why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

I call this one "Corp-rophilia"

keeping up on the latest trends is the only thing that fills the void in my soul

if i eat consumer products i'll shit money? goddammit i've been doing this all wrong

Not sure I get the recurrent "trenchant commentary" sarcasm with a lot of this stuff, like these cartoons. Yeah they are simplistic, obvious, etc., but doesn't being on Facebook mean engaging w people who require or are drawn to simple messaging? These cartoons are not at all insightful but they are "accurate" in a broad sense, and evidently in America at least they are not at all obvious to something like 38% of the population.

I don't know, seems like a lot of liberal guilt snobbery at the wrong people but then again I'm "not on Facebook" which is the ultimate snob move

most of the memes on here are neither insightful nor "accurate", reducing complex issues to slogans is a bad thing that makes public discourse worse

I should add that I am grateful to you guys and appreciate all the dirty work as this thread has kept me safe from FB in homeopathic doses

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Are we doing this in all these threads now

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I agree w/ that in general! Just not convinced it's a worthwhile position in a messaging battle w/ corporate bots. It's gonna take a lot of people some of them not too sharp to get out from under this mess.

doesn't being on Facebook mean engaging w people who require or are drawn to simple messaging?

Depends on who you add, surely. Your FB list is determined by your real life friends and family in a way most social media isn't, if there's an echo chamber there it's gonna translate.

My personal experience is people who tend to post these things also tend not to have friends who disagree with their basic premise, or if they do they know better than to engage with them on it.

Though frankly I don't think it's a valid premise from the get-go to think that anyone in America has never been exposed to messages like "corporations are bad", "money doesn't buy happiness" or "x-mas is too commercial".

I only interact with wins on fb tbh

The trouble is I've never met the type of person these cartoons propose - the totally dumb consumer, someone with a brain covered in NIKE ticks, sucking shit out of a pipe. I know the cartoons are exaggerated, but they're still saying that a type of person or a type of consciousness exists and I'm still not sure it does

Like I think the vulgarity of marketing today is definitely worth noting, crass adverts squirting out of your phone and fridge and toaster and watch, targeted to the absolute lowest common denominator ... but the cartoons seem to think this LCD person actually exists and needs to be woken up.

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Jeez

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You can buy these

love too pedant

problem is that after you use them for long enough they start to provide only some of the possible options. suddenly there's only two & too. if this pencilmaker wants to invent a time machine so that i can go back and see what the rest of the pencil used to say, i might be interested

dislike/angry face, downvote, switch to separate account, downvote again

do it kingfish

load them all

suddenly there's only two & too.

As well, 'colons are underrated', which is just simply not true.

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tl;dr

99% sure it's fake but whoever made it was impressively in full metal jacket character

thats a famous reddit reply that got meme'd

I don't know what gorilla warfare is but I bet it involves feces

you're confusing gorillas with reddit

that's got to be the greatest reddit comment of all time

certainly the most "effortlessly sums up the spirit of"

in response, the receiver of that attack solemnly downvoted

inscribe that on an obelisk and let it be mankind's epitaph imo

(not mick foley's, to be clear)

I think that post predates Reddit. Probably a 4chan thing, and probably a joke to begin with.

that is extremely me, on the internet

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i could explain but i've already blocked you

Universally understood? Not in my universe. I would have to google "turnt", "fleek" and "bae", if I ever cared to know what they mean.

And I nominate this post for the 'posts vmic' thread.

I applaud your lack of understanding of things

And by "this" I meant my own post, btw.

If ignorance were airplanes, everyone would be airports, wins.

That would explain why I've been sat here for hours waiting for my ignorance to land.

riding my ignorance back home

Anonymous have changed

the thing about your/you're their/their is that since there's no difference in pronunciation the difference in spelling is down to arbitrary grammar, and when converting spoken language to text misunderstandings arise, but that's due to a fault in written language, it has little to do with wrong or right, it's just a set of rules used for power and fuck that and your stupid guy fawkes mask

initial reaction: ha, that Rand Paul is such a fucking ass, who's taking his bullshit seriously now? glad people have seen through him now

http://i.imgur.com/vy2q0oE.jpg

hold on though - who posted this? what?

http://i.imgur.com/xpMmRoJ.jpg

is that a real Rand Paul quote or some Pixelated Boat thing?

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/may/27/sarah-silverman/did-rand-paul-equate-right-health-care-slavery/

so uh there are more things he said after that but yeah, Rand Paul thinks that a "right to healthcare" means an unreasonable burden on doctors

much like the right to... anything... means I can demand that service at any time and place

here's a fun nightmare imagine you're waiting in the doctor's office for the doctor to come in and it's rand paul

"uh wait hold on I... don't think you're in my network. oh, well, uhh, I just remembered I have to trim the....something. no it's cool man, I'll pay the no-show fee...look dude get away from my fucking eyes"

i'm sure everyone agrees on all of this

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