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

xp tbh I think if it’s your own group then gallows humour is not only fine but acceptable, I couldn’t tell you the number of jokes about the famine I’ve made that I would consider deeply awful for idk a British person to make.

That's fair, table, I'm not trying to exculpate unperson here. He knows exactly what he's doing and the aim was to get a rise out of you, presumably because he finds little value in radical idealism.

3xp

Honestly nothing more of a boring edgelord opinion than racist joke -> it’s just a joke > fucking humourless lefties > why can’t you take a joke it’s not like my ancestors killed them or anything

thanks pom. and gyac, i agree with you, tbh!

The thing is, even if you performatively want to piss off another ILXor because you think they're a snowflake or whatever alt-right-adjacent buzzword you can think of, there are other, considerably less fraught ways of doing it.

If you're already operating from that headspace, your capacity for nuance might be shooting sparks.

yeah he came into this "joke" from my favorite (most hated) centrist line of thinking that we should just not let people in red states vote bc they're too dumb or something, haha that'll learn 'em

give me some Jimmy Smith over this fucking monochrome tinny art-school dross any day of the week!

wow that's a novel Prince diss

i don't want to assume unperson's ethnic background, but

when u know the original post was *fire emoji*

**For the humorless leftier-than-thous in the room: all of this is jokes.**

^^^^ this is such a cop out and basically an admission that you have a really sad and pathetic sense of humor

“If you’re offended, first of all you’re not really offended, and also you don’t have a sense of humor”

I would just like to apologize by saying: don't be such a snowflake.

it was a rightier-than-thou post

_i don't want to assume unperson's ethnic background, but_


when u know the original post was *fire emoji*

Even though I am personally minorly harmed by the SALT cap, being in a high-tax blue state, there's really not that much justification for eliminating it other than a giveaway to donors tbh.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:21 PM (one week ago)

Because the SALT cap was politically punitive and legally unfair in terms of the logic of the tax code? Granted it isn't as ridiculously unfair as the marriage penalty vis a vis student loan interest, the fact the maximum deduction for student loan interest hasn't gone up in 20 years, and the absurdly low maximum pre-tax deduction for dependent care ... but if you think about the fact that the SALT cap doesn't affect business entities and only individual taxpayers, and think about who the donors _are_ ...your post just seems like it's missing important things.

I tried my hardest but just couldn’t enjoy Sterling any more after he went to Chelsea.

my love language

I kinda feel that way about Morrissey's "National Front Disco" ... and some of the other "Your Arsenal" songs tbh, though I am American so

this is the last thread on earth to be smug about anything in imo

I don't want to enter the actual thread given its current negativity but oh my god I am pissing myself at NYCNative taking fgti's "I was in Gay Dad" comment seriously.

Lol

Yeah what happened in that thread? I read the first few posts and then scrolled down and felt like I'd gone through a wormhole

I was gonna correct him, but...ehh, it's Friday night. Let it lie.

To be honest it's a much better thread than I thought it was going to be (the potential for abuse apologism was high but seems to have been mostly avoided). But it got horribly personal and I don't want to step into that.

The main point though is lol lol lol lol

^ otm

ps to tabes, Branwell and fgti are both longtime ilx0rs who have changed display names (and IRL artistic pseudonyms), flambo is a working musician who was not the drummer in Gay Dad (& is not English)

I was going to make an effort to follow that thread but then that happened. Both of those posters can be quite interesting but perhaps a bit volatile, to say the least.

God will someone, perhaps Sarahell, just message me who these people with the new display names might be? I've been here 06, started taking longer breaks in 2011, cut it out most by 2012...and then came back seven years later.

It's a weird feeling to feel like an old hand and a noob at the same time.

If any thread should be locked..

emil.y, that made me go and read the whole thread. Great thread actually. but yeah, loool

Amazing turn of events in that thread! :-) Not Branwell making it about themselves again, but the Gay Dad 'J'accuse!' from NYCNative is just chefskiss.jpg

Dude, this is the third time in a few weeks that you have made a similar comment and I am starting to find this creepy.

Did it occur to you, that if someone on this board is weirdly obsessed with making things ~all about Branwell~, it might not actually be Branwell?

But then again...

That thread was *about* people's own experiences, personal relationships to art and where people's own "lines" are drawn. It's gonna have posts that are about the people posting them.
WW2 post was interesting btw, not something I'd explicitly thought about before.

This is a perennial post asking posters to refrain from applying larger pathologies to Branwell's posts-- even as someone who felt as if a line was crossed in their recent discourse and (gently, I hope) sought to establish a boundary, I value Branwell's contributions here and feel that they are subject to far more armchair psychology than any other regular poster

Surprised to read that I'm considered volatile, to say the least!

This is a perennial post asking posters to refrain from applying larger pathologies to Branwell's posts-- even as someone who felt as if a line was crossed in their recent discourse and (gently, I hope) sought to establish a boundary, I value Branwell's contributions here and feel that they are subject to far more armchair psychology than any other regular poster

As someone who has had some WTF-ish exchanges with Branwell in the past, I agree with this 100%.

Likewise

Not a standard they themselves apply to others, of course.

Yes, this would be more acceptable if all people involved would be willing to dial back the psychological and critical analysis of other people's posts.

This is a perennial post asking posters to refrain from applying larger pathologies to Branwell's posts-- even as someone who felt as if a line was crossed in their recent discourse and (gently, I hope) sought to establish a boundary, I value Branwell's contributions here and feel that they are subject to far more armchair psychology than any other regular poster

As someone who has had some WTF-ish exchanges with Branwell in the past, I agree with this 100%.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, October 3, 2020 5:29 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

sorry i've crossed this, also fully agree

I don’t really understand Alphie’s comments in the book thread, but also please get off LJ’s dick for one thread please

Please subtweet probably by taking my name out of it and I will consider your request

*properly

I don’t understand the troll with all the books and his constant hunger for LJ’s attention, why must he do this even on his favourite board

Better.

Request status: "We love what's happening, thank you"

Why are you like this

at this point i just understand it as bants

the_bants_understander

this reminds me of the elevator incident and makes me wonder about the original trauma

xp think he misses you tbh, how long since there’s been a London FAP