willis936

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willis936 ,

Two-wheel style car, or motorcycle? Sir, this is clearly a tomato pie.

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If you grew up on 4chan and haven't read It Came From Something Awful, I highly recommend it. It lays out how gamergate was the inflection point. It also makes the case that counter culture is now forever dead. Makes you feel pretty bad about things, actually. It feels pretty correct though.

Also, it's an incredible anticonsumerism piece. If you ever feel like you can no longer fight the machine, this book tells you that you're not alone.

willis936 ,

It's because it doesn't make any sense on the surface. Why were people so angry? Why was the jovial jokey part of the internet being so serious and violent? It marked a shift of the internet being srs bzns to serious business.

willis936 , (edited )

Thanks for the link. Good read so far.

While we're throwing out Qanon dissections, Gabriel Gatehouse's The Coming Storm is a wild listen. I heard about it when he guest interviewed on Jon Stewart's The Problem. The stuff he said there was so interesting that I checked out the podcast. Gabriel's moved on from BBC now, but I'm eager for more of his reporting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bc3rjy

Edit: Oh and how could I forget: HBO's Q Into the Storm is the best piece out there on this. They're there interviewing Qanon while at the height of them kicking shit up.

willis936 , (edited )

They leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It's working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.

willis936 ,

My local politicians represent the issues I care about well. I emailed the white house saying they need to do the same if they want to earn my vote. I'd rather watch it all burn down than take another fucking step towards all housing owned by corporations.

willis936 ,

I'm not doing the burning. I don't plan to vote if my values and principles won't be represented. How could I possibly have any blame for what others are doing? Blues have a historical political advantage and they treat it as a means to get away with fucking people over harder than they would in normal times. If they want to needlessly make it a zero sum game then that's the game we'll have to play.

willis936 ,

When you're told the economy is doing great this is what they mean. It's a bad message to send in an election year.

willis936 ,

I burn $4500 every month and have little choice given work locations. Most of the units are empty and the corporate landlords are colluding to fix prices. I'm a single issue voter on affordable housing.

Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demogogue ( www.theguardian.com )

In an interview with the Guardian from his home base in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders urged the Democratic president to inject more urgency into his bid for re-election. He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win....

willis936 ,

If Biden doesn't at least say he wants to do something about housing affordability then I won't be voting. I've voted blue my entire life.

willis936 , (edited )

Biden's party is more progressive, but Biden is not. Note how he is on par with popularity polls with the guy who attempted to lynch our political representation. Obama was easily more progressive.

Edit: migrating my response to a deleted comment so others can read it. The deleted comment below accused me of not reading the article. This was my response.

Sure did. It’s an embarrassing op-ed. Short and flimsy arguments. Every link is either something that someone else did (mostly state legislators) or about lip service rather than action. About the only thing Biden can claim credit for is related to the economy, where his policy has helped transfer wealth upward. If “progressive” means “keeping things perfectly as they are” then you can go ahead and be a progressive.

willis936 ,

Sure did. It's an embarrassing op-ed. Short and flimsy arguments. Every link is either something that someone else did (mostly state legislators) or about lip service rather than action. About the only thing Biden can claim credit for is related to the economy, where his policy has helped transfer wealth upward. If "progressive" means "keeping things perfectly as they are" then you can go ahead and be a progressive.

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