86 points

This is just the truth, where’s the meme?

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We’re at the stage in humor where instead of telling jokes, we’re conditioning ourselves to laugh at an increasingly horrifying reality.

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9 points

But memes are inherently just political cartoons…

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61 points

Why is our society full of people who talk like supervillains?

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It’s the reverse, actually. Story writers modeled super villains after these people.

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And they modeled their heroes on their crooked world view.

Exit: for everyone that doesn’t get what I’m saying, Hollywood is filled with crypto libertarians. Marvel’s Infinity War/Endgame was about an evil environmentalist vs the good guy billionaire who could have solved climate change while he was taking a shit, but choose to punch bad guys instead. Kingsman is an even more extreme example Neo libertarian morality tale. And whenever a pro environment movie comes out, audiences always hate it. Shows how effective their propaganda is.

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True of Hollywood drek. Not of literature in general.

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19 points

C R O M C H !

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Stupid Logitech controller! Shakes fist angrily

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there’s no such thing as true altruism

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Yes, but there’s such thing as a class war.

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Insightful comments.

Glad the propaganda isn’t affecting people.

I thought people would jump on this anti billionaire post.

But you’re right, it’s trying to incite class war.

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What’s wrong with being anti-billionaire?

If a dragon were hoarding all the gold in your village and leaving the villagers to get fucked, would you be pro-dragon?

(Yeah it’s a Terry Pratchett novel.)

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But your right, it’s trying to incite class war.

Ah yes, it is well known that those fighting back against oppression are in fact the ones inciting war!

Daddy Husk isn’t going to see you defending him and whisk you away to his castle dear, and you might actually choke if you suck that boot any harder, looks from here like the wannabe edgelord schtick isn’t really paying off… 🤣

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18 points

Just out of curiosity, does billionaire dick taste like push pop, or fun dip, or maybe rocket pops?

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Just like how Ukraine incited the new war with Russia by checks notes… by…existing?

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11 points

Horseshit. A few thousand billionaires doesn’t constitute a “class” in a world of billions of people. That’s not a matter of “class,” it’s a fucking oligarchy.

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5 points

Be careful, nihilism is an open gateway to narcissism.

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Not as long as you acknowledge that you also don’t matter

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  1. People say that because they don’t know what it feels like. Basically, they’re projecting

  2. Technically one can argue fairly that it doesn’t exist, but that argument would be about semantics. Doing something good for others at the expense of yourself either because it feels good to do, or because somewhere in your brain you think there will be good karma or a celestial reward, well… maybe those aren’t truly “altruism”, but can anybody tell the goddamned difference in the grand scheme of things?

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This is why grass roots is so important.i struggle to believe in anything that isn’t bottom up motivated.

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