KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
- 16 Posts
- 87 Comments
9·4 days agoDemocracy dies during regularly scheduled maintenance outages.
29·7 days agoTheAnonymoyseJoker: “You can kill someone with scissors, but I should still be allowed to have scissors because they are extremely useful to me. The same logic applies to nuclear warheads, meth, and anime C. P.”
Me: “Joker, what the fuck are you talking about?”
social media
socialist media
17·12 days agoIs this something people can do part-time? Like 5-6 hours a week?
6·14 days agoI think you just discovered the plot for The Fast and the Furious 10.
BRB, hiring a coyote to smuggle a cool Chinese EV over the border to avoid tariffs.
9·18 days agoWonder why Americans keep getting away with it…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members’_Protection_Act
Literally the opening scene of Team America: World Police, but without any irony or awareness.
8·23 days ago
But HOW will the medication factories work without the CEO and the shareholders? Who will make the medicine? The workers themselves? Preposterous! Without shareholders, material infrastructure ceases to exist. I am very smart.
Yes, I think if you watch American Graffiti or Happy Days you can see exactly what the mythical “American Middle Class” was supposed to mean. Every white dude can work 40 hours a week, and have a suburban house, a car, a wife, 2.5 children, money to spend on vacations, milk delivered to their front door, etc.
The Simpsons even made fun of this trope with their famous “Frank Grimes” episode. Grimes straight up tells Homer Simpson that he is a lucky dumbass and that “In any other country, you would be dead.”
If you read On the Road by Jack Kerouac, he uses his GI Bill money to get a degree and then spend months upon months hitchhiking around America without a job. The American Dream was definitely a real thing for a specific segment of the American population for a certain period of time, but now we see even boring white dudes being excluded from the shrinking middle class. Of course, this increases radicalization.
Fapple 2024.
Here’s a good one:
Siento que Reddit es una de las peores maneras de experimentar la realidad latinoamericana. La GRAN mayoría de gente acá tienen entre 15 y 20 años, no han ido a la universidad, son mantenidos por sus papas y son extremadamente conservadores. Cada opinión que tienen siempre encuentra un echo chamber terrible. La gente en r/peru estaba celebrando cuando mataron a un centenar de peruanos en las protestas por el nuevo gobierno y la gente en r/argentina genuinamente piensa que Miles es el más querido e intelectual presidente de la era republicana. Estos subs son genuinamente extraños si los comparamos con el resto del mundo.
Translated:
I feel like Reddit is one of the worst ways to experience Latin American reality. The VAST majority of people here are between 15 and 20 years old, have not gone to university, are supported by their parents and are extremely conservative. Every opinion they have always finds a terrible echo chamber. People on r/peru were celebrating when a hundred Peruvians were killed in protests over the new government and people on r/argentina genuinely think that Miles is the most beloved and intellectual president of the Republican era. These subs are genuinely strange compared to the rest of the world.
spoiler
The French? On your continent? It’s more likely than you think.
Yes. And The Economist made the Xi Button emote for us:
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?