Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

doesn't mean I don't detest some of its practitioners though

― imago, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 7:50 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the thing

people take a band you don't like and make a lot of unwarranted generalizations about you

theres tonnes of good hip hop and rap that reads different than rae sremmurd

nah it's all good -- we're just zingin' late afternoon

zingin on hump day

ugh

s'all good

let's get back on topic

courses aimed at bright/curious state-schooled kids, such as those I help to run a few times a year, are not elitist

I think my uncool conservative belief is on a parallel with LJ's statement there -- I think drawing a line dividing quality work from mass market pulp and calling one side "literature" has its place

the line moves all the time, though, and things jump back and forth

spelling your band name backwards is straightup stupid

They get away with their snottiness and for the moment they don't sound anomic or evil. But they can't keep it up forever

This was basically my take on Odd Future when they first came out, but weren't they actually kids at the time whereas Rae Sremmurd are like proper adults? I like RS musically, but honestly I haven't really paid much attention to their lyrics, so... eh. I kind of don't want to go down that route but just imagine I wrote an incredibly long and interesting post about the conflicts and intertwinement of ingroup lexical production, culture, Cannibal Corpse and exclusion/alienation of marginalised groups. Seriously, this hypothetical post was the most brilliant and incisive thing you've ever read about lyrics and it's changed your worldview forever.

(sorry for continuing to turn this thread into 'Rae Sremmurd: Classic or Dud')

Fair enough. Cannibal Corpse have shit beats too though

rock has a rich and deep history of making garbage music (another uncool conservative opinion!)

the internet can't accommodate both privacy and anonymity, and given a choice between the two i pick privacy

it will never be ok with me when people use "unique" to mean "uncommon"

Marxism is dumb and bad.

Capitalist liberal democracy is the end point of Western civilization, it will never be superseded by a higher/better form of social organization, will only end through collapse.

Men should not have facial hair and people in general should not have messy hair.

― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You know the Marxist view *is* that Capitalism will collapse, right?

permitting female facial hair is a nice lacuna in jim's conservatism there, rebounds to his credit

xp. I am very familiar with Marxism. This is probably the problem! Grew up in a house filled with books on Marxist theory. Literally was at a table with friends of my parents and an uncle who are all Trotskyists a week ago.

just need to repost this

nah it's all good -- we're just zingin' late afternoon

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 7:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wasn't the marxist view that capitalism collapses after we have 3D printers that really work, and don't just make smelly, knobby statues of webcomic characters?

nah that's gene roddenberry, easily confused

they blame rich people for all the evils of the world while ignoring that they are the 1%.

never realized that liberals are 1% of the population

I think you need like $420K household income to be in the top 1% in the US. Maybe sleeping bag has a lot of rich liberal friends, but I doubt it.

global 1% I MEANT

barb is overrated

that is my uncool conservative belief

Maybe sleeping bag has a lot of rich liberal friends, but I doubt it.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:47 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What does this even mean, I grew up in south fl and many of my friends moved to new York, San Fran, Boston, so... Yes? Arent u a lawyer in NYC? Guessing u do too?

I grew up in south fl

really?!

(maybe I asked you already)

Isn't like half of the United States in the global 1%? And also isn't that term kind of meaningless without accounting for cost of living?

I am a lawyer in NYC and my household does not earn anything close to $420K and neither do most of my friends afaik.

Broward bb

Xp 'isn't half the US...' yes that is my point!

So basically almost no one in the US has the right to have anything to say about poverty or class because they're not living off potatoes?

I think that was my uncool belief stated upthread.

They don't have the right to prescribe solutions for other ppl that they themselves don't/wouldn't abide by, is more how I see it

Like if yr willing to make excuses for not being more generous to other ppl bc 'cost of living' isn't that the same as saying I can't give u a raise bc 'cost of operating the thing that provides yr (and many other ppls) living'?

what are you talking about dude

Doesn't concern u, don't worry about it.

global 1% I MEANT

no the math still doesn't work out that way sorry

It seems kind of obvious that "the rich" in any kind of leftist critique means capitalists, not people earning $34,000 and therefore materially better off than the world's extreme poor. It also seems obvious that you can still criticize a system even if there is no way to avoid being part of it. IDK why I am bothering with this though.

Sorry for getting too real conservative for the joke conservative thread, carry on. Men's sports! rap =cRap ! Lol

IDK why I am bothering with this though

indeed

messageboards and mobile devices have turned people into antisocial narcissists

also, zombies

did you know that message boards aren't actually that popular anymore?

yeah, but the damage is done, see the last 9000 threads.

how do you manage to stay unaffected given all the time you've spent on here Morbs?

messageboards and mobile devices have turned people into antisocial narcissists

is this some kind of confession

first of all, i interpreted this thread as a safe space to air unpopular opinions without some smartass jumping down yr throat, so ease off sleepi or no one else will give up the goods

second of all, even a remotely sympathetic reading of sleepingbags og post would make it clear he's not talking about anyone living in america and making 34,000$, ya dick. gonna copy paste it again:

liberalism as many of my friends practice it is like a shitty religion that i want no part of.

they think of other people as needing to be saved, by them.
they make penance with speech acts, not real action.
they live their lives in constant guilt.
they live in cities that are only differentiated from other cities by being huge destinations for wealth, then they disavow that wealth while continuing to partake in the lifestyle it provides.
they blame rich people for all the evils of the world while ignoring that they are the 1%.
they prescribe how other people should be living their own lives.
they say things that have no meaning other than to reveal to others that they are members in this very sensitive club of good people.
it's nothing but performative.

― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are people like that really so alien to you, man alive? i feel like i see you complain about this shit all the time

did you know that message boards aren't actually that popular anymore?

― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:21 (11 minutes ago) Permalink

This really true? I thought things had just kind of migrated to reddit.

I don't think many people use ilx style message boards, or at least %-of-the-internet-doing-this is lower, the total amount out there is still probably pretty high. but fb groups and reddit boards aren't that much different, just worse for extended conversations.

xp. oh yeah I guess reddit is a messageboard :(

but like younger people i talk to just seem to use snapchat, whatsapp, tumblr, twitter, instagram, etc.

i hate myself; if you ppl were the slightest bit observant you'd have learned that by now.

but you're not.

i also love myself

messageboards and mobile devices have turned people into antisocial narcissists

is this some kind of confession

...because with zero mobile devices, i'm still half the cretin Shakey is.

I only hold cool conservative beliefs

i've met the people sleepingbag has described in los angeles quite often, except that i didn't know if they were part of the 1%, because i was not privy to such info

thing with arguments in general and ilxors is that if you quantify something -- even done offhandedly -- they will jump on you to try to prove it and will put it in a different context if they don't agree with you

it'd be cool if we didn't agree and would still be like 'oh ya we can agree to disagree but have you heard that new album by miley cyrus'