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[misko27]

People innately desire power. While the new government will not be as powerful initially (due to a lack of resources), it will grow more powerful with time due to human nature.

Oooh, my urge to quote Marat/Sade while screaming like a madman is rising. Let's indulge the inner dialogue, but spoilered so as to not bother the audience with our quotations and digressions.

Spoiler: The Revolution came and went, and unrest was replaced by discontent (click to show/hide)

The problem with revolutions is that people who have the ability and knowledge to participate in government rarely find it necessary to rebel- either they're part of the ruling class, and thus more likely to be rebelled against, or the system has enough citizen participation that revolution is not needed to solve the problem in the first place. So the people rise up, take power, and then realize that they have no idea whatsoever what to do with the reins they've just seized.

Besides that, once the war is won, the leaders of the revolution start to realize that they are now the top dogs in the kennel. Now that there's nobody strong enough to tell them "no", they can start getting back at old rivals, undercut new rivals, or even indulge in vices that were heretofore forbidden to them.

Marquis de Sade: It's easy to get mass movements moving. Movements that move in vicious circles. I don't believe in idealists who charge down blind alleys. I don't believe in any of the sacrifices that have been made for any cause. I believe only in myself.
Jean-Paul Marat: I believe in the Revolution! We have routed out the old tyrants, and now we have new tyrants. But still I believe in the Revolution. The spoils have been grabbed by businessman, middle-men, financiers, salesmen, operators, manipulators. But the Revolution must continue.

This usually results in an extremely incompetent new government, and one that lacks the internal cohesion to survive long enough to figure out what the hell they're doing. Even when you're dealing with somebody like Simón Bolívar that has the prestige to hold things together, that person's influence rarely outlives them, and is thus not enough to offset the issue.

We've got new generals, our leaders are new/They sit and they argue and all that they do/Is sell their own colleagues/And ride upon their backs/Or jail them, or break them/Or give them all the ax!

Just a note, I was never promoting the idea of revolution... "revolution" implies a bunchacunce trying to seize power from the existing rulers, 'cause they're convinced they have better ideas on how things should be run.
Generally they suck even harder than whoever was in charge before.

Against Nature's silence, I use action
In the vast indifference, I invent a meaning
I don't watch unmoved, I intervene
and say that this, and this, are wrong
(suddenly shouting) and I work to alter them and improve them
(quiet) The important thing
is to pull yourself up by your own hair
to turn yourself inside out
and see the whole world with fresh eyes

Democracy is massively overrated.
The least shit example of democracy I've seen was that practised by the Orfus pirates of the Greater Teeth, and we all know how that ended up.

Fight on land and sea
All men want to be free
If they don't
never mind
we'll abolish all mankind

I'm still resisting the urge to just thumb through the script and quote things. It's an excellent play. You know, when my sister was in the mental ward for two weeks (a few... years ago now, actually), the bastards running her care wouldn't let her have her almost anything: not the candy I brought, not the toys (they only barely let me take my own wallet), but what really outraged me was their refusal to let her have her stuffed animals, for fear of "weapons" hidden in them. She cried. I was furious. But, as she was bored and unhappy, I brought her Marat/Sade instead. I was positively delighted to see that the they let her have that, perhaps the only thing they let her keep, despite the story in it taking place in an asylum, with the mental patients as the actors in a play performing for the public's amusement, with the climax involving a... revolt? Riot? Mutiny? An uprising of patients who attack the orderlies and the asylum director in the climax. The fact that they let her have that was, well... You can imagine my profound amusement.

There are some schools of thought that say that, under the circumstances, I shouldn't have provided such reading materials to my sister, and that it was irresponsible to do so. These schools of thoughts are mostly promulgated by wankers. The fact that she was able to leave without inciting a riot (no matter how much she may have wanted to, for sure), is retrospective evidence of my foresight.

[scriver]

It's almost as if their precautions existed not simply because of them being petty tyrants but for some serious reason.

[Reelya]

Possibly the shittiest youtube challenge ever is the "hot water challenge". A kid got severely burned because his "friends" did a "prank" where they boiled a kettle of water then poured the whole thing over his head while he was sleeping.

[Yoink]

Doesn't... doesn't the victim/participant of one of those challenges have to consent for it to count?!

I'm quite fond of the hot coil challenge, myself.

[Kagus]

I think the main "challenge" of most social media challenges is to try and not make it obvious that you as a participant are mentally challenged.

[Yoink]

Well then, the only way to not lose is to not play.

[Reelya]

I prefer that challenge where girls try and hold up a can of coke with just their boobs.

[Yoink]

I prefer that challenge where girls try and hold up a line of coke with just their boobs.

FTFY

[Tack]

Welp, now the youtube algorithms are going to be showing me some sketchy stuff.

[pisskop]

They added a 'recently uploaded' section I cant undo.

I get a lot of smut from the wide variety of stuff I watch.

- online courses
- video games
- wild animal
- Philosophy
- far right and far left vlogs
- bros working out -and failing-

Youtube seems to love inundating me with a particular theme of videos that I watched 4 times 6 months ago and then when I do click on just one they say -LOOK- We told you like this; have some more.



But, for some damn reason, despite never having clicked on one, youtube is sure I want to watch fat people try to fit into doors.

[Kagus]

I've managed to unintentionally and silently "pay it forward" today.

After failing to make it out of the apartment and do something constructive over at the Fountain House today (a subject more suited for the MSad/Disappoint threads), I decided to pop over to the Turkish grocer across the street to pick up a couple necessities (such as sriracha).

Since it's 1 PM on a workday, it's obviously time for the shop to be winding up for one of its many rush hours. I managed to wind my way around the other customers and picked up a few goodies, and was ready to check out.

The cashier I ended up with this time is someone I don't recognize, and I believe she might be a fairly new hire to boot (sure, just toss them to the wolves during rush hour why don't ya...), and she ended up having a little trouble with the conveyer controls, causing my purchases to violently force themselves upon the collection of the fellow in front of me.

She got a little confused with the bag of apples he'd picked out, and thought they were mine. After we both tried to clear the matter up, he apparently got his things scanned and processed, he paid, and he left.

Then it was my turn, and I thought things were working out fine until she recited the total cost of my items, which seemed a teensy bit high. I had picked out a few expensive items though, and not wanting to hold up the line and the five people behind me, I figured I'd just guessed a bad estimate and made a mental note to check the receipt when I got home.

Sure enough, the receipt revealed that I'd not only paid for the apples, but what looks like nearly the entire purchase of the dude before me. I put my shoes back on and returned to the store to make a mention of it (after psyching myself up enough to brave the potential conflict), but in the five minutes I'd been gone from the store, rush hour had settled in properly and the girl's line was now backed up into an aisle and around the shelves at the end. I didn't want to make a fuss for her, hold up the dozen or so customers waiting to get processed, or indeed stand around waiting the entire duration necessary to make it through the line.

So, instead, I just turned around and left, deciding to eat the ~$17 loss and pretend that I did a good deed, even if nobody knew about it.


I don't believe in karma, but there are times I'd really like for it to be a thing... It'd make me feel a whole lot holier when suffering through social anxiety derps.

[Caz]

Possibly the shittiest youtube challenge ever is the "hot water challenge". A kid got severely burned because his "friends" did a "prank" where they boiled a kettle of water then poured the whole thing over his head while he was sleeping.

Seems more like attempted murder than a 'prank'.

[Mephisto]

People are stupid.

Remember the condom challenge? Heard about the fucknut who did so with a used condom and then got face herpes?

I could list many more "X Challenge" fuckups just off the top of my head.

[JoshuaFH]

Possibly the shittiest youtube challenge ever is the "hot water challenge". A kid got severely burned because his "friends" did a "prank" where they boiled a kettle of water then poured the whole thing over his head while he was sleeping.

Seems more like attempted murder than a 'prank'.

Sounds like the 'prank' where a guy tackled someone at an ATM yelling "Gimme the money!" and then got his face punched and then he got arrested.

[wierd]

I am reminded of this trite little gem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q-eiCEVjF0