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

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

he doesn't have a Bible, he has a Bumble account

Biden doing a tiny bit of old-man Mandelbaum jogging during the parade was funny.

love all the people yelling "how does it feel to be President?".

what's he gonna say "it fuckin' sucks, I hate it, and it shouldn't exist!"

Bidens secret service detail have got their work cut out for them re his detours to chat with all of humanity lol

"Biden! Packers or Bucs?"

"Let's go old school - Packers!"

"Thanks Joe!"

"Are the Cardinals still in St Louis?"

"No, they're in Arizona now!"

Maybe it would facilitate discussion if we could have an automatic script pop up on any politics post that says "STIPULATED: Joe Biden is a corporate whore who actively hates poor people and grinds their bones to make his bread."

Then whatever came after it could maybe be discussed on its own merits.

Genuinely shocked at that gyac post.

just assume everyone knows this & is posting anyway xpost

Apparently we can't assume it, we have to say it every time we open our mouths or we're cheering for empire.

Lol I have no issues with Biden's family bible, just thought instantly of the Harry Potter man eating book when I saw those massive straps holding it shut.

Such a joy to click on a news story and read "former president Donald Trump"

I'm actually writing a story for tomorrow and got to use that phrase, I enjoyed it.

Empire sucks, Mindcrime was better

"former hotel owner and occasional politician, Donald Trump"