Please exercise Maximum Restraint. All that we have and more will be yours too. We even have a new Flotilla that will help you. 🌹 How, you ask? Well, isn't someone a little doubter. Isn't someone a little freak who doesn't want me to enjoy this scrumptious labor time. Out of pure hate, too. Do you have any idea how fascist it is to judge me for my entertainment systems?
Would you please be quiet? We're trying to enjoy the labor hours & productive capacity we denied/stole from the global south
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dessalines@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 152d
5 star meme. Reminds me of this one too:
hamid@crazypeople.online · 25 pts · 152d
5 star meme ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Yet when I called VR a gooning helmet, Lemmitors jumped down my neck and downvoted all my posts LOL
orc_princess@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 152d
They hated you because you said the truth
lauha@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 152d
Aldous Huxley wrote a book about this in freaking 1932. Seriously, read the Brave New World
bootleg@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 152d
Huxley saw danger in nihilism and consumerism, then decided that Christianity — one of the most disgusting and life-hating ideologies in the history of humanity — was the solution.
Go read someone like Nietzsche instead who is actually intellectually honest.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/friedrich-nietzsche
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779
mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 151d
IDK where to start with either of you, I need to explain the Epstein stuff on here first ffs. Read Losurdo
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 153d
I'm interested in this auto-masturbator VR thingy.
SoupBrick@pawb.social · 18 pts · 153d
More people are waking up with every evil thing this administration does.
Also the only metric that equals administration bad for some people is changing: Gas prices.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 152d
It isn't a problem with the admin alone, but the system itself. Imperialism is what runs the US Empire, be it dem or rep admin.
SoupBrick@pawb.social · 3 pts · 152d
Yeh, but you gotta take it one step at a time with people who thought politics doesn't affect them and are just becoming aware.
If you come at them too hard, they will get scared. I find it easier to point to the things the current admin is doing as an easy example of, "This is not ok."
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 152d
Yep, but you have to take it further too, connect the dots. Just showing the first dot won't help when systemic change is the correct path, and that requires an all-encompassing view.
SoupBrick@pawb.social · 5 pts · 152d
It also requires a person to change their worldview, which takes time. Don't forget to give people grace while they are exploring their biases.
(I am aware that gaining political sentience is very late at this time, but better late than never)
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 152d
Yep, just that you have to give them somewhere to go. Planting seeds isn't enough, water and adequate sunlight need to be available and the soil has to be fertile.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 153d
Idk if this is OC or not but goddamn it's on point and extremely relevant. Sometimes people forget the only reason the West can just get lost in consumerism and hedonism is because of the stolen resources and subjugation of people around the world. 🥲
CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 152d
A fuck ton of us are paycheck to paycheck looking for any outlet to soothe our broken minds and bodies. I really hate this generalist talk about the us right now when so many of us are prisoners, glorified indentured servants. I literally don't know how I'm going to feed myself for a couple of weeks right now. I fear ice just because I'm brown, especially here in the south.
I had no say in this, I voted, I've protested, I've tried changing minds. Keep in mind that a large portion of us are the same.
hamid@crazypeople.online · 9 pts · 152d
White USAmericans are settlers and part of bourgeois society designed to exploit the rest of the world for their comfort and every time leftists try to organize them, they end up siding with imperial interests and taking the bribe instead of standing with people of color and the internal colonies. This message is for them and they need to hear it.
readsettlers.org
CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 152d
Agreed
AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 152d
grandma@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 152d
This. Also relaxation, distraction and "hedonism" to a certain extent are necessary for people to resist at all. You cannot resist if you are completely burnt out from working, organizing and stressing about the current situation. After all we are human and our needs don't always follow moral boundaries.
orc_princess@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 152d
If it doesn't apply to you it isn't talking about you. It's about the "if Trump weren't here we'd be in brunch" kinda people.
Cooltag@lemmy.org · 10 pts · 152d
It looks like Wall-E.
mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 152d
Hitler's ghost lives inside the Disney servers. Where do you think they got the idea?
Cooltag@lemmy.org · 5 pts · 152d
The anti-woke crowd will love this lol
superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 153d
Bread and circuses
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 149d
christian@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 152d
Actually yes, people being crushed under inescapable debt should get to enjoy things sometimes.
hamid@crazypeople.online · 14 pts · 152d
Maybe westoids should stop taking the promise of a small share of imperial super profits as a bribe and do something about destroying your genocidal settler colonial society instead of just complaining and attempting reforms.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 152d
I hope sales and marketing isn't your career
hamid@crazypeople.online · 7 pts · 152d
I'd sooner kill myself than work in sales and marketing
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 149d
😍
mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 151d
I stole it from a based homeless person [https://xcancel.com/commsurreallism/status/ https://xcancel.com/Inhumansoflate1/] and lost the link 🙏 that's why it's actually good. Also, their Epstein files meltdown is a fascinating source of leads, despite some conjectures.
@dessalines
@hamid@crazypeople.online
@argumentativemonotheist@lemmy.world (greetings skinwalker)
I'm sure everyone mentioned here wouldn't consider it, but if anyone is standoffish to or QRTs them I will hunt you immediately