Not_mikey

If it was a comedy I would give it a pass, but this episode wasn't, or at least it was a bad one. The only sort of funny scene was the sermon. The rest was young boys slowly dying.

They gave it back after doing a war crime and executing prisoners of war. They also executed them with a fucking gattling gun which is just cruel. I think they were trying to get you to sympathize with the confederates about to die instead of the northerners who were killing an already defeated foe.

if it was a serious show I'd agree but it's satire

I agree, righteous gemstones generally whitewashes the southern church and rarely shows the racism and homophobia that would be present. But I give it a pass because it's funny, this episode wasn't funny. The only joke of the show was him giving a bad sermon to those troops, the rest was just sad imagery of confederate boys dying. This episode was them trying to be serious and it didn't work IMO.

They sometimes hang out at the disc golf course in Golden gate park I frequent. I like to think they're curious about the discs and think they're some wierd bird we tamed. It's easy to hear them but there hard to spot in the high eucalyptus and cypress trees. Glad to see there population is increasing.

Here's a very blurry picture I got of one a month ago:

The guy makes shitty posts (literally he seems to have some scatological obsession) no one likes them and then he complains that he's being suppressed.

He's been doing it for a while now, before Elon took over he blamed it on his right wing views being suppressed, and Elon took that at face value and took up his cause as one of the reasons to buy Twitter.

Now I guess he's coming up with a new conspiracy that everyone is getting suppressed. In reality it's probably that people are just disengaging from Twitter and there is less views / engagement to go around.

And there stocks price went up 7% today ...

If anyone still needs proof that financial speculation and stock valuations are as real as fairies, here you go.

Wouldn't call carney and the liberals lefty, there centrists. The left NDP party under Singh has been losing ground as people have ben rallying around the liberals to make sure the conservatives don't win.

Still would probably piss off trump and his crew. They just probably won't get much progress, but considering the direction of a lot of other western countries not backsliding into fascism is pretty good.

Heavy metal af

Tradwife content is on the rise for women as well, more and more young people are buying into this mythical simpler past as the world gets more complex, alienating and difficult.

The tension between a capitalist wanting lower wages and more consumption is a contradiction at the heart of capitalism. It's one of the reasons Marx thought it was bound to destroy itself. One resolution to this contradiction is debt, get people buying everything on credit cards and you won't have to raise wages to keep consumption up. This is why the economy has kept growing while wages have stagnated, credit card debt has boomed recently.

There are many contradictions in capitalism, another is that workers want higher wages, but also want cheaper products. If wages do increase then the price of products increase as well and we get inflation. These contradictions lead to the instability of capitalism and require the state to step in and mediate them otherwise the system oscillates wildly between booms, busts, inflation, deflation etc.

Sorry to hear about your situation. I understand how that sort of rhetoric can kick you while your down and stick with you a lot more. Blaming poverty on the impoverished is always disgusting.

I agree, some family situations are shit and any post-capitalist society would have to provide the resources to leave those situations.

The idea that people SHOULD leave there parents home at 18 is consumptively motivated, the idea that people CAN leave there parents home at 18 is liberating

Consumption is necessary for capitalism, the way you accumulate wealth is by selling goods and services for profit. Many recessions are caused by production overshooting consumption which leads to people being fired to lower production, which lowers consumption... Most of the evaluation of companies and thus the wealth of billionaires is based on consumption increasing. If it were to ever go down in a meaningful way then production would to, and thus the GDP and the billionaires slice of it.

There are other forms of accumulation besides the capitalist mode, eg. Fighting and conquering your neighbors in a feudal system, but I don't think musk and bezos want to bet there fortunes on there military acumen and they probably prefer this current system.

I think the whole avocado toast thing was way overblown. It was maybe one cnbc article and a cable news segment but the memes and media against it far outnumber the articles that supported it.

I've seen far more media supporting consumption of avocado toast, both social media and advertising, then media telling you to stop consuming avocado toast. We have just gotten so used to "tuning" out advertising that we don't notice it, meanwhile an article shaming you for consuming is far more likely to get a reaction and make you remember it.