The Sage Garden

[Napoleon]

Snowstalker's posts on Islam are just trolling, right?

[Napoleon]

I agree with the majority, above average filmmaker, well below average human.  I don't really care about the marrying his "step daughter" (he was never a father figure to the girl), but there is a lot, A LOT, of rumor that he's done Polanski levels of crimes without the hard evidence to get a conviction.

And hundreds of other Hollywood figures. Its the darkest industry in America (sorry Wall Street haters its true).

I wouldn't call the financial sector an industry, given that it produces nothing.

[Napoleon]

Legitimate question: why are all of our Latin American posters awful right-wingers?

Why would the fascists need to start an uprising in Venezuela? They have been in power for the last 15 years. Against whom would they be rebelling?

I think ag and deadflagblues have been burdened with the knowledge of basic economics.

[Napoleon]

I just think there's little point in using a word if it encompasses Snowstalker's worst rants alongside with posts that are relevant, factually correct and not pompous. This focus on a word as being "sage" is pretty misleading IMO. If I get it right, the word neoliberalism was banned from IRC because of Snowstalker's abuse of it, not because it was a word that should never be used - indeed, the words "socialism" and "fascism" were banned too, does that mean anyone who every uses them is being sage?

Lol wow, they ban words now?

[Napoleon]

I just think there's little point in using a word if it encompasses Snowstalker's worst rants alongside with posts that are relevant, factually correct and not pompous. This focus on a word as being "sage" is pretty misleading IMO. If I get it right, the word neoliberalism was banned from IRC because of Snowstalker's abuse of it, not because it was a word that should never be used - indeed, the words "socialism" and "fascism" were banned too, does that mean anyone who every uses them is being sage?

Lol wow, they ban words now?

No words are banned. Some were at one point for a gag.

Ok I guess that makes sense.

[Napoleon]

I think recently he's showing a degree of social awkwardness; genuinely having difficulties in understanding real life personal and interpersonal interactions. This is coupled with a need to diffuse situations that he doesn't like by resorting to bad puns and non-sequiturs (at times of quite a probing or insensitive nature) which has become increasingly grating.

The only really sagy thing there is that I do bad puns and non-sequiturs all the time, not just in response to situations I don't like.

I like to use non-sequiturs but I think my posts are more savagery than sagery.