When I read articles like this a Jimquisition episode starts playing in my head.

One of the biggest victories of capitalism during my lifetime is how consumerism has swallowed ethics. I’m not saying that buying stuff from shit-heel companies is OK, or that boycotts are useless. But the mentality of shopping as ethics reduces moral agency to consumer choice and spending habits. Its gross.

Has anyone else noticed this? We don’t shop anymore, we support businesses now. Maybe the reason Americans are reluctant to protest is because we already feel like an activist for spending an extra dollar on cage free eggs.

I’ve heard a variation on this where you count out 40 beans and discard the farty-one.

This works on libertarians too.

If you could reason with gun-brains, they would cease to exist.

I read a book called The Reactionary Mind, by Robin.

It’s thesis was that if you survey Western conservative writings from the French Revolution to today, the only consistent value is hierarchy. God, guns, small government, capitalism, and traditional family values may all be jettisoned, but never hierarchy.

I’ll point out that this week, Trump pitted gun rights vs. enforcement of the out-group and the American Right shuddered.

I’ve found the Linux community to be quite helpful. But I’ve not really used Lemmy for tech support. The Arch Wiki is damn near a Linux Wikipedia. And any active board dedicated to a particular Distro are where I’ve gotten help.

It seems really hard at first but the more problems you solve the more sense everything makes.

Ignore the gatekeepers.

Fiat currency is socially constructed and would cease to exist if we stopped believing in it. It’s just that the value of gold works exactly the same way.

Sci-fi eugenics is still eugenics.

The Nazi term is “useless eater”, but I suppose “drain on society” is a pretty good translation.

Wow with that list of examples, you’re either already on Nebula or sick to death of hearing about it.

FYI: the prefix “win” is software jargon for insecure software to let advanced users know to avoid.

I listen very carefully for any mistakes they make so I can correct them.

Media criticism has become so full of right-wing messaging, that quality-slop doesn’t sound off-base. Kinda like poes law.

These CHOADS take the time to learn media-criticism jargon and aesthetics, but they use those to make single-digit ‘your Dad’ type complaints. The most popular being the existence of black actors.

I’ve seen people vehemently argue scientific accuracy in Star Wars. People are aggregated right now at the “unrealistic” casting of black actors in a Cyclops movie. Next to this insanity, quality-slop sounds pretty reasonable.

Sometimes the betrayal is not so subtle. Did anybody who played “Days Gone” trust

for one second? I mean that name by it’self is evidence of guilt.

For every 100 rapes reported to the police, about 3 people will go to prison.

Our political leaders are known rapists.

In the Catholic pedophile scandals, it’s not uncommon for the parents of victims to side with the Church.

In all the hullabaloo over the Epstein files is about what powerful men are going to be embarrassed. Nobody is even talking about how to prevent billionaires from being able to snatch teenagers off the street.

Western culture loves and celebrates the rape of little boys and girls, why should our porn be more benevolent than our society?

Bread is one of those things that is cheaper to buy than make IMO

I checked my Walmart. Premium bread flour is $5.25 for 5lb (enough for 6-7 loaves). The cheapest bread is $2.50. Bread is a pain to make, I won’t deny that, but your time would have to be pretty valuable to erase the savings.

Con man Albuquerque

Anybody can cook like Paula Dean. All you need is lots of butter, cheese, and racism.

Being the “black friend” providing cover for White Supremacy is hardly anything new. Relying on black identity to legitimize racist ideals is some nested dolls of irony and hypocrisy.

I know a white guy who admits his is a race isn’t so good at critical thought.

You make a great point, but WTF does Tyler Durden have to do with anything?

There are many ways to read media, and one of the popular ways to read Durden and his project is as explicitly fascist. The speech your meme references sounds to my ear like white-male-grievance-porn straight from the Daily Wire editorial page.

I’m not saying you should adopt this reading, just that you should be aware of it.