To the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel”

X equals the opposite of B Plus or minus square root B squared minus 4 A C All over 2 A!

This is like when I found out everybody else got a cute little song to memorize the quadratic equation.

If it’s free, you’re the product.

Yeah, I know. I think it’s asinine that people are out here having kids, pretending that the future is going to be status quo. That’s kind of my whole point. I’m not, like, anti-humanity. I have nieces and nephews and I try to inspire them every single day. But I’m also real with them. I let them know that the future is fucked, that many things are past the point of no return, and that we should all be practicing resilience. Humanity will live on, and life will go on, but not the way that it is now. And saying any different is either lying to them or ourselves. That’s not hope, that’s delusion.

But you just gave the same reasons people have been giving forever. That’s not very nuanced. Things are measurably different now If you’re using the same perspective thinking about this that our parents did, then we’re truly getting nowhere

Obviously my answer to OP’s question is “Yes”. Now can we have a conversation with more nuance?

Right, and that’s all well and good, but not what I was talking about.

I don’t know what to say. This is the system functioning as intended. Capitalism should be abolished.

I’m not trying to doom on anyone’s bloom here, but things are getting worse all around. Even if you ignore all of the political and social strife, and all of the war and terror, there’s still the warming planet to contend with, and we don’t have the magic technology to fix it 20 years ago yet.

As the planet gets warmer, resources will get tighter, people will be displaced, and that will only lead to further strife. Energy crisis, water shortages, famine. They’re all guaranteed. We’re in the cascade now.

Your future is about surviving now.

I can’t wrap my head around this. I’m choosing not to have kids because I can’t imagine explaining to them some day why I chose to bring them into the world.

You have accurately described the way the stock market works. 🏆🏅

No, don’t tip toe. Actually do something. Go agitate. Get fucking angry. Throw a brick through a window. Start a community garden and call it the “Fuck Trump Garden”, but calling him taco on the internet is probably the least helpful thing you can be doing. Do it, chicken. Fucking do it. Bawk bawk bawk bawk. Chicken.

I don’t see the benefit, no. What exactly is the end goal? Best case scenario he chickens out and gets all flustered on Truth social and everybody has a good laugh, worst case scenario he doesn’t chicken out because people keeping calling him chicken, and his petty little ass does something even more fucked up.

Like, isn’t that the whole point of bullying someone and calling them a chicken to specifically get them to do the thing?

“Jump, chicken, you won’t do it!”. “Boooock bock bock bock!”

Does that sound like someone that doesn’t want the person they’re talking to to jump?

Which is why, from this point forward, I will assume anybody saying this TACO shit is actually trying to goad Trump into an even more extreme response.

From now on, whenever I see somebody doing the TACO thing, I’m going to assume they are accelerationists trying to get Trump to do something horrific. I don’t know why else you would do it. Surely nobody has deluded themselves into thinking they can just bully the guy out of office and then everything goes back to normal, right? Right?

It’s real.

https://futurism.com/rently-apartment-tours

But the shit boxes people were driving in the 60s were VW Beetles, an objectively good looking car. Easily the most popular car of the 60s was the Mustang, an objectively beautiful car.

The real shit boxes didn’t start popping up until after the oil crisis in 73.

“We ♥️ Naziism”

Anarchist checking in: I vote. I don’t live in a communist utopia without money or borders or hierarchy, I live in THIS fucked up world, so yeah, voting is necessary.

You’re right, is Social Democracy. But that’s where we are, politically these days. The largest socialist organization in then U.S. (the DSA) is ostensibly not socialist in policy. Anything slightly left of RAGING corporate handouts and bombing brown people is COMMUNISM now.

Being the place that people go after getting banned from Reddit has affected things here