reason I can discern, but I don't hate them. I find true racism like the crap I hear living where I do to be quite ignorant and pathetic. A gut instinct thing is one matter, I have no choice in automatically not trusting Japanese people, but I can work past it with practice, and it makes me feel AWFUL when it comes up. CHOOSING to hate someone based on arbitrary bullshit like color, place of birth, or religion is fucked up.

Why is ethnicity important? Do you really think he was just being racist? So all the fearmongering during the Cold War was somehow different, because the evil other was "white"? Incidentally, what "colour" are koreans supposed to be? Suggesting that the leader of North Korea is a crazy bastard who could potentially launch nukes if they ever build an efficient delivery method is not so much racism as an opinion, one with a lot to back it, not least the insane ammount of xenophobic war propaganda that country swims in as a matter of course.