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

viborg or table or someone called me a tankie, that's as good as a CPUSA membership card isn't it?

― papal hotwife (milo z)

god, if it worked like that there would be fuckin' nazis everywhere

oh shit

I mean, there kind of are nazis everywhere.

viborg or table or someone called me a tankie, that's as good as a CPUSA membership card isn't it?

I mean, there kind of are nazis everywhere.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

that was the joke

it's funny, ha ha, see? the entire world is run by fuckin' nazis

comedy gold

Fwiw you were doing a very tankie thing— waving away Chinese fascism and oppression in the service of attacking US goals that are anti-China. I merely pointed out that you can be against Chinese intrusion into Taiwan and also be against US policy goals in China.

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table)

i have a sincere request

can we please not relitigate this whole thing

i grant the point that it is entirely possible, though by no means certain, that milo z is a tankie

just to be on the safe side, please nobody give milo z any tanks

xp Sorry Kate, I'm much slower on the uptake than I used to be.

no worries, personally i think there are upsides to my being slower than i used to be. taking one's time is a good thing, but i wouldn't ever do it if i wasn't so old now that i don't really have a choice in the matter!

Fwiw you were doing a very tankie thing— waving away Chinese fascism and oppression

That didn't happen, though. Here's what I actually said before viborg called me a tankie, to refresh your memory: "Heightening tensions with China is so fucking stupid." "Anti-imperialism is when you threaten war on the (other) side of the world on behalf of your client state."

to kill a dragon

Okay, that’s fine.

Frankly, kate, i’ll post however the hell i want about whatever i want.

i have a funny story about tankies IRL

maybe it's not that funny ... it is more kinda lol but mostly sad ... anyway, not gonna post it but my ilxmail works

I don’t want to call anyone “shitass”, but I do want to enquire about why people who can’t follow basic TV plot points watch so fucking much of it.

time to rank the best-loved tropes in ilx pop-critical rhetoric and how *they* changed between 2000, 2010 and 2020

oh!

Oh Tropage Up Yours!

you can't quote your own post before rewriting it, that doesn't work

Okay, that’s fine.

Frankly, kate, i’ll post however the hell i want about whatever i want.

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table)

fair enough! it was a request, not a demand :)

if yr email isn't actually robot@ilxor then I can't contact you unless you give me your contact info

How is any of this relevant to the fact that Shohei Ohtani deserves to be MVP? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'd rather listen to DMB than Pavement or Modest Mouse, any day of the week. At least getting stoned with a bunch of dumb jock hippies is hot and fun instead of a bummer of old bongwater and PBR.

when I saw MM in 2001 there was massive frat energy… the shins opened and all these fratty guys were heckling them and mockingly shouting “Dave Matthews Band!!”.

Had no idea ohtani released an album in the 90s

Perhaps mods could change the thread name to "Novelists No One Reads Anymore (EXCEPT GINORMOUS DORKS)"

Which would effectively be all novelists, because only ginormous dorks read novels anymore

You could just as well have posted that on the original thread. Except maybe then some mod might have taken it seriously so probably better this way.

His girlfriend isn't that young.

Yeah I don't really mean it, James

Dorks read ginormous novels*fixed*

AND HE STOPPETH ONE OF THREE

alternately, [dead male rockstar] may consider whether he might possibly benefit from confronting his own misogyny, given that he seems to view his own "thwarted, sensitive" , "too wounded to be threatening" traits as evidence of womanhood

alternately, [dead male rockstar] may consider whether he might possibly benefit from confronting his own misogyny, given that he seems to view his own "thwarted, sensitive" , "too wounded to be threatening" traits as evidence of womanhood

― a lesson before djing (unregistered)

damn, i told y'all, the guns are firing and i hadn't even come right out and _said_ it yet

Is this like how the Mormons baptize dead Jews into Mormonism?

your objection is duly noted

I have no objection. I'm 100% on the sidelines here (not trans/nb/questioning, not even a little; don't care about Nirvana, not even a little), so your need to believe is really all that matters. I'm amused (as in diverted, not as in laughing at you).

Would be a good thread

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I have no objection. I'm 100% on the sidelines here (not trans/nb/questioning, not even a little; don't care about Nirvana, not even a little), so your need to believe is really all that matters. I'm amused (as in diverted, not as in laughing at you).

― but also fuck you (unperson)

oh for fucks' sake, look unperson, say whatever the fuck you want, but please don't insult me by telling me that you're doing it as an _idle diversion_. frankly i'd rather you laugh at me than tell me that you consider the things that are important to me _mildly entertaining_.

i have no stakes in this so i'm just going to say dumb shit in the posts you had second thoughts about thread

fair i guess

struggling a fuckton with my emotional boundaries

if people are saying shitty things to me then fine, that comes with the territory, i post Discourse bait and people will fucking Discourse

but people are saying shitty things to trans people and that does hurt. i don't even necessarily mean cis people saying shitty things to trans people, the worst of it is that trans people _do_ say shitty things to other trans people when Discourse starts

it doesn't bring out the best in us. i'm lucky in that i have a really good, supportive local community. i'm not coming into this unprepared. other people, though? they're at serious risk of getting hurt, and, well, if i didn't want that to happen my only option was to not say anything in the first place.

god help us all if this shit goes _actually_ viral, rather than being contained to the relatively quiet, kind, and placid waters of ilx.

I read your article and thought it an interesting idea, and at least worth exploring, fwiw.

xp I hope you’re not meaning ufo.

A thread where a majority of the responses are positive or encouraging too.

thanks folks :)

right now i feel like i'm in a better place with my boundaries. i've said my piece. i trust in what i said, that i said what i needed to say, and it's time for other people to say what they need to say. right or wrong, it's out there now.

i appreciate y'all for giving me a place to say it!

What else should I plan
Eeeeeeeevryone is trans

Man, didn’t look before posting that here and thus didn’t realize the last like several dozen posts are about that thread. FTR I don’t really have a dog in the fight and I think people are making much better points than I could make from all sides and from a better place than I could.

this is fan fiction right?

So what

despite quality commentary (and commenters) i will NOT bookmark this thread NOPE.

^ilx serenity prayer

Lol