Some things need to be said

[funwes]

Why yes, there is!

[nerd-boy]

Wow, took you guys long enough.

[funwes]

I swear I thought it had been posted before, or at least similar paragraphs have been posted in threads

[nerd-boy]

Oh it has been used before.

I'm just surprised that no one really picked up on it right away (except CK really)

[Heartless]

we all caught on (except abroxas) it's just not all of us have the link saved.

[airob]

I remember something like this happened last year? or the year before? and it went pretty bad. iirc it was a website that automatically writes a letter full of complain stuff like this for you.

*Aheam*

[TheScribe]

What I've been thinking and writing for years - I can finally post in this thread. I wrote all of this while underway...

My complaint about AWBW

What I am about to say is strictly off the record. On that understanding, I shall give you candidly and without circumlocution the best estimate of our present plight that I have been able to make. First and foremost, AWBW thinks that we can change the truth if we don't like it the way it is. Of course, thinking so doesn't make it so.

AWBW's reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth but only addlepated answers, incoherent resolutions to conflicts. AWBW's intent is to prevent us from asking questions. It doesn't want the details checked. It doesn't want anyone looking for any facts other than the official facts it presents to us. I wonder if this is because most of its "facts" are false.

I respect AWBW's insinuations, although it snorts around like a truffle pig in search of proof that we should avoid personal responsibility. I suspect that the only thing that AWBW will find from such a search is that it uses all sorts of psychological jujitsu to brainwash people into believing that it's inflexibly honest, thoroughly patriotic, and eminently solicitous to promote, in all proper ways, the public good. Now that that's cleared up, I'll continue with what I was saying before, that I need your help if I'm ever to hold it to account for burning our fair cities to the ground. "But I'm only one person," you might protest. "What difference can I make?" The answer is: a lot more than you think. You see, it would be great if all of us could reach the broadest possible audience with the message that AWBW is indifferent as to whether its words mean anything or not. In the end, however, money talks and you-know-what walks. Perhaps that truism also explains why when I was a child my clergyman told me, "Pretending to be a victim is AWBW's unregenerate attempt to put a litigious spin on important issues." If you think about it you'll see his point.

AWBW's satellites have repeatedly been caught seizing control over where we eat, sleep, socialize, and associate with others. I had expected better from it and its vaunted lynch mob, but then again, AWBW's blackshirts maintain that AWBW can achieve its goals by friendly and moral conduct. Sorry, guys, but the inconvenient truth is that AWBW's casus belli are rife with contradictions and difficulties; they're thoroughly costive, meet no objective criteria, and are unsuited for a supposedly educated population. And as if that weren't enough, if you think that this is humorous or exaggerated, you're wrong.

AWBW wants us to believe that eventually it will be considered cool to quash other people's opinions. Yes, things will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that. I choose to believe that if I hear AWBW's pals say, "All minorities are poor, stupid ghetto trash" one more time, I'm going to throw up.

Some will say I exaggerate, but actually I'm being quite lenient. I didn't mention, for example, that in the good old days, when courage, honor, devotion, duty, and loyalty meant something, it was comparatively easy to address the legitimate anger, fear, and alienation of people who have been mobilized by AWBW because they saw no other options for change. I don't think anyone questions that. But did you know that it is neither possible nor desirable to ignore the issue of ageism here?

One of the enduring effects of AWBW's pronouncements is surely the way they will trade facts for fantasy, truth for myths, academics for collective socialization, and individual thinking for group manipulation. If anything, AWBW maintains that it is not only acceptable but indeed desirable to extend an upas shadow over all that is right and good. That's not just a lie but is actually the exact opposite of the truth—and AWBW knows it. Why is AWBW deliberately turning the truth on its head like that? I apologize if this disappoints you, but my intent was only to elucidate the question, not to answer it. I shall therefore state only that our battle with AWBW is a battle between spiritualism and cronyism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that I enjoy the great diversity of humankind, in our food, our dress, our music, our literature, and our forms of spiritual expression. What I don't enjoy are AWBW's uppity conclusions, which curry favor with the worst kinds of snotty whifflers there are using a barrage of flattery, especially recognition of their "value", their "importance", their "educational mission", and other officialism-prone nonsense. AWBW's inveracities reek of blackguardism. I use the word "reek" because it would be charitable of me not to mention that AWBW aims at nothing less than the complete overthrow of capitalism, representational government, and democracy. Fortunately, I am not beset by a spirit of false charity so I will instead maintain that its belief systems are not an abstract problem. They have very concrete, immediate, and unpleasant consequences. For instance, it claims that society will benefit if it goes ahead with its plan to fuel the censorship-and-intolerance crowd. That's like pulling up a plant to see how the roots are doing. It also proves that AWBW is oblivious to the fact that I've known some dipsomaniacs who were impressively pesky. However, AWBW is polyloquent and that trumps pesky every time.

So maybe we must stick to our guns and not let AWBW convince us that black is white and night is day. Big deal. What's more important is that if it honestly believes that some of my points are not valid, I would love to get some specific feedback from it. AWBW, already oppressive with its wild endeavors, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species—if separate species we be—for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. If you think that that's a frightening thought then consider that I once had a nightmare in which AWBW was free to scar little children's self-image. When I awoke, I realized that this nightmare was frighteningly close to reality. For instance, it is the case both in my nightmare and in reality that I have never been in favor of being gratuitously mudslinging. I have also never been in favor of sticking my head in the sand or of refusing to oppose AWBW and all it stands for.

Please remember that AWBW has stated that its assertions are intelligent, commonsensical, and entirely consonant with the views of ordinary people. One clear inference from that statement—an inference that is never really disavowed—is that the few of us who complain regularly about its lamentations are simply spoiling the party. Now that's just aberrant.

AWBW would not hesitate to traffic in our blood, our birthright, and our security if it felt it could benefit from doing so. How I pity AWBW if I were to be its judge. I would start by notifying the jury that by refusing to act, by refusing to deliver AWBW from its appalling ignorance, we are giving AWBW the power to control what we do and how we do it. While these incidents may seem minor, AWBW is a financial predator who preys on the elderly, the gullible, and the vulnerable. It seeks their assets to support its own lavish existence. Keep that in mind while I state the following: AWBW may be reasonably cunning with words. However, it is entirely impulsive with everything else. In conclusion, let me just say that I hope to tap into people's sense of fair play to excite them about snapping AWBW's hired goons out of their trance.

[funwes]

AWBW would not hesitate to traffic in our blood,

YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT

[headphone]

I want this letter to serve as an oasis of sanity in Advance Wars by Web's desert of foolishness. As you read this letter, bear in mind that there are many points of general dissatisfaction and dispute that should not, on any account, be overlooked in the discussion of the subjects here presented. One of these is that wherever vengeful big-labor bosses are seen hastening the destruction of our civilization, Advance Wars by Web is there. Wherever mordacious, intrusive sectarians are found interfering with the most important principles of democracy, Advance Wars by Web is lurking nearby. Wherever sniveling autocrats are observed frog-marching Advance Wars by Web's critics into the nearest detention center or internment camp, Advance Wars by Web will no doubt be in the vicinity. I defy any coincidence theorist to try to explain away those observations. Clearly, if we're not careful, Advance Wars by Web's lackadaisical theatrics will throw us into a third world war sooner than you think.

Advance Wars by Web is doing everything in its power to make me kiss my freedom goodbye. The only reason I haven't yet is that I believe in the four P's: patience, prayer, positive thinking, and perseverance. "What's that?", I hear you ask. "Is it true that one personality trait that's common to many linguacious fault-finders is arrogance—a trait that Advance Wars by Web has in abundance?" Why, yes, it is. Advance Wars by Web's maneuvers are based on hate. Hate, absolutism, and an intolerance of another viewpoint, another way of life.

I should add parenthetically that Advance Wars by Web does not tolerate any view that differs from its own. Rather, it discredits and discards those people who contradict it along with the ideas that they represent. The basal lie that underlies all of Advance Wars by Web's hotheaded blanket statements is that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. Translation: It is not only acceptable but indeed desirable to obstruct important things. I doubt you need any help from me to identify the supreme idiocy of those views, but you should nevertheless be aware that if you can go more than a minute without hearing Advance Wars by Web talk about solecism, you're either deaf, dumb, or in a serious case of denial. We must justify condemnation, constructive criticism, and ridicule of Advance Wars by Web and its improvident principles. By "we", I mean all the hundreds of thousands who fundamentally long for the same thing without, as individuals, finding the words to describe outwardly what they inwardly visualize.

Advance Wars by Web frequently accuses its nemeses of making human life negligible and cheap. This is yet another example of the growing lack of civility in our civil discourse that ranges from the duplicitous to the picayunish and even egocentric. In a more proper debate, one would instead politely point out that Advance Wars by Web's opinions have caused widespread social alienation, and from this alienation a thousand social pathologies have sprung. Okay, I admit that it would be a mistake to believe that the government (and perhaps Advance Wars by Web itself) should have sweeping powers to arrest and hold people indefinitely on flimsy grounds. But Advance Wars by Web's long-term goal is to turn back the clock and repeal all the civil rights and anti-discrimination legislation now on the books. I hate to break it to it, but down that path lies only heartache and tears. That's why I insist on mentioning that if the only way to take the initiative to shine a light on Advance Wars by Web's efforts to galvanize the ribald, ill-natured herd into enthusiastically supporting its delusional, overweening criticisms is for me to turn to a life of crime, then so be it. It would undeniably be worth it because to say that Advance Wars by Web is forward-looking, open-minded, and creative is philopolemical nonsense and untrue to boot.

Regardless of what Advance Wars by Web seems to maintain, nothing can quench its insatiable thirst for power. One might conclude that emotionalism is a source of livelihood for Advance Wars by Web. Alternatively, one might conclude that Advance Wars by Web's skills are generally used to exploit, abuse, and exert power. In either case, Advance Wars by Web is like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. Pull back the curtain of misoneism and you'll see an ill-tempered, pesky lamebrain hiding behind it, furiously pulling the levers of militarism in a humorless, devious attempt to coordinate a revolution. That sort of discovery should make any sane person realize that some people I know say that Advance Wars by Web's peons will have to stop shouting "Me, me!" and learn to harmonize on "Us, us!". Others argue that it often uses the phrase, "Studies show that…", to introduce statements that wind up being chiefly about ideology, hunch, or preference. At this point the distinction is largely academic given that it is mathematically provable that my chief objective is to pull back the curtains on Advance Wars by Web's editorials and show them for what they really are. I'm not actually familiar with the proof for that statement and wouldn't understand it even if it were shown to me, but it seems very believable based upon my experience. What's also quite believable is that Advance Wars by Web has—not once, but several times—been able to resolve a moral failure with an immoral solution without anyone stopping it. How long can that go on? As long as its stubborn subliminal psywar campaigns are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties.

This should be a chance to examine and bring problems to light, to share and join in understanding, but Advance Wars by Web's hatchet jobs are not an abstract problem. They have very concrete, immediate, and unpleasant consequences. For instance, someone has been giving Advance Wars by Web's brain a very thorough washing, and now Advance Wars by Web is trying to do the same to us. Now, lest you jump to the conclusion that people find Advance Wars by Web's unrelenting, over-the-top hostility rather refreshing, I assure you that one of its cohorts keeps throwing "scientific" studies at me, claiming they prove that science is merely a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power. The studies are full of "if"s, "possibly"s, "maybe"s, and various exceptions and admissions of their limitations. This leaves the studies inconclusive at best and works of fiction at worst. The only thing these studies can possibly prove is that Advance Wars by Web does not appeal to most people as being the most endearing or public-minded of organizations. Maybe its image would improve somewhat if it stopped trying to harm others or even instill the fear of harm.

Should we sit back and let Advance Wars by Web truck away our freedoms for safekeeping, or should we argue about its dissertations? That choice sure sounds like a no-brainer to me. Should we worry that Advance Wars by Web wants to sidetrack us so we can't call a spade a spade? In a word, yes. And that's not just because its intellectual dishonesty, mismanagement of facts, and outright lies make confused upstarts (especially the disaffected type) seem ready for sainthood, in comparison, but also because I, not being one of the many temerarious usurers of this world, have a practical plan for improving the state of education in this country. I propose that we get knowledgeable and well-trained teachers, equip them with syllabi filled with challenging texts and materials, and have them teach students that Advance Wars by Web has vowed that by the end of the decade it'll add insult to injury. This is hardly news; Advance Wars by Web has been vowing that for months with the regularity of a metronome. What is news is that it has indicated that if we don't let it shift our society from a culture of conscience to a culture of consensus then it'll be forced to show us a gross miscarriage of common judgment. That's like putting rabid attack dogs in silk suits. In other words, Advance Wars by Web has issued us a thinly veiled threat that's intended primarily to scare us away from the realization that if it sincerely believes that everyone who scrambles aboard the Advance Wars by Web bandwagon is guaranteed a smooth ride then it must be smoking something illegal.

Anyone who has spent much time wading through the pious, obscurantist, jargon-filled cant that now passes for "advanced" thought in the humanities already knows that Advance Wars by Web favors a huffy "Code of Conduct" that serves no purpose other than to enact new laws forcing anyone who's not one of Advance Wars by Web's collaborators to live in an environment that can be described, at best, as contemptuously tolerant. What may be news, however, is that it has long been getting away with introducing more restrictions on our already dwindling freedoms. I urge all of my beautiful and loyal fans to walk with me side-by-side as we march up the steps of justice to right this unconscionable wrong and prove to the world that Advance Wars by Web has got to go—and yesterday isn't soon enough. The world today seems to be going crazy. That's something you won't find in your local newspaper because it's the news that just doesn't fit.

Notice the ruthless tendency of Advance Wars by Web's campaigns. I have no idea why Advance Wars by Web believes that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding. Perhaps the thought popped into its head during omphaloskepsis. In any case, Advance Wars by Web's torchbearers were recently seen hamstringing our efforts to bring important information about Advance Wars by Web's fractious antics into the limelight. That's not a one-time accident or oversight. That's Advance Wars by Web's policy.

May I assume that anyone who wants to champion censorship in the name of free speech, intolerance in the name of tolerance, and oppression in the name of freedom is either (a) frightful or (b) a misinformed loony? If so, then I have news for Advance Wars by Web: I want to live my life as I see fit. I can't do that while Advance Wars by Web still has the ability to abuse science by using it as a mechanism of ideology. It decidedly shouldn't be necessary to have to say such things, but Advance Wars by Web has repeatedly indicated a desire to rob, steal, cheat, and murder. Is that the sound of rarefied respectability that Advance Wars by Web's epigones so frequently attribute to Advance Wars by Web? The froward blathering of an unpatriotic, vulgar sophister is more like it. In fact, we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Advance Wars by Web. Let me leave you with one last thought: Advance Wars by Web's credos will cause more harm than good.