Agreed, its the outlaw motorcycle clubs that are the real problem.
My buddy's roommate always strutted around in his leather what-have-you, snorting and mean mugging. Always trying to compensate for sadness with the routine. I got pissed off one day and said "off to your little dress-up club?" Dude melted. No problems and smart-face after that lol
It was just an unplanned moment but I really had had enough haha
I keep saying, incels need to be targeting country clubs instead of elementary schools.
Therein lies the issue: Causing others to suffer is the point, not the problem. They want to be part of that club.
I have been meaning to mention this. Has anyone noticed that many of those who are Trump sympathisers generally talk culture wars more, but less on class issues? My colleague said he agrees with what most of Trump says, but disagrees with the extreme measures. He is opinionated on gender debate, but hardly heard him talk about the tariffs (except when the stocks tanked back in April) or the welfare cuts and transfer of wealth to the elites with the big beautiful bill.
It is the same with my ex housemate. My former housemate supports Trump because of his non-interventionist foreign policy and tougher stance on immigration. Although tbf, he had been basing his support on Trump's previous term's fascist-lite policies, and probably didn't foresee the current POTUS going full Nazi. But even then, my ex-housemate hardly talks about economic issues.
Both traditional and new media intentionally polarises and divides people, with algorithms funneling only certain information to the electorates, while hiding other pertinent info. There is overemphasis on culture wars but minimises class issues, which is the root cause of social and economic decline.
Yeah, and the most wonderful thing here is that these people can agree that billionaires are sucking the juice of the society, the survival based on labor is archaic, and we're all being manipulated to become poor.
But somewhere in the middle, a logical excess is happening: the billionaires are not the only problem, it's the elite in general terms (intellectual included). Their main method is not only the market manipulation, but mainly a manipulation over CULTURE. And we need to somehow resist the later.
A lot of things get clear after you join Clubhouse - social network outrun by right and far right.
To anyone who saw the post I am replying to, tread with caution. There's a reason that peer pressure is dangerous and it has nothing to do with the supposed "War on Drugs". The real villain of those old PSAs should have been fascism, not a random dealer, if there was any true benevolence behind it. If you must frame it in Conservative worldview, read "Fahrenheit 451" and remember Bibles burn just as easily as biology textbooks.
"When they came for the drug addicts, I said nothing. Until they said Jesus was a hippie and took my whole church." Fascism is never good, for anyone. Even the perpetrators. Or do you honestly think no other Nazis wanted to bump off Hitler for personal gain? Fascism is, at it's core, a cancer. It kills societies as much as people, no one is truly safe.
We didn't quite forget yet, but if we are too distracted in 2105 to remember 2025's echoed warnings from WWII and the Holocaust (1945), humanity will not survive to see 2185.
tl;dr: Warning: May contain nuts or cults.
Well thats because 1% gets a disproportionate amount of representation in media so anyone whis just chronically online or watches a lot of tv thinks it is much higher
And its prob much much higher than 1%, like 5-10% irl unless? Unless media has also influencer me
Prob balance out soon
Here’s hoping the new 18+ internet ID checks can organise us all against censorship
Narrator: It won't
Depends on the political system of your country: 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 FPTP yeah you’re fucked.
Thanks. Just ordered one for myself. Fuck bigots.
Ordered from where? They didn't provide any links.
I just searched and found one that looked good; there were a few different options.
Here is the specific one I ordered: https://a.co/d/fgXpNMJ
Enjoy!
there is this technology called a search engine, I assume they used it to complete such a feat
There is also a newer technology called a "Language Model". From what I understand it is the most successful and most private, but also most controversial, method. It completely displaced and rendered redundant these "search engines", by polluting the interwebs with false information. Also, Google was stupid enough at one point to give reddit as the primary source for all information in searches, that's not a good method no matter whether you use an LLM, a locally-hosted LM, or a search engine.
is this how you became the saddest man?
Basically, yes. Search engines are no longer as useful, and AI is only making that impossible to ignore. Doesn't mean I said most of what I said except sarcastically. My point is, "TheSaddestMan" is how I tell the world I'm sick of their cynicism. Dystopian fiction and anti-escapism didn't save the world from becoming a cyberpunk story.
Isn't because the top biggots are from the 1%? Their goal is to distract people and steer their anger towards some other 1%.
I feel like this could be interpreted as the opposite meaning, siding with the bigots unfortunately.
If a misunderstanding like this forces a bigot to wear a trans pride flag on their shirt, I'm ok with it.
Are you me? I was just gonna write this.
I can't answer that question, as interacting with my past self may affect the time space continuum.
Oh no. I've already said too much.
Look. All I'm saying is that in the 1980s, trump tried buying the Cleveland Indians and relocating them to Miami. A city that at the time had no MLB team.
Then, in the movie, which came out in the 1980s, Chicago won the world series against Miami (a team that didn't exist) in 2015. While Biff Tannan's dark timeline is CLEARLY based on trump, and in 2015 is running for president.
Then in real life, trump never bought the Cleveland Indians, so the Miami team from the movie would still be the Cleveland Indians. And in 2016, Chicago cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in the world series, while the inspiration for dark timeline Biff, was actually about a week away from winning the presidency.
It was all a year later, but we're absolutely living in a real life paralell universe of BTTF 2's dark timeline. THIS is the logical conclusion of what would have happened if you let that dark timeline progress 10 more years under Biff's presidency. You get fascism in American government.
We're living in cyberpunk's awkward unwanted step-child. It has to be said. I play Cyberpunk 2077 because it feels more like reality than reality does at this point. The Matrix Has Us.
“Won’t anyone please think of the brick fucking stupid people?!?!?” - You. That’s what you sound like.
The devil doesn't need more advocates. Pretty sure most people would have a base understanding of this shirt.
The devil doesn't need more advocates.
i love this i'm taking it thank you
How?
I think they mean a bigot might wear this shirt to say the 1% you're wrong for siding with is trans people.
I don't think most people would think that though, so they would just end up looking supportive by accident.
Yes that was my meaning, and you're right they would look supportive so I probably shouldn't have said unfortunately, but glad you got my intention
I don't see how?
Why discriminate? Tiny titties deserve being stared at too!
Fucking weird found.
Everyone should be fucking weird. Isn't that kind of the point?
...........you uh......you maybe want to rethink that thought process?
Hopefully people in the future will read your comment as saying:
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Oh i know the thought process is off center for the comment, but I found it funny (for me anyway) and posted the result because, why not.
Saw the picture, thought of "hey, my eyes are up here", then of the Simpsons "i made my choice" meme. The writing said "1%", but a lot of men have only one singular thought when staring at a woman's chest. So taking the whole "you're focused on the wrong 1%" as referring to breasts as a body part and only a small part of the individual, the meaning can become "stop staring at my tits and see me as a person". But then I thought, different sizes, different percentages. Looking at the picture again, assigning just 1% to it would probably mean a small size, tiny even, and i felt upset on their behalf in this short imaginary journey. Hence the comment.
Now, was that the thought process you were imagining when you made your comment or something else entirely?
stop staring at my tits and see me as a person
I'm glad I've never been accused of this (okay, once but I wasn't even serious, more like "Wait, how do people react if you DO stare at them 'too long' instead of avoiding looking at them at all? Oh, they feel bad is what, that's not nice of me." ). Not that I actually do it, but that I'm really self-conscious about accidentally making people sexually uncomfortable.
I think the problem is sexually aggressive men often like sexually aggressive women. So the most lecherous don't understand because either they think "handsome and beautiful/sexy belong together" and therefore would WANT to have their (i.e.) crotch stared at by a woman they don't know (provided she looks "attractive") or they don't mind "ugly" but don't think of themselves as "not ugly" and otherwise think the same (liking being watched by a woman). That's a small enough part of the population that it has, in it's own way, become a minority ("Incels" deserve to be ridiculed, they just aren't common).
None of it is justified behavior, obviously. People don't like being stared at, how hard is it for a supposed "manly extrovert sex god" to realize that, when nerdy 16-year old introverted me understood a girl deserved an apology for my random "social experiment"? Respect must be mutual, and if anyone didn't say "yes" to actual physical contact, it's sexual assault. Unfortunately, even in nature (see: Ducks) there is nothing physically preventing rape, and so the struggle was inevitable the moment humans existed because - to some degree - genders and gender identities exist.
All I'm saying is, the culture wars are nothing but unwarranted posturing. From both/all sides. Be what and who you want. Oh, and fuck over that wealthy 1%, nobody can own 99% of the money and have obtained it by purely honest means.
Sadly, posturing is often a great motivator for poorly thought-out decisions.
Pushing through with a wrong decision regardless of the end result would be a matter of losing self worth, I think. Apologizing is often felt as a position of weakness that opens up a vulnerability in a pretty much shoddy armour of fragile self worth and losing even that much might trigger an existential crisis that threatens the core of one's identity.
Another part might be us not being wired to naturally consider long-term effects, as it's usually a taught trait. So much of our emotional presence is rooted in the moment rather than several steps ahead. And a psychological danger is often resolved with an immediate and superficial response.
To become and remain what is considered as well adjusted is a difficult process that needs repeated efforts of introspection. And not many can or are willing to go through the process. So being respectful of one another is something to be admired because it's not something we can do by default. I'd say instinctual and often disrespectful responses are our usual default state instead.
Admittedly, I can understand playing the devil's advocate. Yeah, when they say "Eat the Rich", it's not supposed to be literal. And yeah, I've made mistakes as I've said, and haven't always owned mistakes.
I think the disconnect comes from the fact that this is a trans icon design. Meaning the 1% that IS being focused on, are the 1% of university college athletes that are trans that are being (or were being) banned from playing sports.
The defense for why it was ok was that "Well, only 1% of athletes are even affected by this ban, so YOU will be fine!" (Assuming "you" is a non-trans person, which they do assume).
And the wrong 1% would be THE 1%. As in the elite, the rich, the wealthy. The whole 1% of people control 99% of earths wealth.
The shirt is saying "Hey republicans, you need to worry more about the wealthy who impose laws that ACTUALLY affect you negatively, and less about trans athletes which in no way harm anyone."
And then you come in like "Yeah, but small titties are cool."
Which is like......what?
When we talk about things, we use our accumulated knowledge to create a context. However because that knowledge isn't the same for everyone, the understandable context can be similar, but different.
So for example, a person who doesn't know about college trans athletes, but knows about trans won't understand the same context as someone who knows the subject in depth or as someone who knows little about the concept itself. But if they all recognize the 1% as the rich elite, then they can all vaguely share that partial context.
It might be an exaggeration in my case because yeah, still I would say that people in general should avoid expectations for everyone participating in this kind of conversation to share the same understanding of the context at hand.
Common sense isn't universal. Perception is unequal. Divergence in way of thought is to be expected.
But yeah, I support both opinions you've extracted independently from each other.
Share shirts that go hard.
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