#capitalism hellscape

[tiredarts-main]

tumblr, please, for the love of the light- stop showing me gay dating app ads

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I already have two wonderful girlfriends, and I’m not about to start looking for desperate older strangers to parasocialize with in a city I hold no ties to.

and -pardon my unsteady grasp on the youth-language- if I even wanted to quote-unquote “rizz up a faggot,” I could just. find one on tumblr. I- th- this isn’t a niche that needs to be filled, it’s already occupied by the very site they’re advertising on.

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Jokes aside, the concept of a heavily-advertised “hot (demographic) in your area” queer dating site -in today’s political climate where being openly queer is dangerous- feels like a trap. Like an anglerfish luring in the unknowing and vulnerable with glistening rainbow light.

I don’t trust that it isn’t back-ended by some nefarious shit- especially if they’re managing to pay for ads to promote it. Same with that anti-depression chatbot ad I saw a few weeks back, and the “color-by-numbers solves depression/insomnia/amnesia” ad that wove its way between the torrent of tanned pectorals that tumblr is convinced I want to see (I don’t).

It’s textbook manipulation- targeting a weak point in the armor. No big company is your friend. Every single one is either out for your money or your blood. A good chunk want both at once.

…I do wish I could have a proper adblock on my phone, so I could stop getting flashbanged by some random dude’s clip-art critspot

[fattyskeleton]

There's an AD in my Email account now??!

MY FUCKING EMAIL ACCOUNT HAS A FUCKING AD ON IT NOW?!!? IT'S NOT SPAM OR AN ACTUAL EMAIL, IT'S A FUCKING AD THAT JUST IMMEDATLY HAS ME DIRECTED TO AMAZON.COM WHEN I CLICK ON IT.

THERE'S AN OPTION TO PAY TO GO AD FREE.

I'M GONNA GO FERAL.

[touchoffleece]

For real, look into who owns what news media companies and most of the time it'll lead to one of these big names that are named on the strike list.

[politijohn]

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[nando161mando]

Everybody's a Republican now

[roguestarsailor]

These things makes me MMAADDD like $145 for an oversized tee??????????? $36 whole dollars for SOCKS?????? There’s regular ass canvas totes below this and it’s $125 like??? Sure the demographic isn’t me however I think these prices are actually disgustingly awful and nobody should be paying this!!

Unfortunate but I do looveeeee this brand and these designs. However I’m thinking about the cost to make and longevity and just don’t see why it’s priced this way!!! (I do own bedding set that I got on sale about a year ago but it was a lot and I don’t think I understood the price until now though). CRIMINAL!dndjdn

[unstablequeerbitch]

Why is canon in D playing at work? I’m so lost. This is an autopart store, and I do love classical music, but why freaking Taylor swift antihero to canon in d? I’m so lost and confused.

[touchoffleece]

relevant and highlighting what could go wrong in capable hands much less what could go wrong in the hands of someone like Musk or his team (doing his bidding in order to keep their jobs/visas)

article date: Oct 20, 2022

[touchoffleece]

maybe, and I mean maybeee, I'd want to see a Polly Pocket or American Girl movie be made and that's solely based on the very unlikely chance it follows Barbie's theme in trying to fix the damage the whole "Not like other girls" damage did to generations, but otherwise I very much wish all these don't make it to theaters, and the plan fails.

Morally bankrupt studios would rather green light another shared universe than treat their workers like human beings.

What a time to be alive.

[daftpatience]

untold amounts of effort are going into this preorder (one kinda bad video)

[titleknown]

You ever think about how in Socialist Bolivia they get these gorgeous Neo Andean buildings with these beautiful bright colors and bold forms, meanwhile in the capitalist world we get Frank Gehry, who's buildings appear hostile to human life and sanity and generally look like if skyscrapers had tumors and they tried to make those tumors into real buildings; and who's attempt at a "brain health center" would probably turn you into the fucking Joker if you went there?

...I'm actually not joking about that last one, look at it:

It's like if they gentrified a fucking Psychonauts level...

[mbrainspaz]

The thing about our american capitalist system as it stands is that there is a giant fucking Murder Axe swinging back and forth over all of us, and you don't ever see it unless you're unfortunate enough to fall into the axe pit. Sure, sometimes heads went missing but that was just the world you lived in. Then one day you got a chronic illness and lost your job and your housing and suddenly THERE'S THE AXE COMING TO KILL YOU. You dodge for all you're worth. Again and again. And you don't know how you were ever blind to it. Even if you survive long enough to crawl back out of the pit you can never unsee the Murder Axe. You arrive back in normal society only to realize everyone around you worships the Axe.

[victusinveritas]

"And they don’t want to be paid in dollars, they want company scrip, that can only be used in the company store. Wooden nickels. And they don’t want neighborhoods, they want shanty towns, and they don’t want grocery stores, ah that word groceries, we love that word, don’t we? Anyway, they don’t want grocery stores, they want food banks and government cheese, it’s the best cheese."

"Plus they'll all love dying of Black Lung. They love it, think it's the best."

Our best solution for the economy would be to put Trump to work inn the coal mines, and keep him away from any other interaction with the country's economy. Or the country at all.

[notbutterofficial]

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

I need to get back to my boys

[smile-files]

authority has only found me appealing because they've always known i'd make a great cog in the machine