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[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah I don't really like these but I guess I have more right to make one than most people. Go ahead!

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- Which group of Blue/Red Avatars did you like the best : the ones pre 2014/15 or the ones since then

- When did the forum start to think VA could be won by the Dems in 2008

- What was your 2004 prediction at the time

-pre 2014/15 they were at least coherent and generally not Nazis, so then.
-Since Kaine's 2005 victory many did, and after 2006 most did.
-I basically predicted Gore+NH+Ohio fir Kerry IIRC.

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Did you move straight from the ELCA to hipster Christianity or did you have a nonreligious period in between? If the latter, when and how did your conversion happen?

I was nonreligious in high school and not all that religious in college. I converted when I was 27.

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Who would you have voted for in the 1888 presidential election?

The main issue was tariffs, with Cleveland wanting to cut them and Harrison supporting them. So I guess it would depend on if I benefited from high tariffs or not.

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Which band is better: Kublai Khan TX or Varials

I have not listened to either.

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Do you still talk to your girlfriend (if you're still together - I'm sorry if I missed out on stuff that's happened since) about Atlas? Does she have thoughts on it from her brief foray there?

We are not together now.

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What's your favorite post you've ever made?

Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he logged back on the forum. A crowd soon gathered in IRC and he started posting with them. As he was typing, the moderators of the forum and the ban brigade brought a woman who had been caught in the act of trolling. They put her in front of the forum.

"Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of trolling. The site's Terms of Service says to ban her. What do you say?”

They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and started playing Candy Crush on his phone. They kept demanding an answer, so he posted again and said, “All right, but let the one who is without infraction cast the first death point!" Then he stooped down again and played some more Candy Crush.

When the accusers read this, they started logging off one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was on the forum with the woman. Then Jesus started posting again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

“No, Lord,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and troll no more.”

(Also least favorite?)

Without a doubt, a true freedom fighter.

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What are some Atlas memes/stories/inside jokes that a new poster should know about?

Freedom Fighter/Horrible Person dichotomy, opebo speak (adjectives as nouns) and Update are the most important.

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Which posters do you enjoy reading the most?

A lot are AAD only now, but Linus Van Pelt, thedeadflagblues, Averroes, King, Nathan, sjoyce and Virginia are notable ones.

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What are some of the most dramatic political transformations that you have seen on the forum over the years? Were they surprising?

opebo: in hindsight not really
Libertas: same
fghtan: actually yeah
Realisticidealist: yep
Supersoulty: HELL YES
Fezzyfestoon: big time
Snowstalker: nah, too predictable now.

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In a Democratic Primary between IceSpear and Donna Shalala, who would you vote for (assuming you had to choose one)?

Shalala is more likely to have to later drop out for health reasons, so her I guess.

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What are some of the most dramatic political transformations that you have seen on the forum over the years? Were they surprising?

To elaborate, fezzyfestoon was one of the most bizarre. He started as one of those "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" types from a super rich family who was a die hard Romney supporter in 2008, only to NOT support Romney in 2012. I don't believe he really supported Obama either, instead taking a sort of nihilistic apolitical view. He left Atlas after that but based on what I've heard of his social media he became not only a Sanders supporter in 2016 but one of those "INVESTIGATE THE DNC VOTE FRAUD AND STOLEN PRIMARY" types and actually a Seth Rich truther, LMAO.

Honorable mention goes to GoldenBoy, an "independent" who appeared before the 2008 election as a racist dogwhistling Obama hating troll insisting on the Bradley Effect as why Obama would lose, only to vanish immediately after the election and return in 2012 as a die hard hack for Obama and whose posting history was mostly just bashing Romney in a style akin to Ghost of Ruin on Trump today. Had to be an interesting four years for him.

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How do you remember all these threads from 2006 and 2007

The same way I remember my voicemail password and email address from a job I left six years ago.

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So im confused about your music tastes?
From what I can gather is that you dislike metal but you like rock?
What about hard rock?

I like hardcore, pop punk and indie rock.

I do not like hard rock.

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do u like Hinder or Disturbed?

No, except for the latter's cover of "The Sound of Silence".

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How has your opinion of me evolved? What made you take me off the ignore list?

I don't believe I ever had you on ignore. I still find your anti-Sanders schtick tiresome, although I like your pro-Krassenstein position. Please note that they are not anti-Sanders.

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You didnt answer my question from the previous page

Oh I overlooked it.

I will when I have a break and can listen to it. I'm more likely to notice videos if embedded btw.

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Do you think the Philadelphia Flyers should go back to playing this song after they score a goal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl0nrP35jF8

It's probably better than whatever they play now, so I guess yeah.