Are you not entertained?
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Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
Yes but did you hear about Cracker Barrel??
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Yes but did you hear about Cracker Barrel??
That they fired Brad's wife after eleven years of service?
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"We should stop indulging in celebrity and start GIVING A FUCK!"
"Okay, what should we care about?"
<insert list of cataclysmic horrors for which nobody in the audience has any agency>
"Wow, thanks. Now I'm full of helpless anxiety. Anything I can do about any of this?"
"DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!"
"Well, this has been enervating as fuck. If you don't mind, I'm going back to hide in my den and watch movies until the world ends."
"Wake up sheeple!"
"OK cool youre right I see now, I understand. What are we gonna do about it?"
"They've played you for fools! WAKE UP SEE WHATS HAPPENING"
"Yeah I see its awful. How can we help?"
"You're a pawn in their game WAKE UP"
"Fuck it gonna go have a wank"
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My grievances come from the fact that there’s no counterweight. Posting this type of thing is not inherently bad, but it’s all these people ever post.
I agree, people can enjoy things I don’t enjoy! But by exclusively posting vapid content, they are diluting the content pool and drowning out what is important.
Your inaction is your admission of acceptance.
I really don't think you're being fair. I was in chanology in Clearwater, Arab Spring in Rabat, the second Penguin Revolution in Santiago de Chile, and countless major demonstrations in support of worker rights and LGBT community issues all over the world. When I come on the internet (as I've done since 1994), I don't want to endlessly talk about politics with the normies here. I want to talk about normie topics like cooking, cats, sports, and Taylor Swift. I save my outrage for real world actions.
According to you, I'm practicing an attitude of acceptance with regard to the state of the world because that's all you see and hear from me. What do you think that says about your worldview and your outlook on people?
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I really don't think you're being fair. I was in chanology in Clearwater, Arab Spring in Rabat, the second Penguin Revolution in Santiago de Chile, and countless major demonstrations in support of worker rights and LGBT community issues all over the world. When I come on the internet (as I've done since 1994), I don't want to endlessly talk about politics with the normies here. I want to talk about normie topics like cooking, cats, sports, and Taylor Swift. I save my outrage for real world actions.
According to you, I'm practicing an attitude of acceptance with regard to the state of the world because that's all you see and hear from me. What do you think that says about your worldview and your outlook on people?
wrote last edited by [email protected]You’re right, it is unfair of me to write these people off. Slacktivism is no substitute for real activism.
It’s just disheartening, weird, and scary seeing everyone repost the same instagram post like little worker bees.
And personally, I don’t think these people are doing anything behind the scenes to push for change. I suppose I’m just cynical.
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Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
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Let people be happy about something. this is not helping anyone.
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if there is ONE person on the planet who would by popular vote be allowed to have a private jet, it's TayTay.
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Gossip was and is a part of human nature, denying it makes no friends for your cause. Don't call it bullshit, just because you don't care.
If you want to DO ACTUAL GOOD:
put a story of palestinian/israleli couple on the fake front page.
Highlight the out of control Israel government with a story that shows protests in israel.
Be FOR something instead of AGAINST something.
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Holy shit banning private jets, yes please
I dunno man. You're already supposed to get to the airport 2 hours early.
Can you imagine the absolute clusterfuck if you were in the security line at the same time as Taylor Swift?
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Let people be happy about something. this is not helping anyone.
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if there is ONE person on the planet who would by popular vote be allowed to have a private jet, it's TayTay.
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Gossip was and is a part of human nature, denying it makes no friends for your cause. Don't call it bullshit, just because you don't care.
If you want to DO ACTUAL GOOD:
put a story of palestinian/israleli couple on the fake front page.
Highlight the out of control Israel government with a story that shows protests in israel.
Be FOR something instead of AGAINST something.
You can argue they are for the end of worthless celebrity worship. Which is something I stand with
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That is a lot of effort to say that you don't care....
It's hilarious. Taylor Swift posts have to be the easiest rage/engagement bait for sports accounts that have ever existed.
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Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
But at the same time, don't obsess over a bunch of shit you can't change. The doom and gloom is mostly there to sell you shit anyway. Unhappy people spend more.
You can't fix it. It's not your job. Unless you want it to be your job by running for government, just vote appropriately for people that might help fix it. That's your little bit done.
Live your life. Go for a bike ride. Knock one out.
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Let people be happy about something. this is not helping anyone.
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if there is ONE person on the planet who would by popular vote be allowed to have a private jet, it's TayTay.
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Gossip was and is a part of human nature, denying it makes no friends for your cause. Don't call it bullshit, just because you don't care.
If you want to DO ACTUAL GOOD:
put a story of palestinian/israleli couple on the fake front page.
Highlight the out of control Israel government with a story that shows protests in israel.
Be FOR something instead of AGAINST something.
I am FOR the end of billionaires and celebrity worship.
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But at the same time, don't obsess over a bunch of shit you can't change. The doom and gloom is mostly there to sell you shit anyway. Unhappy people spend more.
You can't fix it. It's not your job. Unless you want it to be your job by running for government, just vote appropriately for people that might help fix it. That's your little bit done.
Live your life. Go for a bike ride. Knock one out.
Oh? What am I being sold other than clickbait?
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"We should stop indulging in celebrity and start GIVING A FUCK!"
"Okay, what should we care about?"
<insert list of cataclysmic horrors for which nobody in the audience has any agency>
"Wow, thanks. Now I'm full of helpless anxiety. Anything I can do about any of this?"
"DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!"
"Well, this has been enervating as fuck. If you don't mind, I'm going back to hide in my den and watch movies until the world ends."
I think the key here is "we". Collectively if people had a common understanding of what is going on in the world they would be appalled and demand more of our leaders (or get new ones)
Instead people vaguely know what is going on, through the biased lense of their news sources.
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you'd get a blank stare. If you ask them what is up with tswift they would excitedly explain that she just got engaged and recently had a crazy expensive tour.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me, and that's exactly how the people in power want it.
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Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
No I am not entertained. In fact. I am fed up with all the coverage of them. Let them live their lives in peace so those of us out here tired of the show can also live in peace.
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I think the key here is "we". Collectively if people had a common understanding of what is going on in the world they would be appalled and demand more of our leaders (or get new ones)
Instead people vaguely know what is going on, through the biased lense of their news sources.
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you'd get a blank stare. If you ask them what is up with tswift they would excitedly explain that she just got engaged and recently had a crazy expensive tour.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me, and that's exactly how the people in power want it.
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you’d get a blank stare.
Idk about that. His name has been in national news for decades. Like, maybe somewhere behind Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un in terms of US visibility.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me
Say what you will about the Trotskyists, but they looooved making newspapers. I don't think there's a shortage of modern Alt-Media, either. Not hard to get an earful of press about the state of the world. What's much more tricky is coordinating actions, particularly at the local level. There is not, to my knowledge, a Houston-centric news organization that does a good job of organizing and orienting local people on municipal issues. But I'm a white atheist professional worker out in the suburbs, so its very possible I'm just out of touch with what more radical and well-connected folks in churches and labor unions are up to.
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Let people be happy about something. this is not helping anyone.
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if there is ONE person on the planet who would by popular vote be allowed to have a private jet, it's TayTay.
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Gossip was and is a part of human nature, denying it makes no friends for your cause. Don't call it bullshit, just because you don't care.
If you want to DO ACTUAL GOOD:
put a story of palestinian/israleli couple on the fake front page.
Highlight the out of control Israel government with a story that shows protests in israel.
Be FOR something instead of AGAINST something.
wrote last edited by [email protected]How about you let people be mad about something then? Maybe change can happen. Take your own fucking advice.
Stop promoting celebrity worship you ghoul.
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Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
wrote last edited by [email protected]If we ban private jets, billionaires will just buy every seat on the commercial jet. This will be even more inefficient fuel wise, and worse for the environment overall.
Don't ban private jets. Ban billionaires.
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I'm marginally happy that anyone anywhere is in love. Cool beans.
Beyond that, I'd rather see people I know have happy and healthy lives. FSM knows they deserve it just as much as these two.
You are the decider of who deserves what? Jesus shut the fuck up
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Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
love this and I love how it's triggering all the Swifties
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If we ban private jets, billionaires will just buy every seat on the commercial jet. This will be even more inefficient fuel wise, and worse for the environment overall.
Don't ban private jets. Ban billionaires.
A limit of seats per person?
