That's a bad faith argument. No body wants that. Just because it exists doesn't mean I'm defending it. The alternative is letting a paste-brained Putin-wannabe become King.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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No body wants that.
Somebody must want it, otherwise it wouldn't exist. And that's fine. People want what they want, I don't think it's mine, or anyone else's place to tell someone what they can or cannot like or want. But, I hope you understand why it's hard for some to find the motivation to fight for a society that they don't particularly like.
The capitalists wanted it, and with influence on media and culture instilled it into us as the ideal. We are fighting to change it.
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People don't have to want things for them to exist. That's a stupid qualifier and a logically bankrupt argument.
Sadly, people do "want" this. They have been conditioned to want it their entire life, from a young age, through the media they consumed telling them it is what they want and then internalizing those notions without ever realizing it. Now as adults they hold onto those beliefs and are incapable of being introspective about the roots of their own desires to see that they are being manipulated.
The human mind is no different from the mind of an animal, and can be manipulated in the many of same ways. We live in a society that is a direct product of these manipulations.
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Eh. It's a matter of perspective
You can look at a turd from a different angle and it will look like a brownie.
A comfortable home or segregationist suburban dystopia?
Family vacations or inefficient car based infrastructure fucking up the planet?
Fun hobbies or mindless consumerism being sold to you as a hobby?
Living to a ripe old age or being relegated to for profit nursing homes to count your dying days?
Which seems more apparent?
Which seems more apparent?
Well, it depends on your perspective, as you so rightly put it. You see something deplorable in each of those squares where others might see it differently.
We are absolutely living in a cyberpunk dystopia. This particular meme is poorly put together to represent that because it chooses to focus on judgement of how others live their lives or choose to enjoy said life rather than focus on the real and tangible injustices we face. It is elitist and "holier than thou".
it chooses to focus on judgement of how others live their lives or choose to enjoy said life rather than focus on the real and tangible injustices we face
Why do you see it this way?
Lack of dense affordable housing, inefficient transportation, empty consumerism, and grossly negligent yet expensive elder care are all examples of real and tangible injustices that Americans face.
Other real tangible injustices also exist, of course. And some of those other injustices may be more severe (homelessness, medical debt, declining life expectancy, unresponsive political systems). But the depicted injustices are real and present. They accordingly deserve to be criticized
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It doesn't matter how many brownie angles you look at it from its still a fuckin' turd
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I think you made it worse
You are totally correct. There are billions of people on this planet who are dreaming of such a life.
I thought that first image was super earth for a second and was feeling very patriotic
Sadly it's from regular earth
Common mistake. It’s a little known fact that Super Earth was modeled after regular Earth.
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Sarcasm doesn't seem to be this sub's forte.
i thought that's what were fighting against
We're fighting against the elderly?
motions towards us government
Not every fight has to be fair.
Warehousing the like factory farmed trash, notice how they're in a hallway?
Also what many hospitals look like these days!
Yes, what do you think elder care homes are for? TO GET RID OF THEM ON THE PRETENSE OF CARE.
No, i think theyre to turn a profit.
Yes. They profit off of the service being provided, which is corralling the elderly in a place where others don't have to be bothered by their existence, essentially "getting rid of them" on the pretense of providing care.
We exist under capitalism. Everything is presumed to be generating a profit. That's a requirement under the current system. It is what they are profiting from that is in question.
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I interpreted that as elderly who were depressed because they were in bad care facilities.
So like the bad thing is bad care facilities, or the fact that families don't have the means to take care of their elderly.
Constantly.
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Is this loss?
Keep your eyes peeled, soldier. You can never be too safe, the enemy is everywhere!
"The American way of life is not negotiable" -- Liberal hero "normal President" George W Bush.
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Think big. This is a wake up call, time to reverse course on this long slow decline. We've hit an inflection point.
Place to live, slave work, buying useless things, dying alone. Monkeys have better life than humans these days.
I'm pretty sure we (as a species) make sure that that's not the case.
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You can take our Land! And you can take our freedom! But you can never take our Funko POPS!
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Nothing shows the lack of humanity and collapse of social bonds in... some cultures better than retirement homes.
How we treat our worst and our most lonely is the standard I live by and boy howdy Americans are up there for worst. Apparently it's easier and more profitable to be that cruel.
Fucking funko pops got me
I mean yea but the dystopia doesn't feel that boring these days
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