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Currently between olives

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Like, do you think that Kent state happening means Tiananmen didn’t happen or wasn’t actually bad because people on the other side of the world also did bad things, or what the hell was your point with this exactly? Or did you just like bang at the keyboard until a syntactically correct sentence accidentally formed?

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If you think this current brand of capitalism requires plebs to have money, I’m not sure how you explain the fact that when taking inflation into account wages have been either stagnant or actually going down ever since the 70’s / 80’s, the amount of wealth owned by the same plebs compared to the “financial ruling class” (mainly executives and such, and especially the banking sector thanks to deregulation) has shrunk dramatically, and cost of living keeps getting higher, while at the same time the compensation for the “financial ruling class” has grown at a frankly exponential rate.

Sufficiently advanced AI will, if anything, make it even more likely that that “ruling class” will realize they don’t need quite as many of us around because all we do us suck up their resources and complain how we haven’t eaten anything but cup noodles in a week and our teeth hurt.

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They should replace workers and people should deserve to live without being workers, but it should also be painfully obvious that our current economic system won’t support this idea, and won’t until we do some pretty drastic things.

It’s not that we couldn’t build a post-scarcity society probably even right now given some pretty radical adjustment of resource allocations, we just don’t want to build one – “we” being the 0.01% that have such insane amounts of wealth that they’ve essentially taken over the whole economic system, largely thanks to eg. dumb fucks like Reagan and sociopathic fucks like Thatcher and the people who idolize them buying into the idea that they too can be that rich because the wealth will somehow magically trickle down.

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Oh yeah, I know that’s what they think, it’s just a bit silly that they advocate for charity to solve homelessness while at the same time they more or less want the homeless to literally die

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And considering how many libertarians think that poverty is essentially due to personal choice, we can all imagine how many of them are willing to voluntarily donate money to helping the poor.

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I swear this post brought out some really fucking uptight and weird people

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It’s a little bit funny. Sorry about your caveman sex education trauma, though

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While I always like me some SMBC, I’m not entirely clear on how this relates here 😅 but I’m also a bit dim, so there’s that

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Huh weird, so you got the correct one? Because this is what I see when I poke at the link

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/e54a2b01-f09e-41a7-881d-dc71cdbae2af.webp

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gasp thousands of apologies my dear Grug! I will immediately remove this meme and rub nettles on my crotch as punishment

Edit: I lied about one of those things I promised to do

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Not sure that’s much better. Did I handle that tactfully? No. Is that grounds for comparing me to a rapist? Also no.

I just really don’t have much patience with people who assume that it’s everybody’s responsibility to shield them from things they somehow find either offensive, traumatizing, or making fun of their trauma. While I’m not unsympathetic to trauma or completely unwilling to accommodate it at all, if we clean the meme community of everything that someone finds somehow either offensive or triggering, there won’t be much left here – considering how much you have to reach to say this meme is somehow grievously making fun of trauma or even related to trauma, the bar for removing “offensive” content isn’t going to be high.

So, tl;dr, just about anything can be offensive or triggering to someone, so where on earth do we draw the line? Again, I’m not unsympathetic, but is it not a bit ridiculous to come barging in with the apparent assumption that something as inoffensive as this meme be either removed or that they get some sort of apology for it or whatever their end goal was in their mind?

Edit: just to drive the point home because I’m irritated, but despite what could be assumed based on my twattery in some comments, I’m a fairly sensitive person. There’s a bunch of subjects that I’m very sensitive about, but I’m not going to go around telling people that their post about $SUBJECT_MATTER is offensive to me; my sensitivities aren’t anybody else’s problem, they’re my problem (well, mine and my therapist’s). And this doesn’t mean I’d eg. shut up about seeing blatant racism or whatever, but things I figure aren’t going to be more widely offensive or “touchy”.

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That’ll be 25€, thanks

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/e16a6824-7577-441d-a37b-a2842d179459.webp

interolivary,
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I… see? Any other fun conclusions you want to jump to based on hilarious “data”?

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Why on earth would you assume it’s a beehaw thing and not a me thing?

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Guess I hit a nerve?

Wanna go check out my profile page, leave a sulky reply on a few more comments? Insulting the quality of my memes was a terrific idea, but maybe you could team up with the original offendee who’s now convinced that this post is an indication of rape culture being out of control, and see what sort of absolutely devastating insults you can come up with? Could call me a fascist for example, that’d be pretty bad?

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Skipped straight to the “you’re a rapist for making this joke”, huh?

Maybe you can just like block me and move on with your life? It’s not like I’m going to remove this meme just because you think it’s making fun of trauma, and you’re not going to get me to repent my evil ways either. Or do you want to lecture me some more, maybe call me a rapist again?

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Yeah, if I woke up tied to train tracks and had someone explain that to me, I’d zone out and then panic because I had no idea what the fuck was going on

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I said “argh” out loud, which means this is is perfect

interolivary,
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That’s actually a bit tricky for me especially via text, I’ve got a touch of the 'ole autism (like I have an actual diagnosis from a real medical doctor and not TikTok), but I get what you mean. I have a bad habit of assuming the worst about people

interolivary,
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This isn’t exactly “world news”

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honestly it feels like “being OK” and “producing art” don’t coincide all that often 😅

interolivary,
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Well I certainly didn’t before you mentioned it, but I can now practically hear his laconic voice read me the last two panels

interolivary, (edited )
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Oh you fucking tease, I hoped that that actually exists, but at least Beehaw’s community search gives me no results. WHY MUST YOU PLAY WITH MY HOPES AND DREAMS

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He sort of looks like Oppenheimer, actually.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/bb40992e-0670-46ab-92b6-d8fb21f19534.webp

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