As what often happens when people who aren’t white and male try to join these sorts of country clubs, they have to be even more extreme in order to prove they’re “one of the good ones.”

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Your viking analogy is bizzare. Not that many people know that vikings didn’t actually wear anything like that in battle, unlike how everyone knows Jesus was a homeless middle Eastern man and, depsite this, continue to draw him as northern European. More so, vikings are known for wearing those helmets. Jesus isn’t known for being a white man. Why? Because Jesus wasn’t white man and isn’t know for it.

Youre really starting from where you want to end up and working your way back. Theres no cogent justification for it, as much I enjoy people trying to sell me an appeal to tradition, with extra steps.

You would have to define how you’re using “have to” here. I mean, I wouldn’t try to come and attack you for neither agreeing not disagreeing with a subject you still managed to have such strong a need to inject in.

Partly because you might be bigger than me but mostly because I generally only see doing that as soemthing I strongly frown upon, in even the most severe of cases. I’m not particularly keen on forcing people to do anything, in fact.

Really, though only you can answer that question.

I’m glad we agree that our lives are probably better now than they for the people who literally had to live in caves, thousands of years ago, though. Thank you for including that important point.

Lol, its not that I didn’t understand or that I missed it. It’s that I disagree that its a cogent reason.

When I was young, I used to draw pictures of people with stick bodies and round heads. They were also often bright or powder pink in colour. I propagated the shit out of that too.

Then, when I found out that wasn’t the correct way to draw people or the natural colour of human skin, I stopped drawing them and colouring quite so comedically ridiculous.

Why can’t the people who draw Jesus manage this?

Work has never been so unstressful, if you look back at the history of mankind.

I agree that it was even worse before. Although, I’m a little puzzled as to what point is being made. Are you agreeing with me or not? I can’t tell.

Industrialization killed workers with 60 hour shifts in unsafe environments. Middle ages made you work 18 hours a day once you were 7 and made you starve if the harvest was bad. In the stone age your family died from hunger after you got killed on the hunt.

Life expectancy was never as high as today.

Looking back at what I wrote, what point is all this agreeing with or refuting?

To me, it seems like you’re arguing that the passage of time is a good thing. I don’t remember saying that the passage of time wasn’t good.

OK, so why did they persist with it for all the centuries in between and still to this day?

Sorry kid, boys can’t be princesses

Its ok though, you’ll suit being a fierce queen much better anyway

Its work

Working, in the way that we do, takes years off of our lives and ruins the quality of life of people in their final years too.

I mean, its a meme and the message is put across very well but, for me, an important distinction for the comments section is that wealth increases life, as much as, if not more than poverty decreases it. Its wealth specifically and not wages too. After a certain point, increased wages actually have an inverse effect on lifespan which I’m sure comes as no surprise to anyone and the reason is both self explanatory and further supports what I’m saying.

Just so its been said, wealth, in these instances, refers to capital that makes you money. More specifically, wealth gives you money from NOT from working.

The exact point at which life expectancy and QoL increases is always around the exact level of wealth and passive income someone would need to drastically lower their working hours or stop completely.

A second argument: women live longer than men. There are some biological factors for this, such as oestrogen being a vasodilator etc. However, it wasn’t really enough to explain the differences we were seeing.

The thing is, this unexplained gap has started getting smaller and smaller. Now, unless there’s been a fundamental change in the average womans physiology recently, only one thing has changed in our society to the extent that it could effect something like this. Its also filtering through at around the exact time it should be, were the trend to be caused work.

Nothing else reconciles all of the positions, let alone so perfectly and in one single stroke.

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Don’t worry, you can consol yourself with all the great new rock music being made

Tbf, even as someone around the same age as you, I can’t even make my own. Like, purely as a hobby but it all comes out as like stuff from the late 60s and early 70s. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t make the rock/guitar music i grew up with.

I could always drown it in fuzz or hide the guitars, like everyone else these days I guess.

I’m just having a moan. I think its partly the emergance of rap etc. but also a generation traumatised by covid might not be into the same leary, brash rock sounds others might like. I mean, hearing it live with a huge crown thats full of energy makes such a difference. I’m hoping when there’s a higher percentage who experienced it live during those years instead, it might get better.

…waaait a minute

Not outside America or Israel it isn’t.

Want to really show their hypocrisy, the UK has been in Ireland longer than white people have been in the US. I mean, what my country did in Ireland is foul and I think Irish people should have every right to choose their own future but the point still stands. Some Americans will call it imperialism, without a hint of irony or self awareness.

100% and, more so, thats not just a billion in cash, of course. Thats a billion dollars worth of stuff that makes you money, that can be sold off for at least a billion, most likely far more.

When people read these valuations, they often think to themselves “surely they can’t be worth that much” and they’re right. It will always be much, much more. Other than Trump, wealth valuations are always very, very conservative, due to the nature of how they do it, and thats before we get to the fact that they’re only estimating their wealth on the assets that are publicly disclosed.

“Mondays are fine. Its your job that sucks”

Alternative version

I agree in making them obsolete but I think the above is “just” great life advice and not necessarily something that will stop capitalism. Just to be clear, I love it.

Capitalism can absorb anything you throw at it. Shoot anti capitalism at it and it will just sell you rage against the machine albums and anonymous masks. Theres no reason to suspect the above won’t just result in the further comodification of care and affection.

So, what do you feed an insatiable monster who can absorb anything you throw at it and grow stronger from it?

As little as possible.

What does capitalism actually feed on

Human labour.

The answer always has been and always will be the strategic refusal of labour, over and above what we need to live a reasonable life.

Yeah, well, labour said stuff like that was bad and then did something similar that wasn’t even a fraction of a fraction as bad.

As such, they’re all equally as bad as each other.

They keep them right next to the automotive gender reassignment theatres.

Londoner here. The easy way to remember it is, the bridge with the towers, specifically the one next to the tower of london, is called tower bridge.

The one that was the only bridge into the old, walled city of London for centuries, specifically the one right next to London bridge Station, is called London Bridge.

Being used to it, I can only imagine how confusing that must be for people.

Triggers broom, the bridge version.

Wait until you hear about genetics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism