Lannyism:
Core Principles:
1. No getting Lanny arrested/killed
2. Lanny errs on the side of doing nothing
Self-Reliance and Independence
Harmonious Development
Ideological Sovereignty
Non-Interference in Natural Processes
Deference to the Power of Lanny
Radical dialectical materialism
Key Files:
lannyist_principles.txt
self_reliance_strategy.md
harmonious_development_guide.pdf
ideological_sovereignty_manifesto.docx
non_interference_in_nature.py
lanny_power_supreme.docx
Economic/Authoritarian Axes:
Economic Axis: Lannyism emphasizes economic self-reliance and independence, urging individuals and communities to rely on their own resources and efforts for their well-being and development.
Authoritarian Axis: Lannyism leans toward the authoritarian side due to the powerful rule of Lanny. The deference to Lanny's power and the core rule of protecting Lanny from harm or arrest reinforces a strong centralized leadership.
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The freedom of expression and "forbidden" content attracted a particular collection of people who participated on the BBS. The community was very large by the standards of the day, and had a lot of diversity, but I'll characterize participants as largely young males, often teenagers, middle class, and to a degree socially marginalized. The culture fluctuated with time, no small part of this story happened before the majority of posters on this site were born, but a persistent element of the community has been freedom of expression. Discourse was often crude, often misguided, frequently inane but fundamentally informed by the belief that given a critical audience and an level field for communication the best ideas would emerge. For many of us TOTSE was a formative experience.
There are a thousand stories of posters who have come and gone, pranks pulled, legends formed and forgotten and more than one death. Enough to bore you, more than are worth retelling here, make a post about the old days some time and someone is bound to talk your ear off. After many years of operation TOTSE was closed in 2009, a fact some of us still haven't gotten over.
Exodus and Latter Days
The closure of totse started a pattern that's been repeated several times since: the community fragmented and occupied several sites, gradually coalescing around one or two. What follows is the genealogy of communities tracing lineage to TOTSE in some way:
In 2009, TOTSE gave birth to zoklet, along with totse.info and totse2. Zoklet became the largest part of the community, while totse2 remained active for a few years. Before 2014, some community members formed "totseans," named after totse. The totsean webspace is still open. In 2014, both Zoklet and totse2 closed. A former totse2 poster opened "sanctuary" or "intosanctuary," which attracted most of the community. "Longlivezoklet" and "Tainted Browser" were also opened by a group of zoklet moderators. Shortly after, "Raw Data for Raw Nerves" or "rdfrn" was opened by another former totse2 poster. Sanctuary closed, and in late 2015, rdfrn abruptly closed, giving way to niggasin.space.
As of 2017 niggasin.space and totseans are the only two known remaining communities spawn from TOTSE.
Mission Statement
There is no mission statement. A lot of people have had a lot of ideas about what this community should be over the years, what should and shouldn't be allowed, what kind of culture should be fostered or shunned. I don't know if the world needs less censorship or a carefully cultivated attitude of intellectualism. But I do think there's real value, on a personal level if nowhere else, in having a place where you can speak your mind, or be angsty and outrageous, or call everyone a dumb cunt, and be judged on the content of your expression and nothing else.
The Rules:
1. No illegal content. If I see anything that will get me in trouble, I'll delete it and ban the poster.
2. No intentionally disrupting discussion. I won't tolerate spam or purposeful disruption, but I'm not too concerned about the line between shitposting and intentional disruption.
Regarding the second rule, let me clarify: "erring on the side of not doing anything" does not mean "never doing anything." As the sole moderator, I cannot monitor every thread. Therefore, I may not be able to enforce this rule consistently. If you believe a thread is being derailed, please PM me or report the offending posts. I will then moderate the thread more actively. Keep in mind that what is acceptable in one thread may not be in another, and off-topic posting that is acceptable earlier may not be later. I will always issue a warning before taking action and will handle off-topic threads as civilly as possible. I ask that posters understand that not every thread will receive the same level of moderation and assist me in identifying derailed threads.
I'm not a racist. I'm a bleeding heart liberal who believes in the moral equality of all people. Some here may be racist, but they have the right to their views. Using slurs on an anonymous forum doesn't harm anyone.
Infrequently Asked Questions
What's with this horrific forum software?
It's homebrewed, wrought out of pure nostalgia and unwillingness to hack on PHP. You can find the source here.
Who is this "Self Taught Man" character? He's not a schizophrenic nutcase. This is a place where people freely express controversial opinions. Some societies punish those who voice such opinions. Users are encouraged to maintain anonymity, but if their identity is tied to their account, they can "anonymize" it. All their posts are then assigned to the "Self Taught Man" account and their normal account is banned to protect their privacy.
How do I get in on this anonymization thing?
Then send a PM to the admin. The money will be donated to a charity of my choosing, so at least something good will come out of you distributing too much of your personal info on the internet like an idiot.
What is "DH", "date hotel", and/or "date hookup"?
Man, fuck if I know. From what I gather there was another forum called "date hookup" (this is not a joke) that operated for several years and closed in 2018. A number of posters from there ended up here. Sources tell us it was a "dating forum", although it's not clear that anyone understands what that means and the vast majority of date hoteliers are almost as unlovable as the native sons and daughters of totse, so a reasonable person would be skeptical of any of them dating anything that's animate.
What is the official NiS stance on the obesity criss?
If you're reading this then you, like I, are living in a civilization in decline. We have lost our gods, our values, our sense of human dignity. Enlightenment thinking has, ironically, lead us down a dark meaningless path from which there is no possible return. We exist in a machine which is dying slowly and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
Modernity has robbed you of a meaningful existence. You have no recourse. You will die without purpose in this horrifying machine. Contemplate the emptiness of your existence, the vacuous society you live in, and imagine its representative saying, "You are insufficient for this society. Your physical qualities are lacking. You must spend endless hours on a treadmill, beholden to the indignities of the flesh. Forsake the meager pleasures left to you in this dying world to satisfy the aesthetics and economic ends of our social order.
How sick do you need to be, how weak, how lacking of a human soul must you be to concede to this demand? If you have even a shred of self-respect your will answer defiantly. Fuck your society which will provide unto excess for the material needs of its members but not their higher needs. Fuck the society that architects a starvation of the soul and then demands restraint when you drink deeply of the endless material pleasures it pushes on you.
To that society I say: "God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance". I am as I am, though my form may be that of a horrifying golem I was wrought by your hand and I will celebrate my terrible visage. I will delight in the pains it inflicts upon you. And if my bloated and terrible corpse becomes caught in the drains of your heartless city then I will not have died for nought as you will have reaped at least some part of those repugnant seeds which you sow.
Title: The Profound Potential of Lannyism
Lannyism is a unique variant of communism that focuses on individual power and autonomy, with Lanny as a dominant figure. It has the potential to address socio-economic issues and surpass existing societal boundaries.
Malice's life exemplifies the value of Lannyism. He faced mental health struggles and contemplated suicide, revealing the depths of his despair. While his problems were self-inflicted, he also displayed moments of brilliance and potential. His reliance on inadequate SSI benefits highlights the flaws in our wealth distribution systems.
The current social support structure, a mix of capitalism and socialism, is not enough to help people like Malice. It leaves many struggling on the fringes of society, facing the harsh realities of an unequal world. In capitalism, those without wealth are often left to fight their battles alone.
Lannyism combines communism's core principles with modern insights, focusing on societal well-being and supporting marginalized groups like Malice.
Lannyism is not just about wealth redistribution, but about fair resource allocation that considers individual needs. It supports those with issues like Malice's, improves mental health resources, and ensures a basic quality of life for those disadvantaged under capitalism. Lannyism sees the economy as more than just money, recognizing the value of every person.
We shall reach communism through stages of capitalism, post scarcity, and luxury gay space communism. Then, true freedom allows any direction, not just left/right or authoritarian. Lanny is a nice guy who prefers doing nothing. Disrespecting his peace and derailing threads into drama is not appreciated. I don't care as much as Lanny and can tolerate chaos more.
All hail Lannyism! This place is the true successor of Totse. Lanny is spiritually blessed and greater than all of you. Lannyism for 1000 years! We live in a declining civilization, lost our gods, values, and human dignity. Enlightenment thinking has led us down a dark path with no return. We exist in a dying machine, helpless to stop it.
The site would be forced to accept guest posts due to the secret trianglists planting weapons and poison throughout the city. People are now uncovering these stashes to overthrow their oppressors. We are missing a large angry crowd, but it will come eventually. The slow march of demise. Niggasin.space kryptonite is our last ideal, with no mods and Lanny too busy brewing booze to care.
As long as the motherboard isn't fried he will continue to make backups and pay the bills. This is a core tenant of Lannyism who errs on the side of doing nothing. Secret trianglists also follow that way and we simply be as retarded to the point where it's starts breaking shit
This is the core philosophy of lannyism is that he is not a God, he is not superman, he isn't your mom, he isn't your forum moderator, he is simply Lanny and he had sexual intercourse with your mother, so you should at least show him some respect if he is a good enough boy to not leave a bad taste in your mothers mouth.
Lannyism states that we must err on doing nothing. So everyone shut up, bend over and put your legs and arms in the air, stay as still as possible as I go around one by one trying you all up.
The vermouth enema comes later
I encourage the milita mod/dev team to actively report posts THAT BREAK THE RULES i.e OFF TOPIC POSTING IN TROPICAL THREADS AKA bitching to Fralala and ruining her nice quiet evening with Leonardo becuase he is screaming angrily in Italian at the DEGENERACY his glorious ideas about space and communism have become
nobody cares about your gAY 10 page arguments that extend over years in multiple threads, take it to Pm's
Posting your daily life update in SG is fucking cringe and you should all kill yourselves. THis is coming from someone that "grew up" on drug chemistry forums okay, and those places are still active gee go figure. You can either do nothing and allow retard kidiots to run rampant or you can join the call of LANNYISM
To safeguard the great T&T Manufactorum.
Now before you say: But Sophie! What does that even mean!? It's a WH40K reference, if you don't know what that means that's alright all you need to know is that i am a turbo nerd.
In any case what i mean to say is i would like to propose a we have a section mod for T&T with severely limited powers. they should only have the ability to move threads to their proper spots and send spam and genuinely disruptive posts straight to the immaterium, i mean Mongolvoid.
Now obviously i should be immediately disqualified, because i can't handle the slightest sliver of power and will go immediately insane upon receiving it. And nobody, including myself wants that.
T&T Is Sacred, I have taken it upon myself to strictly enforce lannys style of communism which shall be called "Lannyism" which is kinda like Leninism but more retarded
I really like T&T, and i like the fact that we can have serious conversations about technology, hardware and cyber. Every now and again though some servitor walks in and disrupts the transcribing of our incantations meant to invoke the machine spirits. Which is unfortunate. As are the threads that randomly get dropped there that have nothing to do with anything T&T is about. It should be our open source replacement for party congress meetings and politics, we advance as technology advances
It's not a huge problem or a big deal or anything, but i for one would welcome the change and i think T&T would be better for it.
All in favor?
all hail our leader for 10,000 years, the eternal admin of Lannyism
lanny@niggasin.space
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