fleacircus

Don't be so pessimistic -- you can have a red neoliberal or a blue neoliberal. What more could you want?

So are trad wives.

Most Democrats remain staunchly neoliberal. They won't slash the funding to hurt black people but they will slash funding if it means there's more public funds for them to shove into their own pockets.

Better than the fascists and racists, but not by nearly enough.

Please move to exploding heads with the rest of the fuckwits and apologists so you're easier to block.

It's depressing how difficult it is to imagine an alternative universe where Kurt could have made it to 40 and still been Kurt.

Maybe somewhere out there was a 90s with better solutions to mental health problems then "just do heroin until you can't stand it any more then kill yourself" and we'd have a few thousand more artists running around.

But would it have been enough? I feel like he'd hate the world we built.

Corporations psychopathically wrung every penny they could from his life, art and obvious misery. They didn't show the slightest remorse for their part in his tragic, lonely death, instead just revealing in the feed frenzy it caused and the millions it put into their bank accounts.

But even after watching them feed artists into the woodchipper over and over again, we still didn't burn it down. We didn't even get angry. We just let the neoliberalism wash over us, settling into it like a lukewarm bath.

He couldnt stand racism, homophobia, fundamentalism and toxic masculinity. He was angry, hurt and disillusioned so he wrote poetry and music and put it into the world.

Now the angry, hurt, dissilussioned kids just make far-right memes because a social media exec decided letting them get groomed was worth it for 14c worth of ad impressions.

I just don't see how he could have made it here, watching everything he hated packaged up in plastic and sold to the world, unable to even hide away with his little family because for a few years he was the hot new product.

Honest communication hasn't ever been the strong point of Reddit staff but they're really taking it to new lows lately.

It started with "those third party apps are using up all our internets" as a mask for "the API was free because your content was borderline worthless but now we can sell it to AI companies" and the smell of bullshit has only grown stronger.

I think its a massive improvement. Reddit did next to nothing about astro-turfing and vote manipulation. Lemmy gives people the tools needed to detect inorganic content.