The Glade 4.0

It's tone is inflammatory, it doesn't really serve the board's new kinder, gentler environment, and it's not that hard to type the name out. Liberalism is a completely valid and respectable political ideology, and if we want to engage each other in pleasant conversation and even vigorous but respectful debate, I don't think it's too much to ask to keep the inflammatory descriptors to a minimum. You'll note I have stopped referring to the Tea Party protesters as Teabaggers, for example, and I think that others here could return that common courtesy.

In the sincere spirit of a nicer Hellfire club, I suggest people use a little more of their time to be more respectful to the Liberals who post here.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Run a poll on whether people find it inflammatory first, would be my suggestion.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Lib is shorthand for liberal. That's how I use it.

I also use Repubs for Republicans as Reps is easy to get conflated with representative.

Teabaggers is definitely derogatory, and not even in the same league as "lib".

I think the only person that I've ever seen offended by the use of "lib" is you.

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Holy shitsnacks!

It's a perfectly usuable abreviation in my opinion, the only problem is Libertarians could also be libs. Would we be 'tarians

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

A popularity contest should determine if it's inflammatory?

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

And yet, it never reads like that. There is no reason to use the shorthand with a keyboard. I don't see you commonly shorthanding other long political names, like conservative, libertarian, or really anything other than liberal, despite that name being shorter than the other.



That's possible, but Repub is only one letter shy of Liberal spelled out.



That's entirely subjective. I'm sure some folks love being teabagged and love to teabag.



I don't understand how that makes a difference.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Even without context, you've just defeated yourself here. If you find the use of "lib" as a passive-aggressive label, I suggest examining your own abundant use of labeling.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Indeed. If we're going to start getting rid of terms because one person finds them inflammatory, I want "racist" and "homophobe" banned as well.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Lib is not an insult. You are the only person I've ever heard make that claim.

To whoever makes this rule, if lib is claimed to be insulting or a flame then Diamondeye's suggestion needs to go hand in hand, along with a few others.

Dumbest thread ever.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Fixed.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Speaking of reds, I have a question. Why is it reds are either full-on ***** or the nicest girls you ever meet? Seriously, I can't think of a single red that has been middle of the road.

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The Dude abides.

We can be both at the same time. (And in reality, it's probably closer to #BF8000.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

I married one. Granted, there are times when she is pull your hair out frustrating, but she balances that out with a loving, caring and thoughtful side like I've never seen. I like the balance and being kept on my toes.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

See? Both at the same time.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Hmm...that looks too yellow/beige.

In the interest of science, I ran a median filter over your Flora and Fauna pic, and according to Gimp, your hair is roughly:

Shadows: #381006
Midtones: #59230b
Highlights: #8c522c

Or, on average, about: #5F2C14

I hereby propose that each mod have their own unique mod posting color, and that This shall be the color of Talya's mod posts

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Montegue, a poll wouldn't be a popularity contest -- it would be an investigative measure to determine if the majority of posters see/indend an inflammatory tone when using the term.

In other words, everybody else here thinks you're reading a tone that's not intended. Paranoia doesn't get to define the language.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

ROFL...

Monty seems to forget that democracy is in effect a popularity contest.

Well, I sincerely tried to ask nicely.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

You did indeed, sir.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

It's unfortunate that people on the board refuse to type a few extra letters for the sake of polite discourse.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Except that based on the anecdotal evidence of this thread, you are the only one who considers it impolite.

Perhaps if there was a poll to provide statistical (and thus more representative) evidence....

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

It's also unfortunate that people want to control how others type.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

It's really not that important. I had hoped others were willing to meet halfway on being polite and respectful, but it's pretty clear that's not the case. Sad, but not unexpected. I thought I would ask, anyway.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show