11-02-2011, 10:37 AM
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#781
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 Posted the 6 millionth post!
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Originally Posted by valo403
Please do, if you're expecting to see me waffling in that stance feel free to look at threads in which I have defended the right of groups like the Aryan nation to march. Even if I don't agree with a viewpoint I will defend the right of people to present it in a reasonable manner.
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It's actually your support of the causes I mentioned that I will remember, which has more liberal and left-wing undertones.
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11-02-2011, 10:37 AM
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#782
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Sliver
How can you know so little about group dynamics to not know taking their shelter, personal belongings and toilets (still can't believe that one) would cause a problem? I'm talking just on an intuitive level. You honestly don't see how a cop rolling up somebody's tent, face-to-face with the tent owner, wouldn't obviously lead to a physical altercation? Come on.
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Individuals choose how they react. Yes, perhaps I take the perspective that they would be respectful and peaceful. Wrongly or rightly, time will tell.
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They are being perfectly peaceful, which is why they aren't really a problem that needs to be solved with force.
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I've never encouraged "force".
? not sure what that means. Regardless, I've never indicated I will be attempting to seek office again.
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So you don't think these people will just find a corner of the Olympic Plaza to do their business in? Again, this points to a general cluelessness you have about the situation that is getting a little tough to read, quite frankly.
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Perhaps they would. Then they would be breaking yet another by-law.
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11-02-2011, 10:39 AM
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#783
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Alright, well lets see - would there have been as much outrage on this board from the Greenpeace 'hippies' who hung the poster from the Calgary tower last year if instead it was an oil industry fan club and their poster said "Hurray for Oil"?
I'm going to think probably not, outside of the expected watered-down responses of the dangers inherit in such a stunt.
10 years on CP has shown me that if there is an unpopular message in a public stunt, the vitriol flows thicker than water. Just sayin'.
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I brought up that exact same thoughts at the time we were posting about the tower protest.
Most of the responses were concerns that this jepordizes the safety of the people who had to get them down. I do think that is a fair arguement and I agree.
But I can only think that forcefully removing the Occupy Calgary group would also increase the risk of personal safety. I would think that if you are concerned about the risk at the tower shouldn't concern be equal at Occupy Calgary.
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11-02-2011, 10:45 AM
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#784
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Originally Posted by valo403
Please do, if you're expecting to see me waffling in that stance feel free to look at threads in which I have defended the right of groups like the Aryan nation to march. Even if I don't agree with a viewpoint I will defend the right of people to present it in a reasonable manner.
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Haha. Valo supports the Aryan nation
(in their right to protest).
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11-02-2011, 10:46 AM
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#785
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
It's actually your support of the causes I mentioned that I will remember, which has more liberal and left-wing undertones. 
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I'm actually pretty socially liberal (fiscally I go back and forth from issue to issue) and support a lot of the points I've heard around the occupy movement, I just have major issues with the manner they've been expressed in many cases.
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11-02-2011, 11:02 AM
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#786
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Muta
Haha. Valo supports the Aryan nation
(in their right to protest).

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Congratulations on goodwinning the thread for the 300th time.
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11-02-2011, 11:07 AM
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#787
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Originally Posted by THE SCUD
Congratulations on goodwinning the thread for the 300th time.
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I did it for you, buttercup!
In all seriousness though... calm down, sports fan. It's a joke.
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11-02-2011, 11:15 AM
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#788
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My face is a bum!
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Originally Posted by First Lady
I simply gave you one example of my being directly involved in solutions.
Sorry it didn't meet your standards.
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You shoving a couple hobos in your basement and proclaiming "There are lots of programs for people in Calgary" doesn't demonstrate knowledge of social issues.
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11-02-2011, 11:15 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by THE SCUD
Congratulations on goodwinning the thread for the 300th time.
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There's been a Godwin every 2.62 posts?? Wow, what have I been reading??
(Hint: This is supposed to be funny, much like Muta's post)
Last edited by woob; 11-02-2011 at 11:19 AM.
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11-02-2011, 11:16 AM
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#790
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evil of fart
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Not to mention inviting bums to stay at your house is a really bad idea on so many levels. More bad judgement, I guess.
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11-02-2011, 11:17 AM
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My face is a bum!
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First Lady, do you think the police working at a sold out concert at the Saddledome should start arresting everyone smoking marijuana? Because that is the equivalent of what you are suggesting with removing people's property, probably even in a more minor form.
Do you think that would be a good idea?
Does it boggle your mind every concert why the police let all the lawless hippies sit there smoking their illegal drugs?
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11-02-2011, 11:19 AM
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#792
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 Posted the 6 millionth post!
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Originally Posted by woob
There's been a Godwin every 2.62 posts?? Wow, what have I been reading??
(Hint: This is suppose to be funny, much like Muta's post)
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What's a Godwin? Or Goodwin? I've actually never heard this term before.
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11-02-2011, 11:20 AM
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#793
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
First Lady, do you think the police working at a sold out concert at the Saddledome should start arresting everyone smoking marijuana? Because that is the equivalent of what you are suggesting with removing people's property, probably even in a more minor form.
Do you think that would be a good idea?
Does it boggle your mind every concert why the police let all the lawless hippies sit there smoking their illegal drugs?
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Crap, hulk. Now you're going to turn this into another marijuana debate thread!
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11-02-2011, 11:20 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
What's a Godwin? Or Goodwin? I've actually never heard this term before.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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11-02-2011, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Improperly used in this case, since Aryans != Nazi's but
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As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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11-02-2011, 11:22 AM
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#796
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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The problem with this Occupy protest is that all these damn homeless people keep showing up and ruining everything with their insanity and drug addiction problems!
Why couldn't they just stay away so we could properly point out the inequalities of society?
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11-02-2011, 11:22 AM
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#797
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My face is a bum!
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Originally Posted by woob
Crap, hulk. Now you're going to turn this into another marijuana debate thread!
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Dammit you're right, is it too late to change it to "users" and "cigarette smokers"?
Same concept, same point.
Last edited by Bill Bumface; 11-02-2011 at 11:38 AM.
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11-02-2011, 11:45 AM
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#798
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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Originally Posted by Mattington
Occupy plaza member Sheehan Herlein deemed those responding negatively to his group in the survey “ignorant” and said the group has accomplished two major goals: Establishing better organization at the camp and setting up a whiteboard to list upcoming group meetings.
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Wow,
so it has taken, what 25-50 people, ~3 weeks to accomplish what the worlds worst admin assistant could literally do in about 15 minutes.
#Occupycalgary is officially the least productive group of people in the history of the world!
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11-02-2011, 12:48 PM
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#799
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Wow,
so it has taken, what 25-50 people, ~3 weeks to accomplish what the worlds worst admin assistant could literally do in about 15 minutes.
#Occupycalgary is officially the least productive group of people in the history of the world!
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I will go with US Congress FTW
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