Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

Tabes, I'm sorry for using that term.

You should not have written a dumb-as-hell statement in a forum that except in a Al Green thread is not known for unequivocal celebrations.

You often post as if you were the only white guy who's read a few books on foreign policy.

It would be helpful if some of the genuine leftists around here worked up a crib sheet of real political issues and the accepted way to express our infinite disgust concerning each one. It could probably be credit card sized if you used both sides.

thought the approved alternative term was "performatively woke" - only "woke" has been stolen by the shitheads now I guess.

i am here as a fan of parades, marching bands and waving-to-crowds

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 21:05 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh great now VG is outing herself as a fucking orangeman

milo that's cute of you to use quotes, but yes this anarchist is drinking a mimosa and feeling pretty good that probably less friends of friends of mine are going to be murdered by Nazis now, fuck you.

"Why aren't you accepting of alternate viewpoints????" yell thirty people ganging up on one person who expressed dissent.

you are a fucking racist

I'm sorry to interrupt but why was joe sworn in with the fucking Necronomicon

lol jeez dmac

not THOSE parades?

It's an entirely racist way to make the point and you should do a lot of soul-searching about how easy it was for you to do it.

I'm sorry to interrupt but why was joe sworn in with the fucking Necronomicon

https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-01-2015/KWjZH-.gif

Biden: Yes, yes, feel the Unity flow through you!

http://media.giphy.com/media/3oKIPzLXQYb2Bn5PLG/giphy.gif

finally, the Satanism I was promised

if only morbs could have been here for this thread

nerdy footnote: Bidens inauguration bible has been in his family for 183 years and has all his swearing-in dates inscribed in it + Beau’s AG Delaware swearing-in as well

Happy days!

what was he sworn into 183 years ago?

mean...when you come into a thread accusing the thread participants of collectively being imperialists, knowing full well at least two posters (but probably many more) are PoC who are relieved to see the end of the previous administration...idk, do you expect a great reaction from that? It kind of invites "are you REALLY left-wing enough?" and is itself a 'purity test'.

I like table, but I understand why DJP and Alfred responded the way they did, and I don't exactly consider either of them to be John Kerry politically.

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal),

otm -- this is it

xpost I like the nerdy footnote. I don't imagine Trump owns a bible, probably had to borrow that copy for his gas-the-kids march

he doesn't have a Bible, he has a Bumble account

Biden doing a tiny bit of old-man Mandelbaum jogging during the parade was funny.

love all the people yelling "how does it feel to be President?".

what's he gonna say "it fuckin' sucks, I hate it, and it shouldn't exist!"

Bidens secret service detail have got their work cut out for them re his detours to chat with all of humanity lol

"Biden! Packers or Bucs?"

"Let's go old school - Packers!"

"Thanks Joe!"

"Are the Cardinals still in St Louis?"

"No, they're in Arizona now!"

Maybe it would facilitate discussion if we could have an automatic script pop up on any politics post that says "STIPULATED: Joe Biden is a corporate whore who actively hates poor people and grinds their bones to make his bread."

Then whatever came after it could maybe be discussed on its own merits.

Genuinely shocked at that gyac post.

just assume everyone knows this & is posting anyway xpost

Apparently we can't assume it, we have to say it every time we open our mouths or we're cheering for empire.

Lol I have no issues with Biden's family bible, just thought instantly of the Harry Potter man eating book when I saw those massive straps holding it shut.

Such a joy to click on a news story and read "former president Donald Trump"

I'm actually writing a story for tomorrow and got to use that phrase, I enjoyed it.

Empire sucks, Mindcrime was better

"former hotel owner and occasional politician, Donald Trump"

Maybe it would facilitate discussion if we could have an automatic script pop up on any politics post that says "STIPULATED: Joe Biden is a corporate whore who actively hates poor people and grinds their bones to make his bread."

Then whatever came after it could maybe be discussed on its own merits.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 4:26 PM (thirteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

The left won't agree with Biden's autocratic scripts.

If everyone's on the same page to start with, the level of outrage when a negative viewpoint is expressed seems unwarranted.

Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?

*punches* "No!"

No because it usually takes the form of some kind of lefter-than-thou posture. The reason Alfred reacted the way he did wasn't because of the utterly banal observation that ceremonial American pageantry provides window dressing for a litany of past and present horrors, but the inherent accusation that people "itt" were lapping that shit up like good lil goose-steppers.

Otm

idk y'all let's just shut it down

posting was a nice experiment but I think it's run its course

a dude comes in your house to play Atari. the only game you have is E.T.

It's awful and you and your friend hate playing it. But your mother is picking up the only game that is being carried at the local Pic 'n Save, Pole Position.

you're thrilled that it's a better game to play, but your friend points out that the game sucks. you laugh - yeah it kinda does. he repeats it. you laugh again. he repeats it five minutes later, even as you're both screaming at the TV cos CIA guy got you....again, or you got stuck at the bottom of a well and couldn't do the throat-expansion escape properly.

both of you begin to hate your existence - you don't want to play this shitty game, but you don't want to go OUTSIDE because that's boring ,and besides there are a lot of ET fans out there who don't like what you've been saying about the game, and are waiting to beat you up, so you keep playing it, dreaming of when the mediocre Pole Position will arrive. your friend keeps pointing out how C- that game is and how it's probably a waste of time, but you're starting to get annoyed now, because you know it's not a great game, but you are dying to play something that isn't fucking ET.

finally you let out a primal scream after you die again on ET and you destroy the game until there are shards of plastic wedged into all of your fingers and thumb and you are bleeding on the carpet, and your mom walks in, unfazed because this happens every Tuesday, and she has Pole Position. and you put it on and are feeling so much better that you don't have to play ET again, but your friend immediately starts harping on what a crap game Pole Position is and chastises you for moments of levity during the game.

Quiz question - why did u murder your friend? a "difference of opinion"?

No one was singled out, no specific references were made - so why would anyone not taking part assume the statement refers to them?

The "leftier than thou posture" is the usual excuse for ganging up here, but I've yet to see where anyone has called Biden celebrants (or Obama celebrants or etc.) bad people or anything of the like. It's more like just seeing "leftier" viewpoints is offensive in and of itself.

what is "going outside" in this metaphor? xp

it's not so much a metaphor as a story that got out of hand

ok, so, new thread tomorrow, now that we just blew up this one?

*opens and pokes head in door*

It's a good day, everyone! uh... *looks around*

Think I'm going to go back to ILM and finalize my EOY lists.

*closes door*

When did 'leftist' start meaning 'has difficulty with reading comprehension'

Neanderthal, I really enjoyed that

Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?

In actually important news...

Biden Moves To Oust Top Labor Board Attorney Peter Robb

The Biden administration has asked for the resignation of the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel, Trump-appointee Peter Robb, according to four people familiar with the decision.

The White House notified Robb of its decision by letter, which specified he had until 5 p.m. Wednesday to voluntarily resign or be fired, two people with knowledge of the correspondence said.

The NLRB enforces private-sector workers’ rights to organize, and its general counsel has sweeping authority to determine which types of cases the agency does or doesn’t pursue. Robb, a former management-side attorney who helped Ronald Reagan defeat the air traffic controller’s union, has pushed an aggressive, pro-business agenda at the labor board.

His term is slated to last until this coming November, but unions, including the Service Employees International Union and Communications Workers of America, have been urging Biden to break with precedent by forcing him out immediately, in order to begin reorienting the agency toward protecting workers.