Reminds me of this headline from The Onion from right after 9/11
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Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
Fuck that’s accurate
Currently true as well.
No we managed pretty well.
I miss the time when the president wearing a tan suit was the biggest scandal in politics.
Right?
Who gives a flying fuck?
I guess the answer is apparently a shit ton of losers with no lives of their own.
I feel insulted that I've even been forced to be made aware of this over the last 48 hours.
It isn’t helpful to think of them as losers. Like the image says, no bread all circuses. Without making any inferences about these two people pictured, the media and public focus on their engagement is in the service of maintaining and strengthening the status quo power structures.
Resist the urge to dismiss this as crank conspiracy thinking. There is a system, even if it wasn’t designed and even if it isn’t organized. And the media is by and large a tool of that system.
"We should stop indulging in celebrity and start GIVING A FUCK!"
"Okay, what should we care about?"
"Wow, thanks. Now I'm full of helpless anxiety. Anything I can do about any of this?"
"DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!"
"Well, this has been enervating as fuck. If you don't mind, I'm going back to hide in my den and watch movies until the world ends."
"Wake up sheeple!"
"OK cool youre right I see now, I understand. What are we gonna do about it?"
"They've played you for fools! WAKE UP SEE WHATS HAPPENING"
"Yeah I see its awful. How can we help?"
"You're a pawn in their game WAKE UP"
"Fuck it gonna go have a wank"
I really despise this type of argument. There's plenty you can care about that isn't billionaire pop stars or famines.
Theres so much optimistic shit these days and education has never been this accessible. Join a book club, environmental club, local community, hobby niche, care about different countries and regions. I barely find enough free time for all these activities.
There are literally a billion things you should care more about than a billionaires getting engaged. It's frankly disgusting.
I think the key here is "we". Collectively if people had a common understanding of what is going on in the world they would be appalled and demand more of our leaders (or get new ones)
Instead people vaguely know what is going on, through the biased lense of their news sources.
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you'd get a blank stare. If you ask them what is up with tswift they would excitedly explain that she just got engaged and recently had a crazy expensive tour.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me, and that's exactly how the people in power want it.
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you’d get a blank stare.
Idk about that. His name has been in national news for decades. Like, maybe somewhere behind Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un in terms of US visibility.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me
Say what you will about the Trotskyists, but they looooved making newspapers. I don't think there's a shortage of modern Alt-Media, either. Not hard to get an earful of press about the state of the world. What's much more tricky is coordinating actions, particularly at the local level. There is not, to my knowledge, a Houston-centric news organization that does a good job of organizing and orienting local people on municipal issues. But I'm a white atheist professional worker out in the suburbs, so its very possible I'm just out of touch with what more radical and well-connected folks in churches and labor unions are up to.
idk OP... this is a lot more effort than I put into things idgaf about.
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I'm marginally happy that anyone anywhere is in love. Cool beans.
Beyond that, I'd rather see people I know have happy and healthy lives. FSM knows they deserve it just as much as these two.
R’amen to that!
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Yes but did you hear about Cracker Barrel??
That they fired Brad's wife after eleven years of service?
No bread , all circuses
I've been saying a variation for the past year or a bit longer "Circuses are cheap, bread is expensive"
That's why we have so much entertaiment, but no housing.
Except the circuses AREN'T cheap anymore either, what with the likes of Ticketmaster/Live Nation making it so a concert ticket costs as much as a car and the NFL's only goal being to maximize the profits of the team owners.
Just to use the examples directly related to the billionaire and multimillionaire depicted.
Yeah, you're right. I'm talking more about the clown shows in the news and political systems. Although a netflix subscription or a phone plan is a lot cheaper than a mortgage, and the boomers love to say that the computers and internet are why we can't have houses.
Watching this idiot lipsync after flying in to a concert you paid a month's wage for is a fucking insult.
People that idolize celebs are wild to me. Taylor wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire girl.
As I've gotten older my celebs are people that put tutorials on YouTube. Like oh shit, ishaan my favorite electrician just dropped a fire new video on neutrals and grounding on 3 phase. Or that one homesteader just dropped a short on how to grow bigger pumpkins, get the popcorn
Absolutely. I wish Taylor Swift all the best, just like I do anyone, but I couldn't care less about her or her life. Alec Watson from Technology Connections? I'd take a bullet for that guy.
I don't wish all the best to any billionaire.
You're a fundamentally failed human being if you allow yourself to hoard this much wealth. At least tech billionaires pretend to have some sort of ideal goal they're working on but entertainer just be straight up pure narcissists.
Holy shit banning private jets, yes please
I dunno man. You're already supposed to get to the airport 2 hours early.
Can you imagine the absolute clusterfuck if you were in the security line at the same time as Taylor Swift?
The first I heard of Swift's engagement was reporters asking Trump to react, cause every fucking thing is about Trump
This is exactly how i kiss as well. I've never understood why ppl purse their lips (you look like a duck!) . For me, it's always been closed mouth, lips tight, and aiming for the mustache, so our lips dont actually meet and my mouth never looks weird for the cameras.
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love this and I love how it's triggering all the Swifties
Everyone should really read ALL of this image. The headline obviously resonates with a ton of people, but there is a bigger message here that people need to engage with.
I don’t know if this is OC from the author or not, but this is genuinely brilliant.
/r/im14andthisisdeep
I’m 44 and this is actually stone cold sober reality but have a day friend.
look how much i don't care guys, i made a monument to the things i don't care about.
not caring about things is not a virtue. you want people to care about something else you should work on that messaging. "you're stupid to care about this" is reddit atheist coded bullshit that has never worked in the history of mankind.
That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.
No I am not entertained. In fact. I am fed up with all the coverage of them. Let them live their lives in peace so those of us out here tired of the show can also live in peace.
distraction of the masses from politics, a tale as old as time. people are too invested in sports/celebreties often are very ignorant of the policies/politics around them, and they dont realize this just a distraction from Class issues.
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