I'd really like help making something on gay marriage go viral

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Monday November 22, 2010 · 5:29 PM PST

2010/11/22 · 17:29

I reallly want to make this blog post go viral and I hope that you'll help me:

If you want to help, blog that link, put it up on Facebook, tweet it, or do anything else you feel like! Let's do this thing.

Here's the text of it below:

I sometimes like to imagine humans are like little sparks flying across a night’s sky, bumping, twisting, sizzling and finally fading away, each life might be only a blink away from dissolving. On its path through space and time each spark traces a pattern through hope and despair. We are fragile in ways we do not even understand, and powerful beyond our comprehension. Our lives are brief, and not one of us is a stranger to pain.

And in this confusing, glorious, pain and joy ridden world we struggle to make meanings, to find things that matter to us and to others. Very often we find love, almost always by accident. We do not choose to fall in love or whom to fall in love with, but in love we do fall.

Timothy Scriven

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 1:36 PM PST

2008/11/12 · 13:36

The video which needs no introduction, footage of the largest election party in Australia:

http://www.usyd.edu.au/...

Timothy Scriven

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 8:21 PM PST

2008/11/07 · 20:21

Many have been talking about renewing the left's focus on sexuality; that's wonderful but I'd like to remind everyone that this is a bigger fight than just a gay right's fight. I'd like to start by pointing out something rather that might sound rather trivial; the issue at stake in California is not gay marriage but same sex marriage. Not everyone who wants to get married to someone of the same sex is gay; some are bisexual, some may identify as largely straight but due to the circumstances of their lives find themselves in a relationship with someone of the same gender for whatever emotional reasons. The point is that prop eight is not solely a "Gay" rights issue, it's a sexuality rights issue.

Timothy Scriven

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Friday February 08, 2008 · 2:46 AM PST

2008/02/08 · 02:46

In Judo you use the opponents one weight against them. We are at a supposed disadvantage, we have no clear candidate. However we can use this to our advantage, the Republicans have no clear target while we have our target, McCain.

We need to pin him to Bush. That infamous hugging photo needs to go memetic in the mainstream. We could, for example, create funny YouTube montages of the photo and work on making it go viral. We also need to bring up the age issue, while it may seem unfair 72 years old does seem like an inappropiate age at which seek the presidency to me.

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Are you ready to start fighting for the general?

33 votes Vote Now!

Are you ready to start fighting for the general?

Fired up!

16 votes

Ready on day one!

1 vote

Generic yes!

3 votes

HELL YES!

6 votes

No, I will scamper off into a dark corner and cower

1 vote

No, I'm too apathetic.

2 votes

No, I'm a Republican, MAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

2 votes

Pie.

2 votes

Clinton, Obama, Edwards, all Republicans.

Timothy Scriven

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 7:24 PM PST

2008/01/29 · 19:24

In a surprise move today the three frontrunners for the Democratic primary revealed that they were all Republicans in a joint press conference.

Asked "But I thought you guy's were democrats" by our intrepid reporter they replied "That's what we wanted you to think."

Timothy Scriven

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Friday January 18, 2008 · 4:59 PM PST

2008/01/18 · 16:59

There is a candidate you should all consider. He's not a Democrat; the democrats have shown that they cannot truly take the country forward. Nor is he a Republican. He's not a member of the greens or any conventional third party, what have they ever done for us? And no, it's not Bloomberg.

I'm talking about Cthulhu, the thinking man's Bloomberg.

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Cthulhu Fthagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!?

42 votes Vote Now!

Cthulhu Fthagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!?

Yes, eat me first!

15 votes

No, don't eat me first!

3 votes

Eat pie first!

24 votes

Trollus Internetitus ( The Hunting Of The Snark Series).

Timothy Scriven

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 5:41 PM PST

2008/01/17 · 17:41

Traditionally the natural habitat of troll's was under bridges. Recently however trolls have began to inhabit many different locations because of the ecological destruction wreaked on bridge eco-systems. A recent evolutionary novelty is the Trollus Internetitus. The anatomy of the Trollus is mysterious as only few have met one in the flesh. The refuse they leave behind however is often written in a tone of knowing superiority and contains a statistically unusual number of CAPS and exclamation marks!

What this majestic creature craves above all else is doughnuts. Many are thought to undertake a long and arduous migration all the way from the forests of Red State and Free Republic in order for doughnuts feeding season. Trollus Internetitus should be provided with doughnuts liberally. However recent concerns have been raised that during the troll mating season (sometimes known as "election season" to scientific laymen.) it can be easy to mistake another species for a Trollus. This is dangerous as doughnuts are poisonous to all other known species.

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What is your favourite variety of troll?

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What is your favourite variety of troll?

Concern

7 votes

Disgusting

3 votes

Crackpot/conspiracy theorist

15 votes

Attention seeking

4 votes

Astroturfing

0 votes

Spamming

0 votes

I love them all equally

10 votes

Pie troll

19 votes

Saving you the trouble of writing another hit diary

Timothy Scriven

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Sunday January 13, 2008 · 6:48 PM PST

2008/01/13 · 18:48

Today's astroturfer is of such limited imagination that they probably have trouble coming up with a new hit diary every day. So ( and credit goes to my brother for the idea.) I've created the following standard format for hit diaries in order to save them a lot of work. A win win situation you might say:

"I have been doing some independent thinking about {Hilary/Edwards/Obama/Colbert/Gravel} and have decided, after considerable independent thought that said candidate does not merit your vote. Said candidate is {Unelectable/mushy/bad in the sack} because they X and this means that they will not be able to capture the crucial {Independent/Latino/Tibetan/Bigfoot} vote. Said candidate has a track record of {Snorting cocaine/Snorting dishwashing powder/feasting on the blood of innocents.} Furthermore said candidate is really a {Empty suit/Republican/intrinsic force for evil that existed since the dawn of creation.}

Timothy Scriven

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Saturday January 12, 2008 · 4:13 PM PST

2008/01/12 · 16:13

Recently the Chamber of Commerce promised sixty million dollars to punish presidential candidates that it thinks are anti bussiness. Well. I don't know about you but I think that when vast organization promises to "punish" a group of candidates I pay attention. Now when they promise to punish them with 60mil$ I pay a lot of attention. When it becomes clear that these candidates are the candidates I favour I'm listening in like there's no tomorrow. When it becomes clear that this is the same sort of organization that would oppose raises in minimum wages intended to allow everyone a reasonable life I get snarky. When it becomes clear that this is the same sort of organization that lobbies for ever smaller taxes on business and raises on income to make up I get furious. When I realise that in few other first world countries in the world would mega corporations talk openly of "punishing" candidates, I’m throwing things.

So I think to myself, 60$mil is a lot of money and then I remind myself of an important fact, we outnumber them. We are the netroots, we are strong, and we can show them exactly what their arrogant talk of punishment will get them.

Timothy Scriven

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Thursday January 10, 2008 · 2:56 AM PST

2008/01/10 · 02:56

I will not name the diary in question but there was an unfortunate misunderstanding tonight and some actions that were quite wrong on my behalf. I sort of skimmed over a diary (reading only the beginning) before commenting, I was tired (not that it's really any excuse) and missed something important. As a result I posted a comment that I thought was in line with the message of the diary, which I thought was a light-hearted attack on the candidate wars. Unfortunately it turned out I had missed the whole purpose of the diary which was very serious indeed. I posted a comment which was intended to be light hearted but in context looked like a cruel insult.

Timothy Scriven

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Friday January 04, 2008 · 6:06 PM PST

2008/01/04 · 18:06

Sometimes in times of division we need to remind ourselves of the alternative ( solemn nod.) Thus on this thread I'd like you to pretend that you are, in fact, from Red State. This is your chance to post comments and talk like a Red Stater! Have you ever wanted to let go of your IQ for just a few glorious minutes and revel in base emotions? This is your chance.

Hopefully by pretending to be Redstaters we'll remind ourselves what we are up against and that none of the first tier candidates are really that bad. Or maybe we'll jsut have a lot of morale boosting fun.

So on this thread pretend you are all Redstaters. You can do it however you like, mock seriously or illucidly. It's up to you, let your imagination grow wild ( or stunted) and throw logic to the winds.

Timothy Scriven

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Wednesday January 02, 2008 · 9:28 PM PST

2008/01/02 · 21:28

Simply put almost all legislation that passes would be perceived as centrist by the public. "Centrism" is of course a meaningless concept set by the contingencies of history and sociology. The America political centre would be very right in Australia and lunatic right in Europe. That said "moderate" is a term with vast emotive power.

To a certain extent the Republicans have succeeded as portraying themselves as sensible moderates. The number of advertisements that describe X candidate or Y policy as far left is truly astonishing when, by both US and world standards, X candidate and Y policy are no such thing. Such rhetoric works because outside of a small minority being a radical is a Bad Thing in the mind of the public and today’s voter is a low information voter. Republican effort’s on this front are largely why Bipartisanship has come to mean "let the Republicans get away with things. Indeed the Republican party has pulled one of the greatest con acts in the history of politics, manufacturing acrimony and angst between the parties and then, to avoid further acrimony, painting cooperation with themselves as the only way to overcome the acrimony THEY THEMSELVES HAVE CREATED. A sophisticated form of political blackmail.

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