Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

The argument you keep returning to, and I don’t know if you realise you are making it, is that the tone of the argument is wrong, so essentially saying people should be nicer to you in order to get you on board. This comes across regardless of the context being such that if you are a younger person (and btw this is something I get from people in their twenties), they have a huge amount of contempt towards progressives in their 30s and 40s who haven’t got their shit together to sort out climate change and now the continued existence of the species itself is at risk. So, no, manners are not the thing to clutch your pearls over here.

ftr I am differentiating here between something like '(hearable and sensible leftist position)' and 'if you don't agree with (hearable and sensible leftist position) completely you're less than human'.

Also this is 0% to do with getting me on board (I am) or being nicer to me (IDGAF). It has 100% to do with growing a message, persuading those who aren't already on board, building a coalition, etc. If it's more important to preach to the choir than to actually effect change, then IDGI.

so we have this c onvo going on in two diff threads now, cool

xxxp all we are is posts in the wind

No, you don’t, and you’re literally just saying the same old lines that miss the point, so I’ll leave it there cos I like you and I don’t want to get into it.

so we have this c onvo going on in two diff threads now, cool

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 17:03 (fifty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

In all sincerity, this is afaict the only conversation on ilx

#onethread

it's been

one thread

since i shat on you

Prefer the sinéad version

There are no coalitions to build on ILX. The 45 voters spread across 9 states do not constitute a valuable bloc.

There is only one river, there is only one sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMh9hPGNGKE

Internecine squabbles keep this place alive.

I look forward to the squabble about whether they really are internecine or not.

You do wish people would just spit out what they mean rather than cloak it in plausible deniability so we could get to the point a lot faster, though.

xxpost ^great Cattle Decap song

The fundamental question imo is ‘how do we win?’ Everything else flows from there.

Getting “alphie was right” tattooed on me as I speak

you’re literally just saying the same old lines

new board description

No, you don’t, and you’re literally just saying the same old lines that miss the point, so I’ll leave it there cos I like you and I don’t want to get into it.

― scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:04 AM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can accept this! And I am also happy to drop it (which was the intention of dropping it itt in the first place) because I like you as well.

#onethread
#oneheart

The fundamental question imo is ‘how do we win?’ Everything else flows from there.

What do you want to win, is a more fundamental question.

pancakes

pancakes and sausage on a stick

#onethread
#oneheart

- Jacob Marley

Jah Humbug!

lolz

Lol

legit lol, bravo

Amazing.

The thing that critics of activists don’t get is that they tried playing the “polite language” policy game and all it did was make them easier to ignore.

It wasn’t until they made folks uncomfortable that there was traction to do ANYTHING even if it wasn’t their full demands.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 2, 2020

You’d think fellow Irish people might understand that too, huh

O'Casio

if this thread results in a single excelsioring I'm FPing everyone on the boards

too late

not *this* thread lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dLPsw3i_P8

I'm not that intelligent but I'm smart enough to recognize a potential clusterfuck when I see one

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

The only true test is not contributing to this thread sincerely

Indeed.

https://pics.me.me/son-this-is-bait-34901044.png

all i can fucking think now is stupid horse, thanks a lot

I’m sorry. :( It will only feast on your inner ear for a week.

lies

I am good at amusing myself and no one else. I don't know what I would do without me

Family Tie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PWqFowq-4

Thank you for that, pom. I just went down a massive MA Numminem youtube hole.

that is a video.

You're welcome. :)

It's not what I had in mind at first, but perhaps it also doubles as an oblique commentary on this very thread's premise.

Clearly not enough to have not wasted my time then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ instinct works so much better than logic for so many decisions

i find i still wish "the c-man" immense and lasting ill

Seems entirely reasonable