So bad we went so woke, it was a happier world before.
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People were so much better looking when they smiled.
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For some it for sure was
This is what I don't understand. Yes, corporations pander to marginalised demographics, but I have not once seen them lose significant income or have been boycotted. Fascist corporations, meanwhile, lost customers and stocks like Target and Tesla.
Like really, who's going broke? Methinks this is projection from the right, or disinformation from state or non-state actors alike to keep the population divided.
To be right wing is to be ruled by emotions. Humans are all emotional creatures, but for some people it reaches a point where emotion alone creates reality. Facts are there to be picked up or set aside to support feelings. When their guy eats ice cream it's because he's a man of the people. When your guy eats ice cream it's because he's a baby. Facts don't matter. It's feelings.
And most of their feelings seem to be fear. Fear of loss. Fear of humiliation. You can show them stats and history demonstrating how, like, a diverse workforce leads to higher productivity and greater happiness, but that doesn't matter. They're not looking at facts. They're feeling feelings.
Imagine trying to talk to someone who's drunk. That's the right wing, except all the time and they can't really sober up. Honestly, it sounds like hell.
What are you talking about? Tesla's stock price is coming back up in line with everyone else. They're actually doing much better than more woke companies like Apple.
Its planning on getting a massive welfare infusion for a fake missile defense system it will never be able to make work while the government it now half owns is planning on tariffing most of the leading brands of cars. Meanwhile the only inherently profitable thing it actually does which is to say make cars its doing very poorly at.
Apple is doing incredibly well at selling phones and computers but the Trump administration is not only threatening to tariff stuff made overseas they specifically threatened to tariff iPhones specifically.
So in brief Apple stock is going down despite being great at its business whilst Tesla is on its way back up even as people won't buy their cars. Its just corruption.
You can put any meaning you want into the situation. But some people are making profits and you're making excuses.
Defrauding the government for things you cannot possibly provide isn't really showing your companies quality. Apple actually makes things people use and makes a ton of money doing it. Elon makes bad cars and spaceships that blow up a LOT. Neither of these is actually profitable without welfare. He is good at high stakes welfare fraud whilst Apple is good at actually earning money.
Competitors have outsold Tesla as part of boycott, so the stocks won't go back to its peak at $400-410. What is happening is that it simply became pump and dump for most traders (I have been shorting it myself).
Tesla's share price is up 40% in just one month. You can't short when it's rising, unless you want to lose shitloads of money. It's also half way through to full recovery, which should happen within a month more.
What is happening is that everyone who were panic selling lost their money, those who were buying from panicking lemmings got already rich. 40% returns in one month is just fucking bonkers!
Tesla share price has been going up and down in the past couple of months. You are correct it went up 40% broadly speaking, but it is because people have just been pumping and dumping. I guarantee Tesla stocks will crash again as long as Musk is the CEO and the board of directors don't get rid of him.
You can still short as day trade even if the overall market or stocks is going down by exploiting the price movements. But that is more stressful I must admit.
It doesn't matter if it will crash or not - the profits were already reaped.
You know what they say: go woke, you blew up my battleship.
“G-4”
“You woke my battleship!”
I have this version of Battleship.
It is crazy; that this seemed like a good idea to put on the box, at any point in the past.
All that 50's "advertising" that was essentially social conditioning and oppression, hear me out, because all the women had to do all the jobs while the men were gone to war. They got a taste of freedom, their own money and skills. They were all like, how hard can it be, boys do it. But when the men came back they had to shove them back in the box, they had to effectively put the cat back in the bag, it required a huge effort of bullying from the government and all. Like they hit hard with this kinda pervasive stuff, everywhere. That's when women were forced into the "get in the kitchen" role. Now we get to have both! Work AND be predominantly responsible for the majority of the house labor and child raising, yay!
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Nothing wrong with this image. Men in that era had other expectations. The game was marketed to men because it was "battle ships". Products for the girls were marketed in similar gender stereotypes of the time. Even today some family's enjoy this dynamic. Many women like being stay at mom parents that cook and clean inside the house while the men are there to empty gutters and take out the trash.
That still isn't a reason to put women on the box, let alone ones washing plates.
I don't think it was an issue then. Things have changed, but back then I really think people were more okay with the idea that a kitchen was the women's domain. Even today in relationships there are still these dynamics. Women work more so work is more shared. But my wife and almost all girls I've dated were the ones who really encouraged certain expectations of gender roles. Yes they want to be independent and treated well. But they give you a look when you're fixing something they can't. It's a great feeling. Are there story's of lazy douche bag layabouts, of course. But I also think there was a lot of story's where this dynamic did work. Husbands and wives that both worked hard and were happy with a wife that did dishes while the husband played with the kids. And vice versa the wife played with the kids while the husband painted the fence or installed a patio for her garden. I don't think it was this doom and gloom that the Internet says it was just over a board game box
"Great" that people used to think that the kitchen was a womans domain.
Still no reason to add it to a boardgame box.
A lot of moms did feel it was their "domain" and acting like that is an insult is pretty ignorant of them. Was it turned into an insult by douche bags and people like you who reduce it down to lesser work. Yes. But that doesn't refute that many moms of that era and today do enjoy the kitchen as a place they take ownership of in a home. My mom for example rules it with an iron fist and nobody is to fuck with it. She enjoys hosting and feeding guests and family and gets annoyed with people asking or trying to help to clean up after. She has her way of doing things. I don't appreciate assholes pretending like that type of life is insulting
I like that this demon boy is obviously holding that poor family hostage and they have to indulge his every bullshit.
Classic Twilight Zone
Or early Supernatural.
Which was just ripping off The Twilight Zone
I see it more as a (shittier) fantasy version of The X Files
It was certainly a precursor, but shitty is far from a good descriptor.
Unless you're referring to Supernatural. Which is still not really that shitty.
I can't see anywhere on the box it claims it's fun for the entire family. It's a two person game after all.
In fairness, you're right. I just spent a few minutes looking at higher resolution images of the box and it does not make that claim.
That said, the meme captures the spirit of an era pretty perfectly. I still think it hits the nail on the head.
What's the problem? It's just like my favorite book, Men Are From Mars, Women Belong In The Kitchen Making Me A Fried Bologna Sandwich.
Even if it's hallucinated by the AI who enlarged the image, I like how the wife has smeared lipstick on her like Joker
I think that's a knife in her left hand
The girl whispers "do it mom"
I think this meme is quite a bit older than the AI craze.
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