I don't think we can lay the ascendance of Trump at the feet of Idiocy. You see, people who are scared and angry of change have a tendency to 'flock' around a possible leader who promises them a return to the good old days. I mean, look at leaders like Mussolini and Hitler, people were suffering from the punitive effects of reparations from WW 1 and flocked to demagogues who promised better days.

This tendency to flock is littered with examples throughout history. The people not scared of change tend to look at those affected by the phenomenon and scold them for being out of their 'flocking minds'.

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Yes, I absolutely wrote two paragraphs to get in a pun.

Any idea what the book of Amos was going to suggest he ask his flock to send more money for? It sounded like Santa was hinting that he could increase his faith by way of more large scale presents. Thus improving his connection to Santa.

So, you don't think private companies should have the right to determine if an employee's publicly displayed behavior might be detrimental to the company's image and take action? The supreme court disagrees. Can you imagine the sorry state we would be in if employees couldn't be fired for inappropriate behavior?
I agree, some take it too far, but not this case. His recorded behavior would likely cause a boycott of the company if not properly addressed. Sure, some racists and racist apologists would flock to their defense, but likely not enough to keep the business going...no matter what business we're talking about, in part because they don't tend to be the people with large sums of money to spend.

See, if you live in a society that needs videos like this one, you should know that your society is in big trouble. The word socialism alone implies community, togetherness and teamwork. It's quite telling about someone's character how they view that word.
I find it highly amusing that those, who consider socialism as a general idea a terrible thing, tend to flock to the biggest socialist figures ever written about in a book that promotes (among other things) radical socialist ideas. You know, like this Jesus fella. If we just had some sort of institution that could explain to them the meaning of words, 'irony' for example.

*promote

I can't help but wonder how many of his parishioners told him "welcome home". I hope he can reinstate that sense of nonjudgmental community in his flock. He seemed to be implying it was sorely lacking at home. Maybe next year he should create a camp and take the congregation with him.

As I said before, the US is a unique nation. We grant our people rights that no other nation before or since would consider. It has worked for us so far and I for one would not trade these rights to live in any other country.

I don't think we will need to rebel against our government or that the world is going to come to an end tomorrow. I do think that having an armed citizenry does prepare us for any situation and also does provide another check and balance for our government, should it ever try to deprive us of our freedom.

In any case, as screwed up as we may be, we are still the shining light. Even if we are Rome in decline, we are still Rome until another country is willing to step up to the plate. People still flock to us for the freedoms and chances that they can't get anywhere else in the world.

Wow, how baked are you @MrFisk?

The point you made was about Public figures and their privacy.

Regardless of how their privacy came to be violated..

(Anthony Weiner mistakenly? linked his pics on is public twitter originially. Hah.)

the result is the same:

People flocking to oogle their naked/scantily-clad bodies in photos that were meant to be private.

Isn't that the issue?


And then the rest of your comment about how..

..even private citizens should expect less privacy because of illegal data collection by the NSA..

(not unlike the illegal seizure by the Fappening hacker effectively)

Yet somehow that's okay because.. they didn't publicly share those photos.. O_o? really?

..wtf dude.. @_@

Yup, thinking they could create all their own standards was a major fault. It was working at first, when people were using Inter Dev and Front Page, couldn't get their sites to run on anything but Internet Explorer (thinking browsers like Netscape was the problem.)

But once outside programers created better authoring software, and everyone realized it was all that MS code that was screwing up all the browsers, people started flocking away pretty quickly...

It could be. Wind resistance is why geese fly in formation. They take turns being the lead so the entire flock benefits.

Sounds like a lie to me....to paraphrase how I see it going.....

God -Abraham, I now require you to sacrifice your son to me if you are to be granted my favor and receive salvation.
Abraham -Weren't my servants, and flocks, and crops enough, Damn it?
God -You dare question my wishes, do as I say or be damned for eternity.
Abraham -OK, fine...I'll do it.
God -Just kidding, it was only a test and you passed. Sorry for the whole 'destroying your entire life' thing.
Abraham -Great. Thanks loads, god. You're a true friend for not making me destroy the single last thing you had left me in life and only making me believe I had to.

Since he did not HAVE to sacrifice his son, god lied to him, tricked him, and ultimately totally fucked him. When ever I discuss this with religious people, they insist you not look at it from Abraham's viewpoint, and ignore the apparent hatred and distain god showed this pious man. I refuse.

You're 100% spot on, and that along with systemic corruption from top to bottom of politics and business (..but i repeat myself..) is going to be the legacy of this era - the Age of Deception. We MUST look good, we CANNOT afford to admit wrong.. these are phrases that should be anathema to politicians and public services, but they are words that literally define the modern statesman.

And as the supposed greatest amongst us, people flock to their example and are rewarded for doing so. We need both a psychological revolution, so we stop the rot of our civilisation, but also a physical one, because those in power are absolutely not going to relinquish it or even reduce their grip.

Why on Earth should we allow people who show themselves to be incompetent continue to hold the reins? We need a way to hold these people to account for their words and actions.

Hah-ha ... Ricky Bowie meets Flock of Gervais!

YES, YES, YES! If a flock moves into the pond, I won't be chasing them off now.
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Flock TV(CHRISTIAN)"Our Church" Episode 1 (Christian Church has been added as a related post - related requested by chicchorea on that post.