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[doodlesthegreat]

Tip for those who run conventions: If you happen to list someone in all your ads as making a a special appearance and use that person's art on your t-shirt and website, and even list them as a "Special Guest of Honor" in your conbook, it is not too much of a stretch to expect that your event is making an effort to bring that person out and cover their expenses. What is not expected is that said person will have been told only a couple months before the event "Oh, by the way, you have to pay to get here" and will subsequently be unable to show up. And offering excuses for said behavior that are anything but "Yeah, we were dumbshits" rings about as hollow as a press release from the Tea Party.
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Conversational opening:

Moi: "Yeesh. Obama looks like he's aging faster than a mayfly."
Person in chair: "Good, maybe we won't get another four years of him."
Moi: "Would you be willing to explain your position?"
Douchebag in chair: "I don't want to get political."

You pretty much blew that when you opened your mouth. A comment on an individual's health or appearance isn't an opening for retarded statements about your position on their policies and desire for continued poor health which you then try to keep from getting called on. Also, ending your argument with "You're what's wrong with America!" and running off like a coward is a damned good way to prove you lost. Good thing we were at a furry convention. Here, kitty kitty kitty...
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When you're young and silly, it's expected that you will have a focus more on yourself and your personal preferences/hobbies than other aspects of life. However, if you are in the lobby of a hotel describing the inability of people to take your six-breasted hermtaur vixen with dragon wings seriously as the worst thing in the world while I watch images of the Gulf of Mexico being turned into the sump pit of a Jiffy Lube in the background, please understand that I laugh because if I cried I'd probably walk into freeway traffic. And take you with me.

Comments

[barberio.livejournal.com]

It's been my experience, particularly within *this* fandom, that "I don't want to talk politics" means "I want to talk *my* politics without ever being contradicted".

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I've noticed such behavior outside of the fandom just as frequently as inside it. But I will also state that I notice it more from one side of the political spectrum far more than any other. A segment that somehow wishes to pretend that they weren't already given roughly a decade's chance at proving their point, much to the misery of the planet.

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Furry and SF seem to gain slightly more than their share of the Crazy Internet Libertarians and their strange ideas about Civil Debate... But they've probably been cropping up elsewhere a lot more with the rise of the Tea Party.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Which is why the "You're what's wrong with America" bit makes me laugh. I absolutely agree with them. I'm what's wrong for America. THEIR America. And I am doing my part to kill it off as soon as possible...