please temp-ban Mordy from the Thatcher Is Dead thread

seriously, trolling people who are happy in an RIP thread is just as lame as trolling people who are sad in some other RIP thread.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/9b761fddbdc620c3b671fe657b2d8973/tumblr_mkr0fwAvNM1ru09vqo1_500.gif

we can't celebrate the death of a tyrant by curtailing somebody's right to take the piss

lol sleeve u are hilarious

Mordy you're a weirdly tiresome cock, sometimes tbh.

wow I'm about 10 hours late for this but FUCK YOU MORDY

― sleeve, Monday, April 8, 2013 8:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

( I am reading choice excerpts from this thread over live radio right now and unfortunately saw his posts when scrolling back)

― sleeve, Monday, April 8, 2013 8:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh

Ban mordy, he started to explain himself, woeful trolling

some kind of small prize for mordy imo, thread would have been v dull otherwise

want to know what this is about though

how funny would it be if after exerting all that self-control a few months ago and not starting the super awesome clusterfucky poll to end all clusterfucky polls i ended up getting FP'd from some light casual trolling on the Thatcher dead thread?

― Mordy, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 01:44 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't object to mordy's trolling, i object to mordy entering a thread that was not about mordy and making it all about mordy

super awesome clusterfucky poll to end all clusterfucky polls

are you talking about are the rolling hip-hop threads racist?

i don't know what he was talking about and he's done a *drops mic* so /:

i dont know when mordy adopted the sub-zizek discourse-trolling posting schtick but i feel like its going to pay huge dividends in '13

― max, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 20:42 (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't object to mordy's trolling, i object to mordy entering a thread that was not about mordy and making it all about mordy
This basically.

So a guy goes into a thread, announces that he's going to troll, proceeds to troll and you somehow managed to humour him.

As far as I know the thread wasn't about Mordy at all until a load of people who didn't understand what he was doing started jumping on him, and it's not about Mordy now.

I dont see how him announcing he's trolling gives him any kind of pass, frankly. It is irritating even more because it is overt!

(lol my SN seems like a follow on comment in context)

As far as I know the thread wasn't about Mordy at all until a load of people who didn't understand what he was doing started jumping on him, and it's not about Mordy now.

he did like 800 posts before he had even baited anyone iirc

if you can't troll the thatcher death thread then she's fuckin won

i just like the idea of sleeve reading ilx out over the radio then getting to mordys posts and getting SO MAD, thats trolling synergy right there

ilx: the radio show?

eh?

just a bit of fun, let's be cool

I'm here to defend Mordy. It's the rest of ILX that sucks!!

ooof he won't like that

damned with frog praise

nah it's cool. frogbs is my bro.

brogsf

mordy's keyboard dusted for frog prints

all of this is full-on amazing

a day that will live in infamy

Legacy costs

of all the clusterfucks i've participated in on ilx, this must be one of the least clusterfucky i think

aside from the vicious anti-semitism obv

lol darragh

nakh shared this quote w/ me about thatcher:

There had never been a cabinet with so many Jewish men - me, Michael Howard, Leon Brittan. I wondered why, and the conclusion I came to is not that she had a thing for Jews, but that she was one of those rare politicians without the faintest whiff of antisemitism.

Nakh being in Thatcher's cabinet does explain a lot

and i think , tbh, that the majority of the anti-thatcher sentiment on ilx might well have its root there as opposed to the policies that so many of them apologise for under nu-labour

Well you're the expert on British politics after all

i've got critical distance tbftm

Nowhere near enough distance if you ask me

jealous cos we managed the break in 1921 imo

You'd never guess

well we have a functioning labour party, it's true

we don't need to persistently sacrifice our butt comfort in the protection of a fake one, like

Guys, u r playing right into her trap

forks, how many SBs do i have???

OBJECTION YOUR HONOUR, the correct term is FPs

About 30

sustained, may counsel please reframe the question

wtf is even going on itt anymore i am going to troll it why dont britishes have any self respect is scotland the same thing as wales and irleand they are all part of england right

im basically the "not all theorists" guy on this thread, huh.

xp mordy- i'm not saying they're un-academic (although both suffer from a lack of sources) they just don't qualitatively resemble what i think of as theory in any way

pathetically, i've never read hooks, but she seems more of a "public intellectual"--which definitely has a different sense in the US now than, say, France in the late 60s.

I feel like activism could use a huge infusion of heteroglossia and deconstructionism- it's a bit too fixed in the way it speaks and thinks

Like the problem is really that it isn't critical theory enough

that post epitomizes 'armchair' lol

successful activists of the past did just fine without critical theory, no?

lenin was pretty sucesssful

this convo's a little too meta. what's a goal of activists that could be better achieved or conceived through more heteroglossia and deconstructionism?

Like the problem is really that it isn't critical theory enough

― Mordy, Friday, February 27, 2015 2:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please temp-ban Mordy from the please temp-ban Mordy from the Thatcher Is Dead thread

They might be able to build better coalitions I think and move away from a lot of the eating their own tailness

do you need critical theory to come to that conclusion? lots of people who haven't say exactly that all the time

Like the problem is really that it isn't critical theory enough

― Mordy, Friday, February 27, 2015 2:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please temp-ban Mordy from the please temp-ban Mordy from the Thatcher Is Dead thread

― lag∞n, Friday, February 27, 2015 2:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thread

They might be able to build better coalitions I think and move away from a lot of the eating their own tailness

― Mordy, Friday, February 27, 2015 7:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol tell that to slate

The only thing beautiful is uselessness

it might give a framework under which to open up the tent. All the dichotomies rigid ideologies and enemy lists just foment disunity.

not true lots of things are beautiful like a pretty girl or a mountain xp

Mountains are useless

The ocean is beautiful

My view is raze the academy. Destroy all language

Mountains are useless

― 龜, Friday, February 27, 2015 2:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um no

mountains trap atmospheric moisture as its passes by

it's interesting how the philosophical underpinning of a field can influence public perception. like economists seem like idiots because they're positivist so they make bold pronouncements that are completely wrong some time, while theorists seem like they're constantly evading attributing a fixed meaning to anything they write because they're poststructuralist or whatever

nagl "thread"ing yr own post lagoon

ok but like, are you gonna make a FOR HETEROGLOSSIA banner?

like, i've been trying to get people to re-read their Huey Newton for 10 years cause I thought their (at least on paper) confrontation of racism *and* capitalism *and* hetereo/sexism was just the kind of umbrella thinking that could be useful to bring people onto the same page but

who's gonna listen to hoos

wld like to point out i have been thread itt

i kinda hate how some ppl try to roll anti-capitalism into any discussion of anti-racism/feminism/etc. like obvs things ~interact~ and are not completely independent but your successor socialist utopia is still gonna be racist af if it just assumes that once we pull out the jenga piece of the profit motive all other oppressions will just fade away

the good thing about anti-capitalism is that [almost] everyone has a personal stake in it as a system. for the vast majority of ppl any given identity politics is not to have a personal stake for them, at best they can be allies.

is not going* to have

IDK man anti-capitalism is like anti-whiteness by default because of who benefits the most from capitalism, glad to hear you are anti-white ppl Mordy =)

i kinda hate how some ppl try to roll anti-capitalism into any discussion of anti-racism/feminism/etc. like obvs things ~interact~ and are not completely independent but your successor socialist utopia is still gonna be racist af if it just assumes that once we pull out the jenga piece of the profit motive all other oppressions will just fade away

― flopson, Friday, February 27, 2015 8:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

~intersectional namaste~

well i'm certainly not pro white ppl! fuck those guys imo.

but the pt is that even among WHITEZ, the vast majority do not benefit from capitalism

it's funny how you start having a discussion about whatever and before you know you're having theoretical debates about the priority of capitalism. it's not so much that anyone needs but it's already there and at work.

ppl are most smug about how capitalism is bad out of all the leftist twitter topics, like they have discovered a most beautiful secret, the thing they neglect to mention is that other things are bad too

xps ha left out the key word, "it's not that anyone needs theory..."

your successor socialist utopia is still gonna be racist af if it just assumes that once we pull out the jenga piece of the profit motive all other oppressions will just fade away

― flopson, Friday, February 27, 2015 8:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is exactly why black liberation politics and particularly the anticapitalism of the panthers & APOC groups is so essential to any useful analysis i think

imo the left will never obtain self knowledge until it faces the fact that socialism is the most #actually form of government ever theorized

lol

also that cries for justice are often just another way of expressing an affront to ones sensibilities

'there is no such thing as society' after all

― Mordy , Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:15 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mordy's keyboard dusted for frog prints

― rust in pieces (darraghmac), Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:20 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was pin on frog prince

pun, ffs

poster puns on 'prince'/'prints', posts 'pin'

this is one of my fave thread titles

This revive is a gift.

Dig up Thatcher and force May to drink her.

— Ａ ＣＨＲＩＳＴＭＡＳ ＢＯＹ (@NightmareModeGo) December 22, 2017

Fred I missed that but kudos

I was gonna say, this thread title is wonderful

its really the baby shoes never worn of ilx

the o.g. version: The Locking of the Avril Thread