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I feel like we’re regressing back to the Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer browser war days, when browsers were openly and intentionally breaking functionality on competing sites.
You're right. It does have the same energy to it, doesn't it? But of course, it also feels like that kind of regression permeates nearly every layer of society now, which is really sad. We should get angry before it's too late.
Some of us have been fucking furious for over two decades now and it hasn't done shit except increase our blood pressure and having all the dumb fucking dimwits around us acting like we're crazy for being upset at how absolutely fucked things are.
I've been angry since my early twenties. I'm in my forties now and I'm still angry but guess what I'm fucking tired. Which is what the people in charge want, of course. They want us so broken by this system that we give up on fighting back because it's hard to fight back when you've been diagnosed with a fucking disease that will bankrupt you financially.
They have us right where they want us, and most people are too toothlessly uneducated to even fucking know it's going on and get so so upset when you get angry for good fucking reasons. "Please calm down" bullshit from motherfuckers enabling the shit streaming down our fucking faces. It's fucking lunacy.
We live in a beautiful Corpocracy and you will fucking love it, god damn it!! Drink the Disney to distract and calm your weary mind. Consume more and you will feel alive again. Promise! Ignore the crimes of the corporations, without those you wouldn't have The New Thing you adore and you wouldn't be yearning for The Next Thing! You NEED The Next New Thing.
Its fucking sickening. I'm in my early 30s and it feels hopeless. Surely the masses can see the sheer manipulation and control that governments and corporations have over us. Why aren't more people irate that They are raping the Earth to line Their pockets, fucking Us over in the process?
Everyone has been polarised into an "Us vs Them" mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.
I'm ready to get downvoted, but this is exactly the reason I'm incredibly sceptical about any conflicts going on, including wars. I just think the possibility of the "two sides" working together just to polarize society is too goddamn high. But of course, as soon as you bring a subject like this into a discussion, you immediately get bombarded with the "you are against my idea so you're an extremist" kind of vocabulary... For example: "Omg you're pro-russian" - meanwhile I volunteer to help Ukrainian people, but I guess I love Russia when I do that. Shit's wild...
It’s domestic as well. Red vs Blue is just a distraction and you can’t point this out because nearly everyone is divided along those lines to the point of ignoring getting fucked up the ass.
Divide and conquer...
I think Roosterteeth did a better job than just "a distraction".
Let's give them some credit
opportunists would gather around a piece of shit if it benefited them
theres a marxist term for the last paragraph, whats the word for it?
Alienation maybe? I'd just describe it as divide and conquer which is a pretty common Marxist description of capital's political strategy
nope, it's about how the bourgeouis make the proletariat fight each other rather than them
I haven’t really seen my exact situation & frustration put so perfectly.
I know it’s exhausting, but just reading this helps remind me that I’m not alone.
So just know, you’re not alone.
There are at least 3 of us
Dozens.