Things You Just Don't Care About

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

saving this page just in case my lawyer wants it

mordy is just very against violent metaphors (guillotine, punching whether up or down)

pro violence anti violent metaphors

killing it in this argument

lol @ Tom D.

i don't think all the lazy Britpol zing crew are using guillotine in a total metaphorical sense, just that we accept its extreme unlikeliness and would, at least in my case, only resort to it extremely reluctantly and with a heavy conscience

i don't know if that makes it better or worse tbph

heavy lies the head that wears the blade

only for a split second

t/s: off-colour jokes about political violence vs politicians politely taking democratic decisions that kill people

before we start i agree that there is a shared immorality at the heart of that t/s

but i haven't knowingly killed anybody so

maybe this is what trappo chap house is like except with comedy shouting, idk

just figured that whole scene would be 4 Fantanos fighting over a comb

it's just more lame than it is immoral imo

sorry for using a slur. it's just like find a new way to express frustration than the same trite online leftist edgy opinions4you crap.

it is almost certainly lame but partly of the order of the kind of lame joke that increases its pleasure thru annoying overuse

hey nv let's do a podcast where we count down the 50 politicians we'd reluctantly behead

also our leftist edgy opinions4you are more self-knowing and world-weary than yr standard excitable Dem rambles.

not by v much, i'll grant you.

bg i am ideologically opposed to podcasts but if we throw in a transcript for people who can read then i'm in

it's just like find a new way to express frustration than the same trite online leftist edgy opinions4you crap

*checks url*

no this is definitely still ilx

while i'm on somebody on our work Yammer has just been dressed down for asking why our place doesn't have an open culture. he was told to keep those questions off Yammer.

sold xxp

brb gonna contact stamps dot com and casper mattresses about getting advertising for this podcast

got the title music already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C21PrOKRG8w

outro and/or interstitial music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auzfTPp4moA

guillotine (aka the sliceyboi) jokes are inevitable when folks are increasingly frustrated by the status quo and alienated from their local political processes. I'm actually kind of...impressed?...at how widespread those references are now, was def not the case even a year ago

lol i'd forgotten about the sliceyboi meme, you know shit is getting real when people are giving cutesy nicknames to their preferred method of executing their oppressors

Historically speaking, political polarization sliding toward violence is normal.

I type this in a comfy chair situated in a part of the country whose soil has absorbed blood from European settlement, native genocide, a violent revolution, a pretty frickin' divisive civil war, and massive resistance to civil rights.

To me, just that we're so reluctant to advocate violence speaks of a certain kind of (halting, piecemeal, fragile) progress for humanity.

Isn't there a thread where Mordy argues in favour of the death penalty?

pro violence anti violent metaphors

Ah, you're just disappointed we haven't lopped off any aristo heads yet.

guillotine slices down and not up iirc this must be a sore point for many itt

look if you can make a reverse bungee ride you could make a reverse guillotine

so you're advocating for like a guillotine cannon? i'm into it xp

anyway i don't see guillotining as a thing in the grand tradition of the Terror, i just think that there will always be human beings who are intractably opposed to freedom and democracy and that come the reconfiguration of our socioeconomic system some hardened oppressors may leave us no choice other than to put them out of our misery. circumstances and method to be decided on the day.

But Oliver was not the only effigy hanged that day. Alongside the stamp officer, the Bostonians suspended a large Jack Boot with the head of a demon poking from the top. The boot and demon were a reference to John Stuart, Earl of Bute, an unpopular former Prime Minister who was widely attacked as the mastermind of the Stamp Act.

https://timtattle.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/the-liberty-tree-protests-and-the-scots/

https://timtattle.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/bute.png

i view it more as a kind of grand guignol social experiment: will the super-rich stop pointlessly hoarding their wealth if they see that a hundred or so of their peers are pulled from their ivory towers and decapitated by baying mobs? we'll never know unless we try, and we already have a control group in the form of the last 70 years or so of western culture!

It’s the revolution LARPing that bugs me

i must be missing the live-action element

cosplay might be fun tho when everybody turns up as Che

My Robespierre costume is almost finished, y'all

online crix always say “youre just having a larp!” until suddenly its their turn in the basket.