The problem lately has been that ISIS was not fighting Assad, but opportunistically rolling up territory in Iraq instead, where the Iraqi army presented quite a bit less resistance than Assad's army did. Consequently, the price for giving ISIS a free rein was to risk letting them conquer a shockingly weak Iraq and control its massive oil reserves. Which could stimulate Iran to come in and make a grab for Iraq, too.
Take the oil out of the equation and we could let them play grabass all they want, without a second thought. But the world economy still runs on oil, so we can't play "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" there.
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Monday, November 10, 2014 1:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah oil should be $1 million/barrel, that'll wean us off of it
― Οὖτις, Monday, November 10, 2014 1:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I didn't realize you were a prepper, Οὖτις
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Monday, November 10, 2014 1:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wouldn't you like to be a prepper too
― Οὖτις, Monday, November 10, 2014 1:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 November 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
What about people who say: "I don't own a television, because I always watch tv programs on my computer, or occasionally my phone, so there's no real point in my owing yet another screen, unless it's so I can say I own a television, so as to avoid annoying all you thin-skinned folks who find this mere fact of my television non-ownership irritating."
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Monday, November 10, 2014 12:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they need to speak in shorter sentences
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 10, 2014 12:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
my talent for feeding straight lines to others is unsurpassed today
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
And they have the nerve to call you "Aimless"...
― pplains, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
dunno why she didn't just go the (plausible) "trying to subvert white supremacy in the name of art" route though that would've possibly gone down better to a song with less basic lyrics
― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 11:10 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha is there literally anything Nicki does that isn't subverting something? like does she wake up in the morning and subvert her bowl of cereal?
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
systems thinking is basically like when you call comcast and they tell you to unplug the modem, wait 30 seconds, then plug it back in
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:00 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Why does "God-botherer" sound dirty?"I love to finger-bang our Heavenly Father!"
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:28 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Geoffrey Splenda, the first Baron Splenda (silby), Monday, 17 November 2014 04:56 (nine years ago) link
did the cronenberg augmented reality game ever happen?
― slam dunk, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 5:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you're...playing it right now
― Number None, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 5:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
maybe it's just the people I know/the circles I travel in but all the polyamorous people I've ever come into contact with were self-absorbed assholes/never saw any "open" relationship that lasted more than a few months and/or didn't end with someone feeling deeply resentful/mistreated
― Οὖτις, Friday, October 31, 2014 4:22 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dog people (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
someone please to explain peanut butter dog for the Uk crew?
― piscesx, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omar little's friend knew a guy who attended a surprise party in a basement. at that party was peanut butter dog. he was never seen again.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
i thought this was somehow connected to the bacon-burger-dog off of Cosby Show fame.
― piscesx, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Not sure what sex has to do with WFMU?
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
film explains it
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
whatever puts asses in the seats!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's what i thought too, but it turns out to be a legit title.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
WFMU DJs have been secretly fucking on-mic for ages.
― It's A Living! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
even by themselves (cf Kenny G)
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm looking forward to seeing it...
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, November 19, 2014 4:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
the elipses
do people actually call them "J-schools" or is that just old fashioned dog whistle racism
― Nhex, Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no that's current usage
― goole, Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(stands for jerk)
― lag∞n, Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok, gotcha
― Nhex, Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a total laugh package (s.clover), Thursday, 20 November 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
hahaha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 22 November 2014 04:58 (nine years ago) link
[...]sometimes i just think the thing that's so corrosive and terrible about ~thinkpieces~, & which makes tilding them mandatory, & which separates them from a history of writing responsive to culture, is just the fucking tone, man, like jesus christ does everybody have to sound so annoying, & like they were just about to surfboard in & do the same thing but better were it not for the inadequate example at hand usurping them so shittily. like if somebody could write from a slightly less oppositional angle than the arbiter of all amateur culture, dispatching their joaquin-phoenix-in-gladiator-thumbs-down verdict, positing every shortcoming as a stupid oversight & subject to simple correction - It's bullshit; It's shitty journalism - i feel like it would be easier to deal with them. there's such value to reading something & feeling it instantly broaden your parameters or awareness of what somebody was saying or wasn't, whether their priorities were shortsighted or subject to biases. but Let Me Tell You Why Serial Is Doing It Wrong is so hard to take i think.
― schlump, Monday, November 24, 2014 1:46 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dog people (rip van wanko), Monday, 24 November 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
truth bomb imo
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
I feel like there's been a building backlash against that sort of internet commentary, which I see as a positive development, like a lot of people seem to simultaneously be saying "ugh, I can't take this anymore"
i'm just about ready to do a 180 on the issue and really start pushing privtalk hard
― Mordy, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
"Ugh, so tired of all these *growing backlash against thinkpieces* articles"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
oh is this the current excelsior thread? maybe that should have gone on whichever 'trenchant' is active, ah fuck it
― dog people (rip van wanko), Monday, 24 November 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Treeship, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
oh you were trench-ing that?
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
damn
The schlump graph
― dog people (rip van wanko), Monday, 24 November 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
something about the internet that really helps my self esteem is that criticism is always undercut by just the broader aesthetic decoration of the medium, that you're always able to lean on saying, "well, thank you for your valuable input, DongSword_1995, i will take it on board"get at me in the serial thread, Rip Van Wanko!, i can take it
― schlump, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Lol I don't know what happened here, I thought your post was so otm and I was gonna "trench" it but pulled up the wrong thread
― dog people (rip van wanko), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
....trench thread is not an otm thread fyi
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
man, what happened here, we'll never really know just like in serial
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
Yeah just realized that, I guess truth bomb would be the thread
― dog people (rip van wanko), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
is it cool if from now on i just crosspost everything to the excelsior & truth bomb threads & maybe also a new otm thread
― schlump, Monday, 24 November 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Send me the bill for the new excelsior thread btw
― dog people (rip van wanko), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Zing should introduce a "triple threat" button for automatically reposting to all three of those threads
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
why excelsior is getting it wrong
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Excelsiorial
― ILoveMeconium (President Keyes), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
Excelsior's 'Not Funny' Problem
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
next thread shd be called the pernicious LOLZ of EXCELSIORism
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
the dreaded lolamie
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
The PLOLblem with EXCELSIOR
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
ProbLOLmatize
― carl agatha, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
baitCELSIOR my clickLOL
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
I am going to excelsior you how a lol works
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Actually, it's about EXCELSIOR in LOLZ journalism
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
^ winner
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
The first of Lex's EOTY "I know nothing about this but I know it's awful" posts is like the first window on an advent calendar.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 11:53 AM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
JUST beat me to it.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
ha what's that from?
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Year-End Critics' Polls 2014
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Top 10 Cool Rock Bands Of 2014
1 The War on Drugs2 Crazy Eyes from Orange is the New Black3 The Pizza Underground4 Pallbearer5 Blue Oyster Cult6 ESPN 30 For 30 - Rand University7 Mr. Pibb8 Sleaford Mods9 Ricky Rubio10 Old Fashioned Minnesota Grape Salad
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 25, 2014 2:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
― Eric H., Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link