Mordy wrote this on thread Conventional Mealy Mouths: The 2016 Primary Voting Thread, Part 5 on board I Love Everything on 25-May-2016that argument only makes sense if your self-conceptialization is entirely as a lone independent actor - in which case one solitary vote does not participate in any meaningful way in the political process. however there is such thing as a society and we are not just independent actors but part of large collectives of self-interest, identity and affiliation and the only reason why NY is a stable blue state is because there are a whole bunch of "independent actors" who go and vote and make it that. you have to be dripping w/ self-aggrandizement to not understand that your participation in the vote matters not bc you alone get to make the decision but bc /you/ collectively do. i wonder if other countries have this "your vote doesn't matter" argument or if it can only exist in the context of america's radical cult of individualism.
that argument only makes sense if your self-conceptialization is entirely as a lone independent actor - in which case one solitary vote does not participate in any meaningful way in the political process. however there is such thing as a society and we are not just independent actors but part of large collectives of self-interest, identity and affiliation and the only reason why NY is a stable blue state is because there are a whole bunch of "independent actors" who go and vote and make it that. you have to be dripping w/ self-aggrandizement to not understand that your participation in the vote matters not bc you alone get to make the decision but bc /you/ collectively do. i wonder if other countries have this "your vote doesn't matter" argument or if it can only exist in the context of america's radical cult of individualism.
― a mom shaped pom (wins), Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
:-(
― a mom shaped pom (wins), Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
:-O
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
Ha
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
Goes to show that ilxors as a rule like you when u agree with them
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Thursday, May 26, 2016 11:26 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is very true
darraghmac is a nice lad
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
You can fuck off an all!
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
irish luv <3
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
deems the bertie ahern of ilx slating the board for its whims
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
<3 to all
― Treeship, Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
Im on record as loving ye all, with all yere faults. Im an irish mammy if anything.
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
http://irishpost.co.uk/10-of-the-best-irish-mammy-quotes/
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
i like pretty much every poster, esp. alfred.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:15 (eight years ago) link
Just revisiting Thatcher Is Dead, it's a hoot.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:22 (eight years ago) link
... though many prefer the follow-up, "please temp-ban Mordy from the Thatcher Is Dead thread"
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Yeah that second one has the personal angle that u need when framing great public events imo
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:26 (eight years ago) link
i'd like to reiterate sunny
mookie <3 <3 <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:29 (eight years ago) link
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, May 26, 2016
Thank you. As usual I don't know what I've posted to earn it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:18 (eight years ago) link
You're very succinct but biting, imo
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link
that's what he said...
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link
https://media3.giphy.com/media/MveEBQkoqarpS/200_s.gif
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
http://i.makeagif.com/media/5-17-2015/lNO8dg.gif
mesmerized
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 27 May 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
Like many skilled debaters, he's adept at sniffing an opponent's weakness and making a rhetorical lunge. When this doesn't work he smothers in Latinates, like an squid shooting ink before escaping.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 27, 2016 5:26 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
alfred is one of my favorite posters
― marcos, Saturday, 28 May 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
top shelf
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 28 May 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
That he is.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 May 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
Alfred should have an academic sinecure teaching rhetoric at, like, Harvard imho
― de l'asshole (flopson), Saturday, 28 May 2016 04:17 (eight years ago) link
alfred responsible for maybe 60% of my reading list
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 28 May 2016 04:24 (eight years ago) link
he's pretty great apart from that whole loving-every-rock-dinosaur's-crappy-late-80s-album thing
oh, who am i kidding, that's awesome too
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 May 2016 04:34 (eight years ago) link
oh, that alfred
― like $500 billion in stuffed fart sales and I have an idea (contenderizer), Saturday, 28 May 2016 05:26 (eight years ago) link
guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xWWsi3RwNI
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2016 05:46 (eight years ago) link
I had a bunch of nice stuff to say and then that who is smarter trump Hillary thread happened so now you can all go to hell
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 06:20 (eight years ago) link
There goes the vote punk
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 May 2016 09:28 (eight years ago) link
there goes the punk voter
https://www.punknews.org/images/frontpage/fp-1351102794.jpg
― benzarro ghazarri (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 28 May 2016 12:09 (eight years ago) link
― mookieproof, Saturday, May 28, 2016 12:34 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EC1m7QJtn0
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
I was lazily browsing the results of a search of "post of the year" and tell u what nickb is good for a real letiss special a lot more often than his languid style would have u think trevor
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Saturday, 4 June 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link
emil.y is always on point.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 07:43 (eight years ago) link
Definitely.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 07:46 (eight years ago) link
shout outs to recent flop-faves
silbyjohnny crunchJames Morissonronanxyzzzz
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
:D
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
flops, i am usually simpatico w your music opinions even when i don't post any confirmation or followup so plz continue to bless us w your flop-pinions
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
ty flops!
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link
Frogbs, think it's save to say you had a rocky start here, but you're one of my fave posters now when it comes leftfield musical recommendations and knowledge. I salute you for your vaporwave picks/Vektroid alone. Let it be said.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
Old Lunch is generous, friendly, and oftentimes a catalog of all the thoughts I'm looking for but didn't know to express
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
always enjoy goole's deadpan incredulity at right wing nutsos even though I never click the link.
― map, Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:36 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i missed this, thank you!
― goole, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
Thanks, mh! You're certainly among the ilxors I would fete itt were I not overwhelmed by the crippling certainty that someone among my faves would feel slighted by their accidental omission from my to-fete list.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
otm. stings every time.
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:46 (eight years ago) link
would love a drink with goole and Jonah in Jonah's car parked behind Target.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
you know i think i saw Norm Coleman in the parking lot of my local target once
― goole, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
if you really want to dream
― goole, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
also great deals on quality bedding with designer looks inside, if that helps
― j., Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link