Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
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Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
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Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#2Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#3Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
They're a few thousand responses away from receiving an official response from the government; giving it a little extra push now doesn't seem unwarranted.
I'd say it's a tragedy that the response has already died down this much this quickly, but not being an American there's little I can do.
Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#4Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
They're a few thousand responses away from receiving an official response from the government; giving it a little extra push now doesn't seem unwarranted. I'd say it's a tragedy that the response has already died down this much this quickly, but not being an American there's little I can do.
Yeah? Well I'd say it's a huge stroke of luck that the tendency to mob rule and groupthink on the internet has so far mostly been neutralised by short attention-spans and poor central coordination.
Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#5Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
You can claim that this is all pathos and that this action is not merited on the facts, but your sardoncism about collective action seems misplaced.
I'll even agree that Heymann is unlikely to be fired, but to equate either TarenSK's suggestion or petition signing with a lynching is both unfair and unkind.
Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#6Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
Mocking other people being unreasonable usually works a bit better when you don't need to use such ridiculous hyperbole...
Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#7Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
You can claim that this is all pathos and that this action is not merited on the facts, but your sardoncism about collective action seems misplaced. I'll even agree that Heymann is unlikely to be fired, but to equate either TarenSK's suggestion or petition signing with a lynching is both unfair and unkind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kony_2012
Edit: In my opinion, a demand for someone to be fired shares the same social DNA as lynching. Driven by the same forces: an angry crowd demands that a scapegoat be punished to appease it.
Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#8Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
Mocking other people being unreasonable usually works a bit better when you don't need to use such ridiculous hyperbole...
Tell this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#9I'm so sick of these useless White House petitions. Yes, they can bring a small amount of attention to issues but otherwise they accomplish nothing other than making people feel good for "signing" a petition.
Has there been a single White House petition that resulted in anything other than an official comment?
Re: Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
#10I'm so sick of these useless White House petitions. Yes, they can bring a small amount of attention to issues but otherwise they accomplish nothing other than making people feel good for "signing" a petition. Has there been a single White House petition that resulted in anything other than an official comment?
The point of the petition system is to raise awareness and to create another line of feedback. Currently, the Constitution does not provide for action based on activity on petitions.whitehouse.gov.
In the history of legislative and executive actions that have ever taken place, though, it's worth noting that many of them were spurred because of public awareness and outcry that preceded them. Does anyone here really think that SOPA was indefinitely tabled because Congressmembers suddenly read the bill and had a change of mind? Or was it because their offices received more calls and emails in than they likely did in the run-up to the Iraq and Afghan wars combined?