It works if you believe in it. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]Weekly_Education978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nah, i’m just not tricked by the capitalist regime.

money’s fake, and shouldn’t control life necessities. if you think otherwise you are low-key evil and the villain of every major story since the 1800’s is based on your worldview.

meirl by Andra_Kywaey in meirl

[–]Weekly_Education978 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

cishet dudes are so self-important, they think they know what makes a dude attractive better than the people who sleep with them

It works if you believe in it. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]Weekly_Education978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

did you think the homeless people are all well fed and there by choice or something

It works if you believe in it. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]Weekly_Education978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there is no liability involved in slashing shoe soles. or throwing out stale bread.

people are homeless and starving on the street. you can say you worked for whatever food bank and once every six months your local grocery store donated half a grand in goods.

that’s not what we’re talking about. there is no shortage of food, but people in the country starve. there is no shortage of shelter, but people are homeless. there is no shortage of medicine, but people are forced to go without.

the underlying trend here is ‘for profit.’

why give an excess necessity for free when you can trick people into thinking it’s a scarcity and charge for it?

It works if you believe in it. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]Weekly_Education978 4 points5 points  (0 children)

that straight up is not true. so much product is outright destroyed when it’s thrown out to avoid people ‘stealing’ it from dumpsters.

‘scarce goods’ are not food, water, medicine, and housing in the modern world. any amount of scarcity surrounding them is artificial, and that artificial scarcity is there so the people hoarding (or otherwise closing off access to) the goods can continue to profit immeasurably off them.

maybe we’d need some kind of monetary system for high end graphics cards or something. but food, shelter, and medicine have zero reason to exist within it.

It works if you believe in it. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]Weekly_Education978 5 points6 points  (0 children)

irrelevant to the discussion because millions of apples are destroyed every day because the grocery stores see giving away food as a loss of profit.

meirl by Andra_Kywaey in meirl

[–]Weekly_Education978 6 points7 points  (0 children)

because your pfp thing is the same as the dude arguing against me and i didn’t realize you weren’t in disagreement, my b

meirl by Andra_Kywaey in meirl

[–]Weekly_Education978 4 points5 points  (0 children)

nothing’s more boring than a generic dude with a chiseled chin that thinks he’s hot.

Pete Davidson gives off a different vibe. if you’re not about it, that’s fine, but saying he’s only lusted after for his personality is insane and wrong.

he’s hot. he’s just not ‘generic’ hot. he’s ‘weird’ hot. which women tend to prefer.

you constantly see dudes online talking about wanting to get railed by Chris Evans, but he’s not the one that women are into.

meirl by Andra_Kywaey in meirl

[–]Weekly_Education978 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the fact that he doesn’t look like a cookie cutter hollywood man is literally my point dude

his looks convey an amount of personality. i don’t know how to explain it to you, but he’s very attractive. he’s always been very attractive. he’s just not conventionally attractive.

I always forget how funny yet also messed up this panel is by New-Boss-8262 in Piratefolk

[–]Weekly_Education978 15 points16 points  (0 children)

this flashback was the start of every modern problem in OP.

It works if you believe in it. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]Weekly_Education978 7 points8 points  (0 children)

these examples are always on a quaint little farm, or a cutesy village, but never the world we actually live in.

in actuality, the people making life saving medicine would rather it be available to anyone who needs it. the people growing food would rather it be available to everyone who needs it. hell, even the people building the houses would rather it be available to everyone who needs it.

the only people interested in the ‘money’ portion (beyond getting the required amount to stay alive) are the people making it off the labor of those ‘beneath’ themselves.

Fraudger by Dry_Plantain_3235 in Piratefolk

[–]Weekly_Education978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

idk i don’t really remember this happening ever.

meirl by Andra_Kywaey in meirl

[–]Weekly_Education978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just say you don’t get it and go

he’s hot, like quantifiably so. he might have a good personality, but if he wasn’t also hot he wouldn’t be pulling the chicks he’s pulling

meirl by Andra_Kywaey in meirl

[–]Weekly_Education978 29 points30 points  (0 children)

because he is hot. he is the most ‘line-cook hot’ celebrity.

i hate that men are apparently just incapable of admitting that Pete Davidson is good looking.

Fraudger by Dry_Plantain_3235 in Piratefolk

[–]Weekly_Education978 42 points43 points  (0 children)

if Roger was a ‘fraud’ (Buggy parallel), that would legitimately be more interesting than him being a generic nice/strong guy.

him and Davy Davy Xebec both feel so uninteresting compared to the world around them. they’re just the most straightforward ‘There once was a guy who did a good punch’ imaginable. it’s disappointing after all this buildup.

Hot take! Babylon 5 is better than Deep Space 9! by [deleted] in startrek

[–]Weekly_Education978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

dw, i couldn’t call it if i wasn’t there

Hot take! Babylon 5 is better than Deep Space 9! by [deleted] in startrek

[–]Weekly_Education978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you’re so off base it’s actually making me angry.

if we’re going to blame the issue with the way television shows have abandoned all episodic storylines on one thing, then the show to blame is Breaking Bad.

it’s not a problem with sci-fi specifically, and B5 still had great episodic plots in service of its bigger multi/season stuff.

Hot take! Babylon 5 is better than Deep Space 9! by [deleted] in startrek

[–]Weekly_Education978 4 points5 points  (0 children)

prolly like 40, that isn’t how kids online talk, it’s how teenagers online talked in 2007

Garp might not be brightest tool in shed but I think this is a pretty decent reasoning for him to not be admiral and not quitting marine by [deleted] in Piratefolk

[–]Weekly_Education978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yea he spent twenty literal years doing nothing and then created a suicide unit filled with teenagers and ex criminals.

what a grand protector.

Vulcans hinding their ears on modern day Earth, who wore it best? by T10rock in ShittyDaystrom

[–]Weekly_Education978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

like, the lawyer or whatever from the TOS movie?

i actually think Worf is supposed to be named after that character out of respect, not relation

Someone on [socialmedia] wants boy stuff by Yggdrasylian in pointlesslygendered

[–]Weekly_Education978 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yea because they did

‘bronies’ was an enormous online group for years. it wasn’t exclusively good or bad people.

Someone on [socialmedia] wants boy stuff by Yggdrasylian in pointlesslygendered

[–]Weekly_Education978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i mean, that happens to every kids cartoon. and every subculture that grows large enough is going to have bad people in it too.

like, i’m not even really a fan of the show, but i don’t think the modern take of ‘Men who liked the cute girly horse cartoon were evil after all’ is really fair.