Carousers!

Bartleby the Scrivener: that said, the "internet revolution" the keyboard commandos were waging indeed came across as LARPing or somesuch.

At first it was nice getting up-to-date information. But then the thread patches and the "Fark 505th Internet Militia" and all that bullsh*t started and it went from "look at this info" to "look at how cool we all are."

MmmBadEggs: Bartleby the Scrivener: that said, the "internet revolution" the keyboard commandos were waging indeed came across as LARPing or somesuch.

At first it was nice getting up-to-date information. But then the thread patches and the "Fark 505th Internet Militia" and all that bullsh*t started and it went from "look at this info" to "look at how cool we all are."

Most of the threads were honestly useless anyways. A tiny bit of up to date information and a bunch of useless noise.

Sure a lot of threads are like that but the Iran threads were far beyond normal

sparrow794: tedbundee: Control_this: I won't believe this headline until it's confirmed by tweets and the VOA.

VOA WoW is ZOMGEZUSUCKNOOB.

/fixed that for sparrow794

*shrug* I have a special hatred for all things Blizzard.

WOW is easy though. All it really takes is the will to sit for extended periods of time doing simple, repetitive tasks. Or loads of pot.

MmmBadEggs: At first it was nice getting up-to-date information. But then the thread patches and the "Fark 505th Internet Militia" and all that bullsh*t started and it went from "look at this info" to "look at how cool we all are."

Most of that stuff showed up during the down times when there wasn't much information. When something was happening, the threads sharpened up quick. I think people are making too big a deal out of the badges and stuff like that. The threadshiatters and the Tatsuma Truthers were far worse in my opinion.

tedbundee

All it really takes is the will to sit for extended periods of time doing simple, repetitive tasks. Or loads of pot.

Yeah, that's video games for ya. Pretty much all of them.

I was rooting for the Iranian protesters and all that shiat, but holy fark was this place filled with mouth breathing and over privileged Westerners thinking they actually helped in some inane way.

404 Fark Retard Brigade HURRR

Such a shame. I hope they don't "disappear" too many of those protesters... something tells me a lot of young Iranians are going to be vanishing into the night without a trace.

"it was Iran's "healthiest" vote since the 1979 Islamic revolution."

Yeah, the '79 revolution was a really healthy vote.

/ Feh.

I'm still waiting for them to storm some government buildings in two days to force Obama's hand ;)

Baby Diego: tedbundee

All it really takes is the will to sit for extended periods of time doing simple, repetitive tasks. Or loads of pot.

Yeah, that's video games for ya. Pretty much all of them.

I guess its the only one I've gotten "good" at.

/I have the attention span of a peanut, so I've never been one to finish games all the way through.

STFU_and_RTFM:

Rowsdower!

Glad I wasn't the only one thinking this as the progression continued.

After reading this thread, all I can say is I am grateful I didn't waste my time with all the others. I somehow had the feeling the Iranian protesters would end up with naught and that the Fark Revolutionaries (Fart Revolutionaries?) would be about as effective over in Iran as the Obamanation was. The Fark Revolutionary Army even followed Obama's lead in "say little and do even less". At least Obama could honestly fear reprisals from his Spiritual Leader in Tehran. What was everyone else's excuse?

The online protesters were demoralized by the meddling of online Hizbullah.

Rabbi rouser

Since this thread isn't going into the kajillions, I'm assuming everything is ok now over there ...

Ok back to the mj news ...

Pocket Ninja: Wait. Why doesn't this thread have 800 posts in it already? And where's the initial summary of events and recap of Twitter feeds?

Oh my God, where are the Twitter feeds??

At least the Fark icon still has a green ribbon. As long as that's still up, hope yet lives.

Oh look, a shiny penny.

Yep... Pretty much... this.

I do not, however, think this thing is over yet. May take a while, but thoes youths are going to (crossing fingers) make a better place for themselves over there.

Basij [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:00:17 AM
"DO NOT WANT Poster Girl: This is no surprise. Blame everyone but the people shooting unarmed civilians."

"They shot themselves. Don't look at me like that."


Basij,

Your fark handle...it is just wrong...lol

I was amused by the protests, as well as their timely beatings.

Iran isn't a friend.
I'll continue chuckling as they continue to murder their own people.

The Guardian:

He came to my shop around 10.30am. You could tell straight away that he had just been released. His face was bruised all over. His teeth were broken and he could hardly open his eyes. He was not even into politics. He was just an ordinary 18-year-old in the last year of school. Before the election he came to me and asked how he should vote. He looks up to me. His father is an Ahmadinejad supporter.

He had gone home directly after his release, but his father did not let him in. He didn't mention he had been raped. At first, he didn't tell me either. It was the doctor who first noticed it and told me. When he came to my shop he collapsed in a chair. He said he had nowhere to go and asked if he could stay with me. I called a friend of mine who is a doctor to come home and see him. Then I brought him home.

His shoulder blades and arms were wounded. There were some slashes on the face. No bone fractures, but he was bruised all over the body. I wanted to take some photos but he did not let me. The doctor said only four of his teeth were intact, the rest were broken. You could hardly understand what he said. Then the doctor told me what had happened.

He had suffered rupture of the rectum and the doctor feared colonic bleeding. He suggested we take him to the hospital immediately. They registered him under a false name and with somebody else's insurance. The nurses were crying. Two of them asked what sort of beast had beaten him up like that. He was a broken man. He told us not to waste our money on him, and that he would kill himself.