The irony of the top left quote always gets me because Tywin Lannister was completely obsessed with the opinions of the "sheep". That was the whole point of the line being the biggest banger of his introductory scene in the show.
Oh cool my first year Uni housemate condensed into an image
The romanticization of that chaos is a way for them to live out the feelings that they’ve repressed to get where they are. Their anxieties are about keeping their wealth because that’s the last material concern they have left. Joker doesn’t give a shit about maintaining anything. Has nothing and still spends the movie digging himself deeper.
do these peeople not know they can buy boots with extra thick soles
I literally get taller every day these people never heard of positive thinking smdh
I'm not that tall but people are always surprised to find out my height even if we've met so it is possible for someone to come off as taller than they are
How come no one wants to be the Tim Burton's Batman Joker? The clown price of gotham's organized crime. They always chose the loser weepy we live in a society Joaquin Phoenix version.
they aren't old enough to have seen the 1980's batman movie. If you were to base your life around any joker it would have to be caesar romero's though
I wear in-shoe lifts and I hate it but they 100% make people in both business and pleasure situations listen to me more and you just gotta admit that as a short person you need to fight dirty.
Are they comfortable? Sometimes I wanna be taller but I absolutely despise high heels.
They're WAY more comfortable than heels. They put you very slightly off balance but you get used to it super fast
Fascinating, thanks! Gonna look into this to fulfill my dreams of being a towering Amazonian without killing my feet
You forgot one of the hundreds of books about “Stoicism” that’s come out in the past several years
Both guys I know that are to some degree into this ...brand? just use it to feel bad. They feel like failures and require a quasireligion to organize their sins.
having a millionaire mindset is just being terrible with money
Ironically, aren't these "tough guys" some of the VERY people that Joaquin Phoenix joker would have hated?!
They are "the establishment" they are "society", they are the normies. Joaquin's Joker is one of tragedy and basically surmounts to "austerity can turn people into monsters", but these shallow dipshits only idolize the monster. Why can't they at least just go and worship Palpatine or Frieza? at least it would be more accurate. Palpatine is an evil emperor that is literally powered by "the power of hate", it's the closest they usually get without revealing that these lot are likely closet satanists. As for Frieza, pretty much the same thing: megalomania and all. Even Red Skull, which is more on the nose and everything. Why Joker?
They can say what they want, at least we don't go around idolizing Amon or Magneto in such a goofy manner.
Joaquin Phoenix Joker intentionally or not, represents working class white male alienation being misdirected into edgy narcissism and nihilism instead of class consciousness.
Joaquin Phoenix Joker believes (whether he is mistaken or not is besides the point) his daddy is batman's dad. He believes he's special. He seeks recognition and approval. When he doesn't get it he becomes jokerfied and starts killing people. Class alienation figures into this but he never fully latches onto it as the real causal mechanism. He only ever loosely teases at it. This makes him more like the "lone wolf" meme . Figures like Elon Musk continue to fill "lone wolves" heads with the myth that they don't need class consciousness. That they are specially little boys who only need to hustle grind more and they'll wake up rich one day. They're temporarily embarassed millionaires. They can one day be like Elon Musk. They don't think Elon Musk is "establishment" even though he is because he says things like "government bad" and "taxes bad". When 1st world white males become conscious of government oppression they often take the lolbertarian path of the bourgeois tax revolt rather than than the path of proletarian revolution. The problem isn't the mode of production. The problem is "leeches" at the bottom "too much taxes" "too much welfare" and "too much government". If only they could get rid of these things, they could hatch from their anarcho-capitalist nihilistic cocoon and become flesh-eating mothmen like Musk.
Yup. When the program gets shut down, his counselor tries to reach out to him in solidarity. But he gets angry that she’s not letting him talk about himself
Oh whoa is that Tai "uhhh here in my garage" Lopez? I haven't seen him in like a decade. Does he still have the bookcases?
I looked him up and I'm devastated to learn he's now an NFT guy because of course he is
he was such a whimsical and fun grifter but now he's just normal grifter
He never had the bookcases. They were props inside houses he rented for the shoot just like the lambos were
Rename it to "male petty-bourgeoisie mindset".
Completely accurate analysis and provides the economic reasoning for it being pushed so hard.
I think Arthur is misplaced here, but otherwise checks out.
