Are you not not going to watch the Oscars this year?

[epilogue]

How does one know if one is Communist?

The government will tell you

What positions in the government do Mickey and Malloy hold?

[Malloy]

Two pages away from being longer than the Does Anybody Care About the Economy thread

my grin’s aspect is cheshire-adjacent

[JuanHamm]

It is kinda funny watching the typical white liberal RMer try to wrap their heads around Harmless's leftist morality and ideology, as if it was the same as theirs.

"Why isn't he understanding that ____ is wrong?"

Because his entire moral framework, which admittedly is repugnant and uninformed, is utterly alien to yours. He isn't on your team.

Misgendering, intentional or otherwise, is word violence. Prepare to get slapped, Nazi!

It's certainly worse than Chris Rock's joke.

[BurtReynolds]

It is kinda funny watching the typical white liberal RMer try to wrap their heads around Harmless's leftist morality and ideology, as if it was the same as theirs.

"Why isn't he understanding that ____ is wrong?"

Because his entire moral framework, which admittedly is repugnant and uninformed, is utterly alien to yours. He isn't on your team.

Ms. H (her!) posted enthusiastic support for the Roxane Gay pablum, this is a debate between strands of liberalism bub.

I wouldn't call that liberalism, but I don't want to get bogged down over labels. Difference is what matters here.

And Ms. Harmless's persona is frozen in my mind as Lightning Bolt Obsession era Harmless. Feels like yesterday. It will take some time.

[Mickey]

I think we should be lenient with Burt, I don't think it was intentional. He simply hasn't spoken to a woman since the first Obama presidency.

[Chris_H_2]

has this thread bled into domestic abuse yet? I’m pretty sure that, based on Harmless’s logic, my father would’ve been justified long ago in open palming my mother considering the way she talks to him.

[washing machine]

Two pages away from being longer than the Does Anybody Care About the Economy thread

But we are talking about communism so...

Solidarity brother

Thank you for the small contribution to further harmless's page count cause.

Not that she needs anyone to say so on her behalf

[Ms Harmless]

It is kinda funny watching the typical white liberal RMer try to wrap their heads around Harmless's leftist morality and ideology, as if it was the same as theirs.

"Why isn't he understanding that ____ is wrong?"

Because his entire moral framework, which admittedly is repugnant and uninformed, is utterly alien to yours. He isn't on your team.

Ms. H (her!) posted enthusiastic support for the Roxane Gay pablum, this is a debate between strands of liberalism bub.

I wouldn't call that liberalism, but I don't want to get bogged down over labels. Difference is what matters here.

And Ms. Harmless's persona is frozen in my mind as Lightning Bolt Obsession era Harmless. Feels like yesterday. It will take some time.

you might want to work on that if it results in thinking of me as a man; I don't care about the LB stuff

[BurtReynolds]

It is kinda funny watching the typical white liberal RMer try to wrap their heads around Harmless's leftist morality and ideology, as if it was the same as theirs.

"Why isn't he understanding that ____ is wrong?"

Because his entire moral framework, which admittedly is repugnant and uninformed, is utterly alien to yours. He isn't on your team.

Ms. H (her!) posted enthusiastic support for the Roxane Gay pablum, this is a debate between strands of liberalism bub.

I wouldn't call that liberalism, but I don't want to get bogged down over labels. Difference is what matters here.

And Ms. Harmless's persona is frozen in my mind as Lightning Bolt Obsession era Harmless. Feels like yesterday. It will take some time.

you might want to work on that if it results in thinking of me as a man; I don't care about the LB stuff

I'll think about you how I wish, but I'll call you whatever you want.

[Malloy]

How does one know if one is Communist?

familiarizing oneself w the vast literature on communism & from communists isn’t the worse place to start. like conservatism & liberalism, there are internecine debates about who is and isn’t doing it.

[Ms Harmless]

has this thread bled into domestic abuse yet? I’m pretty sure that, based on Harmless’s logic, my father would’ve been justified long ago in open palming my mother considering the way she talks to him.

GOD I love data, don't you?

[Anders]

Don’t understand why anyone would be a Stalinist.

[JuanHamm]

has this thread bled into domestic abuse yet? I’m pretty sure that, based on Harmless’s logic, my father would’ve been justified long ago in open palming my mother considering the way she talks to him.

You aren't taking into account the power differential between them

[Ms Harmless]

It is kinda funny watching the typical white liberal RMer try to wrap their heads around Harmless's leftist morality and ideology, as if it was the same as theirs.

"Why isn't he understanding that ____ is wrong?"

Because his entire moral framework, which admittedly is repugnant and uninformed, is utterly alien to yours. He isn't on your team.

Ms. H (her!) posted enthusiastic support for the Roxane Gay pablum, this is a debate between strands of liberalism bub.

I wouldn't call that liberalism, but I don't want to get bogged down over labels. Difference is what matters here.

And Ms. Harmless's persona is frozen in my mind as Lightning Bolt Obsession era Harmless. Feels like yesterday. It will take some time.

you might want to work on that if it results in thinking of me as a man; I don't care about the LB stuff

I'll think about you how I wish, but I'll call you whatever you want.

you haven't done the latter yet

[Mickey]

It is kinda funny watching the typical white liberal RMer try to wrap their heads around Harmless's leftist morality and ideology, as if it was the same as theirs.

"Why isn't he understanding that ____ is wrong?"

Because his entire moral framework, which admittedly is repugnant and uninformed, is utterly alien to yours. He isn't on your team.

Ms. H (her!) posted enthusiastic support for the Roxane Gay pablum, this is a debate between strands of liberalism bub.

I wouldn't call that liberalism, but I don't want to get bogged down over labels. Difference is what matters here.

I think it's certainly liberalism insofar as neither position divests from liberalism's foundational sense of property rights, but I take your point that it erupts a different sense of individual liberty than some of the board's old faithfuls are used to seeing.

[BurtReynolds]

Don’t understand why anyone would be a Stalinist.

At least they have good memes. Socdems are the absolute worst.

[Mickey]

Don’t understand why anyone would be a Stalinist.

At least they have good memes. Socdems are the absolute worst.

C'mon man. Socdems are bad but the "Thank you Brandon" people are the worst.

[Strat]

I dabbled in pacifism once.

Not in 'nam of course.

[Ms Harmless]

It is kinda funny watching the typical white liberal RMer try to wrap their heads around Harmless's leftist morality and ideology, as if it was the same as theirs.

"Why isn't he understanding that ____ is wrong?"

Because his entire moral framework, which admittedly is repugnant and uninformed, is utterly alien to yours. He isn't on your team.

Ms. H (her!) posted enthusiastic support for the Roxane Gay pablum, this is a debate between strands of liberalism bub.

I wouldn't call that liberalism, but I don't want to get bogged down over labels. Difference is what matters here.

I think it's certainly liberalism insofar as neither position divests from liberalism's foundational sense of property rights, but I take your point that it erupts a different sense of individual liberty than some of the board's old faithfuls are used to seeing.

and I'm more interested in that "different sense of individual liberty" than a lot of communists would need me to be to welcome me into their club

[McParadigm]

My entire take on this is that it’s really funny how Chris Rock thought cancel culture was going to silence comedians….and then he found out that just like everyone else on earth, his actual problem was the people who are rich and entitled enough to step onstage and slap you on live TV without consequence.