• btbt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Welcome to the jungle, baby

    I want nothing more than to see these people live the lives of average people from the global south for a week

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They'd literally be dead in a week, supposing that the people their didn't consider them to be essentially an actual child. Which they might, because outside of the imperial core the people are still human.

    • Chapo_Trap_Horse [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      People who finish off Edgy Nerd Realist cavalier-posting with "Welcome To The Jungle Baby" 1000% have parents who own multiple rental properties and probably some commercial properties, run at least one but probably multiple businesses, and have lots of stocks/investments or whatever, and most likely have a literal slave owner somewhere in their ancestry.

      *(Or, in rarer cases, the Edgy Nerd Realist is struggling to make ends meet with harebrained app ideas and is deeply in debt but they're gonna hit that jackpot any second now)

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The "spoilt treat boy posturing as ruthless cynic realist" is an increasingly common type of guy. People can sense how the world is fucked but generations of capitalist propaganda has convinced them that there is no alternative so they end up convincing themselves that the world being fucked is actually fine.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      “spoilt treat boy posturing as ruthless cynic realist”

      This is like 99% of the r*ddit userbase

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        There's :le-pol-face: , but there's also :stupidpol: and sometimes :silver-legion: . Oh wait, these are all the same dude in various stages of breaking into tears fuck it i'm gonna revive and reclaim the old burst into treats meme, what better time for that than now?

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The bright side to the global supply chain collapsing will be that it reveals these people for the helpless suckling piglets they are

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Unfortunately that thing about being helpless suckling pigs goes for the rest of us as well. And when the angry treat boys throws a tantrum about not getting their treats any more and goes full fascist, we'll be in their crosshairs.

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, that's the cloud that comes with the silver lining

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        When growing up in abject poverty suddenly becomes an advantage :doomer:

  • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    It's awful, but it also highlights that you can't scold or guilt the majority of imperial-core dwellers into agreeing to give up their privileged socioeconomic positions because "it's the right thing to do."

    We'll eventually lose that privileged position anyway as global logistics systems start to unravel.

      • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        without the people’s standard of living significantly lowering.

        I mean I kind of hope it lowers. Obviously I want better conditions for people, mosty Black and brown and indigenous people, trapped in grinding poverty with shit healthcare, food, housing and services.

        But white suburban petty boug or PMC families living in five bed, three bath houses with a yard and a pool all for only 3 or 4 people? Nah, fuck that. Nevermind that kind of living just isn't sustainable in any way, it also changes how you see people and interact with them. It makes you a property owner. It feeds the mentality we see in the idiot from the reddit thread.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Ah yes, every single person in the global south is a religious fanatic, and therefore deserves to die so I can keep buying my treats and trinkets.

    Clearly.

  • CurlyHair [any]
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    3 years ago

    These are the same kinds of people who are freaking out because their excessive lifestyle is causing the global supply chain to crumble.

    When they eventually run out of people to exploit and they can no longer get their treats, watch them cry and moan as they tear down society in frustration.

  • sammer510 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I'm sorry Thomas Sankara we have failed you. It turns out there are some people that you cannot explain things too. How does someone's brain get this broken

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    But now we are at a point where they are all doing the same thing, the only reason we did it was because we were able to. They would have done the same thing to us if given the opportunity. It's not nice and it's not right but it's true.

    :agony-deep:

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    3 years ago

    Cling to silly religion...

    Need to pRoGrEsS...

    There is nothing more obnoxious than an athiest who has read one or two books an logic and nothing else. Atleast the religious psychos have crazy ass interesting stories going in their favor.

  • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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    3 years ago

    I know these fucks

    There’s a 98% chance this chuckle fuck is a “centrist” tech bro that lives in a stupidly tacky apartment in a gentrified part of a city which he proudly claims to be a proud resident of. All the while voting for every single oppressive program against the original poor residents of said city they can and spouting every right wing talking point they can

        • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Definitely - they “support the idea but can’t approve of some of the tactics”.

          They also believe that their company’s mission statement at face value and that they’re doing Social Good through their job.

          • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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            3 years ago

            They also say things like “I don’t support Israel but I also think Vietnam draft dodgers should have gone to jail” and other bizarre statements

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    11 days ago

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