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Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand

the ogres are going on the BBC to talk about how unreasonable and extremist you are for daring to suggest that there should only be one ogre

Is ignorance truly bliss? Because a lot of dumb fucking idiots are racist and angry ALL the time.

we need to have a conversation about how the "everyone is 12" theory of politics now doesn't only apply to conservative men who want to kick the bad guys' asses and then go home and eat a steak their bangmommy made just for them (NO VEGGIES!!!) but also to adult women who are literally afraid of other people having sex and being sexy. it's like there's been this massive regression among women in their 20s where we've gotten rid of feminism and replaced it with a new form of purity politics that requires never saying anything bad about another women unless you find a new and creative way to call her a whore. the misuse of "she caters to the male gaze" as a new form of enlightened slut shaming, labeling any woman who wears a short skirt or has sex with a man as "not a girls' girl" and "a pick me," the intense overreaction to celebrity affairs or even just shit like the summer house mess where a woman is now dating another woman's ex even though there was no overlap and the "relationship" was just kind of a situationship that fizzled but now these little girls are online demanding both people involved in the new relationship lose their jobs and not get any brand deals, the panic over mildly sexual content in literally any capacity like ads or an instagram post in a crop top, the compulsion to link everything back to the epstein files, the monthly meltdown over sex scenes on tv and in movies. everyone is 12 and AFRAID of sabrina carpenter.

people need to stop using the word "addiction" when they mean "compulsive behavior" or "maladaptive coping mechanism" or "hobby i think they spend too much time doing"

My dad has worked in construction is whole life, primarily with a company that does concrete foundations, and I immediately sent him this back when I first found it on TikTok, and he IMMEDIATELY shared it with everyone he worked with. They apparently still quote it on his job sites to this day.

that was the Devil

I mean they wanted rain

I think we need to fully appreciate the fact that the reason he “looks like the Devil” is that many depictions of the Devil in American popular media are specifically caricatures of this guy. Like, imagine being a con man and fucking up your hustle so badly that for more than a century afterwards people start drawing the Devil to look like you.

Maybe I can convince y'all to act right by framing things in terms of social engineering. People will be a whole lot more likely to do whatever shit you're trying to hector them into doing if you're not constantly being a dick the whole time. Being niceys is a powerful social engineering tool such as all of the times I have maliciously manipulated people into fulfilling my whims using an evil sociopathic manipulation technique i like to call "asking nice and then saying thanks after"

a friend (hi lemmy) of mine said 'and for what. posts? its all for posts' while we were talking about something but its completely shattered my mindset online now when i see someone tearing into something and i wonder why. its literally all for posts.

a lot of people talk about why it seems media literacy is down or why good faith discussions or analysis of things has flown out the window but when you step back and go 'this is literally all for posts' you realize that it doesnt matter what anyones saying so long as it catches your attention and the best way to catch someones attention is to make them Feel Bad. or to make them angry. like literally the lowest amount of effort possible It's All For Posts. the currency of Posts

when you combine this with the fact that any person with enough followers can essentially become an internet micro celebrity and be offered brand deals and that some sites offer interaction revenue you start to see the rot at the center of it right. like the goal here is rarely to actually improve things its to Get Your Attention because that attention means your money. jingling keys in your face while i stuff my hand in your pockets.