>>The "Nazi" leader as you characterize her (which I think is WAY over the top) was a very good/evil player. (in my brain-washed opinion)

hi lydia, as I said it was your post that inspired me to think about "alliance" philosophies but not in an 'I disagree with everything you say' sense. For instance I second your shout out about "where are the babyboomers." This cast was too young. I like to see a mixture of life experience.

I never said Maggie is a Nazi or a Nazi leader. Of course she isn't. I observed that the Friendship bound itself together with attitudes that demonized and Otherized human beings such as we've seen historically in the Nazi party. Or KKK. Or take your pick from history. I said this because the Friendship went over the top by trying to make Janelle less than a human being, by saying she had no soul, by cultivating HATE, by talking over and over about the FS moral superiority. I called out Maggie for being the one who quietly but persistently reinforced the attitudes of hate. All the others blew with the wind, and Maggie kept bringing them back to the fold of petty nastiness.

The live feed people heard all this and more. The broadcasts (damn, I typed BOREDcasts at first, Freudian slip) didn't show more than the tip of the iceberg and didn't nail Maggie for keeping the hate on track every time it faltered. Was that a conspiracy by BB? Nah, I think Maggie is so quietly insidious that she didn't give much in the way of good soundbytes for any one segment of the show. Unlike April with her "I don't use the word hate" that the producers did use to assemble a segment.

I don't care at all whether Maggie played well. Her game play is of no interest to me in the long run. It was mediocre but successful in a mediocre season of play. The ugliness that has come out of her mouth that was completely unnecessary ensures that I am sorry to see her get rewarded. Same with Ivette.

There is team play and competition, which is a normal part of our society. If the FS made an alliance because they all liked each other and eliminated the Jedi, and nothing more, fine. Boring because they eliminated the wonderful to watch Kaysar, but I wouldn't loathe them.

I loathe them and pity them because the only way they had to unite was to repeatedly, over and over again, dehumanize and demonize and make up lies about their opponents, and convince themselves that their own lies didn't count as lies but could be seen as non-lies and non-betrayals and they could sit around and congratulate themselves for their pureness and integrity against the "dirty players" who were willing to take "dirty money."

"I didn't lie I just broke my word."
Give me a f*ckin break, ya know?