XyloJW posted:

To maybe help other threads not devolve into alcohol and music chat every few pages, we're going to try having a general off-topic chat thread here.

Notes:
While this thread is going to be more relaxed than a normal D&D thread, try to keep things at least a bit above GBS-levels of relaxed. Don't report people for spelling errors or caps stuff, but please also don't spam a hundred images or generally try to make the thread unreadable.
Please don't turn this into a clearing house for drama and grudges.
This is not LF, and LF is never coming back.

If this doesn't look like it's working out, this thread will go away.

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

https://twitter.com/TheHorrorGuru/status/689997180489371648

Rorus Raz posted:

One day I'll be cool enough to post in the chat thread.

zoux posted:

Whats the thread title from op

quote:

Because reperations are dumb as poo poo

[7:16]
And inherently racist

[7:20]
Oh my god that was the most pretentious self serving opinion piece

[11:51]
But come on reperations? really?

[11:54]
I just don't see how it isn't entirely racist

[11:57]
Do white people who have a black great-great-great grandfather who was a slave get reparations?

[11:58]
If that's the case I would get reperations

[11:58]
You see how this is loving stupid

[11:59]
You can't just give money to later generations who were not affected by actions in the past

[12:08]
You see this is a sign of how far left you've gone

[12:08]
On paper we should be aligned

]12:09]
Jesus loving christ

[12:09]
I DO NOT loving SUPPORT WHITE SUPREMACY

[12:09]
You loving gently caress

12:12 PM]
What the gently caress do I owe "people of color"

Aeryk posted:

he did claim the #1 postingest poster slot in the last one

Exclamation Marx posted:

gonna make 20-30% more posts about clinton this thread

zoux posted:

If in 2008 your future self appeared to you and said that the Obama presidency would so fundamentally break american politics that the 2016 contest would be between donald trump and bernie sanders...

zoux posted:

Like what if 2020 is worse than this

Literally The Worst posted:

is that the one about hookers and blow

nutranurse posted:

Kanye could probably win a gubernatorial or senatorial race, i think

Disinterested posted:

Exclamation Marx posted:

black, white, green & some kind of red triangle

Berke Negri posted:

i see black, white, green and red

Exclamation Marx posted:

tnc's critique of sanders on reparations is flawed because it presupposes he's
a) socialist
b) radical

Disinterested posted:

in the space of three paras tnc simultaneously claims sanders is a wacky radical and a consensus hugger so idk how apt it can be

Volkerball posted:

america isn't ready for a full on wacky radical so this isn't surprising.

Disinterested posted:

I think the premise that he is a wacky radical is pretty flawed though, beyond messaging, and there is still a problematic tension there about trying to present bernie as being more radical than he is while simultaneously claiming he's not

I think there's just too much readiness to accept certain premises about bernie because it's convenient to the argument

Disinterested posted:

that's why I said 'beyond messaging'

but to quote tnc


I mean come the gently caress on

and then two sentences later obamacare is also posited as a piece of john brown style radicalism

really?

Disinterested posted:

i'm all for pushing bernie to speak more about racial issues, if only because it forces hrc to campaign on them too

i just think it's the worst put together tnc piece I've read and belies certain ways tnc's own views about radicalism are a bit garbled

Disinterested posted:

yeah it's simultaneously a strength and a weakness of his

Badger of Basra posted:

didn't he go to howard or spelman

Disinterested posted:

it's not, I just mean you tend to get certain things with any autodidact

fresh eyes and broad range, for example

the flip side of that coin is sometimes being too reverential or uncritical to material, accidentally wading in to debates where you don't know about the hidden landmines, or discovery for the fact you just learned about it

My Imaginary GF posted:

No, they at least had the decency to kill you.

My Imaginary GF posted:

stalinist. Your OP says your chat is "free to all," when you should mean it to say "free to all but those with a skin tone a few shades more olive than mine"

zoux posted:

top post on r/pics is "Martin Luther King Jr & Bernie Sanders during the third march from Selma to Montgomery in March, 1965"

the top stickied comment is: "As is pointed out here, Bernie Sanders is likely not in this picture. No mention of his presence at the march in Selma has been made prior to this picture making its way around facebook in the past few days, and it does indeed seem to be a picture from the march in Selma."

this does not matter to bernies

zoux posted:

its true

zoux posted:

he did not and what?

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Knowing about politics in other countries changes how you see your own country's politics and what you conceive of as possible and that's a good thing. The ACA looks different when you know that other countries have socialized medicine. I post this more for the thread as a whole than you specifically, because as I've said before, I'm not giving you any jackoff fodder so find someone else to compulsively argue with.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Have a good time with that. I'm sure Fishmech would be happy to switch sides of the argument if he thinks he can get an erection out of it.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Literally never ever arguing with you ever about anything. Time you waste on me is time you could be rubbing that little bent dick over Fishmech Randomly-Generated Contrary Opinion #93782 with somebody else's help.

zoux posted:

i mean that in the not racist sense of course

paranoid randroid posted:

i hope everyone who was all "hey tiny bronto should post itt" has learned an important lesson today

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

reddit offsite wth

euphronius posted:

Can I be a poster emeritus

I'm old enough

euphronius posted:

If I was as talented and cool as TLC would I be posting here

paranoid randroid posted:

as an aside, the whole KILLER MIKE AND NOTORIOUS T-N-C GOT BEEF non-event reminded me that killer mikes idee fixe is owning land, and thats kind of amusing