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

Sometimes it's like pulling teeth to inspire the sort of aforementioned "engagement" most people here enjoy, but that's probably my problem.

Pika-pi!

Exactly the people whose opinions you’d want to hear on South Asian politics

applying standards to others you have no intention of applying to yourself: C/D?

Can someone open a window please?

Heavens no, not the middle class! Whatever shall we do?

^^
the path to this place becoming no better than facebook has many spiritually bald paths

yo i heard you love paths, so

https://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/nissan/pathfinder/2022/oem/2022_nissan_pathfinder_4dr-suv_platinum_fq_oem_1_815.jpg

putin is just punishing ukraine for not helping with the hunter biden laptop thing, isn't he?

(i don't feel like getting shouted at in that thread for a semi-sarcastic troll post like this one, so I won't)

vlads

nice

otm

Not going to touch that toxic ass Ukraine thread again, but I see it’s really active today. Is it safe to assume all the Americans posting in it now are also getting shouted down and chased out? Or are the ilx politics gate keeping trolls still only targeting specific posters for abuse and harassment?

it has chilled out a bit for the moment

Americans getting shouted down, there's a novelty.

getting pisse d off imagining my trolls and dissenters crawling around my house in little butler outfits and expecting tips

— wint (@dril) November 19, 2017

excellent dn haha

it felt slightly less frivolous a week ago

tbf tho it was fuckin pissing down here today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ

Unfortunately, their new album coming out tomorrow has a few song titles that are all too apt:

"Gas in the Tank"
"Knock 'em Dead"
"Shoot for Your Heart"
"Unleash the Beast"
"Crossing Borders"

whose Ukrainian friends aren't depressed and cynical tbh?

it’s all so utterly fucking depressing

thanks

hey Andy go fuck yourself, you imperialist pig

it's an outrage that calz and Comrade Alphabet have been banned and VHS gets to continue to spout hateful nonsense 24/7

I did make that point in admin log, but fellow ilxors apparently find that entirely acceptable. Why not turn the whole site into a traitor hunt, that’ll do wonders for engagement

Look can we just leave politics out of it?

I don’t go around thread insulting and attacking people tbf, I just happen to not think exactly like some very leftist ilxors do, if you consider not being part of your very niche mode of thinking to be ‘hateful’ then that’s between you and your conscience.

https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-nationalism-and-religion-explain-why-poland-doesnt-want-refugees/

https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-prepares-refugees-ukraine-war-russia/

hmmmmmm

vulgarity > nonstop passive aggressive pants shitting

posts one disagrees with > posts calling anyone one disagrees with a cunt

i disagree you cunt

only something a cunt would say tbf xp lol

;_;

<3

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really, links about post-WWII reprisals?

we're like a week away from some people pulling out the skull calipers

you'd think so, and yet

I can’t imagine a worse combination for something disastrous than uninformed people + panicking + constant meaningless updates and yet Ukraine thread has gone the way of the covid threads, good work everyone.

i started getting the daily paper again a couple years ago and i gotta say, reading a whole bunch of news once a day is 10000x better for my mental & emotional health than paying attention to everything in the entire world all day long

I hear the nuclear power plant grew legs and is currently marching on Tokyo

OEO, yes, I think I personally was better off when "the news" meant the thump of the newspaper on my doorstep.

Nothing was really real until I read it in the paper. And things that happened after the paper went to press didn't reach me until the next day's doorstep-thump. Never watched TV news and probably never will

I can't say that this is an ethical position, and am not claiming any kind of moral superiority to consuming the news in that way. But given that I can't even begin to fix my own state, there's no way that my constant awareness of events will positively affect my nation or my world.

Hence, being updated constantly cannot plausibly be presented to me as an unalloyed moral good. The people of Ukraine (or Syria, or East Timor) are not aided in any way by my agony over their plight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling

btw doomscrollers actually came up w/ a term to hate on people who share optimism that they don't - they call it "hopium" and ironically think this is a zing.

broadcast news has been a net negative for the world

I'm sure you'll figure it out.

*Reading about nuclear war in my newspaper 12 hours after it started over my morning coffee and bowl of Cornflakes*

Sounds bad..

Snap, crackle and pop indeed.