I Love Politics board redux - this time with feeling!

Voted.

Sharted

You can also vote no if you don't want it...

Tbf the shart wasn't my vote

A lot of clean up either way, TBH

The best kind of offshoot boards are those addressing hobbies and parochial interests, where enthusiasts can ride their hobby horses as hard as they wish. Politics are a hybrid subject in that politics affects governance and government affects everyone. But politics consist of hundreds, if not thousands of issues, of varying degrees of breadth or importance, and political enthusiasts tend to treat minutiae with the same intensity as huge issues.

My sense is that an I Love Politics board is not going to successfully segregate out the hundreds of braided strands of politics into localized discussion threads for each of them. It would be less like I Love Music, with large numbers of active threads, and more like I Love Hoops or I Love Books, where one sprawling central thread captures 95% of the traffic, and subsidiary threads see very little interest.

Seems better to me to just keep politics threads in ILE and those who don't wish to dive in to the mega-thread don't have to. I'm not sure spawning a different board would change anything for the better. It would just rearrange the furniture.

That's fair.

My own argument in favor of a new board is that the politics threads seem to take up a huge amount of attention on ILE, and multiple posters have reported this has a negative effect on their wellbeing.

No.

everything is political, and we already have a board called i love everything, so do the math(s) people

God damn commies

the threads are not the thing affecting posters’ well being. I voted no and I’m right.

tombot otm

no

Voting no that is

bg otm

looks like we may have a horse race after all, ladies and gentlemen

voted no

in fact we need to start eliminating boards

Lol, didn't realize this was such an unpopular idea based on the discussion in the other thread.

its ok that ppl disagree with each other

in fact if we hadnt abandoned that basic principle oh six years ago we would prob be ok today

everything is political, and we already have a board called i love everything, so do the math(s) people

― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, September 9, 2018 9:11 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

God damn love too luv commies

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, September 9, 2018 9:13 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the threads are not the thing affecting posters’ well being. I voted no and I’m right.

― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Sunday, September 9, 2018 9:21 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all otm. voted no.

Lol luv u bae

Are you talking about political disagreements or disagreements over a new forum?

xxp

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

xp *waves at everything*

So I agree that we should be more welcoming of different opinions, but I think the forum question is more about accommodating people who feel overwhelmed by politics in general, and would like a break from dealing with these threads constantly being at the top of SNA.

Never saw anyone nitpick this much when the other boards were first created

Convenient eh

a break from dealing with these threads constantly being at the top of SNA.

I am really unsympathetic to the notion that this creates some kind of genuine unavoidable psychological/emotional hardship

Voted no

A hearty no.

I don't exactly get it either, but I take other posters complaints at face value unless given a good reason not to.

xp

Still have hopes for the silent majority

should there be an I love music

Exactly

No i love politics no i love music

that's an argument for "no" surely?

But there still is an i love music

I voted yes without really giving it any thought. If you had a specific political board, maybe people would be more inclined to start a thread on, I don't know, Edmund Muskie. But Trump has been so exhausting--I don't post very often on the Trump threads anymore--I don't have any strong feelings on the issue.

Hell no, shit no, fuck no -- there's my 3 votes.

bad idea

I voted yes because I am pro-compartmentalization in all things.

democracy sucks

I voted no out of badness but really where's the harm?

that was me in the gay marriage ref

high five

injust want to make it clear i voted yes to gay marriage that was a joke post on ilxor.com

I want a messageboard where people are more positive towards the poisonous corrupt psychopaths that are making many ppl's lives not worth living to the point of suicide. FFS I'm not asking for a lot!

deems backtracking on a joke is why this place is going to hell. #voteno

vote yes on the no option

I want a messageboard where people are more positive towards the poisonous corrupt psychopaths that are making many ppl's lives not worth living to the point of suicide.

Ok, this is a slightly unfair characterization of politics thread posters.

not really in the context of this thread tbh!

i thought calz was talking about left twitter tbh

Insane Harlequin Posse

Pumpernickel is one of the few foods I would describe as entirely irredeemable tbf

Germanophobe.

It doesn't even fry well

I don’t think anyone should be looking to you for cooking tips lj

Pumpernickel is a wonderful word.

#onethread, like Q, is liquid and adaptive. you cannot "go against" #onethread, because it's like time and Joe Biden - it only moves forward.

xps

Everything is political, though. Why even...(looks around, picks up bong)...even this is political, when you really think about it (lights bong, tokes bong).

the prospect of being able to color-code pol threads in SNA is mouth watering

I vote yes

It's almost like my reputation for cooking is still founded on what I did when I was 21, as opposed to now, when I will merely fry the pumpernickel and attempt to use it as a soup dip

wait - we should have a ballot poll about this.

one that ends on election day 2024

imago, my reputation for cooking is 90% anecdotes about me getting fry oil on my arm and whining about it and complaining about how it itches. so what i'm trying to say is: i bet you're an amazing cook!

I'm pretty good, I usually don't place the entire frying pan in the oven and then handle it ungloved

What I'm trying to say is, that was a one-off and I'm learning

Growing

FPs on I Love Politics should count twice.

Careful what you wish for.

i like the idea of having an entirely new, experimental FP system for ILP

Can we all just get together and celebrate how we have all grown as chefs over the past four years

In the time of Trump

I've put a lot of work into my chef's kiss, definitely working at the pro level at this point

It's almost like my reputation for cooking is still founded on what I did when I was 21, as opposed to now, when I will merely fry the pumpernickel and attempt to use it as a soup dip

Is it growth to have the same pot of soup on the stove for the whole four years idk

*eleven hour

Look, swede softens at its own pace okay

And my food poisoning scare was because my organic delivery service was hiding tiny slugs in the pak choi, I didn't manage to wash them all off, must have eaten a few. Not the chef's fault that. Not a cheffing error

lj irl https://i.imgur.com/NNa1oCB.jpg

The ideal onion soup broils for like 2.5 hours on a low heat, I thought this was common scientific knowledge

Boils, even. I used broil because it's a cooler word, yet inaccurate

Can we do four borads, e.g.

I Love US Politics

I Love UK Politics

I Love Other Anglo Politics

I Love Other Non-Anglo Politics

Mods ban pom for “Anglo”

I Love Broiling

I Love Brawling

I Love Bowling

I thought of you while writing that. <3

xp

you can forget that doughnut

I Poll Lolitics

Alright, alright, we can throw in a fifth borad, I Love Celtic Politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4O1A-mmBWw

Eire Love Politics surely

I'm 100% in favor of a politics board

This is a good idea but

Having an movie board sadly doesn’t keep movie stuff off ILE

RIP

have one main ILE board and an option to tag subcategories on threads - film, games, books, politics, etc. then people can filter 'em but they're all still in a big list so people can see and comment

If a talkie is discussed on ILE it's a movie, if it's discussed on ILF it's Film

pumpernickel is fine, quit slandering pumpernickel

Gonna immolate in the great Bread Polls of 2021

...which is what I envision for an ILE freed from political shackles

we have an i love football board and the most popular football thread - by a loooong distance - is always posted on i love everything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I Love Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh...

This is a good idea but

Having an movie board sadly doesn’t keep movie stuff off ILE

RIP

― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 20:30 (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is the thing, youd need mods to agree to ban fuckers who didnt comply

ppl piping in w the naysaying shhhhh