@ C&C, and only partially-related

[viced]

No, I don't want to fucking hear the bullshit about platforms, and you don't have to think about it as my party's platform, either. It's not funny, or cute, and I don't care if it makes it bearable. Our second run probably went a hell of a lot smoother than that, and if I can remind you of the fact, it'd be a breath of fresh air. Politics isn't a goddamned joke, remember?

Now get your ass in gear and stop getting distracted. We've got a lot to do, and procrastinating on doing your part of my job. Don't drop the damn ball, not right now.

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[aggressiveapathy]

Okay, Sarah Palin.

[viced]

Hey, fuck you! Just because President McCain made a shitty choice in your world doesn't mean he made the same one in mine. Obviously.

[aggressiveapathy]

Mmhm. Your life is now a shitty Shyamalan movie where you look in the mirror at the end and the republican was you all along. Deal.

[viced]

Yes, of course. It's just like a fucking bad movie. That's why I signed on with the party. It all makes sense now.

[aggressiveapathy]

Yup. So. Your life gets more sad every time we talk.

[viced]

Hey! It's not that bad!

[phobic]

Oh, I agree completely.

Your party is very good at fearmongering.

[viced]

I won't defend them, I'd that's what you're wondering. Ours would have been different.

[phobic]

Well, you know how people are.

We scare our children to keep them away from strangers, out of the street, away from guns and big dogs, mmm, we scare our adults with talk of toxins in our water, murderers on every unlit street, rapists down every dark alley, thoughts of judgment in our peers' minds... we scare our nations with WMDs, foreign dictators, footage of burning flags...

And then we look skyward as a planet and fear God, and then we fear the lack of a God even more.

You can't escape it - your hundred to its nth level trillions.

Your party's just learned to speak the universal language.

[viced]

And sometimes you have to appeal to that to get what you need done, and the fear is legitimate. [ Or even worse, but he doesn't say that, of course ]

We all do what we have to, and the party I signed on with was never as fucking evil as people are led to believe.

[phobic]

I only oppose them because of their hardline death penalty stance.

A view I believe Edward shares - and may be going against his own best interests, if you ask me.

Not that you did, but I don't particularly care.

[viced]

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice beliefs for compromise.

I'm surprised you didn't ask about my opinions on the subject.

[phobic]

Why should I?

You don't believe in anything, Mitchell.

[viced]

N--

That's where you're wrong.

[phobic]

Oh, so I wasn't wrong about all the rest?

Let's not play. You know everything about my history. What possible threat could my wild guessing pose to you?

Surely you're not ...in denial about anything, regarding yourself.

[viced]

Denial means that I wouldn't be considering any of the facts. Even about myself.

[ H a ]

It's just a river in Egypt.

[phobic]

Perhaps what you're not in denial about would make a shorter list.

[viced]

I don't give a shit what you think I'm in denial about, there's the truth, and I don't think you're particularly interested in that.

[ Anything to say he's totally normal ]

[phobic]

Exactly how often do you make Nygma tingle?

[viced]

I very rarely lie to my Deputy Mayor.

[phobic]

If I liked politicians, I'd like you very much. You're good at it.

[viced]

What, because you can't tell when I'm lying and when I'm telling the truth?

[phobic]

Wishful thinking at its finest, Hundred.

You can fool them. You can fool yourself.

You can't fool me.

[viced]

You're not a mind-reader, Crane. I'd know.

[phobic]

You're a fine one to espouse the necessity of superpowers to function.

[viced]

Not to function, but to know someone that well? You'd definitely need them.

[phobic]

Do you need mechanopathy to engineer, Mitchell? Or is that something your brain is talented at doing already?

[viced]

Engineering is math, and absolutes. People aren't that predictable. [ He wants to delude himself ]

[hexappeal]

On the bright side your hair is better than Sarah Palin's.

[viced]

Shit, I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.

1/4

[hexappeal]

Well, it isn't too hard to have better hair than hers...

2/3

[hexappeal]

Hmmmmm...

3/4

[hexappeal]

[hexappeal]

You should dress up as her for Halloween!

[viced]

Fuck that! No, I'm not dressing up as Sarah fucking Palin for Halloween! I barely know her!

[hexappeal]

So you... have to know someone to dress up as them for Halloween? That's a really strange qualification, Mitch.

[viced]

What would make me even want to dress up as her? I normally go as a cowboy, or maybe a doctor.

[hexappeal]

A cowboy?

[viced]

What's wrong with cowboys?

[hexappeal]

Do you carry around a shiny pistol and wear leather chaps? [MITCH WHY WEREN'T YOU EXPECTING THIS WOW THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SHE DISAPPEARS FOR A MONTH...]

[viced]

What? No! Jesus, why would I do that?

[hexappeal]

Why wouldn't you, Mitch? What are you if you don't have those things?

[viced]

Sane?

[hexappeal]

You're not a cowboy, then! You'd just be, I don't know! A Texan!

[viced]

There's nothing wrong with that!

[hexappeal]

Really, Mitch?

I guess that you're more Palin than I thought you were.