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I would have thought nyd would like rolling around in The Mountain Goats' raw sad anger songs, they're certainly what I listen to when I want to feel moody and edgy. Also they mention Florida locations sometimes and I get to go "hey I've been there finally someone wrote a song about someplace I've been!" 
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Dec 3, 2016 03:16
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ate all the Oreos posted:I would have thought nyd would like rolling around in The Mountain Goats' raw sad anger songs, they're certainly what I listen to when I want to feel moody and edgy. Nydwracu's self-image is entirely built on lifelong grudges over the pettiest poo poo imaginable Well that and trying to start a media hoax to frame someone for murder
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Dec 3, 2016 03:23
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Someone's reply to that Nyd tweet made me suddenly vaguely remember this funny thing someone made a year ago and I spent like 10 solid minutes trying to figure out the correct combination of google keywords to find it so even though it has nothing to do with anything I'm gonna foist it on this thread to make it feel like it was worth it http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/126993307991/quoms-the-best-ever-bitcoin-cannabis-drone
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Dec 3, 2016 03:28
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The Vosgian Beast posted:You're a retard if you think Islam is no thread to Europe. Antinatalism does not mean that you don't care about culture anymore. It means making sure the highest culture on earth, Europa, continues to exist. Even Japan's great authors only exist because they read western literature. It's that good. I'm biased towards Europe, just like the greatest aphorist of the 20th century: Davila. The latter is also one of the greatest minds to ever have lived. All hail Europa. This is what happens when too many people say "gently caress LOB"
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Dec 3, 2016 03:41
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ate all the Oreos posted:Also they mention Florida locations sometimes and I get to go "hey I've been there finally someone wrote a song about someplace I've been!" The only song that mentions where I grew up is by Tom Waits.
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Dec 3, 2016 04:35
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eschaton posted:The only song that mentions where I grew up is by Tom Waits. I'm so sorry.
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Dec 3, 2016 07:43
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eschaton posted:The only song that mentions where I grew up is by Tom Waits. The Flaming Lips' "She Don't Use Jelly" is about people from my hometown, but it doesn't identify it or them by name.
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Dec 3, 2016 15:41
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ate all the Oreos posted:Someone's reply to that Nyd tweet made me suddenly vaguely remember this funny thing someone made a year ago and I spent like 10 solid minutes trying to figure out the correct combination of google keywords to find it so even though it has nothing to do with anything I'm gonna foist it on this thread to make it feel like it was worth it This is magical
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Dec 3, 2016 15:49
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https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/severnayazemlya/153606228403 It turns out the secret justification here was that John Darnielle interacted with some ex-LF weird twitter people once.
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Dec 3, 2016 15:53
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eschaton posted:The only song that mentions where I grew up is by Tom Waits. The only song that mentions where I grew up is Dead Skin Mask.
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Dec 3, 2016 16:17
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 Avatars like this are actually funny.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Someone's reply to that Nyd tweet made me suddenly vaguely remember this funny thing someone made a year ago and I spent like 10 solid minutes trying to figure out the correct combination of google keywords to find it so even though it has nothing to do with anything I'm gonna foist it on this thread to make it feel like it was worth it It was worth it.
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Dec 3, 2016 17:17
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poptart_fairy posted:
Gonna have to agree. Much better than an angry red warning under that downs fella or an anime sex-face.
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Dec 3, 2016 17:18
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The Vosgian Beast posted:https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/severnayazemlya/153606228403 Also that the Mountain Goats promote neoteny. It's also hilarious that Wesley calls LFers "genocidal" without a hint of irony at the kind of people who run in his circles and consider him a good writer 
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Dec 3, 2016 18:41
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Can someone explain what it is about the Mountain Goats that gets up the dork enlightenment's collective nostril? I was unaware of their existence until John Darnielle was a guest bailiff on an episode of Judge John Hodgman. The Mountain Goats song they put in the podcast... well, I remember not liking it because musically it was not my sort of thing and lyrically it was kind of whatever. So I never bothered looking up more. Now I'm wondering if that was a poor decision just on the principle that if they piss off nydwracu maybe there's something cool and good there after all.
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Dec 3, 2016 20:52
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eschaton posted:The only song that mentions where I grew up is by Tom Waits. No songs mention the town I grew up again, but it is mentioned in the liner notes for one Pink Floyd's albums. Apparently there was a news story about a baby being left in a dumpster in my town while the band was playing in Detroit. That's our claim to fame.
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Dec 3, 2016 20:54
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BobHoward posted:Can someone explain what it is about the Mountain Goats that gets up the dork enlightenment's collective nostril? Idk, I like Mountain Goats okay, my guess is that its because the frontman is an outspoken abuse survivor and promotes ideas like "men ought to be able to express feelings other than anger or hunger without being denigrated"
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Dec 3, 2016 21:01
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BobHoward posted:Can someone explain what it is about the Mountain Goats that gets up the dork enlightenment's collective nostril? I was unaware of their existence until John Darnielle was a guest bailiff on an episode of Judge John Hodgman. The Mountain Goats song they put in the podcast... well, I remember not liking it because musically it was not my sort of thing and lyrically it was kind of whatever. So I never bothered looking up more. Now I'm wondering if that was a poor decision just on the principle that if they piss off nydwracu maybe there's something cool and good there after all. The Vosgian Beast posted:https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/severnayazemlya/153606228403
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Dec 3, 2016 21:05
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BobHoward posted:Can someone explain what it is about the Mountain Goats that gets up the dork enlightenment's collective nostril? I was unaware of their existence until John Darnielle was a guest bailiff on an episode of Judge John Hodgman. The Mountain Goats song they put in the podcast... well, I remember not liking it because musically it was not my sort of thing and lyrically it was kind of whatever. So I never bothered looking up more. Now I'm wondering if that was a poor decision just on the principle that if they piss off nydwracu maybe there's something cool and good there after all. im not a huge fan of the mountain goats but the song parodied in that tumblr post is fuckin great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHmr1NyBTw
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Dec 3, 2016 22:19
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As a cool non-tumblr-havr, that links to nothing.
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Dec 4, 2016 02:05
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That's because Wesley has made it so you can only see his posts if you've got a Tumblr account.
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Dec 4, 2016 02:21
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The Vosgian Beast posted:https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/severnayazemlya/153606228403 From one of the comments on that: quote:my Hot Take is that leftists hate lw so much bc it's one of the only places where cool people still believe in ~traditional ~liberal values like "intellectual open mindedness" and "things are generally getting better" Less Wrong Dot Com, noted hangout for cool people.
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Dec 4, 2016 03:01
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:As a cool non-tumblr-havr, that links to nothing. quote:y’all wouldn’t listen to a band run by a dude who hangs around stormfront, so why do none of y’all have a problem with the mountain goats seeing as how john darnielle was in the somethingawful I loving Love Genocide twitter crew
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Dec 4, 2016 03:18
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Anil Dasharez0ne posted:From one of the comments on that: This is some "The reason people don't like me is that they're jealous of how attractive and intelligent I am" poo poo
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Dec 4, 2016 03:36
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quote:y’all wouldn’t listen to a band run by a dude who hangs around stormfront, so why do none of y’all have a problem with the mountain goats seeing as how john darnielle was in the somethingawful I loving Love Genocide twitter crew There's so many layers of idiocy in this simple statement. And I wasn't even around SA for the LF era so I doubt I get them all.
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Dec 4, 2016 05:04
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BobHoward posted:There's so many layers of idiocy in this simple statement. And I wasn't even around SA for the LF era so I doubt I get them all. Neither was Nydwracu. Some Marxist ex-LF people doxxed and trolled him back during the period where he was trying to sneak in to leftist spaces and convince people that the "Alt-left" is a thing that should exist. He's been trying to turn LF into the cultural Marxism of the internet ever since. Another person who never posted on LF is John Darnielle, incidentally.
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Dec 4, 2016 05:08
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The fact that he made Wesley so butthurt for so long is one of the few things I truly respect maggotmaster for.
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Dec 4, 2016 08:15
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eschaton posted:The only song that mentions where I grew up is by Tom Waits. There are lots of songs about where I grew up. Because I grew up in Las Vegas.
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Dec 4, 2016 20:30
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BobHoward posted:Can someone explain what it is about the Mountain Goats that gets up the dork enlightenment's collective nostril? I was unaware of their existence until John Darnielle was a guest bailiff on an episode of Judge John Hodgman. The Mountain Goats song they put in the podcast... well, I remember not liking it because musically it was not my sort of thing and lyrically it was kind of whatever. So I never bothered looking up more. Now I'm wondering if that was a poor decision just on the principle that if they piss off nydwracu maybe there's something cool and good there after all. Super unrelated but did they make a joke about him sounding like John Hodgman because my friend thinks he sounds exactly like John Hodgman and I completely disagree 
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Dec 4, 2016 21:56
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Neither was Nydwracu. Some Marxist ex-LF people doxxed and trolled him back during the period where he was trying to sneak in to leftist spaces and convince people that the "Alt-left" is a thing that should exist. He's been trying to turn LF into the cultural Marxism of the internet ever since. Speaking of the concept of the "alt-left" I had someone try to play the whole balancing fallacy "well the alt-left is just as bad as the alt-right!" thing on me in an argument the other day. I've never read anything definitive taking down the concept and if there is such a thing it would be neat to read it for future reference. In this case the person arguing had even less idea what he was talking about and was just parroting some 4chan nonsense so it was pretty easy to just point out that they, uh, had never actually seen anything alt-left ever so if they do exist they're hardly a valid thing to "balance" the alt-right, as if that would somehow make the alt-right less lovely even if it were true.
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Dec 4, 2016 22:09
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the alt left are people who say mean things to liberals on twitter.
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Dec 4, 2016 22:15
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Like I guess you could make an argument that the alt-left is the actual left (in America) and the regular "left" is the democrats, who are more centrists than anything else. But something tells me that's not at all what they mean.
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Dec 4, 2016 22:34
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There is no Alt-Left. The closest thing you get is the Contrarian Left, like Ted Rall and some of the more obnoxious LFers, and they are limited in scope to annoying people on the internet. There is absolutely no comparison in terms of scale, effect, and influence.
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I Killed GBS posted:There is no Alt-Left. The closest thing you get is the Contrarian Left, like Ted Rall and some of the more obnoxious LFers, and they are limited in scope to annoying people on the internet. There is absolutely no comparison in terms of scale, effect, and influence. Basically It's like how "SJW" started out as a term to mean a certain very specific kind of person on Tumblr who uses repurposed social justice jargon to defend sending death threats to people over not drawing cartoon characters fat enough, and then was slowly redefined into meaning a giant homogenous glob of evil consisting of everyone throughout all of space and time to the left of Rahm Emanuel
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ate all the Oreos posted:Speaking of the concept of the "alt-left" I had someone try to play the whole balancing fallacy "well the alt-left is just as bad as the alt-right!" thing on me in an argument the other day. I've never read anything definitive taking down the concept and if there is such a thing it would be neat to read it for future reference. In this case the person arguing had even less idea what he was talking about and was just parroting some 4chan nonsense so it was pretty easy to just point out that they, uh, had never actually seen anything alt-left ever so if they do exist they're hardly a valid thing to "balance" the alt-right, as if that would somehow make the alt-right less lovely even if it were true. The term is literally made up for the purpose of false balance. The Vosgian Beast posted:Basically I did actually trace it to non-ironic positive usage in the 1990s. Meanwhile,  We Hunted The Mammoth has been having fun with old propaganda posters.
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Dec 5, 2016 01:16
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divabot posted:The term is literally made up for the purpose of false balance. That's what I figured but I was hoping there was something making that obvious, like how it's easy to shut down people who think "virtue signalling" is some kind of academic thing by showing them that no actually it was made up by that one right wing columnist.
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Dec 5, 2016 03:15
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ate all the Oreos posted:Super unrelated but did they make a joke about him sounding like John Hodgman because my friend thinks he sounds exactly like John Hodgman and I completely disagree I don't think they did. Also I had zero difficulty distinguishing who was speaking so tell your friend he's full of poo poo because a random person on the internet agrees with you
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I Killed GBS posted:There is no Alt-Left. The closest thing you get is the Contrarian Left, like Ted Rall and some of the more obnoxious LFers, and they are limited in scope to annoying people on the internet. There is absolutely no comparison in terms of scale, effect, and influence. I mean, there are plenty of radical communist and anarchist comunities that are alternatives to the mainstream left, but they don't need to hide their politics under layers of irony (beyond the normal memes and whatnot). Whereas the alt-right tend to be fascist-adjacent, but don't admit it publicly.
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!