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
https://media.giphy.com/media/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW/giphy.gif
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
I am dreading the inevitable What Happened reading series (almost as much as I'm dreading What Happened in general)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
is that Donna Brazile's book?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Hillary's
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/fd/fd64929bf03e332c868f90ad188aa74e16ce33150b8bed293d667335a62776d5.jpg
― I Love You, Fancybear (symsymsym), Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
I would be interested if it was called What Had HAPPENED Was...
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Thursday, 27 July 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Title has a real IF I DID IT feel
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 27 July 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
I have seen at least two dozen variants of If I Did It and Wha' Happen' jokes over the last couple of hours
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 July 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
i dont know anything about chris hedges but i figured he was a crank bc he gave a talk here a couple years ago in support of a book called 'The Algebra of Revolution' and the poster for it had his face with a bunch of math symbols swirling around it like that one meme
― flopson, Thursday, 27 July 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
https://ckutnews.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/https_proxy.jpg?w=521&h=805http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/021/464/14608107_1180665285312703_1558693314_n.jpg
― flopson, Thursday, 27 July 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
If you followed more black people, you'd see just as many iterations of my joke!
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Thursday, 27 July 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
that inspired me to do a quick audit of the people I follow, turns out at least two people I follow RT'd that lol
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 July 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link