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I get why your mad but @misk@piefed.social makes a good point. Worst yall are getting emotional and talking past someone who is largely in agreement.
Really Apple is in the game of capitalism. Not sure why anyone is expecting otherwise
You get nothing. That includes whatever emotional state you care to ascribe to me.
Attempt to get tangential on a point that I intend to drive home at your own risk.
Holy earth-shattering insight.
Not sure you grasp much.
So what should I get?
That oning an iPhone is like owning a Tesla, and something to be embarrassed about.
That anyone embarrassed or ashamed of owning an iPhone now, is free to choose another brand.
I don't understand how that changes what I said or what misk said.
So?
iPhone = naziPhone
If i say don't buy a fucking Tesla, I get zero resistance, and zero need to clarify.
I shit on apple with the same memetic attitude, and suddenly you can't fucking stop clutching pearls and redirecting the discussion.
Don't buy a naziPhone.
So your talking past people agreeing with you. It overall reduces effectiveness of our progressive views and makes us unserious
You're able to shit on and boycott Tesla effortlessly.
But now that it's apple, you want nuance.
Like you're protecting the brand.
IPhone = naziPhone
Want to quote where I said that? I'm saying your bring over emotional and talking past people on your side. As such your harming our overall goals by making us look un serious and immature.
I get why your passionate, but take a moment for your mental health.
I'm currently flossing my ass crack with your mental health assessment.
Wanting an iPhone after that knee-bending farce, is like insisting on owning a cybertruck.
If you're stuck with one now, switch to a less shameful and embarrassing brand.
Thanks for making our protests and progressive movement look childish
You're most welcome. If you explain to me that you understand how I must feel, when you clearly don't, I'll continue to slice you to ribbons for it.
Apple should receive the same scorn as Tesla.
You don't get to watch the president set up concentration camps and the Gestapo, and then present him with a literal lump of gold, without consequences.
If you can't grasp why Tim Fuckface's behavior shouldn't be punished, then what good are you to anyone other than apple?
No one here has disagreed. In fact the thread started by calling capitalism and its incentives as the root cause. You're ranting at something as if someone has said otherwise. Hence me letting you know your getting emotional. You're talking past everyone.
I made a pithy comment with the very clear agenda of equivocating Musk with Fuckface. Idiot boy basically jumps on a grenade to defend and applaud his actions.
And I chimed in with the very specific agenda of equivocating Elon and Tim, such that Apple doesnt get a free pass while Tesla doesn't.
See above.
Oh, ok. To be fair, I'm experiencing amusement at your exasperation, which counts as emotion.
Yes.
Tesla is getting punished, Target is getting punished, Tim brings the Tyrant a lump of gold, and you want to quibble about anything other than punishing that.
Tesla- punish through protests at dealerships, boycott, publicly shame the owners.
Target- stop shopping there en masse, fuck up their quarterly numbers.
Apple- sound of crickets chirping.
You moo about capitalism, but when the opportunity to ruthlessly, easily, and legally harm one of the juggernauts comes up, with an invitation to do so literally written in gold, you puss out and generalize.
Pull your head out of your ass, recognize the ease with which you could inflict major financial harm to a company that demonstrated fealty to the system that you claim to have issue with.
I don't see where that happened at all.
Literally in the first reply. Or enjoy some argumentum ad populum in his second response.
That's a critic if capitalism and its incentives not a defense or excuse of Apple. Like I said your getting emotional and talking past everyone. @misk@piefed.social doesn't even advocate for capitalism at all it seems.
And therefore unrelated to my call to action (i.e., harm apple by not buying their shit, and making the brand cancer).
Like i said, you're basically an idiot with respect to assessing emotional states.
misk is tangential and ineffectual, like yourself.
Says the person getting emotional over people being in agreement...
You should bask in the glow of this.
This is because you feel strongly that you've composed a zinger of some sort.
So yeah...
Congrats or something?
Its hard to hear, but we all need to hear it. Hope you get well.
You've convinced me that you believe what you're saying here. This is how I intend to exploit that:
I'll keep needling you until im convinced that you've caught on that you got the whole Emotional angle very wrong.
Once that starts sinking in, and you recognize that you've been pissing in the wind, I am going to do my utmost to let my composure "start slipping", with the specific goal of reviving your efforts. I will meter out my "emotional slips" at a rate and intensity that elicits maximal feelings of sweet sweet vindication in your head.
And then I'll redirect you to this specific reply of mine.
That's what I'll call one set. Then we repeat.
I intend to play you like a rat in a Skinner Box, and im putting you on a variable ratio of reinforcement, as this will maximize the number of times that I can get your hopes up.
I am keen to find out how many sets I can make you do.
Like I said bud everyone in this thread us saying capitalism sucks and is the driver of companies sucking up to Trump. Your name calling and acting as if anyone has said otherwise. That's not healthy. Its difficult to hear, but I hope you can later refect on this.
Cool.
A careful reading of the transcript will show you circling back for more.
Is your assessment in line with the standards of the Internet Stranger Medical Advice Association?
Not at all. It isn't even vaguely accurate, so you can repeat it ad nauseum. Perhaps you should, as it seems very important to you.
I care about my fellow lefties
It'd be helpful if you cared about reading comprehension as well.
I was referencing your That's Unhealthy nonsense.
It is. Your punching air and getting overheated with people agreeing with you on the matter. That's not good for the mind
There, you're back on track.
Best wishes bud
Sure.