Injustice and the Greek Crisis

[andydes]

I've just had a horrible thought. What if Levi isn't just trolling and actually believes the shit he's saying. I've just had a huge swell of pity for the man.

Imagine a bitter and resentful man who spends his life bitching to strangers that a small proportion of his taxes go to help those less fortunate. He looses his job and home in the third wave of global recession. Too proud to accept anything from people who are more than happy to help him get back on his feet, he dies alone in a gutter, still complaining about dope heads. What a tragic waste of a life.

Charles dickins would struggle to come up with a more sad and pathetic character.

[andydes]

Well that video is a bit of an insane rant, but OK.

I'm a slightly different brand of mechanical engineer to you. I got into it because I wanted to make real tangible products that would help people's lives. So I didn't go for the higher paid jobs in oil or weapons. Was originally thinking clean energy, but currently working on low cost chemical analysis equipment. This is largely aimed at testing for contaminants in the water supplies of developing countries, so it's gone vaguely to plan. In this country, engineers are pretty low on the professional pay grade, btw, but I consciously made that choice.

I've run Charity DJ nights with some other guys for whatever cause seemed like a good idea at the time (red cross, DEC, water aid, amnesty, shelter, etc). We paid for all promotion and expenses ourselves. Sadly this is on hold for the time being, but we hope to make a come back. It was quite a bit of work.

I don't claim to be a saint, and I'm certainly no revolutionary. I bought a flat, spend too much money on musical gear, go on holiday on occasion, have drinks with my mates and generally try to enjoy life without being too much of a shit.

Bit average really, but I'm not ashamed of my life so far.

[simmerdown]

jesus

that guy is a wackjob....bunch of cynical bullshit

no one can act out of anything but greed and envy? pfff...

if you are following that guy, i feel worse for you than before, much worse

[H20nly]

so Levi thought the title of the thread was: Its just us and this grease crisis.

he asked that i apologize for him since he is still trying to get to bed (sometimes the kids get sidetracked when it's time to brush their teeth). he realizes now that McDonalds is using cooking oil and not actual grease.

please disregard the off topic utter uselessness of the last four pages.

carry on...

[H20nly]

i gave a guy on the side of the road 5 bucks the other day...

if i leave the state to take care of other people then my son becomes underprivileged... because that leaves no one taking care of him or paying our bills. who will help me/him then?

the answer is no one. i'm a single parent and i get no breaks or assistance from the government or my kid's mother/family... i'm not eligible because i typically make a few more bucks a year than the cutoff point for any government assistance... so even though i pay in i get no benefits just condescending admonishments from little pricks who have no real idea about life... i.e. YOU.

your ideals are perfect for an ideal world Levi. too bad that there is no such thing.

[simmerdown]

you are sooo clever levi

anything thats said about general principles you throw back demanding personal specifics...wow

i do more than i care to explain to you, here and at our production facilities in India

i give time, and take a hit to our bottom line by conducting business as i do

and i think you are full of hot air...a child...even if you have made it to twenty- whatever, you are a foolish, cynical child

[Machinesworking]

In summation:

"Racism" in music is fine
+
"Racism" everywhere else is bad
=
You are Dr. Retardo

Lol! You really are something else! I think of music as art, art has no boundaries, civil discussion on public forums does.
I will watch a movie about racists, even watch a movie that's sympathetic towards racists, but I'm not going to agree with them.
It's called being an adult, you recognize the difference between art and reality. You recognize that a public forum, even one with loose rules like this one, has rules, and you don't break them. One of the main rules that any German owned forum is going to have pertains to racism, that, takes about zero brains to figure out why it might be so, and literally almost zero effort to comply with. That you cannot control yourself in this way is hilarious.

Though I give it up to this one, that, was funny!

Fuck everybody race

If a spider reading this I wanna say FUCK the arachnid family!

[LoopStationZebra]

[LoopStationZebra]

^tl;dr


C'mon David, this is just fucking ridiculous at this point. Do what needs to be done. Make it slow. Make it painful.

[simmerdown]

ha, more arm waving...all this was leading up to your laundry list of charitable accomplishments? pathetic

whether you believe me or not makes no difference

yeh, it sucks to be underestimated doesnt it levi? to have ppl make assumptions about you...that must be a real bummer

and a racist to boot? how do you reconcile that with your charity and all?

[arctic ranger]

Call me whatever you want I do not give a fuck

damn man...i wish i could love your "shtick" but i cant!!!

ive seen some really freaking epic battles in the past. machine, beats, possibly loops know what im talking about.

you gotta show some more depth man. not just outright attack but maybe a bit more subtle like.

maybe sorta contribute to some worthy threads a bit more....kinda make it where nobody can say shit about anything...then go into these flame threads and bammm!! give them what you got

[simmerdown]

oh yes, you care desperately, thats why you write books like the one above...

as for what you've done, if true, that's very nice...but you shouldn't need affirmation on that

as for all your other prejudices, i hope you are unburdened of them one day, wont happen until you let go all your unfounded assumptions as well, good luck with that

[Forge.]

congrats Levi - you've made another thread all about you.

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[Machinesworking]

But like a typical haole, your ego is just so strong that even in the face of incontrovertible proof that I know what I'm talking about you still can't bring yourself to be just a little bit humble. THIS is what I'm referring to when I talk about haoles. Everyone who is NOT a haole knows EXACTLY what I am talking about and know for themselves the quality in you I'm alluding to.

In your dull and insensitive mind it somehow makes sense that I am racist even though I likely have done more in the way of humanitarianism in 1 year than you have done in your entire god damn life.

It should be expected on a forum filled with middle-aged erectily dysfunct white guys that you are going to hold hard & fast to an irrelevant (not to mention untrue) belief you've formulated as long as you can because the idea that someone else is more of a man than you is terrifying.

Well, denying it doesn't make it any less of a fact.

Call me whatever you want I do not give a fuck

You simply do not get it do you? Because you did "nice" things in no way, not one single tiny bit takes away from the simple fact that you're a fucking racist.
There are plenty of charity working KKK members, plenty of racists don't want every member of the race they belittle dead. Again the definition is simple and to the point, if you think any emotional, intellectual or "spiritual" generalization can be made about any person or group of people because of their skin color and you say that sort of thing, you're a racist.

Also total LOL at you helping people who lost their homes when a natural disaster hit, yet in the same thread you're bragging about that, you're shitting on people who got hit with an economic disaster! Hey it's not like Hurricanes in that area are common right? using your own logic they should have known better than to live in areas where that weather pattern hits.

[Machinesworking]

You guys are just using this racist thing as an angle; like everything else you've brought up to "beat me" in this argument you don't actually give a real fuck about whether I'm racist or not, just like you don't give enough of a shit about the "under-privileged" to actually do something about it.

Being raised the way I was, I certainly do care. Nothing bothers me more than racists, whether it's butthurt non-whites acting like privilaged angry kids like you do about it, or "rebel" whites who also think they've figured out why the world is horrible and blame it on other races. See the thing is you must mainly deal with white liberal pussies who easily fall into some sort of guilt routine whenever they're confronted with racism from other races and let you blab on and on and on.

The simple fact is poverty and being underprivileged isn't some sort of thing that only happens to non-whites, it's not some rocket science to figure out that it's a small percentage of people who have an enormous amount of wealth, the rest of us have to survive not by what our parents and relatives can offer us, but by struggle. My parents were bellow poverty level for years, in fact it wasn't until I had moved out and been on my own for ten years did they start raising above that level. So don't give me any garbage line about helping the poor etc. assuming that we're all guilt ridden middle class whites who can be bullied with shit like that. Every single time people like you open your mouths you move any sort of real progress back 100 years. Nothing wrong with being proud of who you are, but the back side of that is belittling and looking down on other racial or ethnic groups because you're too stupid to figure out that that racial and ethnic classification is exactly the way your group was put into a little box and made into subhumans. Then brutally conquered and forced to learn a whole new culture because yours was considered "primitive".
The sad fact is I'm betting you, like many people believe it's because "whites are fucked up", disregarding the horrifying things that every single culture has perpetuated on other (and it's own) people. You, yeah you, you're the one who's whining an using race as a crutch, saying that's why we think you're an arrogant prick, because we're "white" people and therfore we can't handle your manliness!

You're either part of the problem or part of the solution with this. It's really very simple, you judge each individual on his or her own merit.
That means giving up using opening lines in conversations like "You haolies!"