Christ then be mad at advertisers then

Right. Yes. This is what I’m mad at.

they don’t feel like they’re suffering

I’ve heard people who get tattoos often enough begin to enjoy the feel of the needle on their skin. So who are you to say tattooing bar codes on everyone’s necks is a bad thing? Don’t yuck my yum!

So who cares then?

Presumably the people drowning in this suffocating deluge of mass marketing.

let other people enjoy things

What if they aren’t enjoying it?

What if they’re just getting caught up in the oppressive frenzy of hype culture, getting bombarded with ad-induced anxiety, or simply trying to fit in with whatever they’re told is “normal”? What if the emperor has no clothes but we’re all told its rude to point?

Am I allowed to make fun of Morbius? Or is that under the Let People Enjoy Things rubric?

If they get enjoyment out of these products, does that really negatively affect you?

If its getting injected into every webpage, spamming up my email, blaring across the radio, on billboards along every mile of road, and natively included in every other media venue I visit?

Yeah.

Isn’t the whole gripe with Pumpkin Spiced whatever the same with Christmas decorations popping up in mid-October? Like, its not fucking special if you’re putting nutmeg in my coffee in June.

Same with the D&D / Marvel / Roblox / Whatever fandom of choice. It was fine twenty years ago when it was the New Thing. Now we’re pushing 100+ hours of Disneyfied extended universe content on Marvel alone. Half my “recommended” podcast feed is six C-list celebrities making the soy face in front of a pair of crossed battle axes. And my street is lined with shitty faux-bakery corporate cafeterias trying to sell a piece of rye bread covered in guacamole for $15/slice.

Who actually enjoys this shit anymore? It feels like I’m being sealed into Disneyland, like a Pharaoh buried alive in his pyramid. It stopped being fun ages ago. Now I’m torn between boredom and horror.

Loo with a View

Could be that when you spend a trillion a year on the Pentagon, plus state and municipal police, plus a ton of overlap in the tech and energy sectors, its just hard to escape.

Trans Warp Drive

Float Gender

They’re doing a quadruple Friedman Unit.

Incredible.

Liberals love their resets, whether it’s with Putin’s Russia or Saddam’s Iraq or Bolsonaro’s Brazil or Milei’s Argentina.

No no no. This Is Whataboutism.

You’re only allowed to comment on Russian wartime media practices in exclusion. You can’t view it through a holistic lense of state sponsored manufacturing of consent.

The only Tankie I recognize

I reject uniform distribution theory and only recognize the graph that looks like a pair of torpedo titties.

Nobody died during the Dust Bowl. John Steinbeck is a fucking liar. Actually, if anything, the population boomed and everything was even more awesome. FDR was the one that killed everybody. Things under Coolidge and Hoover were going great. You’ve just been fooled by all those insidious college Marxists who never took a simple Econ 101 class in their lives.

“Getting a little handsy” in the Vulcan vernacular has a whole new spin.

Idk how much of that was Big Evil Mao telling people to kill the Four Pests and how much of that was the lingering consequences of a 40 year long Japanese genocidal occupation, brutal civil war, and attendant refugee crises. But if you’re really interested in what farm life during the era of Chinese Revolution looked like, there’s an excellent historical documentary called “Fanshen” that details the day-to-day life in Long Bow Village from '45 to '48 during the land-reform campaign.

Never before has any state, much less the state of the Chinese Communist Party, been so bold as to control the agricultural sector.

Will the FCC do anything if an ISP refuses to comply, though?

That’s the real $10k fine paid out over 10 years question.

If I have to choose between the three, I’m glad I got the microplastics, tbh.

But I’m more likely to get an three.