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k-wame · 1 year

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#filmedit #triangle of sadness #social satire #merchants of death #anti capitalism #filmgifs #film #ruben östlund #triangle of sadness 2022 #oliver ford davies #amanda walker #arms dealers #weapons manufacturing #defense industry #anti capitalism explained #military industrial complex #moviegifs #movie

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alientoastt · 3 months

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thursdays are meaningful again (magnus protocol)

#babble #im having a good time #purpoesfully avoided like everything possible until listening to it. 0 expectations. big fan of colin and ive worked with alices. id love t #pick apart how in two episodes her verbal approach to work is established but i dont have the spoons. shes not just anti capitalist shes.#shes like a teenager about it. how do i explain that better #complaining and continuing on because the idea of The Great Chain is immutable to her and she comforts herself with platitudes and thinking #of things unseriously? which is normal. not ideal but normal. its a coping mechanism with living under capitalism #and putting sam between her. serious gwen. and colin off like. eating a keyboard and weeping in his spare time. i like it #i wouldnt be surprised if sam and alice broke up because of her unseriousness but i like her so much.ive been her.#she and colin work at the same chain restaurant shes on register colin is a dishwasher and their bond is unbreakable. to me #bit unsure if any of this makes sense. eh.#tmagp

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how-the-feathers-have-fallen · 11 months

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Me, fighting tooth and nail against my irl friends who are sw*fties: yeah well, maybe I want my sad girl music to have a 3 minute guitar solo and distorted audio after the second verse of vaguely gay lyrics have you considered that ?!

#admit it if pete wentz's lyrics were sung by some white woman to plain ass slow piano music with max 3 cords yall would eat that shit up #but heaven forbid it be layered and/or vocally/musically compelling with a decibel count over 65.2 #or not sung by a climate criminal trying to sound emotional or weepy but actually sounds constipated 💀#icarus' random screaming #icarus' burning life stories #anti taylor swift #im probably slicing my palm open for a demonic ritual in shark infested waters by doing this but oh well #pete wentz #fall out boy #icarus falls out #not even just fall out boy. I'll put on the tamest led zepplin or rage against song i can find and they look at me like 😶😣😖😨😰😱😵#i put on eat your young they ASK then i try explain the critique of war profiteering/capitalism and theyre like silly ***** readin too deep #LIKE YOU ASKED. I KEPT IT SO SIMPLE. YOUR FELLOW SWIFTIES LOVE THIS SHIT WTF #im scared to try and bring up mitski (esp. working for the knife/best american girl) lest i kill my own friends #like they're not insane conspiracy swifities and i love them dearly but they're fundamentally tiktok youth gen z and im... not :/#and im fine with it we joke and laugh about it and poke fun at each other for it but sometimes i feel so alienated #not on purpose. not by them. but i look at em and they look like test tube babies (not mean).#they look to me like what ginny & georgia looks like to them. too polished too stylised too... Just So #sometimes they look like the same lifeless tiktok copy and pasted and it scares me #im trying to remember that post about how tiktok thirst traps and general posts are so set up and stilted they look sexless #and robotic #anyway #the generational gap between me and my fellow teens/young adults 💀💀💀

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lesbian-disaster-academic · 6 months

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okay so it seems u want the burnt-out gifted kid series (disclaimer)

Confessions of a Burnt-Out Gifted Kid (part 2/?)

I have no idea how I survived high school lol

part 1

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cobaltsoulsearcher · 6 months

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you seem to like Hadestown? What's it about? I looked it up on you tube, and saw something two hours long. I'm not very good at paying attention to long videos tho-

Okay so

The musical itself is like 2.5 hours but you definately don’t have to watch it through to enjoy!

Hadestown is a musical (very jazzy style music) that combines two ancient myths, the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice (the dude whose wife died and walked to the underworld for her, was told she could come with him only if he walked in front and didn’t look back, but then he looked back and lost her forever) and the tale of Persephone and Hades (the god of the underworld kidnaps an earth goddess, but nothing will grow without her, so they decide she gets half the year in earth and half with him once they are married).

Hadestown takes a very anti-capitalist stance to the myth, with climate change being caused by the industrialization Hades does while Persephone is away, and is really special to me and a lot of others because Orpheus, who is autistic, is seen as touched by the gods themselves. The underworld is also a kingdom ran by two black people so that’s cool. The cast also has lots of amazing shenanigans (if you want a taste search my blog for irreplaceable ecstasy 😂). The musical has TWs for drugs, alcohol, someone getting beaten up on stage, and some very creepy old guy vibes.

If you’re curious you can find the soundtrack on Spotify! Or ask me more 😊I don’t just like Hadestown I am consumed by it lol

#hadestown #eurydice #orpheus #Hadestown explained #Greek mythology #anti capitalism #thanks for the ask!

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midnight-specialist · 5 months

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It’s 2023 and men are still posting “fuck bitches, get money 🤑” on their stories…

#sad sad world we live in tbh #can’t even explain how much of a turn off this is #especially at this age like ??#i cannot #buh bye #feminism #anti capitalism #mine #me

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saltywinteradult · 6 months

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i'm sure this has been said already but GOD. applying for jobs is such a dehumanising experience, especially if you're neurodivergent. i genuinely feel like i'm selling myself like a goddamn product. apparently i'm supposed to pretend that i want a job for another reason than the fact that i fucking have to to afford food and shelter? and that being a wage slave for a distressingly large portion of my life is something i'm passionate about? jesus christ. i know i have the qualifications. why the fuck does it matter if i work to live and not the other way around, as long as i can do the goddamn job?

#autism #asd #autism problems #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #anticapitalism #anti capitalism #i hate capitalism #i hate work #anti work #personal #ok to reblog #can a neurotypical PLEASE explain this #i genuinely don't get it.#and neurotypicals say we're the ones who have trouble communicating...#neurotypicals learn how to be honest challenge #also yes i guess i could switch careers to something i'm passionate about #but guess what? just about all of the jobs i might actually love are all but impossible to make a living from #so yeah

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corneille-moisie · 7 months

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abolish capitalism

abolish police

abolish prison

abolish work

abolish borders

but to do all that, and keep these abolished, we, most of all, need to abolish money and abolish the notion that things and time have financial value.

#here i explained 'abolish money ^^'#abolish money #abolish police #abolish work #abolish prison #abolish borders #anti work #anti capitalism #anti money #acab #eat the rich #abolish laws even #idc #anarchy #abolish money ^^

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wanderingmind867 · 5 months

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My Political Manifesto:

In order for an ideal society to come into being, there must be certain agreed upon elements. Number one: Extensive Social Programs are needed. I don't care if you're conservative or progressive. I'm probably a bit of both in different ways myself (I hate change in my personal life and I like monarchies, but I like things like socialism).

Whether you be Conservative or Progressive, you must acknowledge the importance of a social safety net. If you can't do that, then clearly you don't have empathy for those who can't care for themselves or who might not be able to work (like me). In all cases, social programs are a necessary facet of government.

And when I say extensive social programs, I mean extensive. I don't care fully if we get rid of money, but we really need to at least devalue it. Money is just paper. You can always print more. Economics are a scam created to support the idea that money is fundamentally a part of society. It isn't. It can be, but it doesn't have to be. If you need to print more money to provide for all these social programs, do it. Nobody can stop you. It's just paper, after all. Merely paper society has convinced us contains deep value and significance.

Getting back to the Extensive Social Programs, they truly will need to be expansive in their power. We need a UBI, a national healthcare system, Unemployment Insurance and Benefits, Disability Insurance and Benefits, etc. We will need all the social programs. A government that doesn't provide for its citizens cannot be said to be a truly compassionate government.

Once society has agreed to support all these extensive social programs unconditionally, then the main mission I have been pushing for will be complete. I still have other objectives politically, of course. But my first priority is making sure that the government knows to care for all of it's peoples. If you can't work or if you're incredibly shy or if you otherwise can't function in this cutthroat world of ours, the government should care for you and make sure you're not neglected. If the government isn't willing to do this, then they have abandoned the people. And once they've abandoned their people, no government can be fully and truly legitimate.

Once society has learned how to care for its citizens (cost be damned! You can't put a price on these services! Not when they help so many!), then my main goal is finished. Once we've learned that you can't put a price on helping people, then I will be at peace. I have taught people that economics and fiscal matters are all nonsense and idiocy invented by people in the 1700s. Economics were not around when humanity was first created. They are a social construct, and a useless one at that. The sooner they're stamped out the better I say!

Once I have destroyed the foul spectre of capitalism and economics, there's only a few more things I'd want to advocate for. I would advocate for pacifism and a promotion of peace on a global scale.

I would also advocate for the abandonment of most forms of social conservatism. I understand it's easy to be afraid of the unfamiliar (I've been afraid of new things too), so I can't really hate people for that on it's own. But (and this is important) you can't use that fear as an excuse to torment people who are different from you. We are all humans. We all think, we all feel. You cannot be so quick to judge. A little Conservatism in your personal life and affairs is one thing (lord knows I've been afraid of changes in my personal life), but conservatism should never be used an excuse to discriminate against those who are different from you. That's the opposite of my message with my Social Programs: For a society to function, you must have compassion for those around you. Social Conservatism tends to destroy that empathetic quality in people. It is not a good ideology, not at all.

I would also advocate for monarchism (or at least not for the abolishment of monarchies). Even in this ideal world of mine, I don't see the problem with monarchies. They are a good rallying point for people, and it would also just be unfair to get rid of most of them. I'd be fine with making them only symbolic figureheads, but we shouldn't abolish them. That usually leads to cruelty and unnecessary violence. Anyone who is so devoted to the abolishment of monarchism that they want to have a repeat of the French Revolution has ignored my tenant of compassion and empathy. You may not like royal families, but killing them is just inhumane. Monarchs are people too. And all people deserve compassion and empathy. Complete hatred of someone leads to violence, and that always ends badly.

Also, outlaw eugenics and impose harsh penalties on anything promoting survival of the fittest ideologies. I understand Charles Darwin was a genius biologist, but I legitimately think this world would be better off without evolution. Too many people use it to promote hateful beliefs and violence against people with disabilities.

Although I have a lot of other beliefs too, I think this is a good place to stop for now. If you want to establish a movement, there's got to be room for at least some mild disagreement between members of the movement. But as long as people can rally behind my core tenants of extensive social programs and a government/society that shows compassion to all its members, then I think I can really make this into a movement.

#political #political beliefs #politics #autism #neurodivergent #asd #adhd #audhd #autistic #actually autistic #actually audhd #socialism #anti capitalism #I think I explained myself pretty well here #So I'm kind of proud

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starbirdaltair · 1 year

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listening to Eat Your Young on repeat because I get so much gender envy from it and it's just so fbhsvruebfbrjdbrhdbr

#eat your young #hozier #it's just so mmmmmmmmmmmmmm y'know?#and so so good #Hozier never misses #it's so anti-capitalism and it explains large-scale generational trauma so well and the wartime references #by primes it's so perfect I love it #I want to eat it

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joyboythehopepunk · 9 months

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we have the solutions

but not the good sense or good will to use them.

ofc that isn't entirely accurate. there are definitely people out there doing their parts in every way that they can.

and then there are those like elon who have so much wealth they could change millions of lives in an instant.

people are more or less aware that this game is rigged. against us. all of us. there are some who benefit much much more from this. they are hurt much less and in different ways.

imagine being socialized to be an oppressor via cultural forces. to think you're better because of the color of your skin. if you happen to see passed the privilege that gives you.. that has got to be pretty shitty.

but not as shitty as being on the receiving end. indigenous people, jewish people, women, and lgbtqia+ people. anyone disabled, neurodivergent, or unacceptable by society's standards..

the military industrial complex. big oil and big farma. big agriculture. etc.

our world has been orchestrated by oligarch/aristocrat types for hundreds of years.

they know what they're doing.

we all know what we could be doing better.

yet we're not.

and people wonder why i pray for aliens, for a miracle. why i devote my self to spiritual cultivation above all else.

this world will continue until we destroy it ourselves.

that is a big job with a lot of responsibility. there is a lot of mysterious shit going on with our planet. with the people running it.

even if none of that is true... the machine we are up against is immense. but it is made of humans (?)

let's reason with those we can and let's do the most humane to those we cannot. that is exemplary. that is justice.

yes we can def punish people in humane ways. i've always disliked the idea of killing but if there is 100% a way to make such a person pay while keeping them alive AND having them learn.. i would prefer it.

#hopepunk #no justice no peace #anti capitalism #anti work #military industrial complex #conspiracy #planned obsolescence #free energy #renewable energy #zero point energy #black budget projects #would def explain the amount of money disappearing

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k-wame · 2 years

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hate the veil of gentility masking the horrors unleashed on the world by the english aristocracy

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6ebe · 10 months

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Not Biden trying to allow Medicare to negotiate the amount it pays for drugs (they’re the largest drug purchaser in the world) and then Johnson & Johnson suing the us gov over it 😭😭

#and no one is surprised #it’s the way that Medicare can’t negotiTe prices is actually ANTI capitalistic like . LOL #it’s not even capitalism ruining big pharma it’s whatever this nonsense is #sorry this is so badly explained my dad works in the industry I know far too much abt all this #anyway this is like a HUGE deal that the gov are even trying to do that bc WHEW #the pillar of the whole global healthcare market there kinda

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ghostiboos · 1 year

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Anti-Capitalism and ChatGPT

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Here’s the thing. I’ll be the first to admit that ChatGPT is cool, yeah? And I’m far from ignorant of the wonderful things it’s made possible. But there’s a pretty big problem with its professional usage,

and before you stop reading,

I promise that the point of this post is not "you have to stop using ChatGPT." Just. Stick with me for a minute, cuz contrary to what you might expect, this is not a problem contained to just the normies that don’t use ChatGPT: this is about how ChatGPT will affect you.

I’m about to use some scary words like “scalping” and “exploitation,” but remember I’m not accusing you of anything. In fact, let’s start with the good stuff.

Among other things, it could be argued that ChatGPT actually enhances workplace accessibility by “leveling the playing field,” in a way. Any job candidate can quickly make up for lack of time/skill/ability in one area by using ChatGPT to fill in the gaps, right? An individual’s personal quality of life can improve by “outsourcing” aspects of their work to ChatGPT — they have more free time, and maybe their work quality and pay grade improve too.

But I’d like to point out that this isn’t ChatGPT making life better for employees. This is actually ChatGPT eliminating the entire role of “employee.”

Okay, crazy statement time:

A person using ChatGPT in a professional setting is no longer an employee, but, in practice, actually a corporation.

What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Well, in concise terms, ChatGPT catalyzes the exploitation of labor by collecting it all in one place, meaning that the labor of hundreds of people can be scalped and represented as the work of a single entity: the individual using ChatGPT.

This essentially transforms the individual employee into a CEO of their own small corporation, which is being outsourced to larger corporations for work. Our new “CEO” doesn’t even have to pay any “employees,” keeping all of the profit they earned with the labor scalped by ChatGPT. This is why the individual is able to reap so much more profit from using ChatGPT than they ever could from working as a single employee.

You may think I’m trying to frame our new little “CEO” as the villain of this story, but it’s exactly the opposite. They’re just playing by the rules of the system, and within the system, it’s way nicer being a corporation than it is living as an employee. It’s just proof of concept that life on top is exactly as easy as we’ve all been guessing it is, and the only requirement for leveling up is a willingness to exploit labor. ChatGPT is a shiny new miracle tool that makes exploitation easy and accessible to everyone, and it doesn’t even look or feel like exploitation because there are no faces attached.

But that’s where this short-term improvement goes downhill: it’s accessible to everyone, including the actual corporations, who have already amassed the means to exploit labor en masse. If ChatGPT gives individuals a level-up by eliminating the role of employee and allowing them to act as corporations, how does that same level-up work when a corporation uses it? Well, I guess it’s a good thing the role of “employee” has been eliminated, because they aren’t needed anymore lol: not if your goal is to turn a profit, and we all know that’s just how things go.

But hey— galaxy brain here, but couldn’t that be kind of a good thing actually? The current system doesn’t function without people on the bottom who are available for exploitation, so if ChatGPT can automate the exploited parties for us by scalping labor from the past, then doesn’t that mean that the endless work necessitating human employment in the first place is finally… unnecessary? For the first time ever, we could be looking at a society where pretty much all of the labor is already accounted for, meaning all humans are free to pursue any passion they want regardless of their background, regardless of their class, regardless of how much money they- oh, right… Money.

The world I described above either sounds like a utopia to you or a dogshit stupid pipe dream, and unfortunately, both are true.

The problem is,

while technology has advanced to the point where it’s finally ready for automated labor, society has not.

We still live in a system where if you don’t work, you don’t eat, regardless of whether any work actually needs to be done. So… what actually happens in the current system if labor is automated?

Well, I won’t bore you with the typical “THE ROBOTS ARE TAKING ALL OUR JOBS” routine, but like. It’s only half wrong? I mean, we don’t even have the tech to automate all labor anyway, so it’s not like that’s literally what’s happening. But there are still… a lot of jobs that can be automated now, and that puts a lot of people in positions where they have to compete with ChatGPT in order to keep food on the table. It’s already a losing battle for a lot of people.

Using ChatGPT gives you a taste of corporate power, of the ability to exploit if it makes things financially easier for you. And that’s understandable, right? We’re all struggling in a system like this. Just don’t forget that line of reasoning when it comes full circle, where instead of getting to do the exploiting, you’re the one being exploited (again). Don’t forget what it was like to be on top: how normal it felt, reasonable, unremarkable. It didn’t feel like exploitation when you only experienced the profits. That is who owns you now. Let that radicalize you.

So long story short,

the existence and usage of ChatGPT is not the problem. In a better world, you’re right that ChatGPT could be a great ally, but the current structure of the job market has transformed it into a competitor. The human working class and ChatGPT are forced to compete against each other, not because it is rational for us to be enemies, but because the system pits all laborers against each other for the “privilege” of work. People are realizing that they really can’t beat the competition this time, so don’t scold them when they don’t share your enthusiasm. We’re all dogs in this fight, and ChatGPT has fucking lazer eyes.

It’s not the end of the world – the job market has always been prone to fluctuation – but this is different from your average fluctuation. It re-frames so much that used to seem impossible, but if we don’t change the system itself to match this advancement in technology, I guarantee it’s not gonna be the people at the top who pay the price.

The choice is not whether or not to use ChatGPT.

The choice is whether to discontinue ChatGPT so that society can continue with the relative stability it had before, or to embrace ChatGPT as the ally it could be by changing the structures that weaponize it against us.

(Okay I’m getting off my soapbox now, I sure hope nobody else is in this abandoned soapbox factory, can you imagine how embarrassing it would be if anyone actually heard me say all that lol)

#i could have written this in a more professional tone but so could ChatGPT so you get the manic rambling version #and again this isn’t an accusation of anyone and it’s not intended to make people feel guilty #it’s just me figuring out how to explain my position in a way that’s both concise and understantable i guess?#ive had several dude-bros mock me for being supposedly anti-progress or some shit but i never know how to respond cuz im just like #bro no if anything im saying it’s not enough progress and in this particular case it’s weirdly anachronistic in a way that has the potential #to destabilize a lot of people’s livelihoods #im not panicking about it cuz society already went to shit ages ago #but it would be kinda nice if things didn’t go even more to shit just because a bunch of supposedly ‘pro-progress’ humans refused to #acknowledge that their hardware was too old to run the new OS without blowing a fuse (if that makes sense)#(which it probably doesn’t cuz i suck at talking but im tired so i get to stop typing now)#(jesus christ wtf am i thinking posting this i dont wanna deal with it if anyone respondsss)#(whatever i spent like 3 hours on this so might as well)#anti capitalism #chat gpt #chatgpt #ai #tag rambles #text post #not vent

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tsukinohana · 1 year

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hhrghrhgrhhffghggh trying out horror podcasts and theyre not scary, dialogue is contrived, narration is off, the writing is just subpar, they're pro cop, etc etc ugh

#i didn't know that tma was the best when i started ok. i didn't know it was gonna be an anti capitalism anti establishment anti cop #lgbt and just so fucning well written i took it for granted i'm sorry i'm sorry #god.#one of these i skipped pretty far before i realised that they weren't selling me a mattress it was the narration #bitch just talks like an ad reader #why are you so hyped this is meant to be scary #anyways. some of them just explain the thing too much so it's not scary #god and when they try to have a reaction towards and they're like 'wow how are you alive. anyways it's your turn mike' 🥱#that's not how people speakkkkk ugh #anyways i have read all the rec lists and i will get to them there MUST be another one that's good i just haven't found it yet #holding out hope !#the storage papers seemed promising but pro cop on the second ep 🧍‍♀️#also idk about this soundscaping i'm sorry alex please forgive me every time i rolled my eyes at you i didn't know i didn't know #i love and appreciate your work now i do #mel.txt

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the-trans-dragon · 1 year

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I found a documentary series with an episode titled “The Next Pandemic” from November 7, 2019.

Pre-covid.

Really bonkers to watch. Various professions talk about their biggest concerns and priorities. Bill Gates gives his opinions a couple times.

I’m going to bed 💜

#the show is called Explained. on Netflix #I don’t really wanna advertise for Netflix so… idk.#that kinda broke my brain. I’m halfway howling in anguish and ranting in frustration—and halfway utterly speechless #what is there to say? ‘wow I wish anti-vaxxers let us utilize our technology.’#did it occur to anyone to put funding into public education? did anyone worry about the way capitalism doesn’t allow us to trust products?#did anyone think all their hard work would be useless because people didn’t believe in the plague?#I hate the anti-vax movement with so much passion; but I understand the logic of it and how irrefutable that logic can be #some of it is just nonsense conspiracy theory but some of it is legitimate fear. we are suffocated with advertisements. ‘you need this!’#‘buy this blender or you’ll never be healthy!’ ‘buy this purse or you’ll never have friends!’ ‘use our shampoo or you’ll kill the planet!’#‘buy our pain meds because they’re safer!’ ‘use these bandaids or you’ll get infections!’ ‘wear these shoes to prevent permensnt foot damage #‘get this vaccine or you might get sick!’ like…#something something automimicry. something something boy who cried wolf.#99% of the time it IS a scam when someone tells you that you need something. and how do you establish trust in a society like that?#I know the data and I know how vaccines work and I know the risks because I’ve studied it extensively #but I haven’t studied cars at all. and if a mechanic said ‘buy this or your car will explode’ I don’t think I’d take his word for it.#sigh… okay bed time for real now.#sorenhoots

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