Meredith L. Patterson ([info]maradydd) wrote,
2009-08-18 23:20:00
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Twitter epilogue

"I wonder if these fucktard gun-huggers realize the moment they show up at a Presidential event with an AK-47, they're put on a watch list."

Oh, so you're just another 1984-style fascist. Right, don't need any more of those in my life than I had two days ago. Unfollowed, and good riddance. I have other sources for link aggregation that are much kinder to my blood pressure.
Tags: assholes, fail, someone is wrong on the internet

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[info]docstrange

August 18 2009, 21:37:50 UTC 2 years ago

Today's knowledge reinforcement through unpleasant experience: There are authoritarians on both sides of the aisle. ;)

[info]maradydd

August 19 2009, 15:59:28 UTC 2 years ago

Intellectually I knew that, but it's just so disheartening to run up against in real life. I'd feel pretty lonely if it weren't for the folks here to remind me that I'm not the only anti-authoritarian left.

[info]porysski

August 18 2009, 21:58:59 UTC 2 years ago

Ignoring his rather biased description of gun enthusiasts, he's probably sadly right. I disagree that people who show up at rallies openly carrying should be on such lists, but they are likely to be so.

[info]mouser

August 19 2009, 14:44:12 UTC 2 years ago

I'll take "Hurting my own causes" for $200, Alex.

It's worse - those that are on the fence about gun control will look at people (who are doing this legally, I might add) get nervous and vote for more restrictive gun regulations.


I'm a strong believer that they have the right to bear arms. But BOY is this going to be spun in ways they're going to hate.

[info]ernunnos

2 years ago

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[info]ernunnos

August 18 2009, 22:31:55 UTC 2 years ago

Coincidentally enough, it was Ernest Hancock who told me there were two ways to respond to this:

  1. Try to go unnoticed and stay off all the possible lists they could create.
  2. Be so loud and obnoxious that if they ever decided to do more than put you on a list, everyone would notice you were gone.

Ever since then, I find these sorts of threats rather amusing. You're gonna' put me on a list? Martin Luther King was on a list. Pretty much anyone who ever accomplished anything politically has been on a list. For political activists, it's almost shameful not to be on a list!

[info]ernunnos

August 19 2009, 06:12:36 UTC 2 years ago

Michael Jackson was on a list.

Can someone with talent do a "I'm on a list" parody of "I'm on a boat"?

[info]maradydd

2 years ago

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[info]ernunnos

2 years ago

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[info]maradydd

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[info]maradydd

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[info]nibor

August 18 2009, 22:41:30 UTC 2 years ago

Isn't the mere existence of such watch lists rather the point of the demonstration anyways?
"Don't stand up for your civil liberties, they'll probably take some of your civil liberties away if you do that!"

[info]liannanshith

August 18 2009, 23:07:34 UTC 2 years ago

*headdesk*

Being the quirky liberal'ish pro-second amendment type... damn that's so much fail. >_<

[info]maradydd

August 19 2009, 16:02:51 UTC 2 years ago

Inorite? Never mind, like [info]praecorloth said, he was probably nine billion kinds of indignant about the no-fly list, and I doubt he has any nice words for J. Edgar Hoover either.

[info]neoliminal

August 18 2009, 23:43:12 UTC 2 years ago Edited:  August 18 2009, 23:45:41 UTC

Not all of us have the right to own a gun. I, for example, do not. If I did have the right and felt comfortable owning one, however, I don't think I would brandish it at a protest rally.

The reasons for owning a gun, IMO, do no include using the implied force of arms as a means of communicating one's dislike for political policy. I prefer a ballot to a bullet in these cases.

However, I would defend the right of others to do what I feel is unreasonable, because I want those same people to defend my rights when they find them unpleasant.

[info]porysski

August 19 2009, 00:06:56 UTC 2 years ago

"Carrying" and "brandishing" are very different things.

[info]neoliminal

2 years ago

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[info]porysski

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[info]maradydd

August 19 2009, 16:06:16 UTC 2 years ago

However, I would defend the right of others to do what I feel is unreasonable, because I want those same people to defend my rights when they find them unpleasant.

Exactly. Hell, I've argued in the last few days that it would be wrong and dangerous for the government to take Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck off the air, because I don't want a hypothetical future ultra-right-wing government having any increased ability to take ultra-liberals off the air.

[info]phanatic

August 19 2009, 21:31:09 UTC 2 years ago

prefer a ballot to a bullet in these cases.


Yeah, that worked so well in Iran.

[info]neoliminal

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[info]praecorloth

August 18 2009, 23:47:42 UTC 2 years ago

I bet you could go back in his twitter or whatever and find some juicy rants about the no-fly list. Why is one list not okay but another list is just fine?

[info]maradydd

August 19 2009, 16:09:55 UTC 2 years ago

I could, but I have come to the conclusion that I have better things to do with my time. There are some people I can help, and some people I can't.

[info]khallis

August 19 2009, 01:22:29 UTC 2 years ago

"I wonder if these fucktard gun-huggers realize the moment they show up at a Presidential event with an AK-47, they're put on a watch list."

With regards to gun owners in the USA - if the quoted speaker thinks that we aren't "on a list" already, I submit that he or she is not paying much attention to the record keeping requirements upon FFLs or to the existence of the NICS audit logs.

[info]editer

August 19 2009, 05:39:53 UTC 2 years ago

"owner list" != "watch list"

[info]darthzeth

2 years ago

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[info]maradydd

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[info]sandwichboy

August 19 2009, 04:14:05 UTC 2 years ago

There are reasons why I avoid Twitter. limiting my already too-high exposure to the stupid would be one of the biggest

OH MY GOD IT'S A LIST! IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!

[info]michiexile

August 19 2009, 13:59:31 UTC 2 years ago

I'll grab its head, you get its tail!

[info]maradydd

2 years ago

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[info]staghounds

August 19 2009, 20:03:36 UTC 2 years ago

Aww shit, get your camera ready it's about to go down (shorty, yeah)
Everybody in the place hit the fucking deck (shorty, yeah)
But stay on your motherfucking toes
We running this, let's go

I'm on a list (I'm on a list)
I'm on a list (I'm on a list)
Everybody look at me 'cause I'm listed on a list (listed on a list )
I'm on a list (I'm on a list )
I'm on a list
Take a good hard look at the motherfucking list (list , yeah)

I'm on a list motherfucker take a look at me
Straight up on a list on the paper that they see
Can’t go to rallies, motherfucker, and I’m pissed
Secret Service stop me motherfucker cause I'm on a list

Take my picture, trick (trick)
I'm on your list, bitch (bitch)
Totin my EBR champ,
Cause it's so crisp (crisp)
I got my AR
And my thirty rounders
I'm makin’ eyes bug, you at BK
flipping quarter pounders.

I'm standin’ strapped and quiet, like I got a right to be
The MSM is crazy for it, gonna put me on TV.
But this ain't just the net, this is real as it gets
I'm on a list, motherfucker, they won’t ever forget

I'm on a list and
Martin’s on a list and
I got a list with
Mandela’s name and
I don’t mind bein’
On a list like Nixon’s
If you're not on a list,
Then maybe you’re chicken.

Wake the fuck up, this list is REAL!

Fifty six signed, that’s a list, motherfucker (motherfucker)
Twelve apostles on a list, motherfucker (motherfucker)
Every single Kulak on a list, motherfucker (yeah)
Six million Jews on a list, motherfucker.

Thomas Jefferson, if you could see me now (see me now)
In a little room at the airport , wow (airport wow)
On the no-fly list I got listed somehow (listed somehow)
It could be you too, anything is possible

Yeah, never thought I'd be on a list
It's a big long government list (yeah)
Gestapo
Look at me, oh (work makes you free, oh)

Never thought you'd see the day
When a big list coming your way
Believe me when I say
There’s room for your name

Guns on the list
Books on the list
Everybody has something that will get on the list (woaah)
Christians on the list
Queers on the list
We should all of us be down on the motherfuckin' list

(sha-sha-shorty, shorty, yeah)

Not my best work, but there is a sow's ear problem.

[info]maradydd

August 19 2009, 20:11:36 UTC 2 years ago Edited:  August 19 2009, 20:19:51 UTC

Oh my God. I want to have your babies.

I still think it'd be awesome to have something in there about crypto, but I have no idea where to put it.

ETA: Though I do think it's possible to push the bipartisan angle a little -- maybe change "Can't go to rallies" to "Can't protest the war", for instance.

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[info]maradydd

2 years ago

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[info]ernunnos

August 19 2009, 20:42:04 UTC 2 years ago

"Put that on a white label 12", send it to the clubs."

[info]dantheserene

August 19 2009, 21:51:28 UTC 2 years ago

Congratulations. You have officially made my day.

[info]staghounds

2 years ago

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[info]kenshi

August 20 2009, 00:04:46 UTC 2 years ago

You win the Internet for today.

[info]staghounds

August 19 2009, 23:33:54 UTC 2 years ago

And yes- if this ends up on YouTube, you have made my demi-decade!
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