Don’t forget to check out which people use the “Us vs Them” mentality the most :)

Socialism is about more than unions, that’s just the most obvious aspect in a heavily capitalist society. It’s about the sharing of burdens, which includes more than physical labor.

Just keeping up with the boomer takes…

Something doesn’t need to be a physical product to hold tangible value.

Just because you do something a certain way doesn’t mean everyone does. A huge chunk of these peoples income comes from the random people who find their videos or streams because of the “algorithm”. Not from their regular viewers. Those regular viewers allow for a certain amount of steadiness, but they’re also more likely to watch videos at a later time rather than right when they’re uploaded. Which is a significant drop in revenue for each view.

Doesn’t help if you’re a streamer, though. I guess that was a part I left out, whoops -_-

It’s still about personal desire over public good, though. That’s my point. Doing something only because it hurts something you care about, rather than because it damages a part of society that doesn’t directly impact you, is killing us. Both metaphorically and physically. Having empathy for people directly in your life is good… but having empathy for those who are little more than a concept in every day life is how society will better itself.

I would say focusing on personal desires while completely ignoring or acting against the well being of general society is exactly why our society is crumbling. And why so often you’ll see conservatives turning heel when someone they care about turns out to be trans, or gay, or are affected by medieval immigration practices, and so on.

Is that something from the new shows, or that meme of Kor hugging Jadzia and swapping names?

Kor isn’t exactly big on acceptance overall, just his friends. He blocked Martok from joining the Klingon officer academy because he didn’t have a prestigious enough lineage. Basically he was too working class.

The question isn’t about admiration, it’s about considering them worthy of being respected as fellow human beings who are also struggling. You’re just shitting on them because the way they make their living is more directly linkable to sources you don’t like.

Every job is going to be that way, one way or another. Even many charities will have shady ties somewhere, that most of the volunteers and employees don’t know shit about. Shitting on these people because you don’t respect the things they’re linked to, and ultimately have no control over, is petty and meaningless. It devalues them as humans, and as much as I’m sure you don’t think so, they’re still human. And deserve to be treated as such.

If they’re like the Pauls or something, I can see criticizing them for being shitty people… but that’s not what you’re doing, you’re shitting on them for being part of a system that exists whether they make use of it or not. And will continue to exist whether they use it or not.

So you’re pissed that it didn’t cover every thing, but you don’t understand why other people don’t think the same way you do, got it.

Facebook isn’t the only site these people use…

Did you watch the movie? He literally had moral qualms about what he ended up doing. There’s a scene where he’s accepting an award or something and all he can see and hear is the screams of the dying civilians his bombs killed. He got called a pussy by Truman because he felt that guilt. It didn’t go into extreme detail, but it 100% covered it… from the perspective of the person the movie was about.

I heard someone talking about a content creator they watch, and how that creator basically can’t take a vacation without losing tons of followers and potentially a major chunk of their income.

This is the most boomer take I’ve ever seen on this website. And that includes what few conservatives have filtered in.

None of us can. It’s just a job, just they get even more shit on because they’re more public facing figures.

I forgot, every movie has to show every aspect of every situation it uses.

There was a reason the movie was called Oppenheimr, and not Hiroshima, and why the overarching theme was about the political fallout of his career. It was a bio-pic about Oppenheimer. The reason it didn’t go into detail about the literal fallout of the bombs is because that’s not what the movie was about. There’s plenty of documentaries and movies that are about that. If that’s what you want, go watch them.

Or make (and advertise) them, like Cameron.

Yes, but this post is not.

If you think being petty on the internet is encouraging any kind of positive change, you’re almost as deluded as the MAGA cult.

I mean, if you want to waste a lot of time, energy, and money on petty acts of vandalism that won’t really change anything, that’s up to you.

The opposition.

You may notice that is vague and open ended. That’s the point.