I Love Politics board?

let's do this. i'll mod and to make it fun i'll wear one of those barrister wigs like the british moderators do.

that's like saying Trump should be president

do we really love politics tho

If this means quarantining every motherfucker in the trump/politics threads I’m all for it

I also vote yeay for treesh to be part of the gestapo

ile is fine we already have enough boards

most of which are dead

Alfred is right I am a fiery demagogue

Ilx has never needed a firm iron fist as bad as it does now

Treesh go pinochet on us baby

i love politics combined with De Subjectivisten, all posts auto-translated.

https://i.imgur.com/T4qXydx.jpg

Did a mock-up just to show how nice all those threads could look if they were all together in one place.

yeah a place i would never fucking visit

maybe that's a good thing, who can say

I mean, that's like half of ILE right now which is kinda my point.

that's why it needs to split off. ILE has lost it's character as a place to discuss general topics

i think this would lead to LESS political discussion on the boards

which would be good

I always click on ILE, so subthreads make no sense to me.

xps It might! And that might not be the worst thing. I had c&p'd that only roxymuzak quote to show that things used to be different and apparently we were once yearning for more political content.

The trick is to exclude the new i luv poli board from ILE

political content would be good if it was the substantive debate of issues and ideas. when it's just trump content it's worse for you than cigarettes, i'm guessing, and as addictive because there is always a new reminder of terrifying it all is

xp: well, from SNA at least.

Put it this way

We implement this idea and not only will i stop shitposting, i will revive my intellectual socks much of ilx knew and loved

Maybe

i also want to moderate an astrology board

you sound like you have too much time on your hands

How about if it's called 'I Hate Politics' instead? More accurate.

I think we should spend six months agreeing on definitions of terms first

I think we should spend six months agreeing on definitions of terms first

I think we should spend six months agreeing on definitions of terms first

I think we should spend five months agreeing on definitions of terms first

Motion carried on first terms to now only last five months.

why is there an i love film board but lots & lots of threads about movies & teevee on ILE ?

i love film is for the cognoscenti and i love everything is for the common man

do this and make treesh a mod; excising politics is the only way to save the patient at this pt

I think a new board would be good. It probably won't impact me personally, but it really does seem like ILE is overloaded with politics threads, and that it's causing a bad experience for a lot of folks that come here to get away from politics

Yes please. A quarantine is long overdue.

I can't imagine how an ILX user with a disdain for political threads keeps accidentally clicking on them when they are clearly labelled thus. Or even going one step further and accidentally engaging with them!

Let's just fuse all boards, that'll solve it.

well with yr movies & teevee I can't always tell from the titles what it's about
would be happy just to be able to hide threads I guess
the level of politics discourse here is generally rather low but as a substitute for having to wade through twitter, usa newspapers, etc., it works well

With any luck the sheer volume of political posting will return to a more tolerable background noise level after the current moment in history passes over and there’s less shit to be appalled by on a daily basis.

I refuse to accept the current political climate in the anglosphere as “the new normal,” basically

it's not the "new normal", but only because things are going to get a lot worse from here

i wouldn't bank on any kind of restoration of 2015-era status quo

I Love Pessimism

I think it will get better because of the progressive insurgencies in the democratic party represented by ocasio cortez and others is coinciding with the republican party’s ultimate disgrace, which is just taking longer than people anticipated.

That is at least one way to read the tea leaves.

delete all ilx boards except happy robots

I don't understand how the politics thread or threads could be more clearly labeled?

like 95% of the politics discussion happens on 3 threads

I'm generally against sub boards with exception like sports ones makes sense

even I love books I wish wasn't, I feel really too much of a country rube to stumble into that but would be fun to discuss books

i read that thing obama said yesterday. he always was good at speeches. he's on a total "life of brian" trip right now. me, i'm down with it. i try to always look on the bright side of life.

whatever the "level" of discussion is honestly the media/social media landscape is so dire, even at it's most contentious the ilx us politics thread is a way I can guarantee I stay on top of any story though a filter of goofiness and/or predictable/adorbs quirks like tombot hulking out and calling everyone fucking idiots or Morbs Perrin stuff etc etc etc

a subboard will have less discussion and be less useful

my .02

kinda with m@tt here, normally the politics thread is mitigating my distress not enhancing it