Damme!! Buuuurrrn!! Fuck u sco-mo

@Background Pony #CB8C SLIM ANUS IS A BITCH!

@Background Pony #EC47  
i hated how homestuck did that! they shouldn’t have killed ICP, cas they would run The USA better than anybody could…  
well… UNLESS it was Esham or Twiztid

@Beau Skunky  
Oh crap your right

@Prometheus labs CEO  
Dude, let it goooo… I mean, half the internet already made that joke already.
 
Besides, we don’t need to start another touchy debate here.

@rogerSnow  
Too bad, it works better now that it ever did before

@Prometheus labs CEO  
This was posted 6 years ago. So no.

Is that a reference to our current president?

Lyra,please explain magnets,how do dey work?

ihateclowns.com

Then again, I’m pretty sure a quarter of you don’t know what I’m talking about and half of you don’t care.

This is a total Homestuck reference. The ICP get elected as leaders in the post scratch version of Earth. Yes, they actually have CLOWN PRESIDENTS. Luckily, post scratch Dave Strider (Known in that version of Earth as Bro Strider, similar to how Dirk was known as Bro Strider in the pre-scratch earth) killed the Insane Clown Presidents and saved the day like a baller.

And not a single pony survived the reviving of slim shady,every human teenagers savior

Hmm…

There is one clown that is none of those, and would have been a great leader.
 

Glad everybod is being mature and not making “juggalo’s are retarded” jokes. I am proud to be a juggalo brony.

@rogerSnow  
Interesting. I feel as though there’s a great deal of importance to this subject, if people hope at all to be creatures motivated by reason rather than instinct, at any rate. I’ll certainly be reflecting upon it further.

@Background Pony  
Well, that get’s to that very tricky philosophical question about why the internal state of other people matters objectively or even if it does at all.
 
I think pain sucks and happiness is good. There’s no specification in that qualia that only MY pain and happiness matter, they just matter in general to me regardless, so I would prefer pain not to be and happiness to be in others as well as myself. As far as I can tell, from my personal experience, that’s qualitatively inherent in those experiences that I don’t care if it’s specifically me.
 
Difficult to explain, like telling someone what the color red looks like I guess. But people matter to me as an end unto itself, not a means to a personal end (like being nice to get into paradise rather than being nice for it’s own sake).
 
But I’ve fought often and hard to try to make things better (yes, even outside of the internet), but it’s like people just don’t want it. People are just solipsistic and (like you suggested) only care about what makes them feel good, even to the point that it will harm them personally eventually because they care more about themselves in the very moment (“that’s future Spike’s problem”). So I’m just tired and I don’t know anymore. I don’t even know if people are what I thought they were. I feel sometimes like they must not experience things in the same way, and therefore don’t experience pain or happiness as I know it either, because I don’t understand how someone could have experienced happiness and pain in their lives and then think it’s okay to do things like bully and beat the shit out of someone for being gay because “eww, gross, faggot”. So since I don’t know if people really experience things the same way as me anymore, it kinda doesn’t matter to me anymore.

@rogerSnow  
Well, I was actually talking about philosophy. You see, it’s always seemed to me that if I were an atheist, it wouldn’t make much sense for me to worry about anything that didn’t pertain to my own self in some way. As such, the rest of the world could be in flames for all I care, as long as I’m happy in my own realm. Hypothetically, anyway.
 
I’m not trying to be inflammatory, I just think that position makes a lot of sense from that perspective.

@Background Pony  
That things like burden of proof and evidence based belief are less logically consistent than my giving up on people.

@rogerSnow  
You doubt what?

@Kamazeustra  
Too late.

@rogerSnow  
Don’t take the bait.

@Background Pony  
Doubt it.