Some Things I HATE About This Social Network (Or Dylan's Angry Manifesto...you decide)

[Dylan]

In no particular order

-Preverts who join because of Tania
-Gamers who join ONLY because of Athene
-Preverts who join this place to try and meet women
-Sicko's who create fake accounts for women (and yes it does happen on here)
-Assholes who join and don't give a shit about I-Power at all
-People who speak about things when they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about (NOT ALL because many do but some conspiracy theorists with nothing to reference besides loose change and zeitgeist, or people who think I-Power is selling out because they started making some pittance sponsorship or youtube partnership that they split 5 ways et.al.
-People talking about celebrities and their frequent "Scandals".....god

I won't go on and on but lots of you know who and what I am talking about

I am in a pretty bad mood but I've been meaning to write this for some time now. If you're not here to in some way shape of form try to better humanity or at the very least yourself: join myspace or facebook or one of the useless ones. I'm even a member of both (inactive mind you but still) so feel free to add me there....we can discuss how big my dick is (see the post titled "How Big Is Your Dick") or whether or not Ian loves Tania on there. Maybe we can share some cool applications on facebook like "Full House Reunited" or "Hugging, Poking, Kissing, Fucking, Sucking, Rimjobing each other apps....those are just great.

Some of you reading this may indeed know who me on the site. I am usually pretty active and for the most part a pretty positive person. While I go off topic just like anyone else (my smoker group and such) I usually try to contribute in a somewhat valuable way (the welcome messages, the i-powercast, the groups I created like I-Power Skype, C&C Literature Discussion, Gays and Lesbians Group, Snail Mail-Pen Pals and so on)
Anyways.......


To prove I am not a total pessimistic asshole I created a new group that requires a little something of a qualification to join. I won't say the name of it because I'm not trying to promote it to anyone who may hate on this post or me or whatever but the group is for people who DO contribute and WANT to go forward on this site. Whether it's to better yourself, the site, the internet, the world... I just want people who care and won't just sit around bitching about shit all the time. I want people who have selfless solutions to real issues fucking this world up day by day. We all know the problems... hell it's all we ever talk about on here. LET'S START SOLVING THEM

If you're interested send me an I-Power email because I'm closing off this discussion the moment I'm posting it. If I'm not on your friends list comment on my wall that you're interested. I won't be the one deciding on who gets in or not because that would be unfair. There is a group comprised of 20 very prominent I-Power members who have the option to vote on your application based on your level of activity and the content of it.

If you really care about I-Power and have shown it you'll very likely get in

Finally, in closing I'm sorry if this has in anyway offended you. It is solely my opinion and I am in no way a person who's approval you'd ever need to live your life to it's fullest. I'm just expressing my frustration and offering anyone who's as frustrated as I, a path to at least some level of how great I-Power can truly be.

Thank you
Sincere Asshole
Dylan Pattyn

***UPDATE***
This needs to be discussed and I can't keep it closed. Many of you have voiced your recent concerns lately about how so much has gone to shit, on and off the site so please go ahead.

[Dylan]

lol I wrote this in July

[Dylan]

and here we are AGAIN

[Deltathree]

My honest opinion: I think every social network that has a 'everyone can join'-policy will face this kinds of problems. Therefore making such a group isn't a bad idea.

[Dylan]

This isn't supposed to be just any social network though. At least not the way some of us see it.

[Picidae Yaekwata]

"I Power is a lifestyle based on 3 principles: Being open-minded, Active thinking, Putting your vision into practice".

I have written support for these principles on my Luciferology group and other places as they are my own principles before knowing of IPower. I have found, in my short week here, that many are open-minded but that some use the words to cover their closed mind to anything but what is politically correct here in this enviroment (not meaning politically in the politic way alone). Open-minded is not meaning to collect all things that come your way, but to be open to a different perspective on things that may come from a different paradigm that others have. It does not mean to accept them as your thoughts but to except them as the thoughts of others expressed the best they know how at any given time in their life. Open-minded is not letting others talk knowing that you will not consider what they say under any circumstance due to the vested interest you have in your own thoughts already. Thinking actively on what comes your way to truly consider if the new ideas have merit for that person, others, or yourself understanding that there is not one perfect way for all people but all people have a perfect way for themselves and that our respect for that could change their lives and ours as we think on things instead of dismissing them because they do not fit into our own current world-view that keeps us socially acceptable in the realm we find ourself in at the moment. Then at some point one must walk the walk and not just talk the talk or think the thought.

In any group you have young thinker or followers of an idea or concept and because they love it so much if another brings a different concept or group of "facts" (socalled) to the table, this person wants them removed or tries to drive them out under the name of some "god complex" to preserve the holy land they think they have found as if someone's free will thought puts a strong true perspective in some danger. I have found in my groups past that let the rambler ramble and expose themselves for what they are if indeed a nut........and sometimes I have found that one to have something i needed to hear but could not until it hit me over and over and over. Okay......that is enough for now...........

[Picidae Yaekwata]

You laid a premise here that "Liberal people are always against racism". Two points; what are liberal people and what is racism. Both of these terms mean different things to different people from their own perspective.

The earth is flat, the Church is the only way, etc, etc, have had many people refuse to consider anything other because they were delusional to think a round earth or that the church was not holy and pure. And we have history to show us the results of such close-minded people who demanded a politically correct view or else.

You should never accept what is false for truth. Yes, we should listen in spite of our knowledge lest we grow in conceit that we have all truth and end up being like the christian church leaders of history. It is said that if you want to know the truth about yourself ask your enemies as they will be bruitally honest with you, but your friends will spare your feelings. Always listen and alway try to find a nuggit of gold in the pile of shit.

[Picidae Yaekwata]

In the interest of balance to a premise that liberals are not racist I offer this and state that that premise is not true.

Monday, October 15, 2007
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2006/02/07/the_dem...
Bruce Bartlett is a former senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis of Dallas, Texas. Bartlett is a prolific author, having published over 900 articles in national publications, and prominent magazines and published four books, including Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action.

The Democrats' own history with race
The liberal media has added to their anti-Republican template a pronouncement that all efforts to attract more black Americans to the Republican Party will fail. Included in articles is the false charge that the Republican Party is anti-black, as well as the recent decision by four Republican Party presidential candidates to not participate in the Tavis Smiley debate at Morgan State.

The media lens has no room to include anything negative about the Democratic Party as exposed in the below article. Also, the press never mentions the fact that all of the Democratic Party candidates refused to participate in the Congressional Black Caucus debate that was to be held in Detroit. Little attention is paid to the fact that Republicans continue to support black organizations such as the United Negro College Fund, HBCU's and the NAACP, even though national NAACP leaders regularly defame Republicans as is demonstrated in the article below.

To add insult to injury, after ignoring how Democrats slander Republicans, the liberal media readily accuses Republicans of being "divisive" when Republicans expose the Democratic Party's racist past and the harm the Socialist policies of the Democratic Party have caused to black Americans.

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The Democrats' own history with race
February 7, 2006
By Bruce Bartlett

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond probably spoke for most blacks and liberals last week when he said the Republican Party is equivalent to the Nazi Party.

"The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side," he told an audience at Fayetteville State University.

Also last week, a new "scientific study" was released showing that Republicans are racist by nature. "The study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did," The Washington Post reported.

For decades, it has been a template of the major media that Republicans are the party of racism. It repeats uncritically any charges of Republican racism, no matter how unfounded. Democrats, on the other hand, are always given a pass whenever they commit racist offenses. Even a cursory review, however, will show that the media template is totally contrary to history.

Slavery is the greatest evil ever to beset black people in this country. In the decades leading up to the Civil War, there was intense political debate on what to do about it. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 for the express purpose of ending slavery. The Democratic Party, by contrast, defended it to the bitter end.

Just to show how far Democrats would go to defend slavery, it's worth remembering what happened to Sen. Charles Sumner, Republican of Massachusetts. After giving a speech denouncing slavery in 1856, he was viciously beaten by Rep. Preston Brooks, Democrat of South Carolina, for daring to question the right to own slaves. Being a coward, Brooks waited until the elderly Sumner was seated alone at his desk in the Senate and, without warning, struck him repeatedly with a cane. It took months for Sumner to recover.

In 1858, Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat of Illinois, debated Republican Abraham Lincoln on the question of slavery. Said Douglas during one of those debates: "For one, I am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent, instead of conferring it upon negroes, Indians and other inferior races."

So prevalent were these views in the Democratic Party that Douglas was named its presidential candidate in 1860. Amazingly, Southerners actually viewed Douglas as being too moderate on the slavery issue and instead voted for Vice President John C. Breckinridge, a slave-owner who also ran as a Democrat, thus splitting the pro-slavery vote and allowing Lincoln to win.

After the war, the Democratic Party held a lock on the South for more than 100 years. All of the "Jim Crow" laws that prevented blacks from voting and kept them down were enacted by Democratic governors and Democratic legislatures. The Ku Klux Klan was virtually an auxiliary arm of the Democratic Party, and any black (or white) who threatened the party's domination was liable to be beaten or lynched. Democrats enacted the first gun-control laws in order to prevent blacks from defending themselves against Ku Klux Klan violence. Chain gangs were developed by Democrats to bring back de facto slave labor.

President Woodrow Wilson, the second Democrat to serve since the Civil War, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913. Avowed racists such as Josephus Daniels and Albert Burleson were named Cabinet secretaries. Black leaders like W.E.B. DuBois, who had strongly supported Wilson, were bitterly disappointed, but shouldn't have been surprised. As president of Princeton University, Wilson refused to admit blacks and as governor of New Jersey ignored blacks' requests for state jobs, even though their votes had provided his margin of victory.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt had his first opportunity to name a member of the Supreme Court, he appointed a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama. In 1944, FDR chose as his vice president Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922. Throughout his presidency, Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching, and he opposed integration of the armed forces.

Another Ku Klux Klan member, Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage. He is still a member of the U.S. Senate today. As recently as the 1980s, Sen. Ernest Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, publicly referred to blacks as "darkies" and Hispanics as "wetbacks" without suffering any punishment from his party.

In short, the historical record clearly shows that Democrats, not Republicans, have been the party of racism in this country.

[Picidae Yaekwata]

Twenty-Five Historically Significant Black Experiences


Historical Points of Interest

1. One of the primary reasons the Republican Party came into existence was because of its opposition to the Democrat Party’s support and promoting of The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This act repealed the Anti-Slavery Missouri Compromise Law. The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to halt the spread of slavery beyond a certain point in the Louisiana Territory. [1]

2. In 1854 at Jackson, Michigan a group of men met to form a new political party and one of the primary things that they agreed on, was their opposition to slavery and in particular the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. So while the Democratic Party was feverishly fighting to preserve slavery, the Republicans were meeting in Jackson, Michigan to destroy it. [2]

3. The first candidate the Republican selected was Col. John C. Fremont who ran against pro-slavery candidate, Democrat James Buchanan. Even though Fremont loss it is interesting to know that he was the Republicans first anti-slavery presidential candidate. [3]

4. In 1858, Republican Abraham Lincoln faced Democrat Stephen Douglas in a race for U.S. Senate in Illinois. That campaign became famous for the Lincoln-Douglas debates, with Democrat Stephen Douglas defending slavery and Republican Abraham Lincoln opposing it.[4]

5. Lincoln is quoted as saying in 1858 the following, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” And it was with this attitude that Lincoln became the Republicans first elected president, in 1860. [5]

6. Republican President Lincoln is quoted as saying the following to an Indiana Regiment: “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”[6]

7. After experiencing repeated defeats during the Civil War, Lincoln declared, “On many a defeated field there was a voice louder than the thundering of a cannon. It was the voice God, crying, “Let My People go.” We…came to believe it as a great and solemn command.[7]

8. In response to what Lincoln believed to be a divine mandate on January 1, 1863, he issued an edict we commonly call, The Emancipation Proclamation. And even though this act did not free all slaves or solves the slave problem, it led to change for the slave population in this country. (It is said that Lincoln before his death said, “The central act of my administration, and the greatest even of the nineteenth century was the Emancipation Proclamation…”[8]

9. Two of the greatest fighters for the freedom of the slaves were two Republicans by the name of Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens. Lerone Bennett, Jr. the historian said this regarding these two men. “Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens educated Lincoln, and the country, to a policy of Black Emancipation.” To them, as much as to conservative Lincoln, black people owe their freedom.[9]

10. Republicans Sumner and Stevens were responsible for three (3) amendments to the Constitution which freed black people from slavery, made them citizens with all the rights of all Americans and the right to vote. They did this even though the Democrats fought to prevent them from bringing these laws to pass.

11. Thaddeus Stevens also fought to give every freed slave forty acres of land and a mule, so that slaves could take care of their families

12. The dream of forty acres and a mule was destroyed when Lincoln was killed and his vice president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat replaced Lincoln and said of Black people, “Black people were inferior to whites and unready for equal rights. So he worked to destroy much of what Republicans had worked and fought so hard for.[10]

13. One of the greatest periods of freedom Blacks ever enjoyed in America was between 1867 and 1877. The Republican Party was responsible for this period of time, and many positive changes took place for Blacks during the time of the enforcement of a series of measures called, Reconstruction Acts. W.E. B. Dubois called this period the, “Mystic Years.”[11]

14. Here are but a few things that happen during the Reconstruction period.

A. Hiram Rhodes Revels (Republican) became the first Black in congress, holding the position of U.S. Senator

B. Republican Joseph H. Rainey from South Carolina became the first member of the U.S. House of Representatives

C. In 1875, Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi was elected to U.S. Senate, the first black to serve a full term in the Senate. In 1871, he was appointed by Republican President James A. Garfield as Registrar of the U.S. Treasury.

15. During the Republican supported period called, Reconstruction, blacks held state offices throughout the South, they were superintendents of education. Black and White children went to school together, interracial marriages were common and we didn’t ride on the back of the bus. Black colleges like Howard, Fisk and Morehouse came into being. [12]

16. The Democrats never accepted the Reconstruction Period, as the last word and they went about to take all these advancements back, through groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Most klans men were Democrats. Lerone Bennett, Jr. says this about how the Democrats went about destroying the Reconstruction period. “By stealth and murder, by economic intimidation and political assassinations, by whippings and mamings, cuttings and shootings, by the knife, by the rope, by the whip. By the political use of terror, by the braining of the baby in its mothers arms, the slaying of the husband at his wife’s feet, the raping of the wife before her husbands’ eves. By fear….In every state, Democrats attempted to control the votes of their late slaves…and the Democrats succeeded in destroying the greatest time of freedom Blacks ever enjoyed in America.” [13]

17. The great Black Republican abolitionist Frederick Douglass had this to say about the Democratic Party, “…Sir, it is evident that there is in this country a purely slavery party- a party which exists for no other earthly purpose than to promote the interests of slavery….For the present, the best representative of the slavery party in politics is the Democratic party.” [14]

18. During the rebirth of the Civil Rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s the overwhelming number of governors who stood in their respective school doors to block blacks from attending their schools were Democrats such as, Alabama Democratic Governor George Wallace, who stood in the schoolhouse door, Georgia Democratic Governor Lester Maddox stood in his restaurant door with a pistol on his hip and men with ax handles stood behind him to block blacks from coming into his business, Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett declared he would stand against federal laws regarding integration, and then there is Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus who sent his national guard to prevent black children from entering Arkansas schools. [15]

19. On September 25, 1957, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a record breaking time of a little over three weeks sent federal troops to Arkansas to ensure the safety of black children who were integrating Arkansas schools.[16]

20. The passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would not have been possible without the strong cohesive support of the Republican. In fact, all Southern Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act, including Al Gore, Sr. though President Lyndon Johnson was a Democrat he couldn’t get enough votes from his own party to pass civil rights laws, he needed the help of a willing Republican majority.

21. It is reported that over 4000 Ku Klux Klan killings took place during the terrible time of their reign of terror, but a better plan has been developed which eliminates over 400,000 black people every year, this plan has been so effective until Hispanics now out number Blacks in America. This effective gift of genocide comes from the Democratic Party supported practice called, Abortion.[17]

22. HIV and Aids is at epidemic levels in our community, and much of this increase can be linked to the rise of homosexual behavior in our community, yet the Democratic party is a strong supporter of the Homosexual agenda. Polls have shown that the majority of Blacks do not support the gay agenda.

23. During the Reagan, Bush years of the 80’s the Black middle class grew faster and larger than at anytime in America’s history. When the tide rises all ships rise with it.

24. On July 7, 2000 a story appeared in The Detroit News, which stated that the Black middle class loss ground during the Clinton years. University of Michigan Researchers did the research for this story.

25. The majority of African American parents have said they favor schools of choice, yet the Democratic Party repeatedly blocks any attempt to bring this desire of Black parents to fruition. The Republican support schools of choice and vouchers.

[Picidae Yaekwata]

You laid a premise here that "Liberal people are always against racism". It is your premise that I found wrong (and offered fact to support my view of such) and thus your argument based upon as false premise is moot.

This post threads started with "-People who speak about things when they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about". I think I have stayed within the intent of this thread and shown you, In this ONE issue, fit the topic of the original posters list. Not meaning to disrespect you with these words that are only to point out my logic for my words. Note: I do NOT see any of your posts around blogs as out of line in any way so far.

Picidae

Picidae

[Paladin]

Democrats and Liberals are not the same thing. The Republicans and Democrats have both supported policies both liberal and conservative in American history. But P.B. is right this has nothing to do with what Dylan is talking about. We should move this discussion to a thread dedicated to it. Maybe we could discuss it in Political Idealists, or a new thread in the forum.

[Picidae Yaekwata]

I posted a new thread as you subjested.

[Picidae Yaekwata]

Okay, I will try to remember that. I do love having you around as you cause me to have to think.

picidae