"Yeah but.....in China...sometimes people are told what to do, so buying the ripoff is the moral thing to do. You wouldn't want to disrespect property rights would you?"

It sucks man. People take the right's word as gospel, but they almost always get Jester's privilege when held to scrutiny.

Y'all just gave me a great idea for a YA novel.

This time, the villains are people who are so thoroughly convinced they're the main characters and that's why they treat everyone like garbage because they see their life as a video game. Like Scott Pilgrim but never getting called out for the bad shit he does, and as such never really has to stop being a manchild.

Dear boomers,

what part of "I'm poor" don't you understand? Also, why do you guys keep trying to speak for us on our behalf rather than directly ask millennials?

Sincerely,

someone who's gen Z.

These people think they are genetically superior to you.

I forgot the actual quote, but I remember basically reading from What's The Matter with Kansas (Thomas Frank is a good gateway voice for the libs in your lives) that half the strategy that Rupert Murdoch uses is to keep letting the right constantly think they're losing, even when they're winning. In short, never give them a moment's rest to have something to complain about, no matter how small.

EDIT: Not 100% the quote, but I found this

"Anyway, Frank coins a term he calls the plen-T-plaint. Unlike complaints, the plen-T-plaint is a gripe that has no fundamental basis, although it certainly has a target. There are all kinds of plen-T-plaints, usually seen in terms of political correctness. A child sues his school district because he was assigned homework for the summer. A woman cries sexual harassment because she is complimented on the color of her sweater. An artist dunks a picture of Jesus in a jar of urine and wants public funding for doing so. As you can no doubt see, these gripes have one thing in common: They’re all examples of liberal outrages. The point of the plen-T-plaint is not to engender discussion, but to get voters riled up and, hopefully, voting Republican.

Are there bona-fide examples of liberal silliness? Unquestionably. However, this silliness is presented not as ludicrous and ignorable, but as a pernicious example of the corrupting influence of liberal philosophy on American society. Liberals have very little influence over the national government, which is solidly controlled by Republicans, and yet to listen to Bill O’Reilly you’d think the US was under the iron Birkenstock of the Berkeley crowd. It’s dishonest and distracting, but it’s a great way to reap a harvest of votes for Republican candidates, isn’t it?

Let’s be honest about these outrages. They mean little, harm almost no one, and affect nothing. However, conservative outrages, which do more harm, receive no attention from the Anne Coulter set. Want to write anti-gay discrimination into the nation’s founding document? Sure! Want to ban the teaching of a scientific theory accepted by every reputable scientist everywhere in the world? No problem! Want to give taxpayer dollars to religious organizations to fund jobs from which many of the taxpayers will be banned? Sign me up! Personally, I find these little crusades much more disturbing than the occasional frivolous lawsuit or a baseless accusation of sexual harassment.

I tend to have a pretty solid faith in humanity, but the plen-T-plaint, and the way it has resonated in modern times, has given that faith a nice solid shake. "

That reminds me, for any comrades in New York: ERA is on the ballot next year, so go out and do electoralism.

Now that we're on the topic, an idea for an eCafe where there are plenty of physical books, but you can plug in the reader to a machine to fully download the book so you can read it offline.

I think I want to learn more about coding and find a bunch of leftist buddies and make shit that's actually "innovative".

Agreed.

To me, it seemed like "Protest work ethic", never referred to the work ethic of the WASPy old money failsons that lucked their way into success. But the work ethic should be enforced on the poor WASPs and "undesirables" regardless of class.

: "We have a right to be lazy because we worked hard in the past. See all this money? Therefore my lazy rent-seeking behavior is justified and you're just a wimp who can't stand a decent challenge."

MFW a good amount of people actually like living in garbage.

Pigs get together to laugh about how disgusting our species is, and anyone who follows an Abrahamic religion owes pigs a huge apology.

"We know pollution will probably kill you, but that's okay because muh CONSTITUSHUNZ!"