version

Well-known member
Also version, I'm afraid that new avatar does not suit you. It lacks a certain mystique.
mctongue-pic.jpg
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I'll accept the dedication to conflict when Biscuits argues with HMGovt and Chava the way he does Tea.
Well there he merely lacks the requisite tension between HMGovt or Chava, IE its not really exciting for anyone participating or observing.
 

version

Well-known member
If the natural state of man is conflict then there should be tension, particularly since those three are evidently the most masculine on this "feminised" forum.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
I don't think you can call a place prone to pages and pages of insult and argument, where you can say whatever you want, "consensus.com".
I appreciate yr efforts at common sense but cmon dude this whole line of attack is so dumb that it's not worth engaging. I mean "haha dissensus more like CONsensus amirite" is on the level of I'm rubber you're glue, when you hear it coming from an adult you just feel embarrassed for them. Biscuits just wants to drag you into his typical sealioning bullshit.

If he and chava and whoever want to sit in a corner and whine about being canceled (despite having never been censored in any way) and consensus.com and Jordan Peterson fanboi bullshit and whatever else, let them. Like most "canceled" ppl no one is stopping them from participating in the actual discussion.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I think we need to finally address the elephant in the room, and thats why version can't stick with an avatar for longer than it takes for a new regional crisis to emerge.
 

version

Well-known member
I think we need to finally address the elephant in the room, and thats why version can't stick with an avatar for longer than it takes for a new regional crisis to emerge.

I've a complex and secretive system explaining how each image moves with the rhythm of the day.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
why would autistics care about biscuits infantile progressivisms? he loves this word like he wants to shag a 22 year old like craner did at the office. Hamas are autistics, not progressives. the fact that he can't understand this...
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
There was a good discussion of the hypocrisy of so-called free speech advocates yesterday here. Their apparent principles have completely gone out the window when it comes to Israel.

I don't mean all of them - Glenn Greenwald himself opposes cancel culture and limits on free speech to a large extent (as would I). But some of the right-wing and liberal critics of cancel culture have exposed themselves as completely disingenuous if that wasn't clear already.
It's been crystal clear from day one

People yelling about cancel culture are generally the same exact people who want to ban books, ban queer people from public life, mandate their own fantasy version of history (i.e. "slavery taught slaves useful skills"), etc.

Scratch a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist and 99/100 you'll find someone who actually wants the freedom to say whatever he wants without consequence and the ability to ban whatever he doesn't like. And usually what they want the freedom to say without consequence is that black people or Jews or trans people or feminism or whatever are the evil root of all society's ills.

And dog whistling is a very real thing btw. It was a cornerstone of Republican strategy in the south for decades. It's the exactly how Marine Le Pen has repackaged the National Front. Etc. And both wokeness and cancel culture have been almost exclusively RW talking points for a lot of years now. Getting canceled is basically a mandatory career move for starting a pundit grift on Fox News/OAN. You don't even need to fuck off to Gab/Rumble etc ever since famous free speech absolutist (except for yunno Saudi Arabia or any other authoritarian regime he's beholden to, or anyone he disagrees with) Elon Musk bought Twitter. So I find this handwringing about "the authoritarian left" - a tiny, marginal grouping in Western society - at best unconvincing, if not actively disingenuous.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
Back on topic, Blinken said today that the endgame in Gaza should be a handover to the Palestinian Authority, so the groundwork for that eventuality is already being laid
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Back on topic, Blinken said today that the endgame in Gaza should be a handover to the Palestinian Authority, so the groundwork for that eventuality is already being laid

yup. keep hamas on life support as a response to the corruption of the PA whilst US and UK imperialists funnel weapons to Israel. basically, business as usual.
 

version

Well-known member
It's been crystal clear from day one

People yelling about cancel culture are generally the same exact people who want to ban books, ban queer people from public life, mandate their own fantasy version of history (i.e. "slavery taught slaves useful skills"), etc.

Scratch a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist and 99/100 you'll find someone who actually wants the freedom to say whatever he wants without consequence and the ability to ban whatever he doesn't like. And usually what they want the freedom to say without consequence is that black people or Jews or trans people or feminism or whatever are the evil root of all society's ills.

Same goes for the free market lot. Worship at the altar whilst doing everything they can to insulate themselves from it. Bailouts, lobbying. Anything to rig it in their favour.
 

mixed_biscuits

_________________________
I'll accept the dedication to conflict when Biscuits argues with HMGovt and Chava the way he does Tea.
I haven't felt motivated to upbraid Chava for anything because I consider him the most oppressed member of the forum. As for HMGovt I think it's acceptable to partner up albeit always serendipitously like two maverick Tom Cruises buzzing the Death Star along different flight paths. The mob-handed rabble of the prorg circle jerkers is several steps of solidarity too far, however.
 
Top