That’s more commonly a US thing and it’s like, “Americans saved from America.” whether health, education, or some basic social service that’s being used for profiteering.
“Amazing! This group of people crowd-funded a medical procedure!”
That’s the subreddit I’m missing here…
… the orphan-crushing one?
What’s a subreddit?
What’s Reddit, you mean?
It’s an advertising platform masquerading as a forum trying to be a social media site.
What’s Red?
What?
Wha?
W?
V?
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Reginald Albert “Red” Forman is a fictional character on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, portrayed by Kurtwood Smith.
Ah u know… That thing. That thing that… Ah never mind.
The problem with these rage inducing subreddits is that they seldom seem to propose or encourage any solution or alternative. So it ends up becoming a kind of circle jerk of learned helplessness.
It seems like a common internet thing. Rage bait and learned helplessness. We learn to accept that there’s nothing to do because people and politicians are idiots because “look at all this stuff”.
And often this aligns with advertising tech because it makes us engaged and seeking comfort of continued scrolling when we get a steady stream of anxiety injections. It’s low key like an abusive relationship.
God forbid a community focused on showcasing a certain trope actually focus on showcasing that trope…
The old subreddit was associated with leftist political subreddits anyway, so the connection to actual discourse is there regardess
Furthermore, the comments sections always abound with discussions of potential solutions
Respectfully, I don’t think one can just suggest a solution to what is fundamentally problem of decades of economic propaganda and miseducation. The number of morons that believe in Adam Smith and market self-corrections like they are forces as natural as the tide is truly staggering insane, ansld is a direct result of generations of neoliberalism seeping into education.
There’s no easy solution. There’s hardly a hard solution at this point. The solution is to make memes, and to yell, and to make the issue so readily apparent it can be unavoidable and understood by these very same people let down by their education. So subreddits memeing is good, overall.
Yeah, because everybody knows the obvious answer. It’s untethered capitalism. And no it hasn’t always been that way. Politicians weren’t always whores for the rich. That’s a rather recent development that can absolutely be stopped by the will of the people.
As much as I respect your argument; the Romans. Or any civilisation really. It literally has always been that way.
I don’t know enough about Roman politics to contradict but “any civilisation really” is definitely too broad of a stroke.
Are you implying that the US, and the Roman’s, never had a period of growth and expansion that wasn’t late stage capitalist rot?
The comment isn’t saying this never happens really, it’s saying it doesn’t have to. This is capitalism with no guardrails.
Before Caesar, Rome actually had checks and balances to keep one person from amassing too much influence. For example, they had two consuls, which was the highest political position at the time and acted like as the heads of state.
Until Caesar fucked up those systems by literally declaring himself “dictator for life”. So really, it’s not always been this way, it’s usually just a few individuals that keep fucking it up for everyone else. Until they end up with a knife in their back.
As much as I respect your argument; the Romans. Or any civilisation really. It literally has always been that way.
[Citation needed]
Hey that orphan-crushing machine is a constitutionally enshrined right. I have the right to mount that thing on wheels and drive it around to crush up orphans wherever I want! And if somebody tries to stop me and gets caught up in and jams the mechanism, I have the right to sue his estate for damages!
Are you on patreon? I’ve got 20k I’d like to invest in your ideas
Give man a fish and they call you a communist. Create a baby crashing machine and they call you shrewd businessman. Or something like this.
The radical leftists marxists communists won’t let us crush orphans anymore
Make Orphan Crushing Great Again
Trump 2024
It’s called healthcare now.
Of course it’s a mystery. An honest discussion about why orphan-crushing machines need to exist would lead to an honest discussion about where your society’s pain really comes from.
And the owner class doesn’t want that discussion to happen. Because it would come out that they don’t pay their fair share of the tax burden, which would keep orphan-crushing machines from existing in the first place.
Listen, we here are Orphan Crushing Incorporated are a family business…
Will nobody think of the jobs in the orphan crushing industry?
Just read one like that:
That one showed up just before this post in my feed!
I miss Achewood
I heard Onstad came back and was doing new Achewood content behind a paywall but I have been too poor to pay and see if he has still got the chops.
I miss Ray and Beef and Teodor and Philipe and Cornelius and Lyle and Nice Pete and the rest of the gang, all the way up to Trouble Man and No-No.
Dear god if only he could get the complete Achewood released.
And Todd, don’t forget about Todd
Shame his animated show deal fell through (or simply never took off) but yeah I don’t know if I want to pay for something that appears to not have been updated since May
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
The real problem is that the orphans need a crushing machine themselves so that they could prevent to be crushed. We must protect the second crushing amendment.
The only thing that can prevent a good orphan from being crushed is a bad orphan with a… wait what?
Orphan Crushing Machines Inc to the moon, no paper hands
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Great. Now I need to go rewatch cube.
When you say rewatch cube I think of the movie Cube, but I’m not sure that’s what you meant?
That’s the one! Great Canadian cinema. Number 1 n 3. Not number 2.
We all could do with less salt in our lives.
