mugabe_glasses posted:so no cats then?
mugabe_glasses posted:how i embed those
square bracket video tags. you used to need to also change https to http but dr cat might ahve fixed it
mugabe_glasses posted:also who was everyone on lf, please identify yourselves to me
I was Aberrant Beast, a person who posted like twice before forgetting my password and the e-mail account tied to my account. I wasn't handing over another 10$ to get back on. The e-mail/password thing is the same reason why I don't post on wddp. I got my account reactivated twice but then remembered I had no way to log in. I'm a natural born lurker so it isn't like anything of value was lost.
was a lf meme emoticon & there fore also the reason it's here on this forum. So you can't really deny the fact that I've contributed something concrete to this forum, no matter how swampman tries to Stalinize me. (Bad thing to do btw. Stalin was bad. Mad?)
innsmouthful posted:my favorite wddp-lf drama moment was the impper fiasco with his debut "novel," fuck and destroy
i assume the next big one will proceed from allowing you, an actual professed fascist iirc, to continue posting here
cars posted:innsmouthful posted:
my favorite wddp-lf drama moment was the impper fiasco with his debut "novel," fuck and destroy
i assume the next big one will proceed from allowing you, an actual professed fascist iirc, to continue posting here
is this true innsmouthful, are you really a fascist
cars posted:his av is Francis parker yockey, but get this: possibly ironically.
innsmouthful how do you feel about white genocide
but I think it's important to know that I EXTREMELY wanted to name my kitties belphegor and abaddon, but my partner wasn't into it
mugabe_glasses posted:belphegor! I dunno if you're being sarcastic because I'm experiencing a sort of irony overload here because this place has a VERY high dose of ironic distance that I am still getting used to
but I think it's important to know that I EXTREMELY wanted to name my kitties belphegor and abaddon, but my partner wasn't into it
I'm not being sarcastic 
I am still not used to the ironic distance myself. those are badass kitty names
I arrived at this forum after a pretty rapid shift in my beliefs ( I was pretty religious and pacifist, now I am less religious and no longer pacifist) so I am still learning how to Post in a way that does not betray my naivete/sincerity.
some misanthrope may come along now and quote this entire post back into the thread without comment as some sort of 'own' . then I will be sad but it will pass. Irony is good but we must all continue to stave off the poisoning by taking vitamins, which in this case are wholesome memes, or christian wholesome memes if you prefer.
Belphegor posted:mugabe_glasses posted:
belphegor! I dunno if you're being sarcastic because I'm experiencing a sort of irony overload here because this place has a VERY high dose of ironic distance that I am still getting used to
but I think it's important to know that I EXTREMELY wanted to name my kitties belphegor and abaddon, but my partner wasn't into it
I'm not being sarcastic I am still not used to the ironic distance myself. those are badass kitty names
I arrived at this forum after a pretty rapid shift in my beliefs ( I was pretty religious and pacifist, now I am less religious and no longer pacifist) so I am still learning how to Post in a way that does not betray my naivete/sincerity.
some misanthrope may come along now and quote this entire post back into the thread without comment as some sort of 'own' . then I will be sad but it will pass. Irony is good but we must all continue to stave off the poisoning by taking vitamins, which in this case are wholesome memes, or christian wholesome memes if you prefer.
belphegor i think we will get along fine, comrade
Belphegor posted:whoa its crazy that some of yall have like a decade of posting history in one political forum or another. Considering the attrition rate of 'being mad online', you veterans must have indomitable wills and/or commitment to the immortal science.
there aren't a lot of places to go online if you want to discuss Ultra Left HD topics so you kind of have to make do with what's available
the hardest part for me over the years was watching the communities fragment repeatedly over minor issues and then refuse to open their doors to new members, especially after i warned people multiple times that it was a sure path to a dead community. unsurprisingly that's pretty much what ended up happening. this is the only forum so far that's actually done things the right way imo. a front page to invite new people, open registration and a light-handed moderation
you done good rhizzone
mugabe_glasses posted:do any of y'all commies/non-misanthropes find that it is possible to actually engage with people like the goat and this crypto-fascist guy in good faith?
some people try but you have to understand that we're a lot more relaxed here than other places. if somebody says something stupid or inconsiderate they tend to just get downvoted and maybe a few words are exchanged before everyone moves on. you learn from your mistakes (hopefully) and become a better person/poster
Synergy posted:Belphegor posted:
whoa its crazy that some of yall have like a decade of posting history in one political forum or another. Considering the attrition rate of 'being mad online', you veterans must have indomitable wills and/or commitment to the immortal science.
there aren't a lot of places to go online if you want to discuss Ultra Left HD topics so you kind of have to make do with what's available
the hardest part for me over the years was watching the communities fragment repeatedly over minor issues and then refuse to open their doors to new members, especially after i warned people multiple times that it was a sure path to a dead community. unsurprisingly that's pretty much what ended up happening. this is the only forum so far that's actually done things the right way imo. a front page to invite new people, open registration and a light-handed moderation
you done good rhizzone
this is not my experience of what happens when you close the doors to a community.
when I mentioned that I felt like shevek from annares i meant that on multiple levels and i keep finding more the longer i stay
Synergy posted:mugabe_glasses posted:
do any of y'all commies/non-misanthropes find that it is possible to actually engage with people like the goat and this crypto-fascist guy in good faith?
some people try but you have to understand that we're a lot more relaxed here than other places. if somebody says something stupid or inconsiderate they tend to just get downvoted and maybe a few words are exchanged before everyone moves on. you learn from your mistakes (hopefully) and become a better person/poster
this is a very interesting approach. it has it's advantages, but absolutely has its drawbacks.
it makes the ironic distance necessary, you can't be vulnerable here.
it forces you to engage with certain kinds of ideologies or dynamics and harden to them, but it also thickens the callouses.
it's important to have armor, but imo it's also important to have spaces to take off that armor and actually feel the things that consume us.
do y'all feel like being in the habit of irony posting so much ever impacts your ability to turn it off?
interesting. this is all very interesting. iiiiiinteresting interesting place you all have here.
cars posted:tHE r H i z z o n E is both bad and good, i claim.
this is the position i am beginning to lean toward also
I want to understand, please rephrase
but it is okay fbi because it is with legal drugs
hi mugabe_glasses, welcome (back?) to the slow burning garbage dump that is "the rhizzone". i appreciate your cat tweets
also hello everyone else.
i am the curmudgeonly, neglectful site admin. if something is wrong on the website, you can yell at me over and over and over about it and sometimes i will listen. most of it dates from far before my time but i can often(?) fix it. enjoy all the bad posts!
mugabe_glasses posted:do y'all feel like being in the habit of irony posting so much ever impacts your ability to turn it off?
no, because i have other communities and relationships where i can be heartfelt, open and genuine. i want to say though, that this space isn't exclusively a dialectical crucible of conflict where everyone needs to have their "armour up" all the time.
the community here has grown up and matured from its origins. what is acceptable in a conversation can vary from thread to thread, and most people here are adult enough to recognize and respect those differences. there are spaces for rude and rowdy sparring conflict; there are spaces for scholarly reading, teaching, and learning; and there are spaces for grieving and nurturing.
sometimes that breaks down, this place definitely isn't designed for mental health support and shouldn't be treated as such. it's good to recognize that this space can't be everything, can't fill everyone's needs. but i think it's a mistake to pigeonhole the entire community as an all irony all the time free for all.
drwhat posted:the slow burning garbage dump that is "the rhizzone".
yeah as an addendum to my warm cozy post above, we are all terrible garbage and deserve each other.
mugabe_glasses posted:also who was everyone on lf, please identify yourselves to me
i was and am urbandale
Belphegor posted:whoa its crazy that some of yall have like a decade of posting history in one political forum or another. Considering the attrition rate of 'being mad online', you veterans must have indomitable wills and/or commitment to the immortal science.
or nothing better to do
mugabe_glasses posted:also who was everyone on lf, please identify yourselves to me
the only thing of note i did was post that google maps shot of groverhaus and gave one of the mods his address which in retrospect was probably a mistake
PS I don't think I ever properly thanked you for that care package you sent me in Panama. Thanks dude!