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Postby Valrifell » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:38 pm

Proctopeo wrote:
Tevehas wrote:Actually, the internet is a giant pipe and the ISP's use a giant steel skull lowered into place by orphan slaves on hamster wheels to block the flow of internet juice that's lubricated by the tears of the homeless.

No, the Internet is a big truck, and ISPs slash the tires on the big truck so it has to get repaired at the local auto shop.


Which they also own.
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Postby Proctopeo » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:39 pm

Valrifell wrote:
Proctopeo wrote:No, the Internet is a big truck, and ISPs slash the tires on the big truck so it has to get repaired at the local auto shop.


Which they also own.

And they are, in turn, owned by Big Pharma.
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Postby Anime North America » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:40 pm

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Which they also own.

And they are, in turn, owned by Big Pharma.

Funny seeing Libertarians criticize corporations. Isn't the pharmaceutical industry just capitalism at work? :lol:
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Postby Zurkerx » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:41 pm

Arlenton wrote:
The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:WE CAN STILL OVER TURN IT VIA CONRGRESS

How? If you can't even afford internet, how will you raise more money than ISPs?


Not to mention, the current Congress has no intention of changing that.
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Postby Tevehas » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:41 pm

Proctopeo wrote:No, the Internet is a big truck, and ISPs slash the tires on the big truck so it has to get repaired at the local auto shop.

No they steal the tires for use on the APC that carries the Trump-Pai approved ISP death squads that execute your family if you use a site you didn't pay for the privilege to access.
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Postby The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:41 pm

Zurkerx wrote:
Arlenton wrote:How? If you can't even afford internet, how will you raise more money than ISPs?


Not to mention, the current Congress has no intention of changing that.

We have to do something

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Postby Tevehas » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:42 pm

Anime North America wrote:Funny seeing Libertarians criticize corporations. Isn't the pharmaceutical industry just capitalism at work? :lol:


Aside from the government enforced monopoly in the pharmaceutical industry, I was just continuing the "oh so hilarious" "ironic" shitposting.
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Postby Genivaria » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:43 pm

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San Lumen wrote:It starts by voting out every single republican next year.

And voting in exclusively Libertarians ;)

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Postby Luminesa » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:43 pm

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Luminesa wrote:But most of that will not affect your everyday life. This is all a bunch of angry rich men throwing money at each other. Your life and your internet will continue as normal, and NS will be here tomorrow.

Yes rich white men who want to control what you see and destroy companies like Netflix and Hulu.

Yeah, no. Again, it’s not like companies are in the dark about what services consumers have been trending toward. Netflix and Hulu will probably throw money at each other, but they have so much of it that they will be fine.
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Postby Rodrania » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:44 pm

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San Lumen wrote:It starts by voting out every single republican next year.

And voting in exclusively Libertarians ;)


I'd say vote exclusively the CPUSA, but filling all government positions with FBI Agents doesn't sound like a good idea.
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Postby San Lumen » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:44 pm

Luminesa wrote:
San Lumen wrote:Yes rich white men who want to control what you see and destroy companies like Netflix and Hulu.

Yeah, no. Again, it’s not like companies are in the dark about what services consumers have been trending toward. Netflix and Hulu will probably throw money at each other, but they have so much of it that they will be fine.

You say that now. But they've never liked companies like that and plenty of other websites and now this their chance to get rid of them by charging more.

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Postby Telconi » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:46 pm

Luminesa wrote:
San Lumen wrote:Yes rich white men who want to control what you see and destroy companies like Netflix and Hulu.

Yeah, no. Again, it’s not like companies are in the dark about what services consumers have been trending toward. Netflix and Hulu will probably throw money at each other, but they have so much of it that they will be fine.


I love the whole "Fuck the giant billion dollar corporations, they are picking on Netflix!"
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Postby Prusswitonsiakekingkailand » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:46 pm

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Proctopeo wrote:And voting in exclusively Libertarians ;)


I'd say vote exclusively the CPUSA, but filling all government positions with FBI Agents doesn't sound like a good idea.

Voting in the Communist party would make things even worse.
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Postby Anime North America » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:46 pm

The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:
Zurkerx wrote:
Not to mention, the current Congress has no intention of changing that.

We have to do something

I really don't know what to tell you, then. Money talks, and the repeal of NN is going to be one giant corporate bulwark against corrective legislation.

Perhaps if the liberals recognized that this only occurred because it will be profitable, and that capitalism itself is the root cause, we wouldn't have to beg the government not to make life worse for the average American.

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Postby Rodrania » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:46 pm

Prusswitonsiakekingkailand wrote:
Rodrania wrote:
I'd say vote exclusively the CPUSA, but filling all government positions with FBI Agents doesn't sound like a good idea.

Voting in the Communist party would make things even worse.


You missed the point of my joke
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Postby Tevehas » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:47 pm

Telconi wrote: love the whole "Fuck the giant billion dollar corporations, they are picking on Netflix!"


Why did you repeat yourself
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Postby Valrifell » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:47 pm

Anime North America wrote:
The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:We have to do something

I really don't know what to tell you, then. Money talks...


Money goes into ads to get people to vote for a candidate. It therefore follows that, regardless of that, if people decide not to vote for a candidate because they're shitty, they will be listened to in order to secure votes.
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Postby Prusswitonsiakekingkailand » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:47 pm

Rodrania wrote:
Prusswitonsiakekingkailand wrote:Voting in the Communist party would make things even worse.


You missed the point of my joke

What joke? The FBI agents part?
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Postby Telconi » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:47 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Luminesa wrote:Yeah, no. Again, it’s not like companies are in the dark about what services consumers have been trending toward. Netflix and Hulu will probably throw money at each other, but they have so much of it that they will be fine.

You say that now. But they've never liked companies like that and plenty of other websites and now this their chance to get rid of them by charging more.


Oh, yeah, but Netflix is just gonna fold up shop because Comcast wants to negotiate streaming speeds. Totally explain's why Netflix wasn't one of the fastest growing fucking corporations prior to the Title II classification...
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Postby Rodrania » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:47 pm

Prusswitonsiakekingkailand wrote:
Rodrania wrote:
You missed the point of my joke

What joke? The FBI agents part?


Yes, friend, it was a joke about the CPUSA being an FBI Honeypot
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Postby Prusswitonsiakekingkailand » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:49 pm

Rodrania wrote:
Prusswitonsiakekingkailand wrote:What joke? The FBI agents part?


Yes, friend, it was a joke about the CPUSA being an FBI Honeypot

Ah damn, thought the FBI joke was a jab at Libertarians, sorry.
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Postby Evil Dictators Happyland » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:50 pm

Telconi wrote:
San Lumen wrote:You say that now. But they've never liked companies like that and plenty of other websites and now this their chance to get rid of them by charging more.


Oh, yeah, but Netflix is just gonna fold up shop because Comcast wants to negotiate streaming speeds. Totally explain's why Netflix wasn't one of the fastest growing fucking corporations prior to the Title II classification...

I wasn't aware that Netflix was a porn service. :P

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Postby San Lumen » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:50 pm

Telconi wrote:
San Lumen wrote:You say that now. But they've never liked companies like that and plenty of other websites and now this their chance to get rid of them by charging more.


Oh, yeah, but Netflix is just gonna fold up shop because Comcast wants to negotiate streaming speeds. Totally explain's why Netflix wasn't one of the fastest growing fucking corporations prior to the Title II classification...

streaming speeds should be equal for all and not something that needs to be negotiated.

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Postby San Lumen » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:51 pm

Evil Dictators Happyland wrote:
Telconi wrote:
Oh, yeah, but Netflix is just gonna fold up shop because Comcast wants to negotiate streaming speeds. Totally explain's why Netflix wasn't one of the fastest growing fucking corporations prior to the Title II classification...

I wasn't aware that Netflix was a porn service. :P

And why should the big media corporations be able to restrict access to that too?

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Postby Tevehas » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:51 pm

Anime North America wrote:Perhaps if the liberals recognized that this only occurred because it will be profitable, and that capitalism itself is the root cause, we wouldn't have to beg the government not to make life worse for the average American.
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