When I read articles like this a Jimquisition episode starts playing in my head.

One of the biggest victories of capitalism during my lifetime is how consumerism has swallowed ethics. I’m not saying that buying stuff from shit-heel companies is OK, or that boycotts are useless. But the mentality of shopping as ethics reduces moral agency to consumer choice and spending habits. Its gross.

Has anyone else noticed this? We don’t shop anymore, we support businesses now. Maybe the reason Americans are reluctant to protest is because we already feel like an activist for spending an extra dollar on cage free eggs.

I’ve heard a variation on this where you count out 40 beans and discard the farty-one.

I’ve always thought that policing Kirk’s grief was gross. And the kind of thing that conservatives worry about. I’m comforted that so many here recognize gossip-slop politics.

Loads of people care what celebrities think and do, silly. If people didn’t care about celebrities, they wouldn’t be celebrities.

If you’re going to express that you’re above it all, try not to say anything silly because us mortals will make fun of you.

This works on libertarians too.

If you could reason with gun-brains, they would cease to exist.

It’s so sad to see people on the left swallow NRA mythology. All these gun owners are now safe from ICE, just like Alex Pretti.

Your mistake is accepting that the American war for independence was a revolution. It was more like an “under new management”.

Conservatives, at their core, are and have always been monarchists.

I read a book called The Reactionary Mind, by Robin.

It’s thesis was that if you survey Western conservative writings from the French Revolution to today, the only consistent value is hierarchy. God, guns, small government, capitalism, and traditional family values may all be jettisoned, but never hierarchy.

I’ll point out that this week, Trump pitted gun rights vs. enforcement of the out-group and the American Right shuddered.

I’ve found the Linux community to be quite helpful. But I’ve not really used Lemmy for tech support. The Arch Wiki is damn near a Linux Wikipedia. And any active board dedicated to a particular Distro are where I’ve gotten help.

It seems really hard at first but the more problems you solve the more sense everything makes.

Ignore the gatekeepers.

Fiat currency is socially constructed and would cease to exist if we stopped believing in it. It’s just that the value of gold works exactly the same way.

Amber Heard was a victim of a violent Depp and his lying public relations barrage. She’s a great example of what OP is talking about, and so is your comment.

Sci-fi eugenics is still eugenics.

The Nazi term is “useless eater”, but I suppose “drain on society” is a pretty good translation.

Yesterday there was a popular meme on Reddit comparing the Minnesota killings to Kent State shootings. I’m not saying it isn’t apt, just frustrated that the obvious through-line isn’t state violence, but state violence against white people. FFS George Floyd died in the same city like 5 years ago and you gotta go back to the fucking 60s to find your example of American State violence?

And this is the problem. Government violence against POC is seen as normal, natural, and right, even by the libs. Because that violence is normal. This is America.

Wow with that list of examples, you’re either already on Nebula or sick to death of hearing about it.

FYI: the prefix “win” is software jargon for insecure software to let advanced users know to avoid.

Do you think people without plumbing just shit their pants, or that using a latrine is a natural human instinct that doesn’t require instruction?

I listen very carefully for any mistakes they make so I can correct them.

Media criticism has become so full of right-wing messaging, that quality-slop doesn’t sound off-base. Kinda like poes law.

These CHOADS take the time to learn media-criticism jargon and aesthetics, but they use those to make single-digit ‘your Dad’ type complaints. The most popular being the existence of black actors.

I’ve seen people vehemently argue scientific accuracy in Star Wars. People are aggregated right now at the “unrealistic” casting of black actors in a Cyclops movie. Next to this insanity, quality-slop sounds pretty reasonable.