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

this is both true and not

Eldritch even looks good with a beard - what a fox

if the primary media you have consumed in the past month are twitter and podcasts then you don't get to sneer at people for (your perception of their) reading young adult books

Ooh I want to know what that was in response to lol

the latest instance of thousands of people unprovokedly ganging up on to mock what seem like a few perfectly nice people who didn't do anything morally wrong and who just seemed to be talking among themselves for wanting to know beforehand if the book they were reading was going to have a depressing ending

and this is as someone who both reads and writes things with rather bleak endings: who gives a fuck? who is harmed by this? conversely, why is this worth hurting people over, unless you just like hurting people? which more and more it seems most people do

more and more

I think people are just finding new ways to do it; baseline is still the same, more or less.

To look on the bright side, COVID-19 should extend all those projections of the eventual bankruptcy of the Social Security System by quite a few years.

we'll spend a shift in the forthcoming Suck Joe Biden's Dick thread to atone

i don't know if anyone on this board desperately needs to remind everyone their politics are to the right of joe biden every hour of every day

oh, ok. thanks.

hello everybody, are we having fun here? i hope we're having fun here

I'm glad I don't understand that because if I did I'd be so mad

New borad description

TS: American exceptionalism vs. British exceptionalism.

What British excepetionalism?

Don't mind me, I'm just a third party troll aiming for low-hanging fruit. I know that things are far from fine in the UK right now, compared to other parts of Europe. The US is in a class of its own, of course.

I hear you, pom.

I keep seeing that map (that has aged so well) from January of last year of the most "exceptionally" pandemic ready countries of which the US and the UK are of the top rank of course!

Ah yes, a classic.

having your mentions filled with people telling you that you have a dogshit opinion is not the same as a targeted harassment campaign, you fucking babies

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Star Wars, Clone Wars, Rebels, Oh My thread

trump is great trump trump trump moar threads about TRUMP

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If this is a joke it's admirably straightfaced

I deleted my DD earlier in the year and the begging letters have now stopped, though not the emails from the local group.
Haven't gone to the trouble of blocking the word "starmer" on twitter but am getting pretty close to it.
Might check in again in a couple of years, I dunno.

Mine own kitchen n'est pas

where did this "brunch = liberal" thing come from? who amongst us does not like a good brunch now and then ?

there was a sign at one of the anti-trump marches that said something like if hillary won we’d be at brunch right now. left twitter turned it into a meme to make fun of the kind of privileged liberalism it was considered to typify. the meal “brunch” was collateral damage

a variation of the latte-sipping quinoa-munching metropolitan elite whatevers

thank you both! it's just funny because the people I know on the left who are perpetuating the meme, are also privileged and eat brunch, or at least quiche, and it seemed like some narc of small d's to me

like, they used to go out to brunch on the regular until their neighborhoods got gentrified and the brunch prices and lines were "too much" and now they hate liberals and brunch

"croissant-munching, latte-sipping": instances of misconceived media-class self-loathing ITT

^^ aha! the motherlode!

it's often more of meme to use against the left in the UK, often by right wing MP's of the Labour party to suggest ppl like that Jezza Crumblyn is out of touch with the earthy w/c people they he is supposed to represent blah blah blah. And then sometimes it is used against them by tories to suggest their lack of enthusiasm for brexit makes them elitist scum. Nobody wins.. not even the quinoa brunch.

there is definitely a lot of narcissism of small differences & protesting too much in the spats between liberals & leftists from similar cultural & class backgrounds

the weird thing is in the UK the socialist left gets hit with this effete cosmopolitan stuff more often from centrist liberals but in the US it seems to be the other way round

xp yeah

unrelated

I don’t know how to process the fact that there are actually people who think things are generally going well and we’re more or less on the right track. must be nice

Some things have gotten better, others have gotten worse.

Left, I'm in the same boat.

it’s weird, these opinions/feelings are actually very common but somehow they feel incredibly marginal at the same time

the less panglossian ones i mean

anybody who has these feelings but expresses them with insufficient rigor is immediately lambasted for being a panglossian liberal schmuck, might be part of the problem

The post-occupy emphasis on the 1% (or the .1% or billionaires or some other classification) has obscured the divide between the upper-middle class and everyone else. For people in the top third socio-economically, the last couple of decades have been going quite well.

ie Biden's promise to not tax the poor downtrodden souls earning only a quarter mil a year.

Promising not to tax themselves.

lads

In my household, we vote and campaign for democratic socialists and progressives, we donate to their campaigns all over the country, including Democratic primaries, because we share their views on the vast majority of the issues. IRL, I'm one of the most left-leaning and politically involved people I know. Because I find myself constantly at odds with the "actual" leftists on ILX, I learned my politics have no place here. You can add that to the ways in which I'm a panglossian liberal in the Phil Ochs sense.

Sure there is if they won't shut up about it for two seconds.

I think maybe uspol’s endless cycle of left-punching could be just normal boring if the posters in question ever dropped the wide-eyed “actions? who judges by actions? sounds like PURITY to me” nonsense. Instead it’s just the unlovely combo of spiteful and boring that it seems to be every time I look in there.