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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

edit: now it's a meme and we can all hug in the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Somebody should make a movie around this message of jaded adults refinding their humanity in an absurd, hyperconsumerist world through the rejection of cynicism and embracing of liking things again, but cleverly disguise it as a movie made to sell plastic dolls to little girls to play on the concept of hyperconsumerism.

I think this hypothetical movie will be a smashing success in the box office. And probably win the lead actress an Oscar this year.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Totally irrelevant to your comment, keep up the strike and hold the line! Assuming you're the real Margot Robbie and have a prolific platform. I know it's not fair, especially to the less recognizable members but a lot of other people who are thinking about unionizing are watching the WGA and SAG strikes to see if labour can still win. It's not just you guys, we're all with you. Even if they're too stupid to realize this strike is more important than a new season of NCIS. Labour winning this strike proves that labour isn't out of the fight and capital hasn't completely won. Stay strong! Hold the line!

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[–] ZombiFrancis 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to think even as a jaded adult this isn't just an impersonation.

And I assume the Ken dance off scene is an allegory to the obliteration of the ego resulting in self reflection?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ok if you had the opportunity to make Ryan Gosling do a dumb song and dance number you would have done the same thing.

It's funny for actors to play against type because it's unexpected. Like Leslie Nielsen in "Airplane!", for example.

[–] pthaloblue 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I absolutely agree, I think you ahem that lead actress should win an Oscar.

But I think it's important that we don't let enjoying things become synonymous with liking (mindless purchasing) the corporate products that are being sold to us at a breakneck pace.

What ways do we have to still create our own ways to have fun? How can we make our own "weird barbies"?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The difference is that you should enjoy things not because nothing matters in this world (that would be hedonism.), but because the world matters to you, and you will fight to make it better.

There comes a point in everybody's life where they are faced with their own mortality and finally figure out what they are meant to do. None of us will be here forever, so, I think we should use our short time on this Earth to fight for a world where everyone is free to find their way in life, and be themselves again.

Kinda vague, but everyone is different, so, everyone will have to figure it out on their own.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (22 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have their un-funny, non-memes and screenshots and whatever little harmless things in which they've managed to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I hear Christmas music before at least November, I will go nuclear

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I don’t mind people putting up decorations early, it’s when stores swap out their seasonal stock early that triggers me

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Last year local Home Depot started clearancing out Halloween decorations to make room for Christmas stuff in September.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Letting go of the part of you that judges other people is important. It hurts, because that is one of the few avenues of control we can experience in our lives alienated by capitlaism.

Letting your self be free of those childish emotions and learning to replace them with love for your fellows is the path towards true happiness however. That is one of those weird tricks the government doesn't want you to know. Except it is real and it works. The more negative you are about other people the more negativity you experience and the more treats you need to buy to survive. The heart of every true revolutionary is full of love.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I am judging the fuck out of nazis though and I will not stop

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Tolerance for everything but the intolerant.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't criticize people for enjoying those things, I criticize the corporations for relentlessly monetizing those things, making them insufferable and sucking all the enjoyment out of them for money.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

But what about the shriveled flower of joy I get from shitting on their happiness stupidpol

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let people not like things.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (15 children)

You're welcome to dislike something, but that doesn't mean you need to discourage someone else from liking that thing. You can share an opinion without making it sound like it's a sin against nature to disagree with that opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I just want to end misspelling "avocado" .

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem here is that all of these people have turned their consumer choices into their identities and thus they feel personally attacked whenever they hear criticism of the products they consume.

It's incredibly unhealthy and something everyone should work to weed out of their mindset if they want to grow as a person instead of being perpetually unhappy because others criticising things isn't going anywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You had me until the too early decorations. The other things don't take away my joy. That does.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Also harm isn't why people care. Its the erosion of well defined seasons in order to push corporate products on us and in the end we get fucked up melding of events like remembrance day while people are preoccupied trying to get Christmas shopping in.

It turns what was once cultural events into corporate buy shit quarters. Because its easier for Walmart to sell Christmas stuff in October then wait until it's the season.

Its a loss and erosion of an important shared culture in favor of only corporate sponsored ones.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wild how happiness only seems to exist in commodities

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Exactly my thoughts: work, consume, die.

What a fucking miserable fate for a human life.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is humanity, there will be no joy! ☝️

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Halloween is my favorite time of the year!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Serious.

If you are seriously annoyed by any of these things, then it should be a reminder of how unburdened and care free your life is that such a thing actually bugs you, and spark a sense of pride and contentment instead.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

Isn't the whole gripe with Pumpkin Spiced whatever the same with Christmas decorations popping up in mid-October? Like, its not fucking special if you're putting nutmeg in my coffee in June.

Same with the D&D / Marvel / Roblox / Whatever fandom of choice. It was fine twenty years ago when it was the New Thing. Now we're pushing 100+ hours of Disneyfied extended universe content on Marvel alone. Half my "recommended" podcast feed is six C-list celebrities making the soy face in front of a pair of crossed battle axes. And my street is lined with shitty faux-bakery corporate cafeterias trying to sell a piece of rye bread covered in guacamole for $15/slice.

Who actually enjoys this shit anymore? It feels like I'm being sealed into Disneyland, like a Pharaoh buried alive in his pyramid. It stopped being fun ages ago. Now I'm torn between boredom and horror.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

If I can't criticize every insignificant difference in lifestyle that I have with a stranger that I probably won't ever talk to again in my life. How else will I stroke my ego and fulfill my basic need of feeling superior to others?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (19 children)

The drug cartels receive a substantial amount of money from avocado production (weird but apparently true)

Cinnamon is carcinogenic

Many fandoms have a disturbingly sexual element (especially my little pony)

Halloween is a celebration of consumerism, microplastics and diabetes.

I'm sure there's a dark side to d&d but I can't think of it right now.

You're welcome

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's a dark side to d&d but I can't think of it right now.

It’s satan.

Source: I grew up in the 80s.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Pumpkin spice lattes?

PSL

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Costco has Christmas decorations up already actually

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Guy across the street spent the weekend putting up Halloween decorations with his daughter. We can this guy "Heavy metal dad" because year round he displays pentagram flags, and wears heavy metal band shirts with the sleeves cut off all year. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I found my tiny shriveled flower of joy in being a hater. Today's target: people who upvoted this garbage. The fuck is wrong with you? It's not a meme and it's not funny, it doesn't belong on this community, and it's so sanctimonious it gave me diarrhea.

Tomorrow's target: people who push all their furniture up against the wall
Thursday's target: Scots

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