Yes! It premiered last night, first 2 episodes were brilliant, and I’m trying really hard not to binge the rest so that I can make it last

I thought folks here especially would appreciate this song lol

(also transcribed by ear and vague memory of the subtitles during the episode lol, if you think I got it wrong let me know!)

Na, those nails definitely deserve to be seen, that’s such a cool design!
Great choice of book, too lol

I never said men who can’t get matched are creeps, I said this is aimed at creeps who can’t get matched but would be willing to pay $500 a month to force themsleves on to others. That’s who you’re jumping to the defence of here.

Except what they’re all “playing” for are people (and lets be honest, this is aimed at creepy men who can’t get matched otherwise, so more specifically they’re “playing” for women), with their own wants and needs and often safety concerns, all of which this serves to circumvent, which is definitely not how you “win” at tinder (finding an abuse victim? Sure, but not an actual viable relationship. Which again, tells you who this was designed for and why).

It may be simplistic to focus blame on some individual antagonist, but the one named is probably the one whose choices carried the greatest weight toward achieving the current condition of disaster.

no, but feel free to continue focusing on a symptom rather than on the problem, and

At any rate, as a champion of individual responsibility, he would happily accept, no doubt, his own.

Lmfao, absolutely never happen

Lmfao, what the fuck do you think neoliberalism is?
And yes, it is pointless voting for the centre left, for exactly that reason - they too are neoliberal (= capitalists = exactly the point I was making in my comment).
You’re seriously not making the point you think you’re making lol

This is sarcasm, right?

Don’t get me wrong, absolutely fuck Reagan and lady Reagan (Thatcher), but to ignore the framework that preceded them and enabled them to do what they did is being wilfully ignorant and is counter productive.

Yeah, they fucked society up in their unique and terrible ways, but they are absolutely not the cause of our problems, just another symptom.

The cause is capitalism (and before that, feudalism) and the varied systemic oppression and exploitation it relies on to exist.

It is a tangible cause we can and should fight against, not a ghost to pointlessly shake a fist at for a quick dopamine hit.

Its a stance you can only hove when you don’t pay attention.

this is ironic

Neoliberalism is a kind of liberalism, and both (just like conservativism) serve capitalism (which serves billionaires).
So that person is not wrong (disclaimer - I don’t know much about Thiel, but Musk absolutely played the liberal card for a long long time, and is only now letting his more “socially conservative” opinions, like transphobia or support of Russia, out).

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/

https://blacklikemao.medium.com/how-liberalism-helps-fascism-d4dbdcb199d9

https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/

https://nyanarchist.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/scratch-a-liberal-a-fascist-bleeds-how-the-so-called-middle-class-has-enabled-oppression-for-centuries/

That reason is capitalism, which sows division in favour of profit for a small number of people.

Just to back up comrade @commie, let me copy pasta myself:

In reality overpopulation is a myth and rather population decline is a real concern in many countries.
Now of course we can talk about who this concerns and why (under the current system? It concerns those who need workers to exploit, white supremacists looking to “overturn” the “great replacement”, in some cases both, and it also concerns the aging population that will end up with very little support, something which wouldn’t be as big an issue if we had stronger communities, but alienation and all that jazz, as well as the fewer workers who will remain to keep the economy going for minimal pay as they get bossed around by AI, because capitalism), and also about who pushes the overpopulation myth and why, but the bottom line is - the population isn’t and never has been the problem (we already produce enough food to sustain everyone alive today and then some), it is capitalism and it’s dependence on creating infinite growth in a finite world, at the expense of everyone and everything on the planet (themselves included except for the handful who will end up in orbit or whatever. And then die) that is the problem, and what we need to get rid of if we want to stop this dystopian spiral.

Meanwhile I can still try to introduce more vegetarian meals to my diet.

Again - solely in service of your own ego, they still killed the same amount of animals that day.

It’s how capitalism works, they’re happy to throw the dead animals away, you’ve still spent your money in their supermarkets (which is perfectly fine, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism because they’ve given you no choice), and haven’t made a dent to the actual problem or moved even a nanometre closer to solving it.

Yes, the solution is in regulations and criminalization of polution by corporation

lol, no.
The solution is in abolishing capitalism and building a sustainable society that isn’t built on exploitation and oppression as well as the rape of the planet.

But you should still recycle.

If you really want to, but you’re only serving your own ego, no one else, and definitely not the environment (because in the time you spend recycling, not to mention the time patting yourself on the back, and then the feeling like you’ve done your part so you don’t have to take any more action, the corporations running the plant let out another hundreds of times more pollution than you could ever recycle).
But hey, you get to tell yourself you helped, and that’s what really matters, right?

E: and just to be clear because I know how people love missing the point:
I’m not advocating you litter or pollute or make things deliberately worse, I am saying - spend your time doing something effective (fight capitalism, not its symptoms, build solidarity and community in whatever way you can and is beneficial locally) instead of wasting it to serve no real purpose.

😂
I’m leaving it, we can all use a little chuckle scrolling through this boring dystopia of a thread lol…

E: also, clowns is still technically correct for many of them, so… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Even just add private jests on to this, it would make all the other columns disappear…

You should recycle regardless of the impact size compared to not having a child.

except like 90% of recycling just goes in to landfill anyway.
And even if it didn’t, your personal waste would be dwarfed on comparison to the industrial pollution corporations and militaries produce.

But hey, keeping you recycling and feeling like you’ve done your part is a great way to make sure you don’t take aim at the root of the problem and those causing it.

Furthermore, this creates a feeling that some actions are nearly meaningless.

They are.

There’s very good reason that private jets for example aren’t on there, never mind the industrial stuff - they would make the points we see here completely invisible by comparison.

Some may say I am childless so I can fly 3 times a year and have a lower impact than this family with two kids.

both would have insignificant impact in the grand scheme of things.

This is just more shifting responsibility to those who aren’t by those who are, to ensure they can continue undisturbed.

*I don’t mean killing them, just tax them to oblivion.

For anyone still not paying attention - they will never ever let us do the one (they are literally planning their lives underground or in space for when the planet is no longer liveable, why anyone would think they would ever do anything to benefit anyone but themselves truly is beyond me), leaving us no choice but to resort to the other.

Hyperbole cuts both ways.

you’re the only one talking about people making up shit
also your language (" because they are angry about being expected to do their job") gives away your agenda instantly and shows just how out of touch and/or brainwashed by corporate media you are.

Talk about bad faith lmfao…