SL is not fascist.

SL is not fascist.

Agree, It is a game that is operated by a company!

Suppose some people want to be able to go into a store and vote on policy.

I agree if SL is just a game. If SL is a game, then it's just make believe.

If SL is a world (a 2nd Life), like so many people claim it is such as Linden Labs does, then it is a fascist world in my opinion.

A world that exists only at the whim of Linden Lab. Of course, they prefer it exist since that's how they make money, but no LL, no Second Life.

If LL were fascist, I don't think it has a sufficient military strength to pose much threat to the world at large.

Do we know this for sure?

There is a get together shortly in SF, I believe, perhaps someone could ask "Excuse me, how large is your secret military force, Philip" while they are there.

Although "fascist" doesn't have a proper verb form, all the defininitions of I can find imply affirmative acts of oppression. As LL doesn't perform affirmative acts, it is unlikely that the term could apply.

Without a fasces, there is no fascism. I don't know anybody in SL working for the goals of a single leader.

I R Fascist!

I think they are supposed to be though.

Sorry, I just can not envision Jeska wearing one of those lil' Charlie Chaplain-like moustaches.

If it's that fascist, it sure is plagued by a lot of capitalism.

Perhaps if not precisely fascist, it might be para-fascist?

According to the poll, SL is PIE!


Yay for pie!!

There is no poll and no pie in this thread.

Please, children, we are trying to have a serious political conversation here.

Please clarify.

If fascist doesn't have a proper verb form, it takes but a moment's work to make one.
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I fascist, you fascist, we fascist. We have fascisted, the have fascisted, we might would have fascisted if we had known you were coming. They were fascisting. See Puff fascisting with Spot. A meaning can be assigned to these forms in the fullness of time.

Two fascists who are joined are said to be fascistened together.

Dull fascists are just dull but interesting fascists are fascistinating.

Someone who records and analyzes numbers for facsists is a statisfascistician.

Someone who records and analyzes numbers for fascists who also supports fascist rule is a statist statisfascistician.

When fascists get in a fight they engage in fascistifuffs.

Now that we have some basic vocabulary perhaps our conversation can be more fruitful.

Why, surely you must have heard of Ulrika and Anshee by now, have you not?

Are we really debating whether SL is fascist? Or is there an actual serious convo I'm not aware of?

LL's role in World War Two is one facet of what we are really trying to determine.

LL's connection with the Bilderberg is the primary focus of the preliminary analysis.

What, you ask is this thread about?

It's about time. It's about space. About two people in the strangest place.

Seriously, there is a serious purpose to this thread. I can't reveal this thread's purpose in public though, but it does have a serious purpose related to political science as it relates to Second Life.

Seriously,

Sue Baskerville

How da hell do people come up with such threat? Anyway, i don't think SL is facsistish. (or however you write) If it was fasictishm were is the propagenda. No spamm, vote bush / vote someone, right? I know this threat goes further but then again, what should intimidate me.

Yeah, like he's gonna tell you about the self-replicating sphere army.

I will not be there to ask, that is why I suggested "perhaps someone could ask".

I assumed that readers would interpret that to mean someone who would actually attend the event.

It would be rather silly for someone over a thousand miles away to ask the question, and might cause strange looks from the people next to them in line at the grocery store. I supposed they could hold their hand up to their ear and try to pretend they are using a very tiny cell phone.

Anshe is a business.

Ulrika might be considered a demagogue (either the positive or negative definition, depending on how you feel about her ) but there's no concerted movement to fulfill her every command.

When I think "fascist", I think "castor oil".

There's something blunt about that.

So you are of the "SL is castor oil" faction, eh?

A spoonful of castor oil helps the medicine go down.