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Depends. If it’s the people around me who aren’t my loved ones I don’t care to speak with them anyway and I don’t care what they think.

It’s situational with my loved ones. Typically I just mind my own business but when the heavy stuff comes out and I’m asked for my opinion directly or I hear someone say something incredibly wrong or moronic: they’re getting both barrels. I don’t care what their politics are. Some people ask more questions and are open to hearing more about what I have to say, some want nothing to do with me anymore (nor I them). Probably most just assume I’m crotchety and opinionated and won’t engage me in that way because they can’t be bothered.

C-suites executives not being able to handle the extreme rigors of business lunches and day drinking is pathetic.

They wouldn’t make it half a shift at a Taco Bell before intentionally walking into traffic.

It’s happening because young people are chronically online and feel like they’re constantly receiving “bad news,” she said. “It makes them feel like Armageddon.”

It’s not rocket science, when a carton of eggs is inexplicably $12 it’s pretty fucking easy to figure out I’ll never own anything.

This is backwards logic. The real world creates the panic and the internet is a reflection of it.

What if we had ice cream but made it worse?

Probably because that shit is self evident.

I’m still thinking about the guy who tried to coin the term “woke controls.” For SF6

We deserved it didn’t we folks? People say we didn’t deserve it but believe me we deserved it. Everyone loved the towers, I loved the towers, they weren’t as nice as mine but I loved them. But no matter how much we loved them we deserved it, everyone is saying it believe me.

This is a false equivalence. The Dixie Chicks correctly stood against the invasion of Iraq, during a time when Americans were insane and bloodthirsty. (Not that this has changed, but the wound was still fresh so to speak.)

The equivalent stance would be Taylor speaking out about Americas involvement in Gaza and the arming of Israel. By endorsing the Democratic nominee who by all accounts intends to continue letting Israel commit a genocide she is, in fact, doing the exact opposite of what you are suggesting.

The Dixie Chicks bucked the status quo, Taylor is endorsing it.

the only juggalo I’ve ever known also happens to be the only person I’ve known to hear blatant racism and immediately go to 11

Did his shirt come off? Yes.

Did he beat some ass? Yes.

Was it awesome? Yes.

Bruh you own a golf course where the only labor you do is cashing the check and you spend 125k a year on Disney vacations. You’ve never been not retired.

you might be feeling peak pique if someone tries to peek at your peaks

Is this a bit? Am I stupid?

YouTube essays (despite many being awful) are art. We live in a society of excess and made up jobs where the work of middle management is useless and wasteful. I understand you are likely talking about people just generating endless nonsense on a schedule just to make ends meet but you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water. Even the most frivolous or trivial essays are infinitely more valuable than being a bean counter at some hedge fund or an engineer at Raytheon.

Labeling art as “unproductive labor” is bullshit. Is capitalism causing an endless amount of drivel to be created? Yes. But if the alternative is no written art is available because it’s “unproductive” I don’t want to live in that world either.