Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

Trump's done a much better job of curtailing my posting than that particular poster did.

wins and gyac otm.

I wish the rest of the world could afford not to give a fuck about your shitty politics, but you are an imperialist superpower. I obviously harbour no ill will towards American ILXors – on the contrary, I'm rooting for y'all, and wishing you all the best – but not being pissed at the US proper is a tall order, even if you're not from there.

I'll be honest: I'm more nervous as a casual Raptors fan posting in I Love Hoops--those guys are hardcore.

well sport is more seriouser than politics tbf

(Now picturing some random Cassius going 'man, I really wish those Phoenicians would stop chiming in with their horrendous takes on the Roman Senate'.)

Lol pom there’s a great bit in Rome where all these Gauls are made Senators by Caesar and the patricians like Cato are absolutely infuriated at all the hairy foreigners trooping in

I wish the rest of the world could afford not to give a fuck about your shitty politics,

I mean I think we all wish the same, nobody is asking that anyone not give a shit about this mess. I think I should bow out on this one because I have no beef with anything anybody's saying here, only w/r/t to Fred that he wasn't an insufferable trolling prick on the politics threads

xp Claudius was zinged for this irl iirc

Caesar gets zinged for it, among other things, in the show with a load of knives

Haha, how fucking dare they. I mean, it's not like the ever-encroaching Empire affects them or anything.

xps

"Italy," it was asserted, "is not so feeble as to be unable to furnish its own capital with a senate. Once our native-born citizens sufficed for peoples of our own kin, and we are by no means dissatisfied with the Rome of the past. To this day we cite examples, which under our old customs the Roman character exhibited as to valour and renown. Is it a small thing that Veneti and Insubres have already burst into the Senate-house, unless a mob of foreigners, a troop of captives, so to say, is now forced upon us? What distinctions will be left for the remnants of our noble houses, or for any impoverished senators from Latium? Every place will be crowded with these millionaires, whose ancestors of the second and third generations at the head of hostile tribes destroyed our armies with fire and sword, and actually besieged the divine Julius at Alesia. These are recent memories. What if there were to rise up the remembrance of those who fell in Rome's citadel and at her altar by the hands of these same barbarians! Let them enjoy indeed the title of citizens, but let them not vulgarise the distinctions of the Senate and the honours of office."

It’s not being foreign that seems to be an issue, it’s the “can’t believe you’re all too stupid to see this” attitude that gets people FP’d into oblivion

the only person that was done to who moved to canada was a sock/troll who was posting like a 17 year old and saying things like "i don't care though, i live in canada," which i think invites some maltreatment

xp this has already been addressed by several people!

The emperor's response to that proto-fascist bit is quite fascinating, and considerably more progressive than anything that's ever come out of Donnie Trump's mouth.

For the curious: http://www.yorku.ca/pswarney/Texts/annales-11-23-25.htm

3xp

it's largely unknowable and Robert Graves hasn't helped the picture but Claudius seems to have been a good egg, for an Emperor

It’s not being foreign that seems to be an issue, it’s the “can’t believe you’re all too stupid to see this” attitude that gets people FP’d into oblivion

This is mostly true. I can think of specific instances where posters (whom I otherwise like) told non-US posters who aren't Fred to stay out of the US politics threads.

I can too, I think it’s mostly resorting to ad hominem because a real argument would be uncomfortable/take too long to type

That makes it worse, though?

I think it's hard for Americans to grok just how much of an indelible mark their political squabbles leave on other countries, and I'm not just talking about obvious examples like Irak.

Most posters should stay out of US politics threads. Including Americans.

A sensible take tbh.

2xp Iraq, rather.

it’s more tone than content and just not being a dick? not complicated

that was unreadable, plz ingore

That makes it worse, though?

Far be it from me to suggest that “oh yeah well you’re a foreigner” being the ad hominem to which ppl automatically resort says something about the tenor of the country thread, but

God I'd love a pplains roundup of daily UK news

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, December 20, 2017 5:32 PM

And then he left in to the good night.

I know I’ve been a total dick on these boards so I shouldn’t even be talking. I’m sorry all. I appreciate you. Over and out.

You haven't been a total dick. Yr good peeps

I just want to know who is the new Fred?

Probably beamish13

All of us. We are all the new Fred B.

I'm not

That's such a Fred thing to say.

We're all Flintstones kids

Tbh I miss Fred's contributions to the classical music threads.

Someone should draw up a metric for how much rape apologism is acceptable relative to the poster’s other good posts so we don’t have to do this every time.

the odd thing about Fred in this whole thing is that he was always working overtime apologizing for some of the shittiest Americans most responsible for policies impacting the rest of the world. He spent a million words admonishing those of us who have to live in this shithole against advocating too strongly for real change.

At least, after 2x 51 bannings, Fred got the message (so far). There was one weird post on the mubi thread so I don't discount the prick coming back for another round.

I’m sure he misses you most

Someone should draw up a metric for how much rape apologism is acceptable relative to the poster’s other good posts so we don’t have to do this every time.

― scampo italiano (gyac), Sunday, September 20, 2020 12:28 PM (thirteen minutes ago)

otm!

oh, i am totally one of those posters that gets annoyed at posters in canada but that is by coincidence. there were just a couple of instances of them posting the same stuff 10 times a day, o'er multiple days. I got annoyed, who cares. We should all be banned.

I got annoyed, who cares. We should all be banned.

New board description plz.

Co-sign

Permaban the internet

-Childish Gambino

boomer opinion

don't think this thread has made a convincing case for why Fred should have been banned

sorry we didn't arbitrarily spend all weekend combing two-three years of data in 24 hours time to put together an Exhibit A for you

(ulysses asked for some examples because he was genuinely curious - he didn't ask us to put together a legal brief)