life is a golf ball, I wanna drive it all night long
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:48 (seven years ago) link
russian=socialists are the worst ever evil in the world, except when republican president donald trump houses and praises them. government is the problem, as well
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:54 (seven years ago) link
states' rights except when not
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:55 (seven years ago) link
I'd love to see Scalzi recite his essay to the corpse of a drug overdosed white person whose lost all realistic hope for his/her life. Americans don't know each other anymore.
― larry appleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:56 (seven years ago) link
that is not in his individual self-interest. individual self-interest is all that matters
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link
regulation gets in the way of businesses succeeding and makes capitalism not work. we shouldn't regulate wrongdoing out of existence - the market will react and put evildoing companies out of business. it's ok if 371 people die due to eating salmonella infected peanuts because AFTER those people die, people will boycott the brand!
We could have stopped those people from dying but that would have hurt Planters' sales and really when it boils down to it, aren't 371 lives worth it?
also the Holocaust never happened.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:04 (seven years ago) link
People want the government to be run like a business, so that after a few years they can be surprised by a FOR LEASE sign on City Hall, and no idea what it might turn into next.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:17 (seven years ago) link
Maybe it will be a new coffee place, or a hair salon!
All white grievance is legitimate, especially hopelessness in the face of poverty
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:20 (seven years ago) link
except for the four gospels, the judeo-christian bible is the literal word of god, bro
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:24 (seven years ago) link
All white grievance is legitimate, especially hopelessness in the face of poverty― El Tomboto, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 4:20 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 4:20 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ignoring suffering because of classism and identity politics is part of why we're here. People like you have blood on your hands... POC die because of attitudes like yours, which, on the surface, tries to celebrate them. But it's not out of concern for the lives of POC, but for your own narcissism and privilege, which you then flip on others less fortunate than yourself.
Liberalism and conservatism is the same side of the same coin at this point. Is it any wonder why we are where we are?
― larry appleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:36 (seven years ago) link
what would we do without you, larry
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:37 (seven years ago) link
have you heard of this guy, jim goad? I think his books would grab you
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:38 (seven years ago) link
Well, there was a reason I worked with an Obama appointee, you low-level bureaucratic waste. My ideas make sense and work, they're just not in vogue right now, because of snot wipes like you who want to sip glasses of wine while people suffer and die.
― larry appleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:39 (seven years ago) link
The funniest part of your schtick is that everything I've posted to this thread is either me actually linking to and quoting John Scalzi and the rest is ripped off from Ta-Nehisi Coates - I haven't expressed a single original opinion worth lashing out at. But you man, you got the solutions that make sense, and work!
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:42 (seven years ago) link
beef is when I see youguaranteed to be in ICU
but you won't have healthcare
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:42 (seven years ago) link
All conservatism is the rationalization and preservation of privilege.
fucking otm. all hoarding and no empathy. fuck you, got mine. what's that, an oppressed category of people wants equal treatment? get the fuck off my lawn. if you need quotas, that just means you females/non-whites/whatever are simply terrible at what you do. let the free market do its job because the free market is faultless*.
* at preserving old-timey privilege
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:45 (seven years ago) link
this is the angriest i've ever been this early in a thread
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:46 (seven years ago) link
anger is an energy. it's cool to frack oklahoma into earthquake hell, because profit
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link
the united states is a republic, not a democracy
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 05:10 (seven years ago) link
That one I've honestly never been able to figure out. It's a non sequitur beyond the rest
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 05:13 (seven years ago) link
Democrats fancy themselves civil rights pioneers but it was REPUBLICANS who freed the slaves we are just like that 19th century party
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 05:18 (seven years ago) link
as Martin Luther King famously said, people should be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 05:19 (seven years ago) link
and MLK was a Republican after all!
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 05:21 (seven years ago) link
My ideas make sense and work, they're just not in vogue right now, because of snot wipes like you who want to sip glasses of wine while people suffer and die.
― larry appleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:39 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Moonlight swine leap whiff off this one
― The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 08:25 (seven years ago) link
which ideology is against water fluoridation now?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 08:39 (seven years ago) link
fluoridation is how the govmint gives you gay mind control cancer, keep up
― Sacked Italian Greyhound (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 08:53 (seven years ago) link
posts that effortlessly etc
― Thank you for your service, wasteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 09:43 (seven years ago) link
maybe start a thread for recommending a good wine to accompany people suffering and dying
― barry snappleton (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 09:45 (seven years ago) link
Egoism is real, altruism is not. Hence, running a state by egoists’ rules - “like a business,” if you will - is the only sensible option. If the state then falls apart, it’s not because a democracy is inherently altruistic, but because the state is broken and needs to be abolished.
― Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 10:50 (seven years ago) link
Right, the only motivating factor you can count on is that everyone wants to get rich. EVERYONE. We all like money right guys? Also, everyone cheats, come on.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 10:55 (seven years ago) link
who among us would not rather have the opportunity, however small, to live beyond the dreams of Croesus rather than to bumble along with our needs generally satisfied but no prospect of rubbing anybody else's nose in it?
― barry snappleton (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:20 (seven years ago) link
tucking your shirt into your jeans is a timeless look
― ogmor, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
brb I'm off to find a conservative board with a thread explaining liberals and the staggering insights therein
― The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:46 (seven years ago) link
Bow-ties are a legitimate fashion choice
― Thank you for your service, wasteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link
MANY YEARS AGO PRINCE DARKNESS "GANNON" STOLE ONE OF THE TRIFORCE WITH POWER.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:05 (seven years ago) link
That does explain a lot. And the triforce of wisdom being in eight pieces is why the left is so hopeless.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
lol @ larry appleton / Tombot guvmint dill-weed beef
have you guys ever considered that conservatism has ideological appeal to its adherents, rather than something dismissive like "the rationalization and preservation of privilege" (what about the millions of non-privileged people who are conservatives? don't say false consciousness!) or "individual self-interest is all that matters"?
― flopson, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
I considered, then dismissed it.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:43 (seven years ago) link
Most problems can be pretty easily explained through racism and false consciousness.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
Go for it flopson I'm all ears
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
it seems to me that the US left should maybe have more humility than this CONSERVATARDS WANT THEIR KID TO DRINK POISON WATER LOL attitude that has dominated the discourse since at least gwb... like, we went from being just shy of permanent consensus social democracy in the early sixties, then fucked it up and have sucked for 4 decades, and now say things like 'demographics will save us' or 'we just needed a better candidate'. maybe there is something about conservative ideology that motivates people that the left lacks and we could be more modest? idk
― flopson, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
What about Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals like Friedman or Hayek? xp to Frederik
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
nothing can be explained by false consciousness because it's a tautology and not an explanation: 'you're wrong because your consciousness is wrong'
― flopson, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link
consider religious tribalism as something other than privilege that motivates conservatives to vote consistently for candidates that promise to restrict access to abortion limit rights for lgbtq people
― art, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
The existence of non-white conservatives isn't really an argument against conservativism as, at its core, a preservation of (mostly male & mostly wealthy) white privilege. Even those who aren't among the largest beneficiaries of privilege may have a vested interest in keeping the boat from rocking. Consider the relatively well-off African American conservatives in the post-Reconstruction south who resisted integration. They were still basically second class citizens but they were secure enough within a relatively privileged bubble that they had reason to help maintain white hegemony.
― (Got A) Key In My Peehole (From Peeing Through a Keyhole) (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
i just don't think you would be able to find a conservative who says "i want to rationalize and perserve privilge" so despite our amazing collective abilities as psychoanalysts maybe that's not a good ways to understand its appeal
― flopson, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
I think most conservatives would say, if questioned, that inequality was natural and probably necessary
― barry snappleton (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link
right. and that "liberty" (as they understand it) is a higher value than "equality" (as they think liberals understand it).
― ryan, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
xp - it kinda is though, just look at ilx
― sarahell, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link
Cass received a B.A. in political economy from Williams College,[5] and was then hired as an associate consultant at Bain & Company.[1] After working at Bain for several years in the firm's offices in Boston and New Delhi,[5] Cass "took a six-month leave to work on Mitt Romney's 2008 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination".[1] Cass then enrolled in Harvard Law School "to deepen his understanding of public policy", stating of the experience that "law school is a lot of fun if you’re not there to be a lawyer".[1] Cass "caught the attention of Romney's staff while still in law school and was tapped as domestic policy adviser for the candidate's presidential campaign in 2011":[2][1][5]
He worked for the next Romney operation in 2011 between his second and third years at Harvard, and ended up with so much in his portfolio that at the end of the summer "they sort of said, well, you have to stay". He became domestic-policy director while still in law school.[1]
Following the 2012 election, Cass returned to Bain, where he became a manager, but also "started writing on environmental and labor policy for National Review.[1] Senator Marco Rubio credited Cass for the poverty-fighting plan Rubio released in 2014.[2][6] From this work, he was brought on as a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute in 2015. Also in 2015, Politico named Cass number 35 on its list of the top 50 "thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2015".[2]
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link
Working class AF
― Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
FREE TRUMP MONEY GOOOOOOD
FREE BIDEN MONEY BAAAAAAD
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
First, this statement from the mayor of Colorado City, TX, pop. 4000:
https://i.imgur.com/3aQXkjH.jpg
Followed by this:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tim-boyd-texas-resigns-storm-power-colorado-city-b1803462.html
And, lastly, this thread about survivalist cosplaying:
so my eldest brother, who is a moron, has been playing soldier with his moron friends in the deserts of texas for the last year preparing for the collapse of civilization if biden won (lol). they were burying food and ammo stashes out in the desert, running drills, crazy stuff— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) February 16, 2021
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
That thing about not having a can opener is pretty fucking funny
― illumi-naughty (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
It's like the Twilight Zone episode where the guy finally has time to read but breaks his glasses
a gas fire pit is so not survivalist
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute!!
omg that is amazing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Tempted to change my dn to ‘sitting there shivering, ranting about libs while he sucks down cold beefaroni’.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
"the weak will parish" - Nietzsche
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
Dude. I'm not to any degree a survivalist but I was a cub scout so I'm pretty sure I'm one up on these dorks. If you're a self-proclaimed survivalist and don't know how to make a goddamn fire you deserve to eat garbage, sorry that's just how I feel.
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
Also another facet of conservatism seen over the past several days wrt the GOP senators who voted to convict Trump: if you shift half a degree out of lockstep with your compatriots, prepare to be eaten alive by your compatriots.
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
(But only if they know how to make a fire, so you might not have much to worry about.)
Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute!!― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:56 (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:56 (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i used to think there was only one republican commandment: "let the big dogs eat" but i think this one must now surely qualify as the new testament
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
i just can't get over not having a non-electric can opener in the house
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
It's... it's cold outside there, right? Why is the food in his refrigerator still in his refrigerator, going bad, when he could put it in a bucket outside?— artsyhonker/Kathryn (@artsyhonker) February 16, 2021
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
so a philosopher, an economist and a survivalist wash up on a desert island
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
I have this little credit card-sized metal multitool thing in my wallet which I just confirmed has a rudimentary can opener so I am more prepared for survival just sitting on my ass than some weekend warrior doomsday preppers are.
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
It's pretty wild these survivalist have nothing like that or maybe a Swiss army knife
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
is everybody's brain broken?
if it goes bad you cant just put it in the snow after and make it go "unbad." they would have had to have unloaded the whole fridge and dumped it outside as soon as the power went out.— sli me :o) (@ssslimeslime) February 17, 2021
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
I refuse to delve into it with these people but I will note that for produce and things that don't freeze well, putting them outside may not be an option but if your house is 40 degrees you could just...leave the fridge door open?
It does get weird when your fridge is WARMER than the air outside and things in the fridge start to freeze.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
I think some fridges that aren't well insulated heated up before indoor temps dropped enough.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
If you are a so-called survivalist and don't carry a P38 or know where yours are located at any given time, then you are not a survivalist, but a conservative suburban asshole with too much money and too many guns.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 February 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
Like, I keep one in the car, one in the bear box, and one in my hiking pack. It's truly an indispensable tool.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 February 2021 02:49 (three years ago) link
A pity twasnt the likes of them found pandoras box all the same
― scampsite (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
🧐 pic.twitter.com/Ey2oghZ1Fv— Alisha 💜🤘🧀🌊 (@cptnwtrpnts) February 20, 2021
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:24 (three years ago) link
why are all these homos lubricating my rifle?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
wait what does that mean
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
surely that is "tears" 'shopped, right?
because
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:40 (three years ago) link
You help a guy out one time and he has to go and advertise it on a t-shirt, sheesh
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Saturday, 20 February 2021 04:12 (three years ago) link
Ass Rim 15
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 20 February 2021 04:18 (three years ago) link
lower-case “l” i’m assuming. like he just uses a LOT of cum.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 February 2021 12:44 (three years ago) link
Jonny Edgelord rides pic.twitter.com/tLCS6hheEX— J.A.K. (@JasonAdamK) March 15, 2021
― rob, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
Sums it up, really.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
wokemon be warned, lol
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
even more succinctly:
oh so i can't be racist but the tv can play wet ass pussy— mark (@kept_simple) March 16, 2021
― rob, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
If 4o years from now, Cardi decides the song was a bit too much and stops selling it....will these same people bitch?!
A+
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
lol at ppl who think there'll be a planet 40 years from now
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
Planet yes.
People, though...
― imagine flagons (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link