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“You think your pain and your

artappraiser — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:59:07 +0000

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” pic.twitter.com/Do1eZbxPW1
— JCR (@Alabandine_) April 30, 2020

a true empath:

artappraiser — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:16:55 +0000

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a true empath:

We are all going to be in isolation and without work for a while so I am doing this again. If you are broke and need to stock up on groceries etc, I will Venmo you $100. 20 people. It’s not much but it’s something. Reply with yr Venmo. I don’t use any other service I’m afraid.
— roxane gay (@rgay) March 28, 2020

I'm torn between being Buck

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:10:00 +0000

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I'm torn between being Buck Rogers and Gregor Samsa.
I really don't feel it does them justice to be both.
[though occasionally a bit of Waldo Jeffers sneaks in -
that's embarrassing]

In Defense of Fiction by

artappraiser — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 20:34:24 +0000

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In Defense of Fiction by Zadie Smith for New York Review of Books Oct. 24 print ssue

[....] I don’t claim I imagined any of this correctly—only compulsively. And what I did in life, I did with books. I lived in them and felt them live in me. I felt I was Jane Eyre and Celie and Mr. Biswas and David Copperfield. Our autobiographical coordinates rarely matched. I’d never had a friend die of consumption or been raped by my father or lived in Trinidad or the Deep South or the nineteenth century. But I’d been sad and lost, sometimes desperate, often confused. It was on the basis of such flimsy emotional clues that I found myself feeling with these imaginary strangers: feeling with them, for them, alongside them and through them, extrapolating from my own emotions, which, though strikingly minor when compared to the high dramas of fiction, still bore some relation to them, as all human feelings do. The voices of characters joined the ranks of all the other voices inside me, serving to make the idea of my “own voice” indistinct. Or maybe it’s better to say: I’ve never believed myself to have a voice entirely separate from the many voices I hear, read, and internalize every day. [.....]

The problem really is that he

artappraiser — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:29:26 +0000

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The problem really is that he doesn't get that diversity is not a synonym for tribalism and partisanship, but that a diverse society is virtually the opposite of tribalism. What I suspect: For some unrelated reason he got a bee in his bonnet that Fukuyama is an enemy, so when Fukuyama started pounding the drum of "tribalism is our main problem in the world right now", he decided that he has to be for tribalism and he somehow has to mesh tribalism with activists groups, even though it makes zero sense.

"I wanted to see myself and I

artappraiser — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:22:20 +0000

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"I wanted to see myself and I wanted to see other people and their experiences,” says 14-year old @iammarleydias who is now actively working towards promoting diversity and greater access to literature beyond the classroom: https://t.co/FzI4u7oRDU via @lithub.
— PEN America (@PENamerica) August 17, 2019

I think the echo chamber

rmrd0000 — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 03:25:41 +0000

In reply to What ever you think is best.

I think the echo chamber seems to be working fine.

What ever you think is best.

ocean-kat — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 02:23:26 +0000

In reply to I refuse to do your bidding

What ever you think is best. But don't forget we have important work to do. Remember how Sanders was about to win the primary and it was only our posts on Dagblog that gave Hillary the win. We need to quickly choose which candidate we're going to support and use the power of Dagblog and our nationwide influence to give her the nomination. There's a lot of candidates and there are other websites that have influence too. Not quite as much as we have with Dagblog but if they get a head start it will be much harder for us to control the election. I might suggest you erase a couple of rmrd's post and claim it was a tos violation. Any post will do. That will marginalize him so we can decide who will win the primary without interference.

I refuse to do your bidding

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:03:07 +0000

In reply to Of course we don't just agree

I refuse to do your bidding because that would show we're in lockstep and people would ~~think~~ know we're Deep State. Oh crap, that got posted too. How about I just erase it all, no one's reading Dag on a Sun evening, getting ready for din-din. Except Michael's doing some maintenance so he has admin wipe-down mode disabled for the moment while he's scarfing down borsch and pirogis, will wait for him to come up for air then will deal with it, 'tay bro? thanks for being understanding - I know it's tough for you playing a gruff guy on the internetz, but for the moment you can be yourself. Just like Arty & all that pretend faux art stuff - not sure i've ever met someone who hated art more than i do, but she manages to carry around that pretentious art community guise like a pro, you'd almost think it real. Figger in an hour we'll be all back normal. Will set an alarm so I don't forget to wake up - a bit late over here in socialist Europe land.

Of course we don't just agree

ocean-kat — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:44:39 +0000

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Of course we don't just agree on every issue, we think about them and write about them in exactly the same way. But it's important to maintain the illusion we're individuals. ~~You know I secretly agree with everything you've posted on art~~ I know you secretly agree with everything I posted on art but we should probably have another fake heated argument on art to maintain the pretense that we sometimes don't 100% agree. It's a side issue of little importance and won't get in the way of our secret agenda to have a united front attacking rmrd.

eta: oops, did I accidentally post this publicly? PP please delete this comment. It was meant to be a private message to Arta. Thanks partner.