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Boy oh boy do I have a lot to say. Expect a reply soonish, I'm going to need a LOT of time to comb through a bunch of the BS that Templar posted. Plus, introduce some more ideas we've been dancing around yet haven't directly stated.

Here's one for you: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/26/alt-america-terrorism-rightwing-hate-crimes Here's one from less than a week ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/us/politics/trump-video-games-shootings.html Personally i think it was the fact that they saw their friends die in front of them that made them want to see change. And an important stepping stone towards changes is raising awareness. Doesn't it make more sense that they want to see change rather than these kids are so heartless that they'd use their friend's deaths for personal gain? Or is that just how you see most people that you surround yourself behave? Also, these kids didn't get paid to have sex with people from CNN or MSM. No, underage prostitution is something that the GOP is more leaning towards: https://nypost.com/2017/12/05/video-shows-oklahoma-senator-caught-with-underage-boy-in-hotel/ 66% of Americans want to BAN assault weapons, 50% of GUN OWNERS want it to be tougher to get a gun in general: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-support-gun-control-hits-record-high-n849686 Yeah, a woman who is paid by a gun lobbying group to speak about how great guns are and parrot words they give her knows a hell of a lot more about violence caused by guns than KIDS who saw their classmates gunned down. Ok A. it's still friggen alarming that 1000 deaths by mass shootings only account for 13% of deaths and B. no, most homicide by firearms is cause by domestic disputes. You're more likely to be shot by you dad, husband, wife, sister, uncle, or whatever than a stranger. AND most gun DEATHS are by suicide. You're far more likely to kill yourself if you have a gun than if you don't. This is why when you buy a gun, your insurance rates go up, because adjusters KNOW that if you own a gun, you're far more likely to harm yourself or your immediate family. And lastly Boy, that kinda says it all doesn't it. I'm glad you said that to be honest, now i don't have to take anything you say seriously ever again. I have NEVER met someone who uses the term SJW and means it to be a person worth talking to.

I would contact my senators but one is a long-time entrenched politician who has repeatedly voted against the will of his constituents and the other I may have more luck with. Newcomer, probably want to re-build their reputation.

Ok so, a question BTGBullseye. Did you read all your sources before posting them? Because: https://medium.com/@annaliszt/fact-checking-the-antifa-international-list-of-violent-crimes-in-2017-part-1-7b31a87394d5 is about a list that antifa has about alt-right crimes, going through them and checking their validity The source for this: http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/16/this-list-of-attacks-against-conservatives-is-mind-blowing/ is a very conservative leaning website that in the article doesn't list antifa attacks, just 'crimes' against conservatives in general. Same with: https://www.attacksontrumpsupporters.com/?d=0617 And the daily wire article (another heavy right-leaning website) DOES actually list crimes by antifa, but they're all riot-related crimes. And some of these riots aren't even antifa related, for example, they list a riot that occurred on the first of may in Portland as antifa caused, but that's just not the case. And again, I already acknowledged that antifa do riot. But you know what i'm not seeing on these lists? Murders. So let's list out some of the murders committed by the alt-right. Also, I'm going to be using: https://www.splcenter.org/20180205/alt-right-killing-people as my source and helpfully includes a full chart, and you can look each of these up. None of these are false statistics or anything less than undeniably members of the alt-right. See, that's a LOT of murders, how can you compare antifa to these sheer numbers of killings and shootings? So to recap: antifa riots (though so do football fans: http://www.straitstimes.com/sport/american-football-riots-erupt-in-philadelphia-after-the-eagles-first-super-bowl-win) while the alt-right murders people. Clearly, antifa is the same if not worse than the alt-right (which is sarcasm, it's hard to tell over text) And Selous Templar? Here's something to consider: it may be true that individual membrs of antifa may be anarcho-communists or whatever, but 1. I have yet to actually meet someone as crazy as you and 2. when i take a look at what antifa itself discusses with one another, it's usually about when to use violence and when not to. There's a LOT of discussion about when it is or isn't right to use force or even discussion about tactics to use against the alt-right that don't need physical force. A real question here: have you ever TALKED, not just yelled at, but talked and listened to someone who is a part of antifa? Have you really taken the time to listen to what they have to say? Hear their point of view? Or has all of your knowledge about antifa come from second-hand accounts from people who have already decided to demonise and hate antifa? Where is this accusation that antifa is a communist GROUP (as in as a whole) come from? The alt-right as a group seem to be pretty dedicated to some of the worst parts of white supremacy. Antifa as a group seems to only show up whenever neo-nazis and hard right fascists show up and try to exert their power over people. You say that they label anyone who disagrees with them a nazi but that doesn't at all seem to be the case. Heck, they don't call democrats nazis, and I know that many antifa members consider democrats to be "center-right" and GOP 'Hard-right" as apposed to "left leaning" and "right leaning" like most do in the US. And you decry that antifa uses violence yet here you are saying all of them need to be murdered. It honestly makes me wonder if you're a crypto-fascist yourself, attempting to build up a group that really isn't that bad as the worst thing on the planet to distract from the shootings, murders, and hate crimes the alt-right commits regularly. In short, I still don't understand why antifa gets such a visceral reaction when one examines who they are and what they do. The come off as a left of center group who has a goal of preventing fascist ideas from rising up, while refusing to use the tactics that fascists know how to work around or use to their own benefit: namely debate and "free speech". And hey, if you're such a defender of free speech, why not let the communist speak up? How about for every alt-right speaker who comes onto campus, the KKK or the BMP needs to host a hard-left anarcho-communist to speak on their platform about why the ruling class is stealing everyone's labor for themselves? Here you are, speaking with such broad generalities and charged language about a group that hasn't committed a single murder. It's funny, I hear the same exact language and bs arrangements from alt-right youtube channels and /pol boards.

Look, I keep hearing sweeping generalities when it comes to what antifa actually does that's bad. Because, here's the thing, i've spoken with people who ARE antifa and asked them all these questions and what they're doing and so on a so forth. They weren't secretive, they told me what they wanted (which was "make such nazis don't rise to power again), and were very up front. I tried the same thing with someone who i knew was alt-right and once I started to really probe them they started insulting me, personally attacking me, was super dismissive of my actual concerns, and once it was clear i didn't agree with him became a total asshole. This may be just my personal experince, and I somehow picked two people who are entirely representative of their groups, but wow i have no reason to change my belief that the alt-right is far worse than antifa. And yeah, they're a bit heavy handed, but that's nothing compared to what's thrown at them. Remember when during the Charlottesville rally antifa lit torches, ran people over with cars, and shot at people? Oh wait, I don't, because it was the alt-right that did all of that. The worst you can say about antifa really is that they occasionally target the wrong person with their doxing, but if even ONE murder was committed by antifa at a rally we'd never hear the end of it. So instead to demonize this group who's SOUL PURPOSE is to make sure Nazis don't rise to power again, people have to make very general statements or not even debate with the points being presented. Such as or and here's something specifically i want to touch on. Two things i want to talk to about this: For one, debate isn't the end all be all for destroying REALLY DANGEROUS ideologies, like fascism. Debates only work if both parties come into the discussion with good faith. And Nazis do NOT enter debates in good faith. They WANT to debate not because they want to inform themselves or come to the best ideas, but because they want to spread their message AND intimidate people who they target. If someone says, "I think Cultural Marxism is destroying the west because of a jewish conspiracy to destroy the white race, therefore we need a white ethnostate" then I heavily doubt any amount of debate is going to change that persons mind. Sure, they may seem like morons, but these people are going to make themselves as watered down and "presentable" as possible. They aren't going to say what i just said, they'll use dogwhistles and very "acceptable" language to try to spread their message to as many people as possible, maybe without those people even realizing that the ideas they repeat are dogwhistles. And trust me, once you pick up on the dogwhistles (which in my case i feel like i have to because if the alt-right ever do rise to power i'm a pretty big target for them) they're very easy to notice. And when some is in a university, spouting hidden message after hidden message, it's designed to also silence people who would be abused by the alt-right via intimidation. So, rather than fall into the useless trap of debate with people who won't change their minds and are trying to sneak in fascist ideas into the minds of ordinary people (why do you think crypto-fascists is a term) Antifa instead seeks to show that those types of messages aren't tolerable.I haven't watched the debate but i'm guessing Styxhexenhammer666 wasn't criticized for being a nazi sympathizer, but because he's unintentionally spreading the fascist agenda. And this: Can i see some actual evidence of this please? Because Antifa isn't an organized political group, I don't think they HAVE a "handbook" the only thing I saw was a book from 2017 by one guy (not put out by any organization or leader of any organization) that's about the history and tactics of historical antifa groups. You know, the ones that fought fascists in the streets because there really was a huge rise of fascist sympathizers? Same as today? Buddy, have you not been paying attention to anything? There are far more hard-right groups and members today than 4 years ago. The whole reason for the Charlottesville rally was because of a "Unite the Right" movement where hard-right groups from all over the US were trying to work together to spread their hate messages. In short, when you take a look at the crimes commited by antifa and their very purpose for existing (which is to be anti-fascists) vs. the crimes of alt-righters and their purpose for exsiting (which seems to be "white power") then the hatred and demonization of antifa just doesn't make sense to me. If antifa had committed HALF the murders the alt-right did, I'd be more understanding, but I haven't found one murder at the hands of antifa. The only thing they as a whole seem to hate are fascists, and it's hard to feel any sympathy towards fascists in my opinion

What I REALLY like about Freeman's Mind, besides everything that has been already mentioned, is the fact that Freeman feels like a real CHARACTER. He has flaws (which he is oblivious to), charm, personality, a backstory, but within the context of the half-life series it's totally possible this IS a version of Gordan Freeman. It feels (while incredible) believable. He reacts like a human being, not just some Hollywood trope of a "Mad Scientist". Plus, the humour really is unique, has just the right combination of weird, unexpected, and punchy to just WORK. It's fantastic.

This is exactly what i'm talking about TBH from Selous Templar. Antifa really hasn't done that much bad, especially when compared to hard right groups. Yet here are people trying to claim that this very loose collection of people (who aren't a real organisation) who use the same tactics that multiple left-wing groups historically did when they were faced with the rise of fascism in the 30's (such as in France) are demonised to a ridiculous degree. The only reason Antifa groups exist is because fascist groups (Who literally wave nazi flags, try to invoke nazi imagery, and want to establish an enthnostate, like the nazis) are rising up in the US. So, these groups counter-protest and can get a bit violent at times (while being shot at: https://thinkprogress.org/white-supremacist-richard-spencer-arrested-74f10096a721/) show up and people scream and shriek that they're JUST AS BAD as the LITERAL NAZIS that are trying to incite hateful messages and violent crimes. It doesn't make sense to me, at times it feels like the right in the US are granted WAY more leeway than the left in the US.

So one thing i don't understand is this: I keep reading about how "awful" antifa is but whenever i actually look for anything Antifa has actually done it boils down to two things: 1. Doxing of Neo-nazis (which it's hard to care about because, well their nazis) but sometimes misidentify the wrong person (which is a problem) 2. Violence in protests (But it seems like wherever they are, more violence is directed TOWARDS them, and they respond in self-defense) Really, that's it. I haven't found a single murder by an antifa member or a bombing, or even PLANS to bomb or murder. Then, I take a look at the alt-right and holy cow. Murder Harrassment Dox Threats Attempted Bombings Mass Shootings Attempted murder Violence The list goes on and on. But people still insist that Antifa and the Alt-right are similar...but they really aren't.

A big problem with police right now (in the US anyways) is that it almost seems like they can do whatever they want and not get into trouble. THE most corrupt police force in the country is in Baltimore, and it took so much corruption and just illegal practices to get those cops into any kind of trouble. Plus, when they finally did get into trouble, it wasn't because of wrongful or suspect shootings, police brutality, or abuse of power, but because they were caught selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of guns and confiscated property on the black market (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/2/16961146/baltimore-gun-trace-task-force-trial) Plus, when officers do try to internally solve the problems of abuse of force, they can end up like Joe Crystal (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/16/baltimore-joe-crystal_n_7582374.html) who tried to report an instance of police brutality, and because of that the force treated him like a criminal, left dead rats on his car, and wouldn't respond to his requests for back-up. Basically, the police can behave as corrupt or as brutal as they want and there's not much an ordinary person can do to fight back against that or receive much justice. Rarely, there are stories about cops who abuse their power getting into trouble, but it's always an uphill battle since their police department, their commissioner, and even their union rep will have their back if they do something wrong. Basically, your average cop is highly resistant to reprimand for not doing their jobs. Which gives them way more power than they should.

So, i'm going to share my beliefs, see what others think. I want to stress that this has only come to me within the past 6 months or so and before then i was a pretty hardcore atheist. Anyways, my view (to boil it down as simply as i can) is that there's a "great truth" out there. A higher (or lower) plane of existence that is as real as the world around us, but we can't directly experience it. This reality, this truth, affects us in ways we usually don't notice or can't see. Religion, all around the world, is tapping into different parts of this great truth. Every single one are ways that people deal with this great truth that they can't understand, adding stories, characters, narratives, interpretations, and can only express what they know through the lense of their own experience It's like: [truth] l l l v [Filter of human experience] l l l v [original words of a prophet, shaman, ect.] - - - - - > Stories, legends, interpretations, rules l l <- Things that are inconvenient for the ruling power x So in a sense, every religion holds some shard of this great truth, but it's muddled and buried, and entirely possible that even if someone had 100% pure intentions to record what they experience as accurate as possible, it could still get muddled because the only way humans can experience this great truth is by relating it back to what they already know. And beyond that, over time this shard of this great truth gets buried even further as time goes on as the story itself changes.

Rewatching Test Drive 3, I find a map and a short audio thing i never noticed before at 19:33, anyone else?

Nevermind, I found it, was looking in the wrong place. Here's a link to anyone else's who's kinda stupid like me:

Hey, where can I find a download for that kick-ass accursed farms fan picture? I can't find it on the site and I'd love to have that as my desktop background

I'm trying to introduce my friends to your videos, specifically game dungeon, is there any episode in particular you feel would be a good introduction since game dungeon isn't chronological like freeman's mind?

So, i'm trying to download the chosen one because i have a problem procrastinating in college. Anyways, I went to www.rebelmind.com but the site is "suspended" so does anyone else have a link or website i can go to? I want the one Ross has btw, the more miserable the experience, the more effective it will be.

So, i'm not saying they will, but the way ross says "cowardly creations" makes me want to replace their own intro card with ross's. Seriously, it's as addictive as "EA SPORTS, IT'S IN THE GAME" (which yea EA is evil blah blah blah but that just stuck in my head)

Ok, I didn't see anyone post about him but if you're looking for some classic art that has huge massive landscapes with human civilization. I reccomend the works of Thomas Cole. He does these massive landscapes that are incredible. I know he's a classic artist, but I feel like his work really fits what you're looking for.

Also, I was re-watching this and I know Ross said he's not much of a buisness person but I had an idea, I'm sure im not the first person to say this but couldn't you do something like physical DVDs, especially for The Movie. I would definatly buy a Freeman's Mind DVD box set. I know there are usually extras or something but in all reality, just being able to plop a DVD into a player would be awesome. Only other web series I can think of that did this was Red vs. Blue, but seriously, it would be awesome. Though if you wouldn't do a DVD box set for Freeman's mind I would without a doubt suggest doing it for The Movie. Like have it free digitally, but if you want a physical copy, you're gonna have to either download the movie and burn it to a DVD yourself OR you could pay $10 plus shipping to get the DVDS, some extras, and maybe even DVD cover and box art. You'd still have everything for free online, just a little more for the physical thing.

Kinda reminds me of the SSD Ross: "Hey guys if you want videos in 720p I'm gonna need about $500" Fans: "well fuck you Ross here's $18,000"

Holy shit, over $10,000 already. That's not even counting monthly stuff that will happen as time goes on. Damn Ross, you got a really dedicated fan base here.

It's for Ross, of course, you silly! Hehe! Regards Well of course it's for Ross but why specifically now is he asking for donations The video will explain everything. If nothing goes wrong, I should have it up within 24 hours. Ok, can't wait to see it, I actually enjoyed your last fundraiser video so I'd like to see what this is all about

I REALLY want to see someone make a video using all the quotes in contex, I listened to them at random and while a lot of them are funny, I have a feeling they'd be much better actually being used in the game. Also I think i missed something, what's this fundraiser for?

Dashofweak in nearly all places if you see dashofweak, that's me

Definitely a bit of robocop too

That method has proven to be massively ineffective. (they try it before prison) It's 3rd strike that sends them to prison, but the problem is, usually, they can get the drugs on the inside too. Also, the people who commit crimes to feed the addiction should go to jail on the first strike, but not for the length of time currently used in the system. Drug possession charges for drugs that don't cause physical dependencies is a major issue in the US right now, and is a major reason why marijuana is becoming legal in many states. Just because it's ineffective right now doesn't mean that it can't be made to work. It could be with the current system that there isn't drug counseling that's effective for many people. The 3rd strike thing really doesn't help because with the 1st and 2nd strike there isn't much help being given to the people who need the help. So saying "It doesn't work just jail them" really doesn't help because that's what we're doing and have been doing since Nixon and it has only worsened the problem more than anything else.