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- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 2 days ago:
what’s stopping you from mailing a paper check? frontiersmen had no convenience but they made due. my great-great-great grandmother fought bears in utah with her bare hands to protect the family homestead.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 days ago:
bernie kinda misses the essence of american culture.
a bum on welfare is a freeloader because they take and take and contribute nothing.
what has this guy, sergey, actually contributed to america? we had 34830483048 search engines before google came around.
when your money makes money you contribute nothing other than offerings to the abstract concept of ‘the economy.’
it’s genuinely satanic when you really think about it. we’re sacrificing real human lives to ‘the economy.’
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 2 days ago:
john berger opened my eyes to this.
in ways of seeing he lays out a convincing argument that the entire history of european oil painting was just annoying and lame rich people commissioning artists to paint their possessions and property. the ‘masters’ were exceptions to this rule and often painted these great works later in life.
when you see it that way and draw parallels between modern instagram, you both realize how fucking annoying and stupid and pathetic wealthy people are but that nothing has changed other than the setting.
- Comment on Elons not a gamer. 2 days ago:
his avatar is sad.
it’s obviously a metaphor for his dick and sexual prowess but he obviously can’t get laid and never satisfies any of the women he pays to be around him.
imagine being the richest man in the world and posting on twitter all day.
that says something about humanity or elon musk–probably both.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 4 days ago:
I’m tired of having to learn new things/words just to have some function in society.
How about this: smashilization.
It’s for when I hulk out over annoying bullshit that no dog would put up with but humans are supposed to put with just because.
- Comment on Brilliant‼️ 4 days ago:
by this point most people in america probably don’t remember taxi cabs. they would often be dirty and driven by a disheveled wildman. these drivers answered to no one other than their dispatcher who gave just as little of a fuck.
do you have a problem with the driver? did he smell bad, did he talk too much, did he blast a master P song at full volume for the entire ride despite your objections?
tough shit.
uber was built in response to this. it was not only based on these occasional bad experiences, but to ensure that every working class person was on their best behavior when in the presence of their betters.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 4 days ago:
that’s what ‘i love boosters’ should have been about. it should have been an homage to ‘you’ve got mail’ and ‘shop around the corner.’
the plot would center on two individuals who boost kias.in real life they’re rivals because they often try and target the same car, but on social media they constantly agree with each other and upvote each others posts.
they could form a union before they even realize this fact and it’s figured out when they both snoop on each others phone and check their socials.
there’s so much room in this plot for parody, satire and social commentary.
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 1 week ago:
it doesn’t say what the people need the money for.
if both of them need the cash to pay the IRS delinquent taxes i’d say the girlfriend takes precedence if you’re in a committed relationship. if the bro needs the money for a righteous cause and the girl needs the money for consumerism, then the bro wins out.
that’s a bad punchline that’s against community spirit. you don’t have to be a communist to help people in need. jesus fucking christ.
- Comment on Works like a charm 1 week ago:
had to look at the thread for clues to what this means and it’s still not funny. women can just exist and excel at anything and everything. here’s a better joke: what’s funny and successful and desirable despite being none of those things.
punchline: a person with a vagina.
- Comment on Anon likes cooking 1 week ago:
cooking isn’t feminine; it’s like basic self-care. every man should cook.
i don’t care if this is a joke. it’s fun to fuck with people on social media but at least show some class and promote healthy attitudes.
- Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge 1 week ago:
now we’re at the victim blaming stage where we expect people to utilize 100k a year job skills just to fill out applications for burger king.
- Comment on That's just science 1 week ago:
lemmy poster here. both of these people are annoying, unfunny fucks.
bet you didn’t see that one coming!
btw i have a masters degree in internet posting.
- Comment on Simply Bananas 1 week ago:
who ever said that other than some random comment? the traditional narrative is that they filmed it in the desert.
filmmakers can make the most bootleg looking set resemble a real place (just ask stanley kubrick) so there’s no question they coulda faked the landing in 69’.
these conspiracies always draw attention away from other thinking that’s more plausible than the quackery.
maybe they faked the manned moon landing but sent an unmanned probe to the moon, which is why the soviets didn’t make a fuss.
maybe the 9/11 attacks were real but the attackers were actually real guys who were persuaded to do it by some gov.
- Comment on Here comes some more holes in the drywall 1 week ago:
zoomers are not only the first gen to be less intelligent than their parents, but the first generation to be less cool.
cropped T’s with baggy jeans? give me a fucking break.
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 1 week ago:
jesus said it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. i wasn’t willing to make this journey myself but i tried to put a grasshopper through the eye of a needle and i ended up impaling it through the forehead and the rest of the needle came straight out its ass.
i’m currently on a quest to figure out where john the baptist’s head is buried.
- Comment on "feminine" 1 week ago:
obviously a joke. it’s great to see a normal living space on the internet though even though it’s abnormal.
everywhere i go online i see these pristine hotel or beverly hills living spaces behind the subject of the photo.
real people have clutter in their house and don’t have 5k an hour interior designers!
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 1 week ago:
you push someone with mental disabilities (untreated adhd/ocd/anxiety/whatever) into low-wage labor and they just end up as contestants on /publicfreakout/ or tiktok, when they invariably get into a fight with the manager or customer or whatever.
then all the privileged yuppies on the internet can critique their behavior and the situation to determine who’s right and wrong.
that’s our culture. we’re already in some dystopian hellhole but most of it is subtle.
- Comment on culture 2 weeks ago:
this is a nuanced topic. as much as this meme is trying to be intelligent, it’s just as dumb as what it’s critiquing.
you learn to think from books, but film and TV exercises that thinking. in film you’ll find symbolism and metaphor and meaning, intentional or not.
being able to extract that is intelligence, not raw facts. americans love to boast about how educated they are and about the virtues of education, but why are there millions of users of goodreads and letterboxd and few can write a coherent paragraph about a book they read or a film they watched?
it’s because of this type of braindead thinking–it’s all about imagination!!! imagination is great, but it’s about thinking about things differently.
- Comment on They really hate artists 2 weeks ago:
maybe they don’t fully understand the role that artists play in rendering your daily life.
do you feel unease and sadness every single time you pass a fast food restaurant that looks the same as the others? i sure do.
the people who designed the new ones are artists but they work for satan and have no morals. they may as well be AI.
do you ever watch commercials on your streaming box and become quickly annoyed but then take in a commerical from the 80s and vibe to it? maybe not, but if you did, you’d notice the juicy fruity jingle was catchy as fuck and the aesthetics of the commercial were alluring. the modern ones? not so much. artists create all that.
the person in the tweet is too dim to notice these things. maybe they’ll never notice it. maybe they do notice it and they don’t care because they’re disgusting examples of humanity…and evil.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 2 weeks ago:
nintendo used to mean games like castlevania, metroid, earthbound, final fantasy, shadowrun, goldeneye. now it means ‘games for little kids with goofy characters with too-big heads.’
you shouldn’t have this system to begin with.
we’re all adults, right?
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 2 weeks ago:
i’d rather go back to browsing the 1998 internet on a webTV box than this modern bullshit. no offense to anyone.
the modern internet is a heavily propagandized mild abstraction of real life. the old internet was ‘the internet.’ it was a playground for nerds, misfits, shut-ins and the regular folk who made the mistake of logging on and trying to talk to the rest of us.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 weeks ago:
probably has more to do with people not wanting to see ‘lessers’ get ahead–those who put in less effort, minorities, etc.
you can’t fight this with memes. it’s something that’s fundamental to american programming and not everyone sits on the internet all day reading this shit.
look at the underlying messages put out in films and tv shows and popular media and it’s the same ambition and personal responsibility driven nonsense that it’s always been at the heart–only the most deserving should succeed.
the conversation about wokeness and representation is just a distraction.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 2 weeks ago:
gen-z are not only dumber than their parents but less cool.
they don’t even wear baggy jeans right. dudes are out there flexing cropped t-shirts with confidence like it isn’t a bad look even without any gay connotations.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 2 weeks ago:
i hate zoomers who never experienced past decades being like ‘lol nothing was good.’
bullshit. go and watch home movies in a burger king shot in 1995 and really pay attention to what you see.
everyone is happier should be the main takeaway, even the employees.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 2 weeks ago:
right lol.
there was at least a balance between profit and caring about the human experience, even if it was on some small level in the name of profit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
she was more interesting than anyone in the celebrity world now. that’s for damn sure. but that’s true of any artist from that time period that was popular enough to be played on the radio or MTV.
nowadays mainstream art is missing the passion of experience.
i was thinking about this the other day when i was watching curb your enthusiasm. larry david was so in tune with the human experience because he lived in the thick of NYC when it was a melting pot of would-be actors and comedians and artists and musicians and everyday people. it was a diverse mix that could afford to live in a hub of culture and opportunity no matter where their lives would lead.
shit now is so out of touch, soft and self-absorbed. the brooklyn gentrifier doesn’t have to live next to the waiter at the restaurant they eat at every day. those lesser people may as well not even exist. and they’re seen as lesser and it’s just understood now. it didn’t used to be. we used to have a voice within culture even if it could be muted at times. maybe kurt cobain or madonna were rich and famous and maybe they never preached the right politics but they spoke for us just the same.
- Comment on My bad 2 weeks ago:
i feel like a lot of culture nowadays is questionable. a person with the fullest social calendar will still feel special if someone texts them the next day. ‘i’m loved and wanted,’ they’ll think, even if they’re annoying and not interested in the person.
so, where is this energy coming from?
- Comment on Friends. 3 weeks ago:
why would you compare the two? seinfeld is actually funny because it’s universal social observation. it’s a streetwise comedy of manners like curb your enthusiasm.
we’ve all been george when he leaves a dumb message on an answering machine and then stresses over it; we’ve all had touchy friends or acquaintances who cut ties for some petty reason. it’s often exaggerated, but it’s human and relatable.
i wouldn’t just question the taste of someone who doesn’t like seinfeld but i’d question how much awareness they have about everything going on around them.
some jokey sitcoms still hit–frasier and golden girls were witty. but most aren’t funny anymore and they weren’t all that funny in their day.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 4 weeks ago:
the middle class are the people who lived in all those american suburbs built in the 50s and 60s; those small, 2 or 3 bedroom houses with drab siding or brick facades that are an overrepresentation of the american landscape and lifestyle, despite the fact you’ve rarely every seen one in a TV show or film. they homes were typically affordable to the average worker but now aren’t; those are the homes of the 90% of the actual hard-working american population.
this isn’t that difficult of a concept.
the reddit forum design seems to inherently encourage nerd bullshit. tell me more about the dictionary definition of this or that.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 4 weeks ago:
i notice this issue whenever i watch new films–everything looks so sterile and uninviting. culture has taken on this showroom/instagram aesthetic that gestures to class but has no character, taste and doesn’t look like anywhere where anyone would actually live; it’s nowhere where anyone sensible would want to live, at least.
calling it minimalistic is disrespectful because that word and style aren’t mutually exclusive.