ilx posts with striking imagery

eh ok

xp

i think his lack of moral superiority is something of a rarity here

it's true that at the moment I can't recall him staking out a position on anything beyond "you are stupid and I am smarter than you" (which tbf I think can be interpreted as implying a moral system that prizes intellectual superiority above all - a questionable value imo - but idk if I care enough to get into this)

geez, the only point I was hoping to make was not that nahk's post was nonsensical, which it was not, but that stylistically speaking it was a train wreck.

I can't recall him staking out a position on anything beyond "you are stupid and I am smarter than you"

Does he do this?

I'm obv. so stupid I haven't noticed.

lucky you

I'd say then it's you not engaging with the arguments being made

I think if there's one overarching fallacy of the butthurt round here (not just wrt nakh) it's this idea that criticism of others' shortcomings necessarily implies a superiority complex on the part of the critic, I don't think I'm especially smart but I think I'm smarter than people I think are stupid, this is true of everyone

Great posters in this thread

It's prob been a while since the posters of this forum have been ranked and assessed

An old man just walked by me w/ a sideways hat that said Vulcan on it

^ Moral or intellectual superiority?

I'm not sure nakh's ever "hurt my butt" tbh.

I definitely vote for take this one outside, back to the posts with striking imagery

An old man just walked by me w/ a sideways hat that said Vulcan on it

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, January 22, 2015 8:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He just walked by again, on the back of the hat it says since 1956

Once I saw a teenager walking around Jersey City with super baggy jeans and a super-oversized t-shirt that said "Reganomics" on it.

actual striking imagery^

marcos is the new ilx darling - kinda dumb and always ready to say the right thing

― Mordy, Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:21 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is coming from deep within the hive but it reflects poorly when you reveal how smart you believe yourself to be relative to other people

Smart Don't Make You Cool

lol remember this thread? How smart are you, relative to everyone else in ILX?

this is so boring

i think you're smart and cool, but so are most ilxors. i think your image of yourself as boldly defying the "hivemind" is deluded, though. and saying marcos is 'kinda dumb' was really gross. i don't take his lighthearted posting style as a reflection of his intelligence, i mean joe is basically a genius but he posts like a 12 year old

sorry to everyone for continuing this but M apologised and clarified almost immediately

and marcos was BEING dumb itt

it's ok we're all kinda dumb

i think his lack of moral superiority is something of a rarity here

― Mordy, Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:49 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is incredibly otm

i don't want to get into a whole conversation about ilx hiveminds - i do think it's very easy to run afoul of ilx CW and i don't think the board always has a lot of tolerance for dissenting views. it's a pretty homogenous place.

praxis has slightly different connotations to just substitute "practice" for it ... it has a philosophical/ethical element, as opposed to just "doing" ... even though it's most often associated in terms of contemporary/modern ppl like Hannah Arendt, Gramsci, and Paolo Freire, who are not "new agey" at all ... it would probably be closer to its meaning to say "mindful practice" as opposed to just "practice"

nakh's m.o. is to point out the shortcomings/failings of other's posts/thoughts w elegant prose, like he's some kind of officious schoolmaster. fuck that guy.

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:46 (42 minutes ago)

the schoolmaster thing is a bit awry given that afaict i am younger than 80% of the people i argue with though yeah i can be overly critical of arguments these days partly because there is a deficit of that on ilx

ilx now is often so consensual that everything congregates around the same themes etc, a sort of of sports fandom affiliation for #teamprogressives within which nobody really disagrees very much and the same complacent shit is trotted all the time without a lot of thought

like the post c&ped here was about AB (who i like) posting a guardian article from a learned member of the progressive fraternity and considering that to be in itself 'discourse'

'hivemind' is a bit unfair because it has connotations of lone wolves and sheeple, it's not so much that ilx needs a load of terribly opinionated nra members, fanatical libertarians etc to diversify everything, rather just a little less congeniality, otm, this, tbomb, ^^^^ type of stuff

well i'm roping shit/fart/piss/B.O. into one general umbrella here

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:45 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do not open that umbrella.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkG4oIPT7tU

if it helps to end this i'd like to say the following:

wins, mordy and others are right that i was being dumb itt. i barely read nakh's post and certainly not in its original context, i just had a visceral reaction to some of the ott prose in it specifically the phrase that i c&p'd over and over. calling it striking horseshit was mean, i admit, and i generally don't like to be mean in this place. i don't have a huge opinion on nakh as a poster, i am guessing he is british b/c i don't cross paths w/ him in many of the threads i post in and many of his posts seem to talk about british shit i don't understand (not just even when i'm being dumb). i do REALLY like his "high pixel images of british MPs" thread, that is amazing though. i think he also posts a lot to tracksuit-clad-mila-kunis and that thread is also great.

i like mordy and i think he is a good presence on this board, even if i see him getting in bitter fights a lot. i think he is a smart dude and i like him.

<3 let's hug it out

I'd rather split my backcunt with a sideways pineapple than read the past two hours of this thread again

aw :)

love nakh/wins, great posters. super witty smart dudes. it's like, all the benefits of lj with none of the cons. i can't hate nakh for the harsh zings cause (1) i love a good harsh zing and (2) it fits his whole dark kubrickian evil child genius vibe. worse u can say is they at times get too high on their own supply with the vocabulary (one of these days i swear to god i will google 'apposite') & they like "glitch" music and idm too much, and a lot of the stuff on ILAFL is just... not funny. but tbh i even like those aspects too in a way, it's a whole package. A+

love nakh/wins, great posters. super witty smart dudes. it's like, all the benefits of lj with none of the cons.

ouch!

i'm just tryna rib on lj cause he kept knockin my 'nads in the trax poll

aw thx! I think you're doing nakh a disservice there by conflating us, he's way more thoughtful & constructive than me, I just like stupid puns and shitting up threads with pedantic meta talk

it's true that some nakhisms do not get funnier with repetition but the ones that do crack me the fuck up

<3 LJ unto eternity btw, top 5 even tho he sometimes ties himself in knots trying to give himself the reacharound

lol :)

welcome back flopson

wait what there is a thread where mila kunis wears a tracksuit

xp - thx, good 2 be back :)

it's on 77

you fuckin 77 fuckers

it's not so much that ilx needs a load of terribly opinionated nra members, fanatical libertarians etc to diversify everything, rather just a little less congeniality, otm, this, tbomb, ^^^^ type of stuff

― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:54 PM (32 minutes ago)

here we disagree. i hardly think that "congeniality" is a serious problem hereabouts. ilx, like many tightly policed spaces, is overly reliant on bullying intolerance as a means of maintaining its comfortable orthodoxy. this, more than anything, generates the complacent atmosphere you bemoan. so "hell yes!" to nuanced criticism and exploration, but you might wanna pull back on body slams you sometimes throw in their name.

"high pixel images of british MPs" thread, that is amazing

on 77 too?

no its ILE, i think it is "high resolution" instead of "high pixel"

xp contenderizer, depends on who he is targeting. by targeting "safe" posts made by popular posters, nakh is provoking them to defend positions that otherwise would be taken for granted, reinvigorating debate (in theory.) this is really different from someone bullying unpopular posters whose views don't align with the consensus. this kind of behavior is what restricts conversations

ty, can a britisher tell me who the hell this is: high resolution photos of british mps