Yeah, that's a really dumb equivalency. We live in a white supremacist democratic republic. If ISIS ran their territories as a democratic republic and hardcore jihadists were gaining traction I would consider it a duty of any Islamic Isis-ian to speak out against them and challenge their friends and family to confront their own biases to try to ensure there wouldn't be any more beheadings.
Even that is an incredibly weak parallel but it's a lot closer to reality than sleepingbag's comparison.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 24 August 2017 05:07 (six years ago) link
I think the idea was to get white people to talk about white supremacy, not white terrorism?
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 August 2017 08:35 (six years ago) link
Who is sleepingbag
I cannot translate their post
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 August 2017 08:38 (six years ago) link
my preferred pronoun when you don't know who i am is 'his or her', fyi
― Frederik B, Thursday, August 24, 2017 2:35 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok... to what end?
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 24 August 2017 08:56 (six years ago) link
I like how you're trying to elide the fact that your last post was incomprehensible bullshit by asking Fred B for clarification of his post
― Tarly Noise (El Tomboto), Thursday, 24 August 2017 09:19 (six years ago) link
― sleepingbag, 24. august 2017 10:56 (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
To practice pronunciation. 'white supremacy, white supremacy, white su-PRE-macy, white su-PREE-macy'. Good for the mouth.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 August 2017 09:36 (six years ago) link
You know what else is good for the mouth
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 August 2017 10:18 (six years ago) link
these are several hundred or maybe thousand people in a country of hundreds of millions
otm but the media amplification bubble is so strong people are convinced half the country is a hatemonger
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 August 2017 10:52 (six years ago) link
that and the election of a hatemonger as president
― Neves Say Neves Again (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 August 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
That's a wee bit of a giveaway.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 August 2017 10:58 (six years ago) link
maybe I don't understand the US electoral system and it only took a few hundred or maybe thousand votes to put a Nazi sympathiser in the White House
― Neves Say Neves Again (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the problem lies with the US electoral two-party system, rather than with the people. Half the American people don't like nazi sympathisers, they just prefer nazi sympathisers to women.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
"Their" is a much more elegant choice, and as an added attraction avoids gender binary issues x-post
― albvivertine, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:27 (six years ago) link
Are you sure? Hillary Clinton was an absolutely god awful candidate, regardless of her sex. I voted for her, but that walk to the voting booth was one of the longest in memory.
The problem is we have a two-party system, and both parties represent an oligarchy who's making a huge mess of people's lives. So we have a lot of disempowered, angry people who are also misled by the same amoral, unethical corporations (via the media) that have been doing this to them.
People seem to forget that stunning Princeton study that showed voters have a 0% influence on legislation passed.
Democrats only pass bandaid shit like the ACA to keep their legitimacy, but that doesn't have to last forever, and I very much doubt it's a long-term plan on their part, considering the resources they pour into fighting single payer or the burgeoning labor movement.
We are on our own out here. You morons, snap out of it.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:47 (six years ago) link
What? You're a fucking sociopath, dude. You have no place to complain about Trump.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link
senisbile, proportionate response from ilx's most woke poster
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
senisbile? sorry, meant to write penisbile obv
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
"loooool epidemic political corruption, the dead lives caused by it, and our worsening lives is FUCKING FUNNy AS SHIT DUDES"
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
you're right, i should be making hostile posts on a board broadly sympathetic to my diagnosis of the western world's ills instead of... anything else
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
I don't think this board is sympathetic to it at all
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
Are you sure?
― carpet_kaiser, 24. august 2017 13:35 (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm 100% sure, serious, sane and sertain.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
people aren't sympathetic to you because you're a tiresome, performative irritant
that's not the same thing as thinking 'epidemic political corruption' or 'worsening lives' aren't a real thing
now fuck off you cunt
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
We know who carpet_kaiser is
Are they different people tho
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
http://www.ilovebarbra.com/uploads/2/4/7/7/24773060/s133162934126535664_p31_i1_w2560.jpeg
― Gulley Jimson (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
a quick search shows sleepingbag writing posts since back in 2006
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
Guys what was that short lived 1979 sitcom starring Maclean Stevenson called? It's on the tip of my tongue...
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
Ulcer?
― not not not not yr academy (stevie), Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Hello_Larry_tv_show.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
http://s44.radikal.ru/i104/1003/08/52942312035b.jpg
― May contain peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, pits or pit fragments. (WilliamC), Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
it's important to keep your sock drawer locked
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
lol how did sleepingbag revive a thread to complain about how he can't say "retard" anymore and not get banned from this site
― marcos, Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
Pobrecito
Just In: Virginia judge denies bail to crying neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell https://t.co/KsbHY1FGVM pic.twitter.com/fXt9u17MHS— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 24, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
when the fuck are they gonna arrest the parking lot dudes
― sleeve, Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
I assume we're not claiming that when people say 'Nazi' they mean actual members of the Nazi Party? Any more than 'Commie' refers to members of the Communist Party.
(lots of x-posts)
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
the alt-right is soft on nazis and russians :(
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
I was kinda wondering if it was worth at any stage differentiating between the government of a world power nazis vs the scatter of redneck unwashed belligerents nazis
Decided that tbh no it wasn't and fuck them
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
otm
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
The Right insisting that there's no problem because there's only a few thousand 'Nazis' is part of the problem.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
i thought sleeping bag was one of the milquetoast hillary supporters
― k3vin k., Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
oh huh I've been assuming sleepingbag was gabbneb, an extension of the "benbbag" variation
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
as a test, ask sleepingbag if he or she attended a top-rated university and see what kind of answer you get.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
They
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 August 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
I got my valuable posters criss-crossed, sorry! McLean Stevenson sitcom was w/r/t carpet kaiser, idk sleepingbag
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 24 August 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
literally every time sleepingbag appears in a thread it is to articulate the worst possible opinion so i've been just automatically flagging their posts
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 August 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
this guy thinks he's so fucking funny
Russell Walker filed a lawsuit in York SC, demanding confederate flags be returned to the main courtroom @SpecNewsCLT pic.twitter.com/MVDYSEBIEe— Yoojin Cho (@Yoojin_Cho) August 24, 2017
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
I hope he is charged for court costs for his little antic.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 24 August 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
I hope he is charged by bulls
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 August 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
Fantastic drawing on Twitter by Kyle Baker:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIBr7rWWsAAJ683.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 24 August 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
haha
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link