Original RI quotes only

[Joe Hillshoist]

I like to think about how a sphere is actually a flat shape, just eternal, connected everywhere. This is why I don't need pot.

[Jeff]

This is a moment of truth and horror.

[wintler2]

Basically, you can't un-teach an old dog old dog-whistles, Praise be Unto Someone/Something. Mostly because it's due to to it that I'm in a position to be very grateful to all the posters here from whom I've learned both facts and perspectives that were as totally new to me as they were totally old hat to them, due to their willingness patiently to make the case for them on its merits as best they could instead of going the sneer-at-the-innocent-newbie route. ..

[hanshan]

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compared2what? wrote:



Fuck this shit. I don't care how far off-script I'm going. Because like JackR,
I value sustained and immersive reading,
for which there is no substitute. It just wouldn't
occur to me to say so in this context, because I regard
the article in the OP as a cheap imitation of the very thing I
value rather than an occasion for contemplating it, purely owing
to my personal and pre-existing biases. Which arise from all the
time I wasted telling assorted honchos in assorted media genres
that the issue wasn't that the available readership/audience had
a natural attention span of two seconds, but rather that their
readership/audience had a natural attention span of two seconds,
because that's who you attract when you....Oh, the hell with it.
I give up. Again.

call a spade a spade - love it



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[Searcher08]

Simulist wrote

Right on. Your loyalty is something to be admired, but your conscience is something I admire even more.

[elfismiles]

I grew up in the seventies in Belfast and have had friends and relatives blown up, shot, murdered.
The Israeli approach would have been to turn West Belfast into Dresden.

[Peregrine]

norton ash:

Drop your cocks and grab your socks, comrades.

[Peregrine]

operator kos:

No offense, but I profoundly dislike the sloppy new age thinking which conflates or simplifies all religious beliefs into one happy, feel-good soup. And I also dislike faith generally. As an agnostic, I find it unbelievably presumptuous for any domesticated primate to think they understand the ultimate nature of reality.

norton ash:

O Kos, I'll say a St. Jude novena for you while I tap my chicken foot around the sweat lodge and salaam to Sirius tonight.

operator kos:

Sounds more like a chaos magick ritual than a religious observance. Please don't send your egregores after me!

[elfismiles]

...patriotic, know-nothing populism is a channel of dissent dug by the Corps of Engineers.

[Searcher08]

Creating dialogue may be difficult but echo chambers (are boring and) are fascism in the making.

[Jeff]

I think everybody wants to kill everybody

[Jeff]

The ideology is confusionism, and requires no consistency or sense. The only intelligible goal is to channel and stir up anger at everything other than the real-existing economic system, its inequalities and real configurations of power and privilege. It produces a rationalist reaction, in which people see a cloud of insanity surround all thoughts of radical change, and react by clinging to the status quo. It's happening because the status quo is falling apart. Empires whom the forces of history destroy, they first make mad.

[streeb]

Alwyn wrote:

Truth will out, and I hope Ari's teeny tiny little pecker drops off.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

Ever hear of "megaphone?" Perhaps soon should I decide to make that move you will meet some of my real zionist friends and oh do they love a good debate with internet antisemitic goon squads.

Let the games resume!

Maybe you can have your hardcore friends rappel in and ban everyone in self-defense.

FTW....

[Jeff]

I will fight to the death for your right to make an ass of yourself. Well, almost to the death. Right now it's feeling more like a few minutes from now.