it’s all so utterly fucking depressing
― scanner darkly, Friday, 25 February 2022 06:39 (two years ago) link
thanks
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 25 February 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
hey Andy go fuck yourself, you imperialist pig
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 25 February 2022 22:49 (two years ago) link
it's an outrage that calz and Comrade Alphabet have been banned and VHS gets to continue to spout hateful nonsense 24/7
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 25 February 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link
I did make that point in admin log, but fellow ilxors apparently find that entirely acceptable. Why not turn the whole site into a traitor hunt, that’ll do wonders for engagement
― mardheamac (gyac), Friday, 25 February 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link
Look can we just leave politics out of it?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 25 February 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
I don’t go around thread insulting and attacking people tbf, I just happen to not think exactly like some very leftist ilxors do, if you consider not being part of your very niche mode of thinking to be ‘hateful’ then that’s between you and your conscience.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 25 February 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-nationalism-and-religion-explain-why-poland-doesnt-want-refugees/
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-prepares-refugees-ukraine-war-russia/
hmmmmmm
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 25 February 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
vulgarity > nonstop passive aggressive pants shitting
― ✖, Saturday, 26 February 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
posts one disagrees with > posts calling anyone one disagrees with a cunt
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 February 2022 03:03 (two years ago) link
i disagree you cunt
― ✖, Saturday, 26 February 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
only something a cunt would say tbf xp lol
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Saturday, 26 February 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
;_;
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 February 2022 03:15 (two years ago) link
<3
― ✖, Saturday, 26 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
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― sarahell, Saturday, 26 February 2022 03:20 (two years ago) link
really, links about post-WWII reprisals?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 02:57 (two years ago) link
we're like a week away from some people pulling out the skull calipers
you'd think so, and yet
― i don't even own a bestseller (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 March 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
I can’t imagine a worse combination for something disastrous than uninformed people + panicking + constant meaningless updates and yet Ukraine thread has gone the way of the covid threads, good work everyone.
― mardheamac (gyac), Friday, 4 March 2022 12:55 (two years ago) link
i started getting the daily paper again a couple years ago and i gotta say, reading a whole bunch of news once a day is 10000x better for my mental & emotional health than paying attention to everything in the entire world all day long
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 4 March 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
I hear the nuclear power plant grew legs and is currently marching on Tokyo
― imago, Friday, 4 March 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
OEO, yes, I think I personally was better off when "the news" meant the thump of the newspaper on my doorstep.
Nothing was really real until I read it in the paper. And things that happened after the paper went to press didn't reach me until the next day's doorstep-thump. Never watched TV news and probably never will
I can't say that this is an ethical position, and am not claiming any kind of moral superiority to consuming the news in that way. But given that I can't even begin to fix my own state, there's no way that my constant awareness of events will positively affect my nation or my world.
Hence, being updated constantly cannot plausibly be presented to me as an unalloyed moral good. The people of Ukraine (or Syria, or East Timor) are not aided in any way by my agony over their plight.
― squid pro quo (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 March 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 March 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
btw doomscrollers actually came up w/ a term to hate on people who share optimism that they don't - they call it "hopium" and ironically think this is a zing.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 March 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
broadcast news has been a net negative for the world
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
I'm sure you'll figure it out.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 4 March 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
*Reading about nuclear war in my newspaper 12 hours after it started over my morning coffee and bowl of Cornflakes*
Sounds bad..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
Snap, crackle and pop indeed.
― Resident Papist (Tom D.), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
they're after me nuclear arms
― rob, Friday, 4 March 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
lol
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link
muesli assured destruction
― wins, Friday, 4 March 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
omg
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link
Kid tested. Mother Russia approved.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
oops, all nukes!
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
― wins, Friday, March 4, 2022 12:12 PM (two hours ago)
the breakfast of champions!
― sarahell, Friday, 4 March 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link
I hope the Russians love their Cheerios too
― squid pro quo (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 March 2022 22:18 (two years ago) link
― Resident Papist (Tom D.), Friday, March 4, 2022 3:07 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
non-proliferation treats
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 March 2022 22:18 (two years ago) link
It's really no worse than praising them for the opposite.
Meh, seems like projection.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 6 March 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
The thread will survive without people posting tweets from every dickhead they see on Twitter, I promise you.
― mardheamac (gyac), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link
See if I came from a country that was profiting from misery and devastation to Yemeni people, I would probably not take such a smug and tasteless attitude to the idea of peace…and yet…
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
Alas the double posts are my own fault, ty weird GET error
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
all of these thoughts are expressed with more nuance and extrapolation in ShariVari's post. why can't we just leave it there, and save the chest-beating for our posts about Skinny Puppy?
― pickle loaf (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
Tell that to everyone who can’t stop posting in that thread
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
i am trying to here!
― pickle loaf (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
is there a specific SV post you're talking about? I would like to read it
― rob, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
Lol fair enough.
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
The risk isn’t really a future land grab, imo, it’s that any settlement along those lines would necessarily require Russia to exercise a measure of control over all future Ukrainian governments, either through some kind of electoral mechanism similar to Lebanon or Bosnia where power will, constitutionally, always be split between factions (with Russia controlling one of the factions) or through an overt threat of war any time a Ukrainian government did anything considered to be against the spirit of the negotiated peace. Neither of those things would lead to any form of domestic stability.Zelenskiy needs a plausible peace he can sell domestically or Ukraine would have to move to something close to the Belarus model of no real democracy and enormous internal repression.― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, March 8, 2022 10:30 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Zelenskiy needs a plausible peace he can sell domestically or Ukraine would have to move to something close to the Belarus model of no real democracy and enormous internal repression.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, March 8, 2022 10:30 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
xp I thought this post contained all of the content of the various sarcastic "I'm sure Russia won't just invade us again!" posts and so much more. but gyac is correct that it's a theme throughout the thread.
― pickle loaf (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
ah thank you, I thought you meant a SV post about the azov batallion (a peril of this thread), but yeah gyac otm
― rob, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
Not an assumption I’d feel safe making given that a) I’ve read your politics threads and b) the sheer amount of horror over thermobaric bombs. Which are not new and iirc were sold by the US to the Saudis to Yemen. Yet the direction of the mouthiest contributors to that thread is that it’s all basically a Marvel film and why not get your zings in against people who are in horror, idk!
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link