By Paragraph:FalloutJack said:Okay, hang on. I'm calming down. I'm over the burst of patriotism. I must confess that I did, in fact, watch the musical rendition of 1776 today. It does that to you. Gonna explain what you've missed in what I was saying rationally.
You asked me to demonstrate a point in which one idea strikes down another in history. I stated that the birth of America as its own nation was this. I did not mean 'destroy monarchy', unless it can be interpretted as 'destroy a monarch's influence over America'. In this one country, the revolution and the acts there in have proven that one idea (America-ruled America) is better than another (England-ruled America). That was the long and the short of my point.
The problem which many of the posters in here have caused is the assumption that I mean 'all or nothing', two extremes. I mean that if an idea is not working, that it should step back, stop what it's doing, and re-think itself. And I don't mean EVERYTHING has to change either. I don't mean that suddenly everyone is naked as babes on the internet. Anonymous with a capital A is not the same as anonymous with a little a. Many of the people here in this thread have made this assumption which is not what I mean and not even true. We are all Anonymous? I'm not, clearly.
This was, like anything else, an idea. You and many others did not receive it well. I understand that, of course. I didn't say you couldn't have an opinion and I certainly didn't do much fighting on this thread. And for that, I have been sneered at and spoken to in a manner befitting pigs, for the most part. Suffice to say, to those who necro'd this thread just to cast flamewads, I don't burn quite so easily.
1. Fair enough, I've had that experience.
2. But it didn't strike down the idea. Monarchism, as a thought, exists.
3. The reason is because with the internet, it is all or nothing. Lulzsec is a good example of the fact that with even a few people you can cause untold damage. Even one anon keeps anonymous working. You keep saying the idea is not working. It is. You may think it's wrong, but those who operate under that idea obviously think they're in the right. They're not going to randomly agree with you. For the last of this - yeah, it kind of is. Check out anon's reaction to Wikileaks, cat beatings, or even Scientology. Guess what? They're on every side imaginable, because anonymous is anyone working with that name.
4. I'm really annoyed when people pull the "well, you're allowed to have your opinion" thing. I know I am, you don't need to tell me.