Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post on the "Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here" thread - put them here

^full of surprises for 17 years

I do, and it’s been fairly obvious concern trolling for a while now...

im not touching that, and have tbh studiously not been touching it since this began (appropriately enough)

Glad there’s a positive to all this suffering!

^^^forgive me for reading the previous two posts in tandem, and in isolation

All posts should be read in isolation just to be safe

three feet distance between posts

Actual number of ILXors: non-lurkers multiplied by 27.

ban rate - 1%

Still higher than the seasonal flu's mortality rate tbf.

moratorium on bans?

nope, moratorium on posting. only essential posters can post

we really need a thread to determine who essential posters are

We already have one. Behind its Care Bear-ish veneer, it's the most brutal thread on ILX.

Rolling Jazz Thread is actually where we talk shit about you.

thread continuing to cover itself in glory I see

Berniebros just don't care about black voters (I supported Warren btw).

That’s a great look when there’s a lot of looking the other way at Biden’s sexual assault allegations. Truly, I beg, please continue.

did he die yet or what?

Captain Obvious on the good ship Pedant

I never called it krautrock! lol anyway try this one, same kinda style but came out more adventurous https://pimm.bandcamp.com/track/gh4k

will give that a listen. obv your track banged v hard

Small business owner hate = crypto-racism

i was very close to bringing up that "awkward fact" on the actual thread ...

like i literally was just thinking about small businesses and how so many owners are POC and immigrant POC

Everywhere in the world is America.

#onecountrythread

Also, Sund4r otm.

But, yes, it's another American thread, the rest of us best keep away.

I don't think POC-owned small businesses are unknown in the UK?

https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/gla_migrate_files_destination/asian_business_conference_report_3.pdf ?

I know.

Ha, just realized you were prob second-thoughting something.

I wasn't! I get what you're saying by the way about a lot of small business owners being POC, it's a good point, in the UK traditionally a lot of family run shops in particular.

ok i'll bite. i think that the bootstraps narrative / ideology that america upholds creates this situation where immigrants to america are often more american in ideology / identity than americans themselves. that's probably way too big of a statement. anyway my extremely limited experience with immigrants is that they tend to be driven in that bootstraps-y way. i mean just to get here basically demands that they be. which isn't incompatible with small business owner mentalities. i just don't trust that kind of personality / thinking. but i also don't think it's racist not to.

Everyone in the Guardian thread is busy discussing the horrible Tory restaurant owner who is basically your stereotype of the “nation of shopkeepers” writ large. Yeats wrote about shopkeepers fumbling in their greasy tills by candlelight in Ireland, where I’m from, as illustrative of a particular mentality (conservative, mean, unconcerned with the wider world) that still exists at home, and Marx wrote about the petit bourgeois and how their precarious status led to this kind of behaviour...but yes, people must have meant poc businesses.

That post of mine in full, please feel free to dissect it line by line with the same diligence given to *checks notes* ...wolf erotica?

lol I come from a long line of small business owners and I’m dying at the thought of stanning for them as a class?! Like I’ve worked for other small businesses and they absolutely do play the “sorry we can’t pay you more” tune while squeezing you for everything you’re worth...there’s no noble way to do wage theft.

there is the hate towards the budding Charlie Mullins stereotype of the small business owner in the UK. White tradesmen with tribal tattoos, not very bright but have strong opinions on immigration and the over-generous welfare state and think Thatcherism was great despite knowing nothing about Thatcherism. Which is a distinctly different sort of hate from the crypto-fash version sund4r is posting about.

Well insofar as they picked (with all the obvious caveats that word implies) the US over other countries, they were drawn to its purported values in the first place, whereas for most Americans it's a 'born, never asked'-type scenario. Ime Romanians who move to the US (and, frankly, Canada) are generally more entrepreneurial and goal-oriented than Romanians who emigrate to Western Europe. See also: French expats in English-speaking countries who loathe 'socialist' and 'bad-for-business' France with a passion.

2xp to map

i am pretty sure even recent yearly stats show US small business owners are still way majority white/male. Don't know about tribal tattoos.

it's interesting mentioning yeats in light of his own politics possibly affirming sund4r's contention that anti-business sentiment might be linked to feelings of bigotry

https://i.imgur.com/VDmBw2i.png

i'm agnostic on the question fwiw but it did strike me as an interesting wrinkle

Whereas, of course, the weirdly personal and repetitive nature of attacks on silby’s posts (which mine was a reply to) is completely above board and passes without comment.

it's interesting mentioning yeats in light of his own politics possibly affirming sund4r's contention that anti-business sentiment might be linked to feelings of bigotry

https://i.imgur.com/VDmBw2i.png

― Mordy, Thursday, July 9, 2020 2:04 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

very flimsy.

xp - uh, gyac, your post is verging on concern trolling tbh -- i have interacted with silby on numerous threads outside of that one -- they have a shtick and a very open agenda/manifesto re politics. They know they do. Ogmor alluded to it, though disagreed with my response to it. It's a game. It's a persona. It would be a very different dynamic if I had posted personal criticism in response to a post that was personal in nature -- like someone sharing their actual experiences and being "vulnerable".

did you miss the day where silby was banned for repeatedly hurling abuse at Sanpaku in the outbreak thread every time he posted? granted....I understand it in that Sanpaku brings a lot of it on himself with the constant sharing of dubious information in the outbreak thread, so it's not like I'm a Sanpaku stan, but...silby isn't someone that's just collecting friendly fire. i don't dislike silby but you keep refusing to accept that there is a prior history that plays some of the beefing here that you just weren't privy to, instead suggesting it just doesn't exist and sarahell is just randomly picking on them.

for example, you and map and LL and a handful of others expressed your criticism of "small business owners" by talking about actual experiences you had, and mh brought up actual issues that are problematic ... I see those types of responses as good faith discussion, and I try not to get nasty in disagreeing with posters who are discussing things honestly and respectfully in good faith. silby wasn't doing that. if you can't see that difference or if that doesn't make a difference to you in how you respond to posters: like, it's a matter of whether someone is on your side or not vs. how they present themselves/their argument ... then idk ... we just don't ilx the same way.

i mean, at one point a few years ago a poster's significant other "forced" him to post that i was a nasty bitch because I made memes about his florid language and pastoral horse paintings ... so ... I have had plenty of shit hurled at me on this board over the years, and it takes a lot more to hurt me, than what you are accusing me of atm.

this argument is metastasizing i see

don't look at me!

his florid language and pastoral horse paintings

lol I have no idea who this is but it sounds awesome.

was thinking the same thing

It isn't silby?