# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/441 "2019-10-01T02:37:43Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > And yet “welcoming Muslim immigration” is not a majority position (tolerating it might be), while lots of other Democratic priorities enjoy broad support among the American population. In general I try not to base my own sense of morality off of mass appeal. > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Who else is old enough to remember this song, [DEL][COLOR=“Black”]SlackerInc’s[/DEL][/COLOR] Phil Ochs’ - _[Love Me I’m A Liberal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFvhhCulaw)_? > > CMC fnord! You don’t even have to be [that old](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ8ERBr9yKI). ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/442 "2019-10-01T02:41:54Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Thanks to my Marxist, folk-music-loving parents, I certainly do even though it came out long before I was born. Ahh, you know it? 'Cause, clearly, you don’t grok it. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/443 "2019-10-01T02:45:55Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > And yet “welcoming Muslim immigration” is not a majority position (tolerating it might be), while lots of other Democratic priorities enjoy broad support among the American population. Huh, how ‘bout that. …you say this as if it matters. Joe Biden welcomes Muslim immigration. So does Kamala Harris, and as far as I’m aware, all the other Democratic candidates. They don’t need to compromise their values to try and get your vote. You need to compromise your values or else you get four more years of Trump. > [@](#): > > (ETA: I also don’t welcome _conversion_ to Islam by people who have been here since 1619, or by Native Americans for that matter. Immigration status has nothing to do with it.) We get it: you are an equal-opportunity bigot. > [@](#): > > BTW, BB: I do compromise my principles by continuing to support Democratic candidates despite their stupid “Islamophobia” talk. So yes, I am the one compromising. But I still retain the right to say I think it’s stupid, that it is counterproductive to modern liberal Western principles, and that it also makes it harder for us to appeal to the middle of the electorate. And I get the right to say fuck you for being a white supremacist, racist, islamophobic, misogynistic bigot that supports policies that are cruel and inhumane. Oh, and thanks for your vote. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/444 "2019-10-01T02:55:41Z")
😃 I literally LOL’d at that. And I don’t mean I laughed _at_ you: that was pretty clever and funny. Well played. > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Ahh, you know it? 'Cause, clearly, you don’t grok it. I do _understand_ it, but I don’t _grok_ it because I don’t agree with that kind of Jeremy Corbynesque worldview, at all. It’s nails on a chalkboard to me. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/445 "2019-10-01T03:10:53Z")
The topical references in that Phil Ochs song are definitely pretty stale though. My uber-lefty, Hillary-hating 19-year-old son sent me what is essentially the modern, updated version the other day. Do you guys endorse this one too? > [@](#): > > The year is 2019. Hillary won. > > You’re sitting in your tenement room with 3 roommates drinking while Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan announce the 5th round of impeachment hearings on TV. > > Yemen has been bombed to oblivion. The only bill to pass since 2016 is a tax cut Democrats passed to prove they’re bipartisan. Kids are still in concentration camps but it never made it on the news. HRC wins the Nobel peace prize. > > As Musk pilots a robot designed to gentrify city blocks while repeating “sorry,” your friend turns to you and says “at least Hillary won.” :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/446 "2019-10-01T03:40:16Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > {…} My uber-lefty, Hillary-hating 19-year-old son sent me what is essentially the modern, updated version the other day. {…} “essentially the modern, updated version” . . . annnd, this is the point where I finally realize that arguing with Starving Artist was more productive. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/447 "2019-10-01T04:16:05Z")
You really don’t think that expresses a similar sentiment? ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/448 "2019-10-01T04:36:35Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > The topical references in that Phil Ochs song are definitely pretty stale though. > > My uber-lefty, Hillary-hating 19-year-old son sent me what is essentially the modern, updated version the other day. Do you guys endorse this one too? > The year is 2019. Hillary won. > > You’re sitting in your tenement room with 3 roommates drinking while Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan announce the 5th round of impeachment hearings on TV. > > Yemen has been bombed to oblivion. The only bill to pass since 2016 is a tax cut Democrats passed to prove they’re bipartisan. Kids are still in concentration camps but it never made it on the news. HRC wins the Nobel peace prize. > > As Musk pilots a robot designed to gentrify city blocks while repeating “sorry,” your friend turns to you and says “at least Hillary won.” > :dubious: Yeah, you might want to have a little talk with your kid. This claptrap comes from politigram.circlejerk, a politigram satire site run by two American anarchists. It’s not left-wing or even uber-left-wing; it’a anarchist crap, the particular kind of crap some uber-right-wingers believe in. Maybe if you want to run something left-wing by liberals here, you should find something that’s truly representative of the left-wing. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/449 "2019-10-01T04:46:35Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > You really don’t think that expresses a similar sentiment? You’re a smart guy, hows about you tell me what Phil was trying to convey? Here’s a hint for one good answer,One word, starts with ‘H’.CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/450 "2019-10-01T05:41:53Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > You’re a smart guy, hows about you tell me what Phil was trying to convey? > > Here’s a hint for one good answer,One word, starts with ‘H’.CMC fnord! I have no idea what you’re getting at with your spoiler, but it’s pretty obvious what Ochs is conveying in his very straightforward lyrics. Namely, that regular liberal Democrats are too accommodationist, too comfortable in their bourgeois privilege, to truly embrace revolutionary progressive change. It’s the same kind of barb the Bolsheviks aimed at the Mensheviks a century ago, and a century and change before that, the Jacobins at the Girondins. _Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose_. Although fortunately, in modern day America I don’t believe the left-wingers have the potential to grab as much power, even temporarily, as those earlier groups did. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/451 "2019-10-01T05:42:00Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Yeah, you might want to have a little talk with your kid. This claptrap comes from politigram.circlejerk, a politigram satire site run by two American anarchists. It’s not left-wing or even uber-left-wing; it’a anarchist crap, the particular kind of crap some uber-right-wingers believe in. Maybe if you want to run something left-wing by liberals here, you should find something that’s truly representative of the left-wing. I’ve long believed in a “political donut”, where the farther left you go, the more you resemble those going the farthest right, and vice versa. They all start believing in anarchy, conspiracy theories, misanthropy, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/452 "2019-10-01T12:22:28Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Interesting news](https://news.yahoo.com/hero-taxi-driver-saves-pregnant-woman-sex-trafficker-brothel-130218476.html). That’s awesome. Good for that guy. Wonder why he didn’t just turn a blind eye and say “Not my problem”? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/453 "2019-10-01T12:56:35Z")
Could it beee…that a pregnant woman was sobbing and telling him she was being held against her will? Nah, that couldn’t be it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/454 "2019-10-01T12:59:48Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’ve long believed in a “political donut”, where the farther left you go, the more you resemble those going the farthest right, and vice versa. They all start believing in anarchy, conspiracy theories, misanthropy, and so on. If you are trying to make a case that being in the middle is the right way to go, let us not forget what is in the middle of a donut. Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/455 "2019-10-01T14:40:46Z")
Yes, I certainly believe his “kid” is the reason he reposted pro-Trump forward glurge. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/456 "2019-10-01T14:48:30Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If you are trying to make a case that being in the middle is the right way to go, let us not forget what is in the middle of a donut. > Nothing. No way man, glazed donut holes are delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/457 "2019-10-01T15:23:00Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Could it beee…that a pregnant woman was sobbing and telling him she was being held against her will? Nah, that couldn’t be it. > > :rolleyes: Well, as long as human trafficking victims aren’t pregnant and crying, I guess everything is kosher! I wouldn’t let a little thing like “transporting eastern european women from a strip club to a hotel is a clear marker for human trafficking” get in the way of “Not pregnant and crying - not my problem!” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/458 "2019-10-01T22:37:58Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Well, as long as human trafficking victims aren’t pregnant and crying, I guess everything is kosher! > > I wouldn’t let a little thing like “transporting eastern european women from a strip club to a hotel is a clear marker for human trafficking” get in the way of “Not pregnant and crying - not my problem!” > > :rolleyes: Then why don’t you go down to the nearest strip club in your area and do something about it? I’m not in any special position. If I am wrong not to intervene, then so are you, and so is everyone here who lives in or near a city that has a strip club. In fact, you are in a much better position. If I refuse to take someone to a destination they have paid to go to, I could lose my job. What’s your excuse? :dubious: ETA: Chingon is just trolling now. I took them seriously that they might actually think I was pro Trump and posted extensive evidence to the contrary; but after doing so they continue to spew nonsense so it is not sincere. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/459 "2020-03-25T02:04:40Z")
> [@Woody Allen's autobiography cancelled by publisher](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-allens-autobiography-cancelled-by-publisher/849028/140): > > Why am I not shocked that **SlackerInc** doesn’t believe what a woman says, and assumes her change of heart must be for some other reason. > [@Woody Allen's autobiography cancelled by publisher](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-allens-autobiography-cancelled-by-publisher/849028/149): > > **[Moderating]** > This, however, is over the line. If you have a problem with a poster personally, take it to the Pit. This is a Warning for personal insults. If I had to finally get a warning here, I’m at least glad it was for insulting that sniveling misogynist. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/460 "2020-05-17T09:56:41Z")
It should surprise no-one that Slack doesn’t actually know his own heroes. From the now-closed \*\*Shodan \*\*[thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22306169&postcount=393): > [@](#): > > And no, Bill Maher said he has been called a libertarian but he does not call himself that. Bill Maher,[in Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/checking-in-with-bill-maher-in-1999-69781/): > [@](#): > > I am a libertarian Fucking idiot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=24)