truth bombs

hire foreigners to fight isis with the promise of future citizenship and we can complete the transition to the roman empire right now

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:52 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we already hire foreigners to fight ISIS and we didn't even need to promise them citizenship

― Mordy, Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:54 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

re: pazz and jop

the conversation

2012: "maybe don't vote in this, guys"
2013: "don't fucking vote in this, you amoral fucks"
2014: "if you vote in this or give it any attention you are literally satan"
2015: "why is no one talking about this???"

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine)

i know they dont deserve much sympathy but it's upsetting when people in evident pain decide to double down on tactics which are guaranteed in the long wrong to make them that much lonelier, sadder, dissatisfied.

― ryan, Thursday, January 21, 2016 9:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I really feel that one

:(

So I should maybe come up with a different new years resolution is what you're saying.

also wow @ 'long wrong'

maura otm but what I'm trying to say also is that it's also reshaping those genres which are ostensibly in the center of the conversation by warping what is valued w/in them. this isn't like pre-poptimism where we bemoan that popular stuff is popular or that our tastes are so different from the mainstream; it's more that the Conversation is driven by memes, not music; that what is shared isn't necessarily even what the general public likes as music but what it likes to share and to participate in as a part of this social media 'culture'

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, March 11, 2016 7:06 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

quoted for extradisciplinary applicability

as someone who has def trolled in the past, I can def say that trolling is like a "gallows humor coping mechanism" for life.

― Dave Coolaid for Sade (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 25, 2011 7:48 AM (4 years ago)

This is something I've been thinking about for a while, because some political bloggers I read with relative frequency are absolutely fixated on what the New York Times stable of editorial writers have to say about the campaign, and I keep thinking, who gives a fuck what Maureen Dowd thinks about anything?

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, May 9, 2016 8:39 PM

u cant hate someone just cuz theyr pritty and succesfull it can b hard sumtimes but u just hav 2 b happy wiv urself and concentrate on urself and feel happy for people who have done well 4 themselves and try not 2 b jelouse of others coz its not going 2 make u any better by puting other people down its just a waste of ur time and effort bsides i dont think she is all that but i can understand y sum people do but if u want 2 hate her for something then a good 1 wud b bcuz the cruel cow wears fur!lol :)

― lowrimai, Saturday, March 31, 2007 2:11 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn emails

― j., Wednesday, August 10, 2016 2:45 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Phelps is really just the female Ledecky imo

― Van Horn Street, Friday, August 12, 2016

huh

man this thread makes me sad: I don't know whether I could imagine approaching that specific modality of enthusiasm ever again

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 13 August 2016 16:14 Bookmark

'Where were you on 9/11' stories are a lot like dream accounts, or stories about kids; everyone wants to tell them, but nobody wants to listen to them.

― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, September 14, 2016 9:03 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

truther bomb

kid stories can't melt my steel heart

steel heart, not worth a thing, iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvj6zdWLUuk

the only time i ever went to barcelona i met a french girl on the train there and she was cuet and maybe kinda into me? and she found out i was american and it was right after 9/11 and i bored her and her friends to tears with my heartfelt account of like, where i was and what i did and i could see the enthusiasm visibly draining away and then the train got to the station and she was like 'ok see ya bye'

and that was when you angrily drafted the policy memo that was the genesis of "Freedom Fries"

this is a terrible list

― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:14 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, but that's because it's made out of the records most ilxors liked

― niels, Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:17 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Banned. I'll delete the posts later.

― how's life, Monday, September 19, 2016 3:41 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel this is the logical extension of my arc

― imago, Monday, September 19, 2016 3:41 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;_________________;

hahahahaha

lmao

My poor thread

superseded by schaduwkabinet

You guys really are better off if you banned me.

― larry appleton, Sunday, December 25, 2016 10:26 AM (one hour ago)

in my experience calling a girl annoying is guy for "im gonna try and fuck that chick". its an instant break up in my book.
-- sunny successor, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 1:47 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― and what, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 12:27 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

female equivalent of this is calling a guy "mean"

an authoritarian populist leading a radical-capitalist party to victory by promising violent national regeneration to a coalition of the market-ravaged white lower middle class, affluent racists, and (eventually) the owners of the economy's commanding heights is an affirmation of a well-functioning democracy in exactly the same way a tingle in the arm followed by numbness and facefirst collapse into your food is an affirmation of a well-functioning heart

no argument about the dnc

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, January 5, 2017 11:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Underworld music sounds like youtube highlights video of a footballer

― saer, Monday, January 23, 2017 5:59 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if it was made by the BBC

― saer, Monday, January 23, 2017 5:59 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people posting about fresh tuna steaks on a thread about tuna fish sandwiches is like going on a thread about eating shit and being like "I love shit, but I eat it in the form of food that hasn't yet been digested and converted into waste"

― na (NA), Thursday, February 16, 2017 10:32 AM (one hour ago)

none of these people seem at all cool -- I feel legitimately cooler having been ignorant of their existence
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:59 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also <3

solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of ILX

Approved

social media apps make the people you should be closest to be less close to you, and the people you forgot existed from twenty years ago closer than they should be.

― nomar, Friday, May 12, 2017 7:43 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nice!

otm

More like antisocial media, amirite

this is imo trenchant social commentary

im sorry thats just how i feel

otm

http://positivetruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/facebook-junkie.jpg

well that's just plain impractical

My gf is Costa Rican, and without social media apps our relationship wouldn't have worked at all, so I don't agree with that.

social media apps make the people you should be closest to be less close to you, and the people you forgot existed from twenty years ago closer than they should be.

― nomar, Friday, May 12, 2017 7:43 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heard this exact same thing more or less in a Douglas Rushkoff interview the other day

i haven't heard from that guy in a while. where was the interview?

Also, for many people whose "closest" may judge them for one reason or other (such as gay or trans teens in oppressive environments), social media can be essential in establishing relations with people who don't.

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