• emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago
    :doomer:

    Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which you’ll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.

    —Carlo Cafiero, Summary of Marx's Capital

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Nothing you say can upset us. We’re the MTV generation. We feel neither highs nor lows.

      If only that were true for Gen-X MTV personalities and talking heads that by and large became Junior Boomers and some even went full MAGA. :doomer:

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          You worked for MTV? That's who I was referring to specifically.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Beavis and Butt-Head were too good for MTV. Their previous relaunch offended the MTV suits because they made fun of the rest of the programming being less smart than their own show, and that got them canceled early while having good ratings. Bungholes.

    • 1van5 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Whatching the lighthouse like damn at least he didnt have to commute

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Reminds me of this one comedian I saw, that lacked the arrogant New Yorker cliches and was generally pretty decent, when she said that vampires and other movie monsters didn't scare her because she had a weird mole on her arm and it got slightly bigger over time and she couldn't afford to have a specialist look at it.

  • RION [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    An eternity of futile struggle — a penance for my unspeakable transgressions.