Ironicwarcriminal posted:

This forum is more tragic than ‘funny’…..not tragic as in all the posters are sad specimens but tragic as in there’s a grand tragedy being played out and we’re watching it like those old muppet men at the theatre

every blog i read and forum i post on is this pretty much

tpaine posted:

HenryKrinkle posted:

exclusive footage of lurker discovering this thread found:

shit is crazy

thanks for the translation

Crow posted:

what do you LURKERS think of someone trying to write about things? Yay or nay? Should they stay shut up inside their house? Very pressing questions for communists everywhere

they should stay shut up but be allowed to go wherever. parks are nice

enayeneh posted:

i dont organize politically offline because ive got a job motherfucker like i got time to join up wit some Progressive White Leftist dudes just so that i can be sexually assaulted at some point in the future

hahaha, hell fucking yes. thank you for emerging anyways, sister.

also screee, the threadruining not aside, i agree. don't die, Rhizzone!

innsmouthful posted:

is tom ever coming back

tom is "around" you might say

discipline posted:

I'm really lucky to have such kind and supportive men in my life that will put me in my place whenever I try and do something like write more frequently on a blog and promote it on my blog's twitter account

i like ur blog, if it matters

cleanhands posted:

tpaine posted:
thug lesions said he doesn't like anyone here and doesn't post. i remember because iasked him if i was cool and he said yeah. so there you go

he posts in ycs but not very well

ddont cross the streams~!

parabolart posted:

nfkjdfgksbnguilergn

best avy + custom color combo on this forum imo

jools posted:

seriously though you basically restated a lot of what i was trying to say to khamsek - particularly in respect to moralism, which i think is at the root of attempts at representation and punditry - but in this weird view-from-nowhere zizekian way.

additionally you contradict yourself on... more than one occasion.

first you complain about people play-acting at revolutionary communism (which i've uh, complained about more than once) and then you complain about my approach of attempting to write not "on" but "about" leads to a point where "one has to dismiss the *very idea of communist propaganda*. bWUH?!"

isn't it kind of weird, when, according to you, we're not a revolutionary party or whatever, to have communist propaganda as our main goal or something?

anyway, what do you understand by communist propaganda here? isn't engaging in actual critique, rather than criticism, the basis of all communist propaganda? like, marx didn't just take the gotha program and say "well we should actually do the opposite of this because what lassalle says is good is actually bad and vice versa", he engaged in immanent critique of that thing. which is really what i'm suggesting taryn should have done. yes the article is very short - perhaps it's too short to address the subject matter substantially?

and at the end, i think you completely misidentify what leads to the mean-spirited attitude. like b&w said above, i don't think i called dean a fucking moron due to chauvinism (is calling lloyd blankfein a fucking moron antisemitic?), but because of substantial issues that i had with the stuff she writes. the problem is, neither you nor khamsek ever actually bother to engage with anything, i either get weird appeals to authority (like the phd thing above or being told to "ask her myself" after i tried to get some idea of what khamsek's reading of dean was), or i get irrelevant ink-clouds, like you spewed out in the zizek thread. that's the kind of thing that really generates a mean-spirited attitude, a sense that criticisms of a substantial nature get derailed and abstracted to other issues.

this is also why i regularly accuse you of not reading anything, because the manner you (fail) to engage with what i or others say indicates you probably have no idea what you're talking about.

additionally, yes, MM's post about cybersyn generated some serious discussion - but neither goey nor mistersix are around any more to say that kind of thing. i was really disappointed when i spent a week writing 8000 words that the most interesting comments i got were on fucking twitter than this place, where i mostly got boring agreement with no contribution rather than any development or dispute.

it just seems really weird you making a post about how everything sucks when you're really part of the problem yourself man. it sucks when you post pictures to run away from a discussion.

cleanhands posted:

im torn bc jools has, on a few occasions, encouraged me to expand on stuff ive played around with for a few paragraphs. i never do because i dont (yet) self-identify as a writer, but i do appreciate that he does this. on the other hand hes acting like hes discipline's dad or TA or something and i wish hed cut it out even if i dont know either of them

"Women Need To Appreciate Their Man's Efforts
A girl wanted a blogpost
But her comrade gave her a Revolutionary criticism
In anger the girl threw the blogpost on the twitter
the comrade went to take it back but he was hit by a lurker and died
At his funeral, the girl cried and hugged the blogpost and it made a comment,
"I think youre really smart but also a piece of shit?" (an upovte was inside the post's pocket)"

Upvote if you lurk every time

libelous_slander posted:

It's also the case that with the anonymity and distance provided by the internet, posters are emboldened by a lack of consequence to their thoughts and musings. Consequently, when then barriers begin to dissipate through social networking and real life interactions, the consequences of baser human nature and behavior begin to have adverse effects. While a strange poster on the internet can be ignored, never replied to again, once the person has entered the real, perceived slights can be amplified. hence reality drama. This can be avoided by simply going outside

haha it's cool that in 2013, posting on facebook is 'entering the real"