Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

xp we got daylight, go for it! time's a'wasting and people are dying!

Like with "gaslighting", just because "virtue signaling" is often used incorrectly or disingenuously, it doesn't mean the term doesn't still have an applicable purpose.

The question isn't "criticizing American empire," it's "feeling a little better today as a POC, therefore this makes you a supporter of the American empire."

Now its a party, lads

ahh the arrows are all pointed inward again. must be a day that ends in "Y"

Like with "gaslighting", just because "virtue signaling" is often used incorrectly or disingenuously, it doesn't mean the term doesn't still have an applicable purpose.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 12:53 PM (seven seconds ago)

there's not a "correct" version of the phrase, it's a coinage literally invented by reactionary trolls to accuse people of having ulterior motives for advocating for progressive ideas or even simply that women shouldn't be harassed on messageboards, just say something else!

it's easy to get tripped up when some people here do support american empire

About to leave the office. Class is over. Time for a drink!

it's easy to get tripped up when some people here do support american empire

― stylish but illegal (Simon H.)j

gabbneb is long gone iirc

it's the same thing as "white knighting", the implication is you're just trying to look good so you can get your dick wet, pure incel logic

posted in here too many times today, self-FP time

Perhaps being able to say 'these executive actions seem good' and 'this charade of nationalistic hooey is absolute bullshit and so is the bullshit politics of representation that dumb liberals are disingenuously engaging in' might be a bit much for you, DJP and Alfred, but it isn't for me.

Tables empire post was bad but to be fair he immediately said he shouldn’t be posting here and left. I don’t know what excuse the rest of us have.

Ha xp speak of the devil!

i'm just waiting for the New Radicals

as well as being alt right language it's just the standard purity line, like obviously no one really cares about this shit, it could only ever be some kind of posturing, just let us celebrate imperialism in peace

There are good people on both sides here!

'this charade of nationalistic hooey is absolute bullshit

this is much better than what you originally wrote but hardly original b/c iirc I don't know how many people on ILX love the pageantry.

I hate Xmas carols but understand the point of them.

I'm frankly baffled as to why fellow anarchists don't see this as a clear victory against straight up fascism that opens up more possibilities to build alternative mutual aid networks etc.

Like sure, "president change - the enemy remains" like I saw tagged downtown the other day, of course, but there's also very good reasons to celebrate today. Of course the system is shitty! Let's see how far we can push them now.

various people here OTM

I just replace “virtue signal” with “setting a good example” in my head so tbh I don’t understand the point Alfred was trying to make

xxp I see a lot of people online enthusiastically embracing instutitions they had previously declared irreperrably broken under trump and it looks pretty bleak glad you can find some hope somewhere

But apparently it's too much for you that others have reactions and perspectives that don't 100% align with yours

Please continue posting actions Team Biden has taken, even small ones.

Xpost

I mean...when you come into a thread accusing the thread participants of collectively being imperialists, knowing full well at least two posters (but probably many more) are PoC who are relieved to see the end of the previous administration...idk, do you expect a great reaction from that? It kind of invites "are you REALLY left-wing enough?" and is itself a 'purity test'.

I like table, but I understand why DJP and Alfred responded the way they did, and I don't exactly consider either of them to be John Kerry politically.

I'm frankly baffled as to why fellow anarchists don't see this as a clear victory against straight up fascism that opens up more possibilities to build alternative music festivals

like we can do another 4 years of intentionally misunderstanding each other, or we can actually converse

an awful lot of reading into a short post by table, i would simply have chosen to ignore it

anyway I’m going to go back to our threads and post about how great Priti Patel and Leo Varadkar are, yassss king and kween

just don’t get the flag too stained

you are a fucking racist

I'm frankly baffled as to why fellow anarchists don't see this as a clear victory against straight up fascism that opens up more possibilities to build alternative mutual aid networks etc.

Like sure, "president change - the enemy remains" like I saw tagged downtown the other day, of course, but there's also very good reasons to celebrate today.

The problem is "clear victory" and "celebrate."

Not a single person who has posted to ILX regularly since Roger Adultery left would say that Joe Biden isn't an improvement on Donald Trump.

Joe Biden is also a corrupt centrist with multiple sexual misconduct allegations and a long history of bad policy decisions. No one should be confused for even a moment why an 'anarchist' wouldn't celebrate his ascension.

i am here as a fan of parades, marching bands and waving-to-crowds

i am on board for pomp & if thats wrong i dont want it to be right

lotta grumpy parade-hating nerds itt <3

oh and here for every mention of The Second Gentleman because i still pinch myself every time they say it :D

Tabes, I'm sorry for using that term.

You should not have written a dumb-as-hell statement in a forum that except in a Al Green thread is not known for unequivocal celebrations.

You often post as if you were the only white guy who's read a few books on foreign policy.

It would be helpful if some of the genuine leftists around here worked up a crib sheet of real political issues and the accepted way to express our infinite disgust concerning each one. It could probably be credit card sized if you used both sides.

thought the approved alternative term was "performatively woke" - only "woke" has been stolen by the shitheads now I guess.

i am here as a fan of parades, marching bands and waving-to-crowds

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 21:05 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh great now VG is outing herself as a fucking orangeman

milo that's cute of you to use quotes, but yes this anarchist is drinking a mimosa and feeling pretty good that probably less friends of friends of mine are going to be murdered by Nazis now, fuck you.

"Why aren't you accepting of alternate viewpoints????" yell thirty people ganging up on one person who expressed dissent.

you are a fucking racist

I'm sorry to interrupt but why was joe sworn in with the fucking Necronomicon

lol jeez dmac

not THOSE parades?

It's an entirely racist way to make the point and you should do a lot of soul-searching about how easy it was for you to do it.

I'm sorry to interrupt but why was joe sworn in with the fucking Necronomicon

https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-01-2015/KWjZH-.gif

Biden: Yes, yes, feel the Unity flow through you!

http://media.giphy.com/media/3oKIPzLXQYb2Bn5PLG/giphy.gif

finally, the Satanism I was promised

if only morbs could have been here for this thread

nerdy footnote: Bidens inauguration bible has been in his family for 183 years and has all his swearing-in dates inscribed in it + Beau’s AG Delaware swearing-in as well

Happy days!

what was he sworn into 183 years ago?

mean...when you come into a thread accusing the thread participants of collectively being imperialists, knowing full well at least two posters (but probably many more) are PoC who are relieved to see the end of the previous administration...idk, do you expect a great reaction from that? It kind of invites "are you REALLY left-wing enough?" and is itself a 'purity test'.

I like table, but I understand why DJP and Alfred responded the way they did, and I don't exactly consider either of them to be John Kerry politically.

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal),

otm -- this is it

xpost I like the nerdy footnote. I don't imagine Trump owns a bible, probably had to borrow that copy for his gas-the-kids march