Topics You're Sick Of

[Wikkiwallana]

What are we up to? 2020? 2024?

EDIT: Missed the space bar

I'm interested in who'll be running in 4444, because that's a cool year. Though deaths in office or resignations might mess that up.

Nope. Ascended VPs serve out the remainder of the dead guy's term, they don't get a fresh term of their own.

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

Anarchocapitalism threads. Or any thread that describes "Radical Politics" (any form of anarchism, radical liberalism/"libertarianism", actual socialism/communism, etc.). Or philosophy threads, for that matter.

NSG has a very small base of intellectuals who are capable of debating philosophy intelligently. The vast majority of threads on radical politics (anarcho-whatevers and socialism) end in the center-right/left majority crying "This is ridiculous/'It would never work'" (whatever that means), without substantively addressing the arguments made (if a socialist talks about how self-ordering worker communes could theoretically determine distribution of resources by voluntary collective-decision making, "That would never work" isn't an adequate response. Just like "This is ridiculous" isn't a proper response to an anarcho-liberal describing how spontaneous order would give rise to legal arbitration, etc.)

As for philosophy threads, everyone on NSG and his dog thinks he's a great philosopher, and the demographic is pretty homogenous here. NSGphilosophy is overrun with bumper-sticker littlenietzsches and solipsists, who think they look badass by saying things like "God is Dead", "Cogito ergo sum", and "You can't trust your senses". Look to any philosophy thread (even this "Is coercion moral" question), and you won't find anyone doing the intellectual legwork to make an argument. Even if philosophy requires proofs (just like geometry or any other scientific field), you find one-line posts (usually beginning with the insipid "Well, I think that...", implying that anyone really gives a damn about what "you think" - we're looking for debate: for some contribution to the intellectual community, not your whimsical opinions) like "There is no such thing as morality!" or "Coercion is just a tool!"

While either of those (namely the former, because the latter doesn't address the question of morality at all, it just talks about "coercion" - whatever that is - and how it can be utilized for a purpose) may be true, the vast majority of NSGers who write that sort of stuff don't provide a priori (or any) proofs/reasoning for their views. If they do provide some garbage (and I'm speaking about proponents of all philosophical views - there are idiot anarcho-liberals/voluntarists here too) to substantiate their claims, they don't recognize that it's garbage (in fact, they usually think it's the most fucking brilliant thing ever seen). We get posts like "Whaddya say to that, smart guy?" - for someone who actually has done fairly significant reading/personal work in philosophy, this just makes us sick (like some random observer advising a physician about his diagnosis, then adding, "Ever think of that, did ya?").

There are other people who enjoy studying and debating philosophy on these boards, and I trust that they'll agree with me when I say, I have gained nothing, intellectually, from debating philosophy with other NSGers.

I personally don't mind most debates about specific subjects (animal rights, abortion, mainstream politics, etc.), because these usually consist of people making positive claims about the world (which are fairly easy to disprove, given how ludicrous the assumptions of most NSGers - or people in general - are). I hate these "What if" or "Greatest of" threads, though. Most threads here are garbage, but those threads aren't even shiny garbage.

As for philosophy threads, everyone on NSG and his dog thinks he's a great philosopher, and the demographic is pretty homogenous here.

At best I'm a mediocre student of philosophy and so is my pet fly.

[Ifreann]

I'm interested in who'll be running in 4444, because that's a cool year. Though deaths in office or resignations might mess that up.

Nope. Ascended VPs serve out the remainder of the dead guy's term, they don't get a fresh term of their own.

It's two thousand years away, lots of things can happen.

[Wikkiwallana]

Nope. Ascended VPs serve out the remainder of the dead guy's term, they don't get a fresh term of their own.

It's two thousand years away, lots of things can happen.

Oh like anything noteworthy happened in the last 2000 years…

[Farnhamia]

It's two thousand years away, lots of things can happen.

Oh like anything noteworthy happened in the last 2000 years…

It was just Gallo getting chased out of one country after another and then Europeans discovered the Americas and opened up a whole new world for him to get chased out of.

[Ruridova]

Threads about Obama being a Muslim/Commie/KEnyan/Terrorist/Nazi/Atheist/Illegal/Antchrist
Threads about Religion & about the US being a Christian nation

[Samuraikoku]

Abortion and Falklands.

I think the Argentines should abort the Falklands.

I have. And thus I have murdered our people who went to combat.

[Varijnland]

Gay threads
Trans gendered threads
athiest/religious threads
Eternal threads
"flaming wombat" thread
pony threads

[Ruridova]

Eternal threads

But we enjoy the Eternal Thread!

[Ifreann]

It's two thousand years away, lots of things can happen.

Oh like anything noteworthy happened in the last 2000 years…

Not noteworthy, just enough to bump an election schedule. A little suspension of democracy, maybe. Or loss of the entire presidential line of succession.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

1). Abortion threads;
2). Obama bad/Obama good threads- Yes, he's both good and bad.
3). America being a shithole -guys, we get it, nobody cares what you're saying in real life, so you feel the need to bitch here, that's what forums are for;
4). Communism/capitalism threads -primarily because the only people who seem to support communism these days (aside from some Russians) are a bunch of 13 year old kids on internet forums;
5). Atheist-God threads;
6). Legalization of drugs;
7). Make gun ownership compulsory/ban guns.

[New Sparta 1309]

mlp

[Costa Fiero]

Threads mentioning Kosovo. Threads mentioning Israel. Threads mentioning threads that annoy people.

It's also really annoying that there are little to no threads about cars.

[Ifreann]

mlp

Stay out of Arts & Fiction, then. We live there. *nods*

[Samuraikoku]

It's also really annoying that there are little to no threads about cars.

Why just cars?

[Costa Fiero]

It's also really annoying that there are little to no threads about cars.

Why just cars?

Because I don't like motorcycles.

[Milks Empire]

It's also really annoying that there are little to no threads about cars.

Then bloody start one!

[Strykla]

Politicks! Politicks! I HATE POLITICKS!

[Blakk Metal]

Eternal threads

But we enjoy the Eternal Thread!

It's the worst.

[Northwest Slobovia]

1). Abortion threads;
2). Obama bad/Obama good threads- Yes, he's both good and bad.
3). America being a shithole -guys, we get it, nobody cares what you're saying in real life, so you feel the need to bitch here, that's what forums are for;
4). Communism/capitalism threads -primarily because the only people who seem to support communism these days (aside from some Russians) are a bunch of 13 year old kids on internet forums;
5). Atheist-God threads;
6). Legalization of drugs;
7). Make gun ownership compulsory/ban guns.

Oh, I'm sure there are older supporters of communism... as one of my friends likes to put it, "American universities are the last bastion of communism.".

[Dyakovo]

To those of you that have been here long enough to see similar threads spring up from time to time, which ones are the ones you can't take any more of?

I ask because I was thinking about this after I saw two threads about "Best American President". I don't really mind those threads, but I can see how people can get sick of them.

For me, it's any thread about religion, because they all end up the same.

Also, there's already been three "I'm sick of this thread" posts, so save it for some other day.

This type.

[Typhlochactas]

I'm sick of the fact that we don't have more scorpion threads.

[Samuraikoku]

It's the worst.

Makes for good conversation, I would hardly consider it the worst.

[Ruridova]

I'm sick of the fact that we don't have more scorpion threads.

Then start one.

[South Dallsiph]

Abortion, LGBT rights, Obama vs Romney, US mainstream political discussions which really don't make much difference to the country, Religion/atheism threads