NotBritishorSouthern
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NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
Maybe I asked the wrong question since you chose to answer a different one, do you need me to rephrase?
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
I'm a huge fan of childhood bullying, I would not be nearly as tolerable a person were it not for bullies rounding out my rough edges
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
There is a finite amount of time and energy in any given lifetime but there are virtually infinite ways to spend them - choose wisely
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
If one were to point someone to incontrovertible evidence that the Third Reich tried to systematically murder every Jew in Europe, what would that be?
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
"This is the best place there is, so we should never critique it" is terrible advice. I'm sorry for cheaply paraphrasing what you said but it's how it read to me. This is the best place there is, you're right. It's worth trying to protect and cherish.
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
The cultural impact in the West of indians landing on the moon is as near to zero as makes no difference. Especially compared to this song
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
It's an objectively huge stone dropped in the culture pond that's making ripples and the community kind of didn't give a shit. Not having our finger on the cultural pulse is everyone's problem
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
Is the engagement here going up? Steadily? And what medium are we using to monitor that?
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
That might be true now, or more appropriately I should say that might be becoming increasingly true, but in my experience if I checked the motte in the morning I'd be up-to-date on the culture war for the afternoon. Many, many examples spring to mind but let's just give one good one - I learned here there was a man named "George Floyd'
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
I didn't know Joe the Plumber died but I absolutely remember him being a cultural touchstone for years. That culture is also dead. Fortunately someone wrote a good song about it for once
PS @Zorba is it just me? Trying to navigate in the response box is just miserable. Everytime I try to select something the box greys out instead
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
If the populist conservatives took power, they would be incapable of wielding it since their policies lack depth beyond SJWs bad but trans people with MAGA hats good.
Here are three policy positions that virtually every populist conservative would cream their pants at. You can think they're retarded or wrong, but they are actual positions
- Deport anyone here illegally
- Start paying down the national debt
- No more foreign wars
If you choose to believe that your enemies are all clowns without depth that's your choice. 'Nazi' is a derogatory nickname for 'Ignatius' - a common Bavarian peasant name.
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
I feel all that Hard and I'm still inclined to say I'm still surprised by the depths of their depravity sometimes. The autistic teenaged girl in England being manhandled and thrown in a cage for telling the lesbian-nana-looking cop she looked like her lesbian nana surprised me
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
More that they were wrong to dismiss it - but rereading my op I'm understanding why people took it as a personal attack. Brevity may be the soul of wit but y'all love the limbs and outer flourishes
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
"It went viral, therefore I was right and you were wrong" is a silly argument
Why 'paraphrase' (read: make something up) rather than respond to what I actually said? I asserted that it might have legs. Turns out I was right. How is that an argument at all, much less a silly one?
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
Rephrasing someone in the least charitable way possible? Great. Sarcastically saying thanks in response? Warning.
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
@Zorba something is up with the site code that makes trying to copy/paste a nightmare. It just doesn't work right. It either tries to copy or paste more than what one was trying to. Something is also up with text selection in the response box, selecting and editing text is completely borked. Trying to right click an incorrecrly spelled word for example will grey out the entire box module. I replicated these error on brave (chrome) and edge
rather than helping people like you get their latest CW fix.
That seems like a really uncharitable way to describe having previously enjoyed this spot as central source of important developments
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
Because I'm just a guy. I don't work at the world bank and have special insight into global financial markets or work at google and have personal knowledge of the tech world, etc. I'm just some guy. I have no insights or historical context or enlightened commentary to share. Someone who knows what they're talking about should've brought it up so I didn't have to 'wing it'
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
It doesn't have to be 5 paragraphs on new housing developments in bolivia or me halfheartedly throwing out something actually important - there is a happy middle ground we used to tread
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
Okay, boo hoo, i was wrong, everything was shit. My bad. on me. It's still bigger than the indians landing on the moon. Even the fact you're bitching about it now is part of it being the biggest story in the world. It should have been brought up here by someone else than me going 'uh guys maybe take a look' and you being so dismissive of it is part of the story
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
The format is impenetrable - I am too old. Flying cats and bussy and sparkles and it's just too much. It's not for lack of trying. But still grateful for your advice
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
I don't think we're ever going to be the place to get a bunch of low-effort hot-takes on whatever the current thing is.
Please point to where I asked for this. Thanks in advance.
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
just because virtually everything is fake and gay doesn't necessitate that literally everything is. the guy went on joe rogan and spoke his mind. Much of it was retarded to be sure, but your claim is extraordinary and would benefit from evidence
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
I used to feel like a guy being traffic among Mario Andretti's, now I'm the guy with the stick like 'c'mon, do something already'
You don't see the problem with the board caustically dismissing a song as huge as 'Rich men north of richmond' and I was the one that had to bring it up in the first place. Maybe that is a problem in and of itself
NotBritishorSouthern
8mo ago
It's getting unavoidable - the quality of news and novel information obtained from time here is crashing. I used to hear things here first - now I usually don't hear them here at all.
Recently I brought up Rich Men North of Richmond - only because no one else did - and pretty well everyone shit on it for one reason or another. 'Should've sang about this instead,' 'this song is better,' 'why'd he bring this up' etc. But it's the biggest song on the planet. You were all wrong and I was right to bring it to your attention. How can we raise the quality of posts back to be worthy of attention, so readers are informed about developments in the culture war?
The average iq here is probably 135 and you talk about us like a parent with naughty children. It's pathological.
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