I would be cool to see a global boom of NeoAndean architecture
What the shit, somebody built my DMT trip!?
Fucking hell that is amazing
Capitalism made it not fun
Capitalism is making it not fun. It hadn’t been fun for an average person before capitalism. Feudalism was worse on many levels.
However, the next mode of production will inevitably be better than this. If human civilization survives, that is.
I know I’m like a broken record, but capitalism.
Yeah, because in the countries without capitalism it’s like on the meme 😮💨
Which countries don’t have capitalism?
I want to say maybe North Korea, but authoritarian countries are fucked up for other reasons than capitalism.
Middle ages europe, I guess?
Believe it or not, capitalism is an improvement over feudalism. 😬
But think of the silly buildings!!!
I think Cuba is the only one that really fits the bill of “somewhat functional country without any variety of capitalism”, they’re authoritarian too although not nearly as bad as NK.
China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
Lol. China does not have capitalism? Please, tell me what economic system their companies are using? It might be state capitalism at most, but it’s still capitalism. Companies are run for profit, not for good, or for the state, or for the benefit of the people, or by workers.
Edit: To the people downvoting, are you just angry that I’m right or do you disagree? If you disagree, you should leave a comment, not just a downvote. You have the opportunity to educate. Because of the lack of comments, it seems obvious it’s just downvotes because I’m not repeating the message you’re told to repeat.
It’s crazy how deeply this shit drills into people’s brains.
You could have enough money to live out the rest of your days in luxury and people would still think less of you for not working.
I currently am living out my days on a bare minimum of passive income. Everyone I talk to about it seems to think it is super cool.
Unless youre a billionaire, then they’ll worship you.
And believe if they just stay late at work, or take on more work than they can handle, they too will be one of those billionaires one day!
Yep. Capitalism prioritizes efficiency of production. All of those things, at best, do not promote efficiency, and at worst harm it. This doesn’t mean they’re bad. It means capitalism won’t prioritize them.
was my first thought aswell ^^
Jfc… is capitalism the reason for all things? Maybe you’re like a broken record because you try and force it to be the cause of everything that ever happened that is bad.
Can you refute it?
Its possible for a capitalist country to have silly buildings and dyed hair and for a non capitalist country to not have silly buildings and dyed hair, therefore the reason is probably more complex than what broad category the economic system falls in
It’s pretty easy.
- The claim made is that the reason we can’t dye our hair and have silly buildings is because of capitalism.
- We can observe that in capitalist countries there are silly buildings - eg, the Sydney Oprah House; and you actually can dye your hair - eg, half of my friends.
- If we look at non-capitalist countries like North Korea or Cuba, we notice, at best, an equivalent amount of silly buildings and hair dying.
- It may be stated that non-capitalist countries like North Korea or Cuba are not capitalist but are not the correct sort of non-capitalist countries to maximize silly buildings and dyed hair. The next obvious question is - if these are not the correct countries to look at, which are?
4.1) Sometimes anarchist collectives are pointed to. The most notable among these in the modern world with significant scale is the Zapatista territory in Mexico. I have not personally been to the Zapatista territories, but based on some googling, I cannot find any particular evidence of more or less silly buildings or dyed hair in this region.
4.2) Sometimes it is claimed that all the governments which would have maximized silly buildings and dyed hair were overthrown by the globalist/capitalist conspiracy (or whatever). But then we must ask why this same conspiracy failed to overthrow Cuba or North Korea. Or else why it has not overthrown the Northern European governments which have some non-capitalist features.
Based on all this, I think there is a reasonable claim to be made that capitalism is not strongly corrolated with dyed hair and silly buildings. And with no strong corrolations, saying that a lack of dyed hair and silly buildings is capitalism’s fault cannot be claimed in good faith.
Frankly, it’s just not worth the effort. You’re clearly wanting all bad things to be capitalism’s fault, and I really don’t thing any logical point made against that ideology is going to make any sense to you.
So that’s a no. Best argument for capitalism, “I don’t wanna bother, just consume.”
Oh I can refute it. I just value my time and I don’t exercise in futile arguments with people online that manufacture outrage from things that have nothing at all to do with the point being discussed- for example, capitalism being the reason for why we aren’t song anything in the meme.
So, I’d say it’s more like:
“I don’t wanna bother, because I don’t like to waste my time debating with kids who are known for creating arguments out of thin air by doing things like forcing you to defend points that you never even made to begin with.”
Or….
“I don’t wanna bother, because even though I clearly stated that it’s not worth the time- you’ve proven the point correct by showing that you refuse to accept an unliked truth in a statement by incorrectly assuming that I cannot explain it.”
Or…
“I don’t take that schoolyard bait of “yOu aReN’t eXpLaiNiNg bEcaUsE yOu cAn’T!”
Whichever one makes you feel better. They’re all true so it matters very little to me.
And take note: I will spend my time explaining all of this to you over explaining how capitalism isn’t the boogeyman behind every bump in the night, because at least in this- someone reading along might find a way out of having to waste their time arguing with people that just want to waste their time- where the end-result is just going to be me being called a “bOoTLiCkEr” or some other such misguided nuance-less nonsense.
In short- You arrived at your opinion by being unreasonable. Why on earth should the onus be on me to educate you when you’re clearly not reasonable enough to accept that your logic here is deeply flawed?
Now go ahead and do your little “I win” dance and respond with whatever you feel you need to say. And with all due respect, I probably won’t even read it, and I’m certainly not going to respond any further as everything I could say to anything you could say has already been said right here.
Dam. You sure do spend a lot of time telling us you don’t have time to waste your time.
“I don’t have time to actually back my beliefs, but I will belittle you, that I have time for.”
So you either missed, or completely ignored the part where I said that If it helps someone reading along understand how not to fall into the time-sink trap of arguing with debate bros, it’s time well spent?
Because this pretty much illustrates my point. You’ll just make your own argument out of what I’m saying regardless of wether or not i spell it out for your in plain English- so I don’t waste my time with it.
But maybe someone else hasn’t learned this lesson yet and hopefully, they can see from the example that’s this discussion- that it is clearly impossible for any of you to avoid inadvertently proving.
“No I don’t have time, but I’ll be a smary asshole for a few paragraphs.”
So again, no actual defense for capitalism.
As I have said- several times now… I’m not here to defend capitalism. I’m here soaking up all the examples of why it’s pointless to debate people whose only argument relies on re-writing the arguments of others.
Thanks for your contribution.
Yeah that’s what I thought.
And this emphasizes my point. You think that because I won’t waste my time explaining something to you, I have nothing to explain, and therefore you win.
This clears illustrates your inability to rationalize- which shows that I made the right call.
It’s not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.
Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.
When the last word is always the one that offers itself first, the work becomes difficult.
You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
- Joseph Joubert
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert
Just some musings that this exchange made me think of.
Yeah. He definitely has some good quotes that apply here:
• Ask the young. They know everything.
• When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.
• It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.
• One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.
I don’t want to dye what’s left of my hair. I don’t like needles and have absolutely no desire for a tattoo. I do silly things all the time to the dismay of everyone around me. I dunno about buildings shaped like things, like it makes no difference to me, to be honest and feels like that’s more of a a you thing. Go for it gurl. There’s art on a lot of buildings, but I suppose there could always be more. And I do have flowers literally everywhere. Life is way too serious despite all this.
Yeah, it’s somehow strange to equate some superficial gimmicks or lack thereof with seriousness.
Read also: snow days.
The world comes to a halt for a day or two. You get to take your kids sledding, you build a snow man. You have a snowball fight. You get cold and wet. You go home to get changed into your warm pyjamas and sit by the fire with a hot chocolate. You’re exhausted, but you laugh and joke with each other about the fun you’ve had.
You go back to work 2 days later and fuck all has changed. The world keeps turning, the rich have lost a tiny bit of their wealth from you not been ‘productive’ for 1 day. Oh fucking well.
We’re so bound up in keeping the big capitalism wheel turning, that life’s fun moments just pass us by.
We still have those in the South but they are hurricane days. You won’t wanna be outside on those days but hey you get to experience the good ol days. No power, an ice box, not a cellphone in sight.
Nothing to do but eat all your food before it goes bad, and drink all your beer before it gets warm.
So long as you are not in the direct path that is, and able to find a home built after Hurricane Andrew’s devastation.
Such crap.
Please, tell me that even in the U.S. there are people that have an endless array of individuality?
I see so many with a wide variety of hair color, piercings, and tattoos.
It can be but peer pressure seems to cause problems.
My wife and I give few fucks and do what we want because we can. Our house is full of laughter, music, silliness, and fun. We’re deadly serious about our whimsy.
You’re welcome to do any of these things - have at it.
The reason(s) most people aren’t doing those things is they have other priorities.
The reason most people aren’t doing these things is money.
Capitalism 101.
Dying your hair isn’t very expensive. I think most don’t do it because they don’t want to
Dying your hair is over a hundred dollars if you get it done correctly.
I don’t do it because my stuck-in-the-sixties workplace doesn’t allow “unnatural hair colors”. They also still don’t allow men to have long hair.
The “no visible tattoos” rule just got rescinded, because there was no one left in the city who would work here, and we needed to hire people.
And why do I still work there? Because I need money to pay the rent.
Ain’t nobody with kids got time for that. Kids are f’n expensive AF so’s gotta work all the damned time. What’s left over isn’t enough time to make sure kids get help with homework n food n clothes n on n on
I ain’t got time for a haircut, let alone a dye job
I used too
I’ve reached the point where all I want for Christmas is fucking time.
Doing it right can be. You can buy a pack at the store and dye it yourself at home, and doing that once is pretty cheap. But if you go to a salon and have a pro do it, and you keep up on maintaining the color and dyeing the roots, it’s not an inexpensive endeavor.
If you have the disposable income though, it’s a lot of fun! I love having my hair dyed unnatural colors
I never take myself very serious and get mistaken for a college student, even at 41. Laura Loomer and other right-wing taking heads look 10 years older than me while being 10 years younger. I see high school dudes, part of those jock cliques in high school, who are balding, fat, and look miserable. I am convinced that the way you view yourself and how you play your role in the world keeps you young. Don’t take yourself too serious and be happy with goofy shit to stay young! If you wanna talk to cats like they’re people with feelings, do it. Same with squirrels. Make that crow friend you’ve always wanted to make. Form those bonds with things that make you happy and get more crow friends. Then take your army of crows and slay your foes!
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I’m not a sociologist or anything, but I’m like 99.968% sure that it has something to do with the whole “puritanical ethics” thing - which boiled down to ‘how do i determine if something is a sin?’ ‘did you enjoy it in any way?’ ‘yes’ ‘SINNER!’
I mean, they left pre-Victorian England and split with the already recently (relatively speaking) fractured (and some might say fractous eyyyylol) Church of England because Luther’s 99 Theses were for pussies and his reformation wasn’t hardcore enough. Imagine being so full of sin that you simply couldn’t see the inherent blasphemy in things like music… Or how it was evil (and probably slutty or something) to have clothes that had horribly prideful (not to mention slutty) features such as ‘color’
I do like the thought of them eyeing the Amish that are moving in down the way warily and just muttering, “There goes the neighborhood! Fucking hippies here to corrupt the young’ns” while they shake their heads in disgust
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED Talk!
This post brought to you partially by DRUGS! :-D
Life definitely isn’t that serious
YMMV.
But there’s definitely a cohort of very angry people who will scream at you for dying your hair, getting tattoos, or dressing outside the business casual uniform we’ve been assigned since graduation. “Blue hairs” is practically a slur on the internet. And heaven help you if you’re a woman with a bit of goth-tier flare.
I also thought that blue hairs meant old ladies, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_rinse but I guess I’m just aging myself…
Fuck, same here. I was wondering where all these old, progressive people were hiding.
Vermont, USA. They’re stereotyped as old progressive hippy hillbillies for a reason. It’s a gorgeous place with lovely people
I think people who use „blue hair“ as a slur don’t do so because they actually have a problem with the colour but with the progressive views that a lot of blue hair wearing people subscribe to.
In the UK, it was standard for a while for women with grey/white hair to get a “blue rinse” which presumably did something to the look of the hair.
As you say, the same population were generally held to have reactionary views, part of the ‘drift right’.
They therefore became known as the blue rinse brigade, a right of centre voting block.
Blue toner evens out coppery colors, so if they had any bleaching done to lighten the non-gray and homogenize their color, the blue toner would even it out.
However, grey hair that has been “opened up” with chemical treatment but has no color of its own to compliment/cover will pick up a blue tint.
Idk why it’s not common anymore; maybe because stylists know better, maybe products are better, or maybe they just use pre-formulated dyes now instead of multi-step.
Potato tomato
the progressive views that a lot of blue hair wearing people subscribe to
“Blue hair means you have progressive views” is far more a right-wing meme than any kind of reality. Its more tied to people in the service industry, in college, or otherwise in a career path that lets you have an exotic hair color without putting your job at risk. Teenagers out in the sticks would dye their hair all the time and still have deeply reactionary views. FFS, christian missionaries dyed their hair all the time back in the Bush Era, often as a means of looking cooler and more “relatable” to young people.
It got picked up by a particular corner of the Men’s Rights forums and recirculated until it started popping up in the Brietbart- and Rogan-spheres.
At its heart, the hate for people (almost always women or effeminate men) with hair dye is just misogyny.
That OP’s screencap profile is a young woman complaining that you can’t dye your hair and have a bit of fun without getting dumped on isn’t a coincidence.
Yeah, I’m a little older and didn’t know what being called a blue hair meant. The full insult was “limp wristed blue hair” for having the audacity to suggest, let me check my notes, ICE identify themselves.
“Limp wrist” is slang for gay
I knew that one, I actually told the person to call me what they really wanted to, shut them up pretty quick.
Someone gives you shit about your brightly-dyed hair color, remind them that animals and bugs wear bright colors to repel predators, so it’s working, and it tells you what they are!
None of that sounds very out of the ordinary
let’s make that world a reality, first we feast on the wealthy.
With music and laughter!
What’s stopping you?
No, seriously, cut it out. Be freaky if you want to:-). We’re all going to die someday, why not enjoy today while it lasts?
Good luck getting a job with tattoos and dyed hair. All people are judgemental, but people with any power are judgemental as fuck.
What’s stopping you?
Mostly a lack of money.
Is there a hair dye that would last only for a weekend? 🤪
I remember after having a complete mental breakdown was an intense desire to protest the world. So I decided to tattoo both of my arms.
I was still pretty scared of showing my tattoos and tried to hide my arms for some time because I was still scared of those miserable types who can’t stand other people being happy as themselves.
Eventually it got too hot and the arms had to come out and to my surprise I got so many compliments. That was such a huge confidence boost and I started to feel so much better about myself.
My favourite compliment ever was when I was Cardiff visiting a friend. This little boy was hopping around the grocery store, stopped and paused for a moment then said with a giant smile “I like your tattoos!” and then hopped away after I said thank you.
As an added bonus, I get to annoy miserable old men who hate people being themselves and I don’t even have to say a word.
These days I am definitely more comfortable about being able to have fun with my life.
