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[Sergarr]

Who's that?

[lorb]

The Greatest Magic: The Gathering combo that has ever been combo'd. Ever. No questions

Wow, that has... broken the game.

imho still does not beat the Magic: The Gathering Turing Machine for greatest combo

[Skyrunner]

Riven, from League of Legends.

To be exact, it's a cutout from this webcomic strip. It took quite a while to clear away the speech bubbles and redraw the hair and body

[scrdest]

'This song is obviously about Mike Portnoy being trapped in the middle of his drum set.'

Someone's comment on a song by dream theater about how people are trapped in circles when they try to change things.

Made me laugh.

If you don't get it, his drum set is fucking HUGE.

Heh, you watched the same upload as me, I remember that comment.

In the same vein:
"The band Rush is here! Either that, or a drum factory exploded in the studio."

(Hardly surprising, the former along with the rest of the band, and as it turns out Mangini as well, which gave me a +10 to respect to him is heavily inspired by the latter).

[FearfulJesuit]

Today we had student council elections at my university, and they let me take a couple of sheets of "I Voted" stickers. I plastered them on the flyers that had been put up by the Students for a Stateless Society that said "What is Anarchism?"

[kaijyuu]

Hehe.

Personally, I fail to understand anarchists. Governments tend to be messy, but there's two (big) problems with anarchy.
1) It's worse because there's an utter lack of laws. people are led by their morality, and there's a fair few people out there who have very flexible morals.
2) It'll lead to a government eventually, because you'll have people banding together, then they come up with rules and so on.

1 is no different than how it currently is. People with "flexible" morals as you put it can get into power you know... politicians and businesspeople aren't known for their morality.
2 I agree with.

[kaijyuu]

Counterpoint x3:

Deterrents do work to some degree, but removing the need for them to do these acts will work much better. Muggers mug for money; an anarchistic society would probably be egalitarian in terms of property.
As for murder, such people are probably willing to do it regardless of the consequences. Most are crimes of passion as far as I know, and deterrents don't work against those types of crimes at all.

[miauw62]

I think I mostly got my computer working again...

avgui.exe was throwing weird read errors but I needed an excuse to switch to Avast! anyway.
Also I lost my perfect dos vga font that I use for IRC.

[kaijyuu]

Counterpoint #5:
That would be caused by your point #2 in your first post, which I agreed with. It'd start out egalitarian though.

[Graknorke]

Hehe.

Personally, I fail to understand anarchists. Governments tend to be messy, but there's two (big) problems with anarchy.
1) It's worse because there's an utter lack of laws. people are led by their morality, and there's a fair few people out there who have very flexible morals.
2) It'll lead to a government eventually, because you'll have people banding together, then they come up with rules and so on.

Anarchy would just end up with new governments forming, unless there was a central committee ensuring that no organisations form, in which case, well, there's an organisation there.

[scrdest]

Counterpoint x3:

Deterrents do work to some degree, but removing the need for them to do these acts will work much better. Muggers mug for money; an anarchistic society would probably be egalitarian in terms of property.
As for murder, such people are probably willing to do it regardless of the consequences. Most are crimes of passion as far as I know, and deterrents don't work against those types of crimes at all.

Naturally? No, it wouldn't. Especially if we're talking about going out tomorrow, taking a bunch of random people of the street and starting such a society, where people hold on to property out of inertia. You'd have to enforce egalitarianism in terms of property, which KINDA SORTA ruins the point of having an anarchistic society in the first place.

[miauw62]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the ideology of anarchists that they want a democratically chosen "mini-governement" for all seperate institutions that'd generally be governement-controlled, instead of total anarchy?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The ideology of anarchists vary, but pretty much none of them believe in the "utter chaos" version of their ideology that is often subscribed to them.

If you want to know about how an anarchist society would function, look up CNT-FAI's activities during and after the Spanish Civil War. The Ukrainian Free Territory was also an anarchist state, but it never really got itself together enough to be analyzable.

[Graknorke]

Meanwhile in the middle of a political argument:
Very touching and sad video.

[MaximumZero]

This is the happy thread, man. Don't bring sads in here.