I present to you the flag of the Most Serene Republic of Venice

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/vec/2/2c/Bandiera_della_Repubblica_di_Venezia.gif

which was one of the longest lasting citystates, lasting 1100 years as an city-state up to Napoleon's conquest of Italy versus the Austrians.

Alternatively: the banner of the duke of Flanders and current flag of our province looks pretty rad: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapen_van_Vlaanderen#/media/File:Oude_wapen_van_Vlaanderen_%28voor_1100%29.jpg

A (badlyworded) post on his dislike of trump's election proposal to stop muslim immigration by defending the majority, blaming gun laws and even invoking Godwin's law. Tbh, doesn't seem that racist/bigoted to me, although i'm biased obv, but that seems pretty "liberal" to me (in the American definition of the word).

followed by a stream of people who only posts in the thread are to insult him.

He might have "earned" it from your perspective, but if you geniunely have some humanity, and read where he admitted to have autism, the humanistic thing to do, is just ignore, or constructively break down his post with an apt counter of his points. Else, you're just being a dreadful person to one of the weaker in society, which is kind off appalling. I'm especially surprised to see Droso, of all people, acting like an jackass in group on the twitch cast making fun of his lisp, becuase, since sheepy condemnded himself as the pinata of the community with his posts, that suddenly all is allowed? I remember the first time i heard Sheepy speak, and i thought he just had one of those lip piercings that are trendy, but when he told me he had a speech indemnent it made me kind of speechless, becuase i felt bad about the remark. It's way more dignified as a people's person to ignore people you dislike, even if they make an error in public, who knows, tomorrow might be your turn to be the black sheepy.

Just like it's easier to stop a whistleblower like Snowden and condemn his actions, than the NSA wiping it's ass with the constitution and federal laws every day, right ;)

That comparison is silly obviously, but doing things the "easy way" is a tad ambigious. I like reading different, or even dumb opinions, but i wouldn't want anyone to be banned for it. But maybe that's just me.

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You're telling him to stop first...in what exactly. Are you saying he is not allowed to say anything, becuase people will take the opportunity to spew some vitriol as soon as they spot his name? That's self-censorship under pressure of mob-mentality you're advocating for, very dangerous path to take, my friend.

Who remembers the gotfrag thread that Enigma made, about Vhalin asking for "ratehacks" and his attempts to loiter with it, to have as much of a "technical advantage" as possible? one cali lan later, and he was part of an invite winning team. Or the person banned from ESEA client for hacking, and the next week still playing invite pugs? Sheepy has a point to make, which is pretty controversial, but it still is; so guess people will just refer to something completely different, effectively proving what he was saying about "mob mentality", good thread, keep it rolling.

But at the same time Torrit is still an idiot who just raised the bar on "how not to end your tf2 "career".

Edit: lmao at the posts in the meantime, you'd really ban him for his post in his thread? what is this; reddit-lite hugbox 2.0 or a site trying to emulate gotfrag.

go to local pizza restaurant in Krakau, Poland, each one of our group of 15 orders a pizza, we had 45 mins time normally, turns out the restaurants make their pizzas fresh from scratch, eventually spend 2.5 hours there enjoying a massive pizza for like 4-5 euros freshly made, best pizza.

don't lend any sum to people you haven't known for years and who wouldn't loan towards you.

Man I love reading on people committing the most perfidious things to obtain some glowy pixels.

the whole phlog whining is amazing though, I was palying an NA lobby earlier, and watched a phlog pyro get an 8--9 streak including on myself, and i hit him with the one pill i could fire in the time window, and i died as 8th, and i hit him for a 100 so i guess he still takes normal damage during his crit, but no, apparantly the seven others before me, couldn't do 75 as their biggest concern was to complain how OP the phlog is, while trying to run away by backpedalling, not even firing, throwing their hands collectively in the air and saying how incompetent Valve is.

As a guy who has been playing bb pyro for funs in 6s and HL for years now, I've been having a blast with the collective uproar over the patch, which is probably the best balance patch in a while, and gun mettle was pretty good too, although i personally expected a slight nerf on the scorch shot or something, becuase putting 2-3 poeple on fire in a choke by shooting the ground across the map is pretty fucking strong. the health on airblast is so good as well, i think that will the biggest issue to deal with for my playstyle, when encountering other pyros with one functioning brain cell. I just hope valve won't backtrack on this, i should write a sternly worded letter expressing my deep concern to Robin Walker, you can't expect me to post on reddit, I don't even have an account there, so have fun people like sideshow, hope one of you guys gets called out for being a retarded pubbie, by some lobbylord brony...the dumpster thread on r/tf2 was pretty funny.

Meanwhile, the Dem voterbase isn't even given the illusion of choice:

I feel bad for Bernie sanders now, his voter-base found and reported a software bug so the campaign can't run for six weeks, it's like Ron Paul in 2012 all over again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qEKPWVYgR0

Posted this in the trump thread, becuase it sounds like a good title for the US election primaries discussion.

Who gives a shit, if you get -fragged, just see it as a badge of honour that x amount of people can't stand your opinion or person, but are too lazy/dumb to reply properly.

you forgot to highlight the part in the second post in where he says,
(though sometimes i personally find the comparison accurate)

that's why i called it out for being a subtle insult and asked him to point out where, he meant that.

Is this some bizarro world, or the first stage of idiocracy? It's naturally a tenfold better that in any argument both sides explain why they agree or disagree on this or that, and try to use facts, rather than an one liner or paragraph random ad hominems or random nonsense in which the message is : I don't agree with you, you are x.

since you compared him to a flat earth conspiracist on some point you might say where, so you would actually point out where you think something is flawed, rather than a subtle insult to denigrate your opponent.

modern day discussions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYm5GKA4vpY

Don't worry, that's legal over here. Don't think you have legal euthanesia implemented federally over there, becuase your clinics are making sure you are hooked up as long as possible while being a demented vegetable on the machines, as long as you have the money.

You should get a sarcasm detector because I was making a jest to the poeple in this forum saying that people that would support Trump deserve to be "euthanised", after all, those are just undereducated redneck scum, right? It's pretty hard to beat the deathtoll of a dictator like that, unless you're communist. So it's utterly silly to compare Hitler and Trump; I mean before Hitler got elected, he already tried to do a putsch, and had mobs of SA troops beat up other extremists. And when Trump calls for an policy like that, it's easy to look back in history and see several other incidents where this happened. But rest assured, Bush+Obama foreign policies have and are still working on it at reaching that magical number, how many alone in Iraq?