Make QBN Great Again
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- nb2
I owe what I am to to QBN, and I will never forget it. Where else could a young man who grew up herding goats in Kenya get the chance to fulfill his dream of a college education? Where else could he marry a white girl from Kansas whose parents survived war and depression to find opportunity on a web forum? Where else could they have a child who would one day sign up as a member of the greatest website the world has ever known? Where else, but on QBN?
It is now my hope, and our task, to set QBN on a course that will keep this promise alive in the twenty-first century. And the eyes of the world are watching to see if we can.
- monospaced1
with or without guns?
- nb1
We are QBN. We are the web forum that liberated a continent from a madman, that lifted ourselves from the depths of Depression, that won Civil Rights, and Women’s Rights, and Voting Rights for all our members. We are the beacon that has led generations of weary travelers to find opportunity, and liberty, and hope on our doorstep. That’s who we are.
- nb1
Never forget that we have it within our power to shape history in this thread. It is not in our character to sit idly by as victims of fate or circumstance, for we are a people of action and innovation, forever pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
Now is the time to push those boundaries once more. We have come so far in the debate on making QBN great again, and fought for by so many QBNers throughout the last century. The time has come to make QBN great again. And I look forward to working with all of you to meet this challenge in the weeks and months to come.
- We can subvert others to our whim and destroy beliefs even if we incarcerate or kill, as long its done by authority its ok. We can be great!yurimon
- lambsy1
maybe we could all get satin QBN jackets?
- nb1
You know, decades ago, as a community organizer, I learned that the real work of democracy begins far from the closed doors and marbled halls of QBN.
It begins on street corners and front porches; in living rooms and meeting halls with ordinary QBN members who see the world as it is and realize that we have it within our power to remake QBN as it should be.
It is with that hope that we began this unlikely journey - the hope that if we could go thread by thread and build a movement that spanned race and region; party and gender; if we could give young people a reason to sign up and the young at heart a reason to believe again; if we could inspire a website to come together again, then we could turn the page on the politics that's shut us out, let us down, and told us to settle. We could write a new chapter in the QBN story.
- nb1
And while QBN is consumed with the same drama and division and distraction, another user puts up an "Of The Day" thread on the front page. Another factory shuts its doors. Another soldier waves goodbye as he leaves on another tour of duty in a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. It goes on and on and on.
But in this thread - at this moment - you are standing up all across the QBN to say, not this time. Not this year. The stakes are too high and the challenges too great to play the same QBN game with the same QBN players and expect a different result. This time must be different.
- autoflavour0
so the QBN Reich fell.. and much like Germany, i dont think it will ever rise again..
which i guess makes us the neo nazi's.. clinging on to the past glory in vein hope it will rise again..
- http://www.urbandict…autoflavour
- actually, let me rephrase that.. "and much like NAZI Germany, i dont think it will ever rise again.."autoflavour
- Germany clearly rose againautoflavour