the rose in that guy's bio is confusing to me
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
even if we do replace balls with a gender-neutral idiom we're still left with the rest of your dumb-as-fuck comment xxp
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
Dumb as fuck that corporations and banks are the primary funders of the Democratic party? Fact. That they have an agenda of their own, otherwise they wouldn't be funding it? Fact. That their agenda is not a good deal for us, because we have no say in it? Fact.
Why is that dumb, exactly? Why do so many people in the US consider what's good for them "dumb"? Or empowering themselves as "stupid"? I wonder where that comes from... hmmm...
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
The Star Wars thing shows that so many of us have been kept at the psychological age of children. People among them who've never faced any real hardship, have been cloistered in tiny little lives of farm-fed luxury, and now when a difficult battle is on us, of course they're scared as shit to do anything about it, and have no clue how to do it anyway.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
You'll hear no complaint from me re: categorizing the Dems as inherently corporatist, but this notion that it ultimately serves their interests to see social liberalism clawed back is bizarre. xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
Social liberalism is a means to an end, and that same end can also be accomplished via Trumpers.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
So what the hell do they care? See how they behave via their media outlets. They don't give a shit.
The Cthulhu RPG eps are extra disappointing because it could be really well done but that would start with any of the three players taking the game seriously
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
sure but Luke eventually worked it out
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
The Star Wars thing shows that so many of us have been kept at the psychological age of children
Going off on people for having "their balls chopped off" and being "virgins" shows that so many of us have been kept at the psychological age of early adolescents, who are way worse than children
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
OK, update it with your preferred idioms. The goal is to capture the concepts of strength, power, self-determination, and worldly experience in one phrase or word.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
the force
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
afaict this is just a throwaway joke in the dude's personal Twitter bio, doesn't seem like something near worth getting worked up about.
― evol j, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
That shit's all over the place. "MNRRR We're like Harry Potters gang of wizards going against VOLDEMORT!!!"
Holy fucking hell, no wonder Trump is steamrolling over his opposition, when it's people like this.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
you're really confusing c_k
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
I'm a complex person
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
It's a big tent and it takes all kinds. I am not into "resistance" talk either, whether it's meant to refer to Star Wars or occupied France, and I don't use it. But the people who do use that language are busting their asses just the same as I am. If you feel like it's a waste of time to call legislators, protest in the street, run for office, write checks to progressive candidates, fine, I get that, it's a view people have, though not mine. But if you think taking those actions are a waste of time, then yeah, that's the point you want to make, not that some of the people taking those actions are nerds.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
Fair enough. I think we're at the point, though, where they also have to be willing to risk getting their heads cracked open or go to prison. Which is pretty fucked up, but here we are...
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
It's hard to separate, too, who's what here. I'm just using it as a jumping off point to vent, because of all the bullshit going on right now. I got onto the bus to work today, and people looked SO FUCKING MISERABLE. It's frustrating as hell.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
There have been plenty of activists taking those sorts of risks. Whether or not they're likely to be the sorts to be hashtagging #TheResistance or working for Democrats is another issue I suppose xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
The shallowness of people's popcult reference pulls tends to annoy me, but it doesn't surprise me, since marketing for blockbuster franchises is omnipresent and reinforced in every social channel folks come in contact with for years.
Also, yeah, I'd kinda dial back on how much of a hypermasculine metaphor gets thrown around as indicator of ideological or personal robustness.
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
Point taken
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
I got onto the bus to work today, and people looked SO FUCKING MISERABLE.
do u really find that most random ppl you run into who are miserable are so bc of the current political climate? ime 70% of ppl aren't even paying attention + don't care. (which come to think of it u should probably save yr ire for them.)
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
you need help c_k
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
I got onto the bus to work today, and people looked SO FUCKING MISERABLE
counterpoint: they're on a bus
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
I've been on buses where everyone (incl the driver) were singing Billy Joel songs so ymmv
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
it's just i see loads of ppl every day who look miserable and i don't think it's bc trump is president bc i don't remember ppl seeming much happier 2 years ago
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, July 27, 2017 9:20 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao amazing
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
They were all office workers of different races, men and women. The social climate is pretty bad in the US right now if every single poll on it is any measure, and it's just getting worse. Yesterday was a pretty bad news day re: transgender and the ACA repeal, if you have any sort of humanity in you. And for anyone with a brain in their heads, it's a bad sign of more things to come. Whether or not it happens is another thing.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
dude ... stop
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
Who the hell are you people? It's like you guys are conservatives masquerading as the left.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
Appleton, you read a lot of Chris Hedges' stuff?
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
Chris Hedges is pretty good from what I've read of him.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
wait this is larry appleton
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
it's all so clear now
In fact, I might read a little more now. For some reason he keeps falling off my radar.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
I think the thing we're missing is that the guy with the Star Wars quote works for a congressman. How edgy is his bio going to be?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
not subscribing to yr hystrionic apocalyptic jeremiads /= "conservative"
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
Yes, nothing that's happening around us is real. It's like you're living in a reality distortion field.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
like I said, you need help. posting here isn't doing you (or anybody else) any good.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Yeah. Warping reality is a family trade, and the job I have now. I know it when I see it.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
I bring up Hedges because he's the one of the biggest downer, immiserative, and demoralizing guy to listen to
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
Chris Hedges does a ton of good for people, and has put himself and his career at risk to make humane moral stands. And he's a bad guy to you?
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
Holy crap.
fwiw c_k timothy snyder agrees w/ u that a totalitarian fascist takeover of our government is in process and he's a scholar of WW2 so it's not like you can't find any agreement for yr existential fears. but i think snyder is irresponsible and i think you've probably been traumatized. it's a big nuance btwn "things are terrible and must be resisted w/ all our might" and "things are existentially bad and we'll be shipped to FEMA camps soon" and i think most ilxors are probably in the first camp and you're in the second camp and you should be cool that most ppl in the US aren't there right now. trump seems too incompetent to execute any kind of hitlerian agenda. but i respect that you see things differently.
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
Never once have I suggested we're going to be "shipped to FEMA camps soon". The furtherest I've gone is violence, including mortal violence, and that's already happening. So my greatest fears have already been realized, and are only increasing.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
back away Mordy
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
Hedges endorsed Jill Stein in 2016. Good writer though.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
Ehhhh. Well, nobody's perfect.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left has new answers
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― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link