Someone please make the simulation stop.

  • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    First, I think we all know book spines look like when we’ve read them before vs when we just opened them for the first time.

    Second, this is absolutely a PR stunt and it’s a smart move. Her aesthetic before this was subversive and counter cultural and being with Elon did this image no favors. The narrative that she was a secret communist all along is, frankly, on the bleeding edge of what capitalism is currently capable of recuperating. There have been plenty of revolutionary figures recuperated, but there’s a difference between, say, MLK’s socialism being buried and transformed into general pacifism, and Grimes becoming a theory-head Marxist and having that be part of her image. It’s moving in the other direction. MLK’s image kept the aesthetic while losing the principles. Grimes’ image is attempting to create an aesthetic without establishing the principles in the first place. It’s pure aesthetic detached from action, which is exactly what so much communist identity branding seems to push online.

    • panopticon [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Seems harmless and maybe even good if it helps make communism cool and not this scary boogeyman

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      First, I think we all know book spines look like when we’ve read them before vs when we just opened them for the first time.

      Am I the only person in the world who guards my books like an old miser guarding his fortune?

      • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Even if you treat your books very carefully, your first read through will leave creases in the spine of a paperback. In the picture it looks like she opened to a random page once and the rest of the pages remain unopened

    • Dbumba [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Sorry, dystopian aesthetic can only be hunger games medieval Urban Outfitters, or drab grey stark universal uniforms. I don't make the rules.

    • Sushi_Desires
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      3 years ago

      How will she post to hexbear . net ???

  • FRIENDLY_BUTTMUNCHER [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    What if Grimes dating Musk was all just a ploy to get 50% of his fortune and redistribute it? I mean, it obviously wasn't, but what if it was? That would be pretty neat.

      • cybernetsoc [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        No, it is literally Feudalist propaganda. "No, but wouldn't this system be great if the aristocrat was a genetically superior super-human that could see the future."

        • Lord_ofThe_FLIES [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I don't think you get Dune. The point of Dune is that no, the system isn't great, even with a genetically superior super-human aristocrat who can see the future

  • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    She spending that divorce money well and I am here for it.

    Right now musk has to cope that he exploited at least three entire workers for her to do that.

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They have a kid, which will get some good childsupport money.

        But honestly, It feels kinda good thst I dodnt know that about them. I had a brain wrinkle clean from all thsi bullshit the entire time

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          They have a kid, which will get some good childsupport money.

          I doubt he'll ever pay that on time, if at all.