Things You Just Don't Care About

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

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 12:49 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

You've gotta feel some love for the Cheka sometimes, murdering the landed gentry all day long is a tough job and they don't always get the right ppl and folk are always being judgemental!

it was a dirty job but someone had to do it

My FB pic has been a guillotine blade for some time. I do sincerely hope I haven't blown too many of my family members' and ex-coworkers' minds with that one, but it's just how I feel.

"but where's the fun?"

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

i hate fun.

ol, i get where you're coming from, but for me to be able to tolerate prolonged exposure to this shit would require a good deal of desensitization, which number one i don't particularly want, and number two i haven't been able to manage anyway.

"It's like they've forgotten the Revolution."

― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.)

totally unfair, they were just on tour last year!

My FB pic has been a guillotine blade for some time. I do sincerely hope I haven't blown too many of my family members' and ex-coworkers' minds with that one, but it's just how I feel.

― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch)

my fb pic was a picture of an old guy who looked kind of like pablo picasso bowling. pretty sure this contributed just as much to the political climate as yours did.

i think there's probably a discussion to be had about the increased potential for widespread civil violence in the wake of the complete and total failure of democratic norms, but i don't think most people have the stomach for that conversation. i think a lot of people would prefer that we first establish that we have experienced the complete and total failure of democratic norms, though of course by the time we do that it'll be too late to have the violence conversation.

things i don't care about: any political discussion which assumes that we haven't experienced the complete and total failure of democratic norms.

if i cared about your political anxiety i'd still be sub'd to the US politics threads

Monica Lewinsky.

hanging chads

... and Stacies.

guilloting chads tho

i don't want to hear any more guillotine talk until you folks have some decapitated heads to show off

what came first, the choppin' or the head

pretty sure Mordy just advocated for political violence there