The honestly surprising thing here imo is that even for *very* rich people apparently unbridled capitalism that makes them as rich as possible apparently doesn’t buy them the same satisfaction as it can in places with less inequality.
You’d think (and every second temporarily embarrassed millionaire will argue) that if you can command a private limo, public transport doesn’t matter. But apparently the systems that result in good public transport also result in amazing holidays for people so rich they wouldn’t even consider using it.
If everyone can afford a nice coffee in the morning, there’s a cute little cafe every 100 feet to serve it to them; if there’s only 100 people in town that can afford that habit they’re all going to have to hop into their swanky limos and haul their groggy asses to wherever the exclusive Coffee Club is located to get their fix.
If there’s no public transit or bike infrastructure, your swanky limo is stuck in traffic behind 120 beat up Honda Civics.
If there’s workers rights and public healthcare the barista there wants to have a nice little chat with every customer, because that’s the human default way of greeting people in the morning. If there’s not they straight up don’t have the spoons and you get the dead-eyed Gen-XMillenial Gen-Z stare while you order.
No amount of individual expenditure will buy you what living in a healthy society gives.
Some of you think of Cops as kind of a symbolic figure representing “telling you what to do” & you’re Posting things like “acab includes fandom discourse” and I thuink the 80% white website needs to remember the reason why we hate cops is because they kill people
We hate cops because they’re a weapon for enforcing the state’s interests through violence. Like, they kill & imprison people. The antis don’t have a Quite Literal boot on your neck please god log off or talk to a Black person or something
To be SO fair like really generous there is something to be said for unlearning the habit of figuratively “policing” other people especially in the context of, like, not being a fucking snitch, “kill the cop in your head” etc etc, but can we not completely lose the plot re: what cops Are
a lot of you really need to internalize that acting avoidant isn’t cute at all and that it will cost you experiences and life outcomes if you don’t change course
[ID: tags saying “#you have to tell your friends when something makes you uncomfortable. #you have to tell your friends when they do something that upsets you #you need to have these conversations and you need to learn to not be scared of them #shit Will bubble over time and you will end up blowing up at them for stuff that they did not know you were upset abt #because tjey are not psychic #and you Will lose people this way #not could. you Will” end ID.]
Just got a chatgpt ad where the use case was “can’t decide a new years resolution”. I can’t think of anything more sad than needing a robot to tell you what your own ambitions are. Loser shit.
I love when people get mad at explanations of why people do bad things, as if any explanation other than “they’re evil and they want to” is endorsing that behavior. I’m sorry, was the idea of ontologically evil people load-bearing to your Neo-Calvinist worldview? Fuck off! Exploring the reasons behind a behavior is the ONLY first step in getting people to stop. Anything else is just virtue signaling.
Interesting how the transfeminine version got marked mature literally *as* I posted it, very clearly hitting some sort of automated filter, while the cis version was untouched by the filter even though it was otherwise identical
