Re: The what ever thread...
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:30 pm
actually that was a more mellow thread really.. 
It's not like we all ended up hating each other 
It's not like we all ended up hating each other dubkitty wrote:Jesus Christ, DoS, how do you remember all that shit? I don't even remember it.
i used to be a lot more argumentative online. i also used to be pretty conservative. it's a tricky thing...conservatism is logic-driven IF you accept its assumptions. but like they say in college, logicis not truth. i got conservative when i was living and working in San Francisco and was doing pretty well for myself, but after i lost the house and had to leave California i found myself needing help from sources i used to decry like the two-years extension in unemployment benefits that Obama did. once i found myself in that position i could no longer support policies which assume that everybody can thrive without government facilitation.
now i don't really know what i believe. Communism didn't work, capitalism doesn't work, socialism to an extent seems to work OK in Europe if you discard the American assumption that year-to-year growth is the be-all/end-all outcome. but would it work in the US, a much larger and more diverse place than the typical European country? i dunno. Lately i'm preoccupied with the question of whether Nazis should have free speech rights or whether Antifa is a good thing. i dunno.
i guess i also saw that my argumentative presentation was just what i hated in other internet users. i was being THAT guy, and it also took too much out of me. i can't get as invested in words on a comments section--the scourge of the internet!--as some commenters can be. nowadays i look at the first few comments and if the tone is too nasty i just click back out of it. really, i tend to post less frequently on my forums thqn i used to, because feel like i have less and less to say.
I enjoyed this exchangeD.o.S. wrote:For better or worse I am librarian.
Also I always thought you were a fun poster
And that thread indeed seemed to resolve more civilly... the passing years have gotten intensely more polarized. But yep, the stuff about Nazis and Antifa is something that occupies a lot of my thoughts as of late, and while I don't post a ton on the politics thread, I found this particular podcast pretty great:
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house ... ider-81717
Kind of shocks me that Chapo Trap House hasn't come up more on this board, as I imagine it'd be right up many an ILFer's alley, but there's some specifically great stuff in this one on the topic of how people on the right seem to think that by being violent, Antifa are somehow on par with hate groups (they're not). Anyway... as usual, love this damn board, love y'all.
