I Love Politics board redux - this time with feeling!

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

xp *waves at everything*

So I agree that we should be more welcoming of different opinions, but I think the forum question is more about accommodating people who feel overwhelmed by politics in general, and would like a break from dealing with these threads constantly being at the top of SNA.

Never saw anyone nitpick this much when the other boards were first created

Convenient eh

a break from dealing with these threads constantly being at the top of SNA.

I am really unsympathetic to the notion that this creates some kind of genuine unavoidable psychological/emotional hardship

Voted no

A hearty no.

I don't exactly get it either, but I take other posters complaints at face value unless given a good reason not to.

xp

Still have hopes for the silent majority

should there be an I love music

Exactly

No i love politics no i love music

that's an argument for "no" surely?

But there still is an i love music

I voted yes without really giving it any thought. If you had a specific political board, maybe people would be more inclined to start a thread on, I don't know, Edmund Muskie. But Trump has been so exhausting--I don't post very often on the Trump threads anymore--I don't have any strong feelings on the issue.

Hell no, shit no, fuck no -- there's my 3 votes.

bad idea

I voted yes because I am pro-compartmentalization in all things.

democracy sucks

I voted no out of badness but really where's the harm?

that was me in the gay marriage ref

high five

injust want to make it clear i voted yes to gay marriage that was a joke post on ilxor.com

I want a messageboard where people are more positive towards the poisonous corrupt psychopaths that are making many ppl's lives not worth living to the point of suicide. FFS I'm not asking for a lot!

deems backtracking on a joke is why this place is going to hell. #voteno

vote yes on the no option

I want a messageboard where people are more positive towards the poisonous corrupt psychopaths that are making many ppl's lives not worth living to the point of suicide.

Ok, this is a slightly unfair characterization of politics thread posters.

not really in the context of this thread tbh!

i thought calz was talking about left twitter tbh

I Love Gulags has 1023 new answers

yes i mean no

no

xxp
well yeah, that's an abortion - no argument, but it doesn't make Bama/Blair apologist twitter any more appetising!

So you are for relegating said psychopaths to their own forum or no?

very poor + disingenuous rhetoric there Moodles, but I wouldn't much better tbf!

Yes to Gulags, no to I Love Politics

Lol, ok

xp

veering into unsavory territory

xxxp

Yes to Gulags, no to I Love Politics

― xyzzzz__, Monday, September 10, 2018 12:25 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My man

All joking aside, there seems to be a non-trivial amount of no voters whose argument is "the quality of discussion on politics threads is horrible, so let's make sure they are perpetually at the top of ILE".

Of all the possible outcomes to this poll/question, that must be the most far-fetched. I wonder how you came to this conclusion at all.

voted yes as part of a social experiment but bizarro gazzarra is right, politics spill into everything. would you put the us open thread there? maybe we need a "politics" tag like a "NSFW" tag you could put on threads to help people avoid those threads (joeks tag)

Well, I'm genuinely surprised that there are so many strong no votes, did not expect that given that so many people seem bothered by the persistence of politics threads

xp

no need for a politics tag as long as we can see user names on sna

there seems to be a non-trivial amount of no voters whose argument is "the quality of discussion on politics threads is horrible, so let's make sure they are perpetually at the top of ILE".

I have never seen this expressed here, but maybe I don't have the right decoder glasses.

voted no

I spend half of half of my time having nervous breakdowns and worrying about surviving under the most (arguably) far-right Tory government we've had in the last century. And then realising how lucky I am because I have one terminally ill and one severely disabled in my house, and they haven't worked out how to murder us yet! But no matter what happens I will hate these people and their apologists forever, even if I win the lottery tomorrow.

Ban seeing user names

Tru demokrasi for all

*hammer and sickle*

we need the eggs

Egghead

you masochists

^

Gets it

Omg is that a james franco ref in 2018? My life hasn’t been for naught

Is it growth to have the same pot of soup on the stove for the whole four years idk

*eleven hour

Look, swede softens at its own pace okay

And my food poisoning scare was because my organic delivery service was hiding tiny slugs in the pak choi, I didn't manage to wash them all off, must have eaten a few. Not the chef's fault that. Not a cheffing error

lj irl https://i.imgur.com/NNa1oCB.jpg

The ideal onion soup broils for like 2.5 hours on a low heat, I thought this was common scientific knowledge

Boils, even. I used broil because it's a cooler word, yet inaccurate

Can we do four borads, e.g.

I Love US Politics

I Love UK Politics

I Love Other Anglo Politics

I Love Other Non-Anglo Politics

Mods ban pom for “Anglo”

I Love Broiling

I Love Brawling

I Love Bowling

I thought of you while writing that. <3

xp

you can forget that doughnut

I Poll Lolitics

Alright, alright, we can throw in a fifth borad, I Love Celtic Politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4O1A-mmBWw

Eire Love Politics surely

I'm 100% in favor of a politics board

This is a good idea but

Having an movie board sadly doesn’t keep movie stuff off ILE

RIP

have one main ILE board and an option to tag subcategories on threads - film, games, books, politics, etc. then people can filter 'em but they're all still in a big list so people can see and comment

If a talkie is discussed on ILE it's a movie, if it's discussed on ILF it's Film

pumpernickel is fine, quit slandering pumpernickel

Gonna immolate in the great Bread Polls of 2021

...which is what I envision for an ILE freed from political shackles

we have an i love football board and the most popular football thread - by a loooong distance - is always posted on i love everything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I Love Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh...

This is a good idea but

Having an movie board sadly doesn’t keep movie stuff off ILE

RIP

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This is the thing, youd need mods to agree to ban fuckers who didnt comply

ppl piping in w the naysaying shhhhh