And that's the kind of joke that lands better with people from 2017.
― DJI, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
the tweet is responding to libertarians tweeting photos of american grocery stores to prove a point
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
american supermarkets are among the purest products of american capitalism and therefore accurately reflect all our most popular theories about health and happiness, from gluttony to asceticism, all packaged in convenient sizes for easy consumption. it's a design that's been copied all over the world, with appropriate modifications to suit local tastes and incomes. almost any praise or criticism you want to make about supermarkets can be justified using real world examples.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
from gluttony to asceticism, all packaged in convenient sizes for easy consumption
cf. Randall Jarrell's A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1960) and the companion poem "Next Day"
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All
― Jeremy Ironist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
You want to know dystopia? Sometimes I have to go to three different supermarkets to get everything I need.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
I regret starting a thread that functions as an invitation to post the most depressing news you can find
You cannot design a thread that wouldnt fall prey to this within ten mins have you seen this site lately
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
no.
lol
― DT, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
whew I had doubts
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
"I can't answer without sharing my personal definition of dystopia"
5 voters just laying it all down
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
https://t.co/fFOE6vEXOc pic.twitter.com/PPoldWoOdT— District Sentinel (@TheDCSentinel) December 15, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
we should maybe do a "worst living american" poll
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
impossible. polls are limited to only 50 choices
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
maybe a poll to make the poll
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
a poll of polls? better update the list of lists
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
don't visit ILB if you don't enjoy a poll of polls
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
glad we got this settled
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
got it sordid
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
Is ILX a dystopia?
― aegis philbin (crüt), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
just look around
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
As of today, 50% of women in federal prisons are Indigenous.This is genocide.— martha paynter (@MarthPaynter) December 17, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 December 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link
Is the fact that's about Canada the point you're making or a mistake?
― rob, Saturday, 18 December 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
At first assumed US then saw the link below and posted because
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 December 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
Kyle Rittenhouse takes the stage at TPUSA’s AmericaFest to thousands of cheering fans chanting his name. He even gets his own Kyle Rittenhouse-themed song to come out to. pic.twitter.com/PD7nkjpQ81— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) December 21, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Kyle has merely fulfilled every child's dream of running away to join the circus. Taking two lives in the process.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
Who could have seen THIS coming
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
a really well-written explanation by patrick blanchfield of the current disaster pileup of american culture in terms of freud's death drive. (i will fp anyone who points out that freud is now widely discredited or whatever.)
https://late-light.com/issues/issue-1/death-drive-nation
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Sunday, 26 December 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
https://fair.org/home/a-for-profit-company-is-trying-to-privatize-as-many-public-libraries-as-they-can/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 December 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
i think it was around the time that i learned about ALEC, and realized it was clear and in the open what was happening and how the GOP was operating, and absolutely no one gave a fuck -- that was around 2 years after i realized the usa was a dystopia
― Karl Malone, Monday, 27 December 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
GRETAYes, dead. An apt choice of words. Considering the public is convinced that cigarettes are poisonous. If we can't insist that they're not, I believe my most recent surveys have provided a solution.(re report)We can still suggest that cigarettes are "part of American life," or “Too good to give up,” and most appealing "an assertion of independence".DONSo basically if you love danger, you'll love smoking?SALVATOREWe could put a skull and crossbones on the label! I love it!GRETABefore the war, when I studied with Adler in Vienna, we postulated that what Freud called "the Death Wish" is as powerful a drive as those for sexual reproduction and physical sustenance.DON: Freud, you say-- which agency is he with?
DONSo basically if you love danger, you'll love smoking?
SALVATOREWe could put a skull and crossbones on the label! I love it!
GRETABefore the war, when I studied with Adler in Vienna, we postulated that what Freud called "the Death Wish" is as powerful a drive as those for sexual reproduction and physical sustenance.
DON: Freud, you say-- which agency is he with?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 05:34 (two years ago) link
There's another covid outbreak on my prison unit. DOC has plenty of N95 masks now, but prisoners will get a disciplinary infraction if they're caught with one. Why? Because N95s also protect us from their tear gas, which they still freely use during a respiratory pandemic.— ChristopherBlackwell (@ChrisWBlackwell) December 28, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
'The government and your boss put you in harms way. We took away paid sick days and unemployment supplements. Better get vaccinated so you don't starve.'I'm not a health comms person so I can't evaluate how effective this message is. pic.twitter.com/rHtsD4McYP— Justin Feldman (@jfeldman_epi) December 29, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
For the sake of my own sanity and well-being, I'd rather not immerse myself in a poisonous sea of ill-feeling for no discernible larger benefit aside from self-promotion. The world doesn't need another smug, self-satisfied pundit trying to brand-build off political collapse.— Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
opened my fortune cookie and i have so few words pic.twitter.com/b5roOyRR1Z— krista! (@madeup_artist) January 6, 2022
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:46 (two years ago) link
That seems like low pay for a hitman
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
but the 401k has a 5% company match
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
Reflecting on January 6, people are justifiably concerned about election subversion. But given the state of Biden’s presidency, the more likely scenario is a popularly elected, and therefore empowered, second Trump administration. https://t.co/ElodhslLPK— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 January 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
long on doomsaying, short on what to do about it
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
I believe Nero was an incredible fiddler and some people sang along
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
little known fact - the friction from him fiddling too fast is what caused the fire
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
nero fiddling 'everlong'
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
the drum part to everlong - ziggidiggidiggidiggiziggidiggidiggidiggi - on the fiddle
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
I can’t believe this one guy doesn’t have a plan to fix the entire economic and political system!!!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
fascists hate this one simple trick
― rob, Friday, 7 January 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
Trump winning outright is both totally possible and also a better scenario than losing outright and being installed by Congress anyway. Of course the end result would probably be the same, no more fair elections ever.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
xxpost I think the point is "we endured people saying 'Trump is totally getting re-elected' as some defeatist foregone conclusion, and that doesn't exactly inspire people to take action." and then it didn't happen. and I reject that the reason it didn't happen was scaremongering by tweeters/bloggers/journalists, it's because the people who took action knew it wasn't a foregone conclusion and ignored all of that noise.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
You didn’t have to endure that sentiment you had to go looking for it. Trump was incredibly unpopular his entire term and had half a million people die in an election year, it was always the Democrats’ election to lose.
Now Biden is the not-quite-as-unpopular incumbent with people dying. It’s not scaremongering to suggest that unless things change bigly it will be Republicans’ election to lose.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
Republican, maybe, but I'm doubtful that Trump could get it done: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
― DJI, Friday, 7 January 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
2.9 years is a long time when you’re an ancient speed freak, Trump being dead is about as likely as either being elected or defeated.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
nice placement for that fortune cookie btw
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 January 2022 06:28 (two years ago) link