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Liking it here so far, but it would be a really good thing to enable downvotes. I hope you reconsider it!
Capitalist media only cares about sexy tragedies and expensive dangers. Focusing on 500 poors gasping their last breaths far from view only serves to remind viewers of how unfair things are on a basic level - and that threatens power.
The thing is, I’ve never seen such an overwhelmingly bored response from the general public to a Sexy Tragedy like this before. The only person in my life who expressed any iota of distress over the Titan is my dear mother, but she cried when we dropped off our old TV at Goodwill, so.
People are, I think, getting a little bit harder to trick with the song-and-dance of the hyper-rich dying in outstanding ways.
“When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways… This is one of the ways when the poor are too poor. When the rich are too rich there is a way, and if I am not mistaken, that way will come soon.” - Pearl S. Buck
The only way I’d go back to reddit at all is if they entirely walk back their new API rules and if Spez steps down.
This is exquisite
I would imagine that there is a pretty wide gulf between simply being critical of Discovery vs. engaging in bannable behavior.
I have been openly and severely critical of Discovery for years on the subreddit and was never banned, so it might be worth examining the nature of your critique.
Good-faith arguments and critiques are always welcome.
… I misread this - twice - as “Sith” Temples
The official app is pretty good!
Barry Pepper in the 1940s would have slashed shit up.
Remember a few years ago when MySpace did a faceplant during a server migration, and lost literally every single piece of music that had ever been uploaded? It was one of the single-largest losses of Internet history and it’s just… not talked about at all anymore.
