I Love Politics board?

i don't know why i clicked on that exactly but just fyi, that is a NSFW link

the only recorded incident of the beautiful word "zugzwanged" being used on ILX was on an ILE political thread, need I say any more?

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ILX british politics thread are good #content even if I only understand 50% of the words being used

the worst feature of the us politics threads predates the current president: it's the attention given to media and how bad it is, at the evident expense of other frameworks. there's lots of competition for what those other frameworks could be and I don't mean to suppose that my favored ones would be popular here & that's fine, but the media one, it's like talking about rock critics instead of about rock.

basically there was this old h@rv4rd philosopher who said "philosophy is bullshit but history of philosophy, that's scholarship" & that view is bad enough, imagine if we did history of history of philosophy, like, that's what happens here for politics way too much

it's like talking about rock critics instead of about rock.

good thing that’s not at all what ILM is like

-wink-

I mostly just want to mod a board, which I’m not sure the higher ups were even really considering

the phenomenon DC describes takes place on "democratic party direction", the left- and right-wing drift threads, the organizing thread, the silicon valley thread, occasionally the scotus thread etc.. (and of course brit politics threads.) it does not take place on the monthly trump threads, which are foolish garbage without exception. one active thread of foolish garbage at a time p much is a sub-board.

ILX british politics thread are good #content

Yeah, if you're a duplicitously Eurosceptic tankie whose bedside bibles are The Foundations of Geopolitics and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (grossly exaggerating for effect, obviously, but the doctrinaire partisanship is hard to stomach – there are plenty of reasons to support Corbyn, and even more reasons to despise May, but current UK politics strikes me as rifer with gray areas than its US counterpart).

I refuse to take seriously anyone who thinks a) Russia isn't that bad, the West is the sole vilain!; b) Corbyn's comments about English irony were not antisemitic; c) Brexit is ultimately a good thing as it is merely the first, necessary step towards utopia on a global scale.

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Bring back bethune

Um until this pending request is granted no other new borads

Are you in favor of creating an "I Love Big Butts" board?

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i don't know why i clicked on that exactly but just fyi, that is a NSFW link

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the only recorded incident of the beautiful word "zugzwanged" being used on ILX was on an ILE political thread, need I say any more?

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what a set

neither trump nor politics killed ilx

They never should have made trump a mod

I Love Tariffs

announcing tariff of ten fps on any poster also posting to twitter

Ilx should never have created twitter

(beats breast) mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

mine own most grievous

Who let mine dogs out

I do sometimes feel like the US Politics thread is too much of a giant clutter heap (and yes dominated by Trump), but that can be solved just by making other politics related threads? Like you could just start a Rolling US Non-Trump-Related Politics thread, or a Rolling US state and local politics thread, or a rolling congress/legislation thread or something?

just weighing in to say that i want you all to get yr own board, that way i dont have to write my ilx/lord of the flies fanfic

Like you could just start a Rolling US Non-Trump-Related Politics thread, or a Rolling US state and local politics thread, or a rolling congress/legislation thread or something?

You could!

nobody ever bumps the irish politics threads any more

you had a referendum, it's the end of history

sorry, forgot to change dn

septic tank indeed

I was going to use "humourless tankie miserablist" the other week, but its too much truth for me to handle!

I am septical about the EU but I've never been that into tanks tbh, except Panzer General is a quality game and doesn't have any of that awful political correctness gone mad like what pom worries about sometimes

mess liberales

propose I Love All Being For the Best in the Best of All Possible Worlds board

More doing less talking peeps

Can we get another more definitive poll going?

I Love Polls board

No way.

― I'm the wire monkey, not the soft monkey (Rock Hardy), Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:13 PM (nine years ago)

still otm

I feel politically homeless. I want about 90% of the UK political classes to be liquidated. But all I could find in the last Labour manifesto was boring stuff about bringing PFI's back in house, re-nationalising utilities and public transport, not being such dicks to the poor and disabled etc...

having a bunch of parallel US politics threads would be a drag - same articles getting posted/discussed in multiple places. the dem party direction one is distinct enough, because they're not in govt and don't drive most of the main politics news etc.

Yeah, I agree. I think the solution is for trump to not be president. He dominates us politics, therefore he dominates the us politics thread. This’ll work itself out.

famous last words

dammit hoos that was like my one hopeful moment in the last 25 years

It's like this and like that and like this and uh

So how do we actually get a politics board? I don't know the decision process for new boards. Do we need to do a new poll?

Amendment required. Needs ratification from 2/3rds of thread posters plus gabbnebb

Is there a real answer to this? The thread revive has convinced me it is a good idea.

not since the 69th amendment passed which states, and i quote: "Congress fhall make no Lawe in contradiction to the Notion of 'Fuck Gabbneb'" which the ilx board lawyers have interpreted to mean that we don't need his approval bc fuck gabbneb.

xp

xp the "real answer" is in the poll numbers above

So there needs to be a new poll?

sigh

Sigh, all you want, I'm doing it

this is gonna rule