Executive dysfunction: it’s like playing D&D, and your skill level is high enough, but you keep rolling a one.
We had punch a nazi.
Now its time for:
Headbutt a homophobeyeah dont do that… I mean think about it, what would headbutting a homophobe actually accomplish ?
thats right… you probably gonna knock yourself out instead of the homophobe, cause headbutting is actually pretty dangerous for the headbutter, so yeah stick with punching or… i dunno nipple twisting maybe ?
nipple twist the homophobes
pass it on
how about suplexing racists while we’re at it?
I’ve been thinking about this PewDiePie situation and the right-wing response to it a bit, and I think it pretty well demonstrates the social rot at the heart of capitalist socialization.
Whenever somebody gets called out for using blatantly offensive and discriminatory language, the far right always thinks that the response is entirely performative. Everybody that is offended isn’t REALLY offended, we are just performing offense in order to play nice with “respectable” society. In other words, we are all just playing a game, and the end goal is getting ahead. Everything is a competition. Social justice is just another element in the game, and some people choose to take that route in their quest for power and social capital.
You can call this out as childish and selfish, because it is, but it also points to a much deeper problem in the way capitalism teaches us to think about morality. We are taught from a young age two conflicting narratives - that we should be kind and respectful to other people, but also that everything is a competition and you should do everything you can to be the absolute best. Those two ideas are incompatible with each other. You can’t simultaneously respect other people while viewing them as your competition in the game of life. So people normally end up predominantly recognizing one side or the other - we either decide to be especially kind and respectful to each other, or we decide to view everything as a competition.
For the people who choose the second option, morality becomes part of the game. Nothing anybody does is actually genuine - it’s all just a ruse to push other people out of the way. That’s why they can’t believe that there is anybody that actually doesn’t want to be offensive. That there are people who aren’t offensive when nobody is watching. The only reason you would ever be respectful in the first place is because other people are watching - because you’re trying to get ahead. It’s all a competition.
Some prominent parenting strategies exacerbate the problem. “You can’t do that because I say so.” If no reason is ever given, why are people doing anything? Because it’s a game. Just like school, just like work.
And the truth is, we all play that side from time to time. Everybody lies on their job application. Everybody acts way too happy to be at work. Everybody pretends to like their boss more than they do. Everybody plays nice to the horrible customers that you would otherwise strangle. Even people who choose to be genuinely kind are forced to play the game on occasion as well. And the people who chose the competitive view of the world recognize that.
So we can certainly mock and laugh at the people who can’t figure out that there are actually good people in the world who do good things out of genuine compassion. It is a laughable position. But it’s also baked into all of us from a young age in capitalist society. And that’s the real tragedy.This guy wrote an essay against capitalism because video-game man said the n-word.
It’s incredible to note this is the exact type of response this essay is trying to decipher!
Blog description for libertybill is “Economics Funnyman” and that combination of words might be the only funny joke he’s ever written
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after calling your senators, call your Governor as well, they can heavily influence how your senators vote.
Barry was 100% ready to kill himself just to be able to hold Lup again and I get it I do but that would have been the second time in as many episodes and I want this to become the new ‘*mild inconvenience* “You’re going to have to decapitate me”’ meme like
Barry accidentally eats a dairy product “Taako…kill me.”
Barry gets a bad sunburn “Taako…kill me”
Barry runs out of clean jeans before laundry day “Taako
Barry farts in an elevator “taako”
The timeline for this latest liveshow is…. real whack. It’s pre-finale, but Magnus has the Flaming Raging Poisoning Sword of Doom? It’s definitely pre-Wonderland, just because the timeline doesn’t allow room between them, but clearly Merle still plagiarizes Taako’s line about liches getting stitches. Let’s not forget about Lucas, who we last saw on the run (and this can’t be pre-Crystal Kingdom since Magnus has the Chance Lance) but who apparently is being allowed to do wild science on everyone at the Bureau of Balance.
Then I realized, Lucretia doesn’t show up anywhere here. The chat without stone cold Lucretia zingers means she must not be around, because we all know she wouldn’t turn up a chance to throw down some lines. So I formulated my theory, this takes place shortly after the Eleventh Hour, when Lucretia had to leave the base for a few days to take care of things somewhere else, and things promptly went to hell.
One of their Seekers showed up with a captured Lucas Miller, miraculously not dead, and then Magnus, Taako, and Merle had to explain that it was all good, really, please don’t kill the twerp. Trying to smooth things over, Lucas offered to show them some of the Super Productive Projects he’s been working on in the interim, which led into “everyone in the Bureau of Balance test out this super cool thing I made”. Sans Director, that seemed like an awesome and not dangerous idea, so they did and after that in no particular order: Magnus convinced Lucas he should totally get the Flaming Raging Poisoning Sword of Doom in game, Carey and Killian invented Leet-speak and Leon loved it, Taako tried to invent breaking video games, Lucas’ machine turned evil, the Boyz nearly died, someone sprung Robbie out of jail, and Magnus took ecstasy.
Lucretia shows up in the aftermath with Starbucks and a new sunglasses, smelling faintly of essential oils, and promptly gets her vacation chill destroyed as she surveys the wreckage of the Bureau’s super cool weekend. Also, Lucas? You’re alive?
a6:
lawful good: sleeping with fan off and blanket off when its hot
chaotic evil: sleeping with fan on and blanket on when its hot
Chaotic neutral: fan on and covers on legs
