i mean it is deprivation but its deprivation with cyberpunk qualities, like the current crypto currency bubble, obviously very dystopian, the housing bubble of 2008? not that dystopian, its like you guys have never seen a movie
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
ive millions of computers surveilling me no access to health care and a sitting president who btw is an absolute technicolor freak attempted a coup this shit is fucking dystopian dude
yglesias, van horn, and enes "freedom" kanter: no no no no no no no
― lag∞n, Friday, December 10, 2021 1:56 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
The whole world cries your predicament.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
xposts it is tremendously dickish. not to mention that the offending tweet was already stated in relative terms and as an adjective (i.e., "how dystopian" like "to what degree is it LIKE a dystopia") and once you've acknowledged your understanding that it was hyperbole it seems unnecessary to continue to argue why it doesn't meet this or that definition but that was hundreds of posts ago.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 10 December 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Friday, December 10, 2021 2:54 PM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol youre crying from everyone telling you your posts suck
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
good post, jaymc
to lagoon's point:
pic.twitter.com/P8sWID1Htu— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) December 10, 2021
― rob, Friday, 10 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
I am not responding to the idea that there isn’t any problems in the US, I’ve stated over and over that I recognise these problems, simply that I agree with Ygglesias that these gross exagerations lead to nothing good and I’m adding it sounds like first world problem crying. It’s a tendancy on both the populist left and right to describe the US as a quasi-failed state where absolutely nothing works and everything is a catastrophe, considering what some states elsewhere go through it sounds ignorant, but go ahead name me yet another problem the US is facing as if I was saying it didn’t exist and as if 75% of nations weren’t facing something similar but way on worse terms.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SbRrBLp.gif
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
, considering what some states elsewhere go through it sounds ignorant
https://bfy.tw/P66l
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
imo the question 'is the US a dystopia' is unhelpful
the question should be 'what is bad, and what can be done'
― imago, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
read about other countries or travel. There's a world out there.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, December 10, 2021 11:19 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://i.imgur.com/RjXRH5I.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
Yes and the ppl fixated with the former question are dickheads quibbling with how ppl phrase the latter xp
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
these gross exagerations lead to nothing good
This seems pretty debatable to me? Or rather, there's no way to test this claim, so it's basically just a hunch to justify some tone policing. As a counterpoint, anti-abortion activists spent years screaming 'baby holocaust' and it seems to be working out for them
― rob, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
i will concede that other countries also experience dystopia
Holy shit why is this so terrifying lmao pic.twitter.com/4JY2mkOkqc— ɐ͎ʞ͎ć͎ı͎ɹ͎ɐ͎ɯ͎ (@LeaMaric) December 5, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
― imago, Friday, December 10, 2021 3:15 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
100%
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
You seemed very invested in this unhelpful question earlier but glad you will stfu now
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
i agree its useless to ask if the usa is a dystopia, because thats a settled issue, it is a dystopia
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, December 10, 2021 3:31 PM (thirty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
Nah, I'll insist each and every time it is said or considered that the US is a 'terrible place to live'.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
and i'll fp each and every time
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
WHICH NO ONE HAS SAID YOU ASS
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
That tweet said it, I responded to the tweet.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
ive said it before and ill say it again, if youre going to be condescending you gotta be smart, being condescending is such an affront that you really have to bring your A game, if youre condescending and dumb youre gonna hear about it, its just too much for people to bear
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
the tweet didn't say the us is a terrible place to live it said People really underestimate how dystopian the United States is
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
i think "People" might mean the People who say "waahhhh but the average income is this high look at this graph"
isn't "condescending and dumb" the name of matty's substack blog
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
lol should be, tho in his defense he has made quite a career out of it, good work if you dont mind people calling you a soulless moron every day, and also being a soulless moron every day
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
no, you don't understand, that's the name of his dog
― rob, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
pretty incredible that yglesias began his career by supporting the iraq war and here we are 20 years later with him denying its effects, the story of national decline as told through one blogger
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
Doing it on ilx for free is some sicko shit tho, what are you getting off holding a blue tick by your head and scattering pictures of a pig taking a shit around yourself
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, December 10, 2021 3:38 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I doubt her conclusion is that the US is barely a dystopia.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
Her conclusion is that US is more dystopian than people estimate which is unfalsifiable
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
Unfalsifiable but also insulting to people elsewhere, as you can see in many tweets.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
The US is a terrible place to live for a significant percentage of its population.
"other places are also bad" or "other places are also dystopian" are, shockingly, even less useful than "the US is a dystopia"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
Your "making guillotine jokes about billionaires is insulting to the people of Algeria" schtick was better, IMO.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
oh gosh i didnt know this was a repeat performance i wouldve just ignored it, this thread is my only interface with the ilx politics massive
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
people underestimate how good i am at finding more than one thing to be bad
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah that moment where you guys were cool with the death penalty and using the civil war imagery of other nations without reflecting on it. Another great moment in left ilxor Americana.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
i know about more than 10 bad things
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Seems insulting to the 11th
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
VHS right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IFcm4yu7QU
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
you guys were cool with the death penalty
When it's royalty it's cool as hell. Kept hoping the Crown would end in an alternate timeline where Liz got the chop chop like Charles I.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
You realise it wasn't just the royalty right?
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
xpBarbados missed a trick there tbh
― rob, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
one might ask about the motivation to take the word dystopia and the imagery of the guillotine super literally, but we dont have to ask its in order to scold
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
everyone on ilx is American and poor VHS stands alone against the barbaric hordes
― mardheamac (gyac), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
imagine crying tears for the rich who’d sell you for parts without thinking about it? Couldn’t be me!
pray 4 canada they dont know how to make their own tv shows
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 December 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
Honestly when even the most dedicated simp for the ruling class is calling your defence of the status quo dickish
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
What VHS is doing is pretty similar to Carlson in that monologue btw. 'Ignore the problems this is a beautiful place'.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 December 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
And not even American himself, inspiring, isn’t it?
― mardheamac (gyac), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
VHS backs the filibuster because he thinks "the nuclear option" actually involves an ICBM.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link