Things You Just Don't Care About

xp i don’t know about deadpan but there is a fair amount of gross out posting on the pitics thread that keeps me off of it

politics thread

ha Alfred

only when certain people share their Trump-inspired sexxytime. The Dem thread is grosser.

well tbh i'm not sure if it is deadpan but i like to think it is bc these dudes can't be serious srsly

there's def a lot of Trump shit I don't care about, like Stormy Daniels and "OMG Paul Manafort just said that Johnny Poppadopalous took a Black Sea cruise with Paul Blart and PUTIN CRONY Evgeny Barishnakov in 2013, just as Trump was getting to build a new trump tower in Malaysia. A month later, Poppadopalous had lunch with a lobbyist for a Malaysian mining company."

said in the voice of Robert Stack

i really appreciate the politics thread, the wit on display keeps me marginally sane

the trump/politics threads could be a LOT worse. i mean, you guys have seen this place, right? there is remarkably little fighting/rooster crowing on them. plus, Nedlinks.

but it is a total info dump. which i imagine might make some people's eyes go blurry.

man alive is wise.

I do sometimes get caught up in it as a way to pass the time, but yeah - I only really care about that stuff to the extent that it harms and hinders the wicked. Harming the wicked is not the same as helping the downtrodden but it may be a necessary first step.

my feeling is this: I doubt the russia investigation is going to take down Trump. If it does, great, but there's nothing I can do to help it along, and getting caught up in every twist and turn just leads to agita (although occasionally also comic relief). Meanwhile, there's lots of actual political/policy stuff going on that is important and dangerous, and at least by talking about and caring about that I spread the word about something that might actually impact midterm elections.

Not to get too deep into a topic that people just don't care about ITT, but there's a fair argument to be made that the Russia investigation and various related clusterfucks will have a far greater impact on midterm elections than any policy details.

that thread is complete trumpsterbation and nothing is ever funny in it it is like ilx snl

great so let's turn this thread into another Trump thread

Any point someone is about to make if they preface it by bringing up that they are a veteran or a military spouse.

man alive otm, and

that thread is complete trumpsterbation and nothing is ever funny in it it is like ilx snl

i really appreciate the politics thread, the wit on display keeps me marginally sane

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otm

flappy bird deems and infinity offtm which is i guess par for the course

shakey, tombot, old lunch, ymp and alfred are specifically the posters that make me laugh/keep me sane

my feeling is this: concern trolls still suck

what abt concern trolling in bad faith

brad u wound me ;_;

Face it dmac

You’re one of us

It’s not so bad friendly

whether I ever find out what "the Childish Gambino video" is

Finding out what pretty much anything is

here's a fun one because sometimes i'm sad i don't care so much about it: making something of myself

Morbs, it would take about a 4 minute investment to watch the damn thing (it's good)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgYEuJ5u1K0

the politics thread is basically this

lol

https://youtu.be/mUsWxOZolVQ

the politics thread is fucking awful. i understand why people do it, it's a coping strategy, but i can't cope with that sort of sustained car crash staring. i have to go to a lot of trouble to actively avoid anything that resembles "news". i turned off data on my phone yesterday because google keeps trying to keep me "informed".

You impute psychological terms ("coping strategy") to what's merely entertainment – for me anyway. It sits in the background on my work computer.

it's like being a sports fan.

i'm trying to be compassionate. sorry to be judgmental, but it strikes me as kind of monstrous to treat what's going on right now as "entertainment".

if you're trying to actively avoid news then i totally get hating the politics thread

how are one-liners and zings not entertainment? xp

If you're gay and Hispanic, there's a lot to rictus grin about.

if you hate trump there's a lot to rictus grin about.

oh, is this a semantic argument? because that was kind of what i meant by "coping strategy".

music criticism other than "this is good, you might like it"

but where's the fun?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dteBUV_coN8

Ha is this now the backlash thread for all the bonhomie/backslapping in the "Why Do People Leave ILX for good?"

There are plenty of threads I steer clear of in here, it would never occur to me to run them down, but whatever does it for ya

people should always keep in mind the whole not caring part of the thread title on here.

Not caring and actively hating on are indeed distinct modes

again, i only meant to call it the intellectual darkweb

it's a coping strategy, but i can't cope with that sort of sustained car crash staring. i have to go to a lot of trouble to actively avoid anything that resembles "news".

otm. here every piece of political news is just bigots being bigots.

it's like being a sports fan.

yes, at its absolutely fucking worst by pure cynics

I begrudge no one for disliking the politics threads and the humor (or 'humor') therein. My own engagement is basically an attempt to build up a resistance to a variety of psychic poison which, one magical night in 2016, made me literally feel like I was going to die before the sun came up. Exposure therapy, I believe they call it.

Also, shit, what else am I gonna do with my day? My work?

i just don't see enough calls for guillotines or gulags in the US pol threads tbh

It's like they've forgotten the Revolution.

no place for violence in US politics tbf