Octrollber Surprise
From dKosopedia
In October 2006 the Octrollber Surprise appears on every Republican blog, widely read large public wiki, and Republican mailing list, and in every Republican chat.
What is it? Can't say here!
Quick, you Republicans! More security!!! Extra layers of login! Challenge-response! Biometrics!! Harsh laws imprisoning all anonymous trolls who annoy or vex you!!! It is the only solution (that you can think of).
For Democrats, you can prepare and help, even if you don't know what it is. Here's some ways to help:
June 2006:
- Watch Fox News and all Bush speeches, and read names of all Republican bills
- Add any truly crap phrases that you hear more than once to the term:list for review
- Note on the biography pages of any Democrats using such stuff, that they did so
- Write notes to your own elected Democrats complaining about their use of Bushlike terms
July 2006:
- Go to Republican events only on the Fourth of July. Bring veggie hot dogs, pro-Bush buttons; Wear sandals with socks (disguise); Talk like Stephen Colbert if you have to speak, but if you don't, then, listen carefully and write down phrases that the Republicans use as if real. If engaged in conversation about these things, just ask questions. DO NOT ARGUE. Just ask questions. Use terms from the list of policy terms in your questions.
- Pile all your research into reframe work, especially the more complex FrameShop or issue/position/argument compilations. Make sure everything you learned is reflected for others to learn. Back it up with anecdotal evidence of field research on Republicans on the talk pages, in case people just dont believe you really encountered some phrase or position for real (you, yourself, may actually not believe it!)
- Practice speaking in the reframed list of policy terms, and also practice speaking Republican (like Colbert). Do it until you can speak in both languages without cracking up or getting angry. Walk down the street or beach with friends flipping modes back and forth based on who is going by: if it's a dumb-looking blonde with a blank stare wearing good clothes, talk Republican. If it's a hot Goth, talk Democrat. There are good reasons to do this regardless of politics...
- Near the end of July, add your anecdotes and experiences with these activities and dialog - if you actually met cool or funny people doing this in public, make sure to say so so that propaganda can be spread to encourage doing it more
August 2006:
- Try the methods on your family. They can't escape! Try to reframe your siblings and your aunts and uncles, then perhaps your parents. Get them playing the game too. If you need to explain what you're doing, just tell them to watch Colbert and tell them that you are going to get rich like him doing the same thing. (Republicans must respect that at least)
- Push it as far as you can with your friends, too: if they are not threatening to have you locked up for some kind of psychosis, then, you are probably not going far enough yet
- At the end of August, give yourself a two week break, but do email out tons of links to dKosopedia:itself to pages in the reframe:namespace which will be very good by now; Also print out little books made of pages from those pages, and leave them lying around, e.g. "reframe:culture of life" in a Catholic church. Jam them into the hymn books... Spend the last couple of weeks spreading the material in written form, including the links
September 2006:
- Back to school! Correct any bad phrases you see on invitations to campus groups. Start your own groups with reframed names. Meet at the same time in the same room. Claim it's a "misunderstanding" or "honest error". Recruit anyone who laughs out loud at the game you're playing. Petition to have on-campus status of groups with bad names revoked, on the grounds that they are redundant with your new groups. Show up at the Republican groups and talk Colbert, then hang out in the public areas and talk loudly about issues using only the new language
- Scowl at anyone who uses the bad terms as if they were real; Smile at anyone who uses a phrase on the list of policy terms; Practice! Practice! Call up talk radio and email news shows with your irate comments whenever they use a bad term. Reframe the issues in thirty seconds, before the host can shut you up. Laugh. If you get on Tv, roll your eyes behind the politicins when they use those bad terms.
- Position yourself at controversial events so as to get on TV. When you do, use your new expertise in reframed language to talk (with a straight face!) using all your new phrases - and if the journalist uses a bad term, you look at them like they're crazy, like anyone would understand what you said. You don't get angry, you look at them like you feel sorry for them. It's amazing how well this works.
- Make lists of all the Republican blogs, mailing lists, wikis, etc., and get on them all
October 2006:
- Surprise!
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