new group formed last year - Marginal Dissidents Anonymous - [PEACE]

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Fri Nov 1 14:42:21 PDT 2019


I must have missed this one, apparently there's a 10 step program
y'all might be interested in.  Amazing the wheat you can miss amongst
the chaff...

Here's copy pasta of someone's experience:


John Anon: Hi, I ... this is hard, sorry. I'm a marginal dissident.
I've been denying this to myself and others for a long time now.
It's really, you know, such a relief to be able to say that to you.

Mod: That's really good, John. Go on - how did it start for you?

JA: Well it was the memes really, they kept calling me. Like most of
you (I assume) I tried to ignore them for a long time, but I sneaked
a read here and there, you know, after my family had all gone to
sleep. My work started really suffering, my family never saw much of
me at all ...

[Crying and tissues handed out]

JA: Sorry. I just, I just couldn't stop you know, I learned how to
Gimp and that rush, it was just such a rush, so many Gimpers kept
cheering us on, even though we were all anons, and all these boards
just started popping up - 4chan, 8chan, GroyperChan, even some
strange French sites that allowed unlimited meme forwarding.

[JA seems entranced.]

Mod: John?

JA: Yes?

Mod: You were talking about memes?

JA: Oh yes, I'm so sorry, where was I?

Mod: Memes!

JA: Yes, that's right, memes ... well many of us started storming the
chans with meme after meme after meme, it was anuddah shower ya know?
And then the chans couldn't take the heat, so Amblin Memer created
this forum, the daily memer - it was, you know, it was just so
totally out there we could hardly believe it. It was gift to all us
margindal dissidents, such an amazing gift it had to have come direct
from Pepe you know?

[Lots of nods and a few grunts of confirmation.]

JA: Then one day, and I'm sure you're all familiar with it, trolls
started shutting us all down - everyone who'd ever memed, exactly 6
million of us from memory, it was exactly like another holocaust!

We had torrents of memes one day and BAM! the next, all showered!
Many of us lost our jobs, we were being outed in public, and it was
the greatest crime known to millenials - the meme! Lynch mobs were
cut loose and the lame stream media doxxed and pilloried everyone
they could identify, especially when The Great Orange Memer forwarded
one of our memes, which was simultaneously both ...

Mod: John!

[John abruptly interrupted and looks a little shocked...]

Mod: John, you know we're not supposed to use such big words as
"simultaneously", you've agreed we have to begin being compliant and
you've also agreed that this is a safe space for YOU, where you can
begin to be compliant and give up being a dissident. Try using the
word "at the same time". Go on, you can continue now John.

JA: Um, sorry, yes, but "at the same time is 3 ... sorry I mean 4
words, not one?

Mod: Do NOT challenge me JOHN! You know the rules, and the court has
very kindly allowed you to come here and participate in this safe
space, and you know this is your last chance before The Public
Outing. And you know that if you repeat any of the content of this
safe space publicly, you will automatically be outed. Please John -
I barracked REALLY hard for you to get this chance, Madam "Is Not
President Since 2016 And Never Will Be President You Evil War
Mongering Biatch" was not pleased with my overruling her on this one,
she said "That's a bit Rich, Seth!" but then proceded to allow me,
sorry I mean YOU, this one chance.

Mod: So PLEASE John, don't blow it this time, or there's nothing more
I can do for you ...

Mod: OK class, we'll take a short break as this has been rather
intense - repeat after me now - "I am a man, not a meme."

All: I am a man, not a meme.

Mod: I am compliant, and this brings peace.

All: I am compliant, and this brings peace.

Mod: I was a marginal dissident, but now I am compliant in peace.

All: I was a marginal dissident, but now I am compliant in peace.

Mod: Thank you! Thank you so much everybody, you've been so very
peaceful, and John, remember the rules! I'll see you all tomorrow.


... to be continued ... add your continuation below.



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