def into trivia
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
i'd bet she would be amazing
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
i could see us winning the league if she was on the team. but alas
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
I'm guessing I have the most consistent far-left voting record of anyone on this thread
there were 340 boxes on the upper house ballot last weekend. aiui you only get to number one (1) box?
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
tbh americans seldom really have an opportunity to vote for "far left" candidates.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
i mean my mom voted for dick gregory once upon a time...
I am the most “out there” probably—a true firebrand
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
yeah but how many of you have a rosa luxemburg tattoo on the small of your back?
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
It's true that the far left in the US does not enjoy the widespread popularity, and electoral success, it does in The People's Republic of Denmark.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
political parties and electoralism are reactionary
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
come into my eco-libertarian-communist yurt and find the true meaning of the left
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
i dont cair what any body says, i still thing that trupm did rusha
― The wettest sandwich you ever ate, guaranteed! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
But I do hate American leftists.
all of them? like, every community activist and union organizer and...?
Nah, that's an exaggeration, I hung out with leftists when I lived in San Diego, and liked a lot of them. But American leftism in general is pretty annoying.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), 27. marts 2019 20:09 (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean, yeah, this is most of the explanation. I vote for the Unity List, as did 7,8% of Denmark last parliamental election (and 12,8% of my city last municipal election, which is a bit low for a city).
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
Also, I was elected to the school council on the communist/satanist ticket back in ninth grade. True story.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
satanist is the opeth of the masses
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
arrgh*satanism
as a constituent of, donor to, and voter for America's only (I think) Socialist Alternative city councilor, I claim the right to be called the most leftist person on ilx
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
Never voted for a far left candidate in my life, I must be American.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
i once voted for a trotskyist party
which makes me the biggest dumbass on ilx
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
ok now whose dick curves the most to the left. fred?
― shoulda zagged (esby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
i once voted for a trotskyist partywhich makes me the biggest dumbass on ilx
I currently donate to a trot organization which makes me an even bigger dumbass than you jim
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
which one?
my fave north american trotsky org is solidarity, and their journal against the current is really good
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
none of you poseurs have a regular donation to any maoist organizations though.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
wait there are non-annoying political factions in the US? please explain
― rob, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
mister, we could use a manlike leon trotsky once againthose...were...the...days!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
in my experience calling a girl annoying is guy for "im gonna try and fuck that chick". its an instant break up in my book.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 8:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
@jim - IMT
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
credit where it's due to them for having the domain marxist.com
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
somehow doing Putin's bidding again, right Satan/Maddowists?
Reuters reports:
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and said that “all options” were open to make that happen.
The arrival of two Russian air force planes outside Caracas on Saturday believed to be carrying nearly 100 Russian special forces and cybersecurity personnel has escalated the political crisis in Venezuela.
“Russia has to get out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Asked how he would make Russian forces leave, Trump said: “We’ll see. All options are open.”
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 March 2019 02:25 (five years ago) link
are you talking to anyone here?
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 March 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link
wait did Satan get a new show?
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 28 March 2019 04:41 (five years ago) link
Fuller House iirc
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 March 2019 04:45 (five years ago) link
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:41 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he has a whole network.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 March 2019 05:18 (five years ago) link
more like a medium tbh
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 28 March 2019 08:01 (five years ago) link
just based on stuff we already know mueller could have indicted don jr, fact he didn’t prob means he wussed out from going too close to the pres. i figure he had something that technically implicated trump but was kinda small beans and was like ‘eh fuck it’ .. trump was acting hilariously suspicious the entire time and it clearly kept him up at night, his tweets last weekend were fn nuts lol. the way libs reacted to russia stuff was obvs some kinda mild post traumatic denial and produced some of the cringiest content in history but tbh i think the investigation was a success
― flopson, Thursday, 28 March 2019 08:57 (five years ago) link
Just remembered this SNL sketch from a year ago where Robert Mueller says there's no case on collusion:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CKGA9w-B6A
Even SNL knew this might be the case. Taibbi and Greenwald are just embarrassing themselves, although I don't think at least Greenwald is able to feel shame.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 28 March 2019 10:14 (five years ago) link
^Satan
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 March 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
(for Gummy Gummy's benefit)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 March 2019 10:56 (five years ago) link
He’s now shifted into the “we already always knew that all along anyway” phase of grief.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
I thought Chapo was very good on this this week. In a nutshell: everything we need to impeach Trump is and already was in plain sight from the beginning. But the Democratic Party lacks the political guts to do it (even now tha they have a house majority) so instead people hoped for a legalistic/extra-political solution.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
Nixon was never in danger of being impeached for his biggest crimes (Cambodia, genocide in Indochina etc).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
man alive otm
― recreational colonoscopies 4 u (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
what people? Rachel and the Maddows?
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
But the Democratic Party lacks the political guts to do it (even now tha they have a house majority) so instead people hoped for a legalistic/extra-political solution.
didn't we have a discussion like... two weeks ago about whether impeachment would be politically useful at all? guts have nothing to do with it
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
xp c'mon everybody was *hoping* for a legalistic-political solution...it might have been a pipe dream but even skeptics would have liked to see it happen
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 28 March 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
^extra-political
This backlash on the Russia stuff (when it is so obviously there!) is as bad if not worse than R's howling TOTAL EXONERATION
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 28 March 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
"would have liked to see it happen" /= pinning one's hopes on a long shot.
I would like to marry Jake Gyllenhaal, but this doesn't mean I stop using OKCupid or dating.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 March 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
yeah, post-election most dems could not envision surviving through a full term Trump Presidency so the idea that he should be arrested/impeached kind of got ahead of things like evidence-gathering and political practicality.
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 28 March 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link