truth bombs

no one is psychologically suited for fame

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 11 January 2021 16:42 (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

except nic cage

man, a lot of the albums in this rollout basically read to me like people really miss hugs

― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 7:25 AM

I expect red MAGA hats will be the equivalent of blackface in a few years: "I was young & stupid, following my parents; I deeply apologize for any hurt I may have caused."

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12:04 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i just gotta say, and i'm not explicitly attacking this post, just mentioning it because it's related - i really hate the "wrong side of history" canard. it's so facile and like the ultimate neolib / "end of history" type of thing to say. the earth is literally dying, there isn't going to be any history, let alone some imaginary "masterpiece theatre" room where all the important people pull leather-bound volumes from shelves to righteously remember how they were on the right side of history. also, "history" as it's understood in these uses hasn't done anything to solve racism, racists aren't shamed, all it does is make liberals feel good about themselves.

― lord of the ting tings (map), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 01:04 (thirteen hours ago) link

yes, sadly

i’d bet genghis khan is pissed that he’s on the wrong side of history

He was very much on the right side of history

I don't know if I actually go as far as to agree with "there isn't going to be any history," but even when there is it's really the exceptional case where you have a phenomenon like the nazis that there's just consensus on as the "wrong side of history."

Angry bong hit wisdom

it’s not fucking up that tells you about a person, but how they respond to it.

― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac)

I think there's an unspoken understanding among all people in relationships that if 1971 al green shows up at your door and wants to sweet talk one or both of you and maybe stay up til 3 o clock in the morn, then that's just going to happen

― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone)

truth bomb, truth bomb / you’re my truth bomb
and baby you can turn me on

it's true to the people it's true to, i will say that. kind of wish i had a chance to re-do my wedding vows so i could work that in

Fortunately ilx has a smaller reach than most superPACs

― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, March 6, 2021 11:40 AM (yesterday)

tbh I have my own personal sympathies here, but I feel like almost all of these kinds of arguments boil down to a repeating cycle of:

A: we should be focusing on the principle
B: we should be focusing on the process
A: sounds like you're letting Dems off the hook for not changing things
B: sounds like you're ignoring the incremental way that political change works
A: political change won't happen if you don't stand up for principles
B: political change won't happen if you write off the process
A: fuck you
B: fuck you

― rob, Wednesday, March 31, 2021 2:27 PM

lol

shout out to map, I wish I had added

C: just choppy choppy the white people over 50

C sounds like A after a few years on ILX

obviously, A and B both kind of otm, booming truth bomb etc, <3 to all

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles)
Posted: 20 April 2021 at 20:37:29
the compulsive need to vocalize the worst case scenario is not the same as actually being able to see the future

ive said it before and ill say it again, if youre going to be condescending you gotta be smart, being condescending is such an affront that you really have to bring your A game, if youre condescending and dumb youre gonna hear about it, its just too much for people to bear

― lag∞n, Friday, December 10, 2021 8:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yes

That was a masterstroke

it’s ok if you’re smart, got it

I read it more like "condescension is shit behavior but it's a lot worse when it isn't even deserved to begin with"

Yes

(*) is very funny but he comes across as such a tremendous asshole, it’s hard to enjoy his stand up most of the time

― frogbs, Sunday, December 19, 2021 6:39 PM (five hours ago) bookmark flag link

It’s okay to not post

― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Friday, December 10, 2021 11:04 AM

^Should be in the FAQ

The DVD service gave everyone the option of “watch a good movie in two days or watch crap now” and guess what they chose

--Whiney G.

rename thread again pls "the russian war vs the US (in ukraine)"

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 March 2022 18:24 (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

No

tbh i kinda feel like you can add "vs the US" to the titles of so many threads and have them be a more accurate summary of the content, just like you can add "for white dudes" to the titles of so many threads for the same reason

A lot of kids’ titles there. Kids are notorious for wanting to watch the same movie, or have the same book read to them, over and over. Kind of wild that in the streaming world it’s just like “sorry, it’s gone. No, that’s no DVD of it. How do you even know what that is??”

Maybe it’s good. We need to relearn the art of handling evanescence.

― Tracer Hand

This is why the internet is absolute bullshit in 2022– I need to download a new browser just to mostly hate-read a listicle that shouldn’t have been published in the first place

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, September 27, 2022 3:00 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

but first you have to turn off your ad blocker

the real reason execs don't like working from home is because it's a lot easier to control and mistreat people when you can see them.

― stank viola (Neanderthal)

+ hate their wives

I will cop to having paraphrased and used this goole quote over the years since I read it. an oldie but a goodie
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the important thing is to exercise our own swift, harsh judgement on shit we read about for two seconds on the internet

― goole, Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:18 AM bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/JcjynGt.jpeg

Yes^^^^^^^^^

Personally love when people repeat a point I already made in a worse way, too!

― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Thursday, February 9, 2023 4:29 AM (yesterday)

I wouldn't nec say "worse" every time, but it's weird to me that ILX is quieter/more depopulated than ever but this happens so much. A few months ago people were repeatedly pasting the same tweets w/zero commentary, which was seriously maddening. Is this a Zing/phone problem? Standard-issue narcissism? [insert obvious killfile joke]?

The key to avoiding having this happen is to make points that no sane person could agree with.

Momus tried that for many years

"people repeat a point I already made" is also known as "agreeing"

hey just so everyone knows, if someone repeats a point someone else already made, you might also call it "agreeing"

I agree

I haven't read the thread but the last post otm.

the food was so bad! and such small portions, too!

alright lads, I'll try it your way

You all need to read Men Explain Things To Me for fucks sake

Thanks for the support gents