#because capitalism

[therighthandofvengeance]

Sinclair: Why are you like this?

Bester: I used too much “no more tears” shampoo as a child and I haven’t felt a single emotion since.

#who are queue? what do queue want? #incorrect babylon 5 quote #jeffrey sinclair #alfred bester #source: @incorrectfraiserquotes #I mean I think it’s no more tears (like breakage) and no one bothered to fix the mass misunderstanding #because capitalism

[iwannabearobin]

In ep 4. Ji-Won has a whole monologue about how shes been changing herself for the sake of other people. And then later talks about how her makeover is the best way to deal with people who judge based on appearances.

#like #how is the makeover not changing yourself for other people ??? #because capitalism #marry my husband

[perpetualsarcasmmachine]

Has anyone written a thesis yet about friends exchanging reels/tiktoks/internet videos for comment throughout the day is a response to a decline in public space? We can't go outside and people watch and talk about what's going on because there are precious few places where you can just exist. This of course is compounded by people moving all over for school work and having friends that don't live near by (which I'm just gonna go ahead and blame on capitalism).

#public space #free thesis idea #just sharing reels every day until we die #Because capitalism

[lightshadowverisimilitude]

It is a special kind of soul crushing frustration that autocorrect prioritizes brand names over...just the normal word the brand chose to stick on their package.

The one that comes up the most for me is "canon" - how often do I have a conversation about Canon, the brand, versus canon, the word? I'll let you guess. And yet, I cannot make my phone "forget" that "canon" is always capitalized.

I used the word "kickstarted" in a post the other day and my phone autocorrected it to Kickstart.

I can even fully articulate why this fills me with so much rage.

#except I can #because Capitalism

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

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#omg it’s been ONE YEAR since my wife left emergency management!!!!!! #I was in survival mode for so long and then recovery mode but now I’m looking back like… #damn the pandemic REALLY ravaged these incident response professions #so many burnt out #soooooooo many emergency related jobs ARE NOT SET UP for a continuous long term disaster #because capitalism #and now the people who have a choice are like LOL BYE and just fuckin bounced #my wife will NEVER go back to emergency management #and if she ever thought about it I would be like NO! NOOOOOO!!!! #when one person’s job ruins not only their own mental health but that of their partner?????? #like NO. i don’t wanna live that life #I can’t believe the stress I used to feel ABOUT A JOB THAT WASNT EVEN MINE #nowadays she does consulting for business continuity and disaster recovery #so just planning and NO RESPONSE #I CANT BELIEVE ITS BEEN A YEAR!!!!!!! #im so happy 🥹

[pandabibble]

#twitter #elon twitter #had to post evidence because wtf #capitalism leads to rationing

[gemwolfz]

i think the best genre of image is "creatures trapped in starbucks cups with receipts reading [cup of water (no water, no ice, creature)]"

#bugs #the stupid wasp cup isnt really an example of the same thing but it's also a good image #starbucks employees are you like. required to print a receipt for every single cup you use #are your managers hovering over your receipts and remaining cups and going 'somebody got a free cup! someone should be fired for this' #because that sounds realistic under capitalism

[nonacquiescent]

I often think I'd like to have my eyesight corrected, as I am almost blind without my glasses, but then I am hungover or just sad/stressed, and I can just take off my glasses and let everything blur for a while, and I just feel better.

Like my brain doesn't feel the need to analyze my surroundings in detail because I know I'm not supposed to see clearly, and it goes into rest mode. The entire world seems softer.

Also, there's nothing cooler on earth, than seeing the Christmas tree lights without glasses.

#and I also can't afford the procedure #because capitalism #free palestine

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

#WERE LOSING YUZU AND CITRA. I DONT KNOW IF YOU ALL UNDERSTAND HOW INSANE THIS IS #game emulation enables piracy yes but it’s also an INCREDIBLY powerful archival tool. #there are plenty of games out there that only exist in their original formats due to emulation. #this lawsuit has HORRIBLE implications for video game history. it makes it incredibly easy for companies to scorched earth their products #if they’re not profitable enough. ART IS GOING TO BE LOST BECAUSE OF THIS. GAMES PEOPLE WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD ON #it won’t just happen to bad games. it won’t just happen to old games. they will use this to keep their remake/virtual console model going #forever and you will never be able to play your favorite games in their true original forms ever again. #i am fucking INSANELY mad rn. capitalism is the death of art fr #personal

[wuwubean]

man im looking at the new quest 3 and i just… i hate that facebook is the one leading vr right now. because this thing looks fucking awesome. i know they’re lying about how good the passthrough is for marketing but just the whole concept is so undeniably cool. but of course the people leading the charge is the cartoonishly evil company that’s going to sell all the tracking data for profit, because we don’t get nice things.

#virtual reality #vr #quest 3 #i wouldn’t call vr a special interest #but it’s definitely up there in things my autistic brain gets excited about #which makes this even worse #because im fighting my inner child’s wonder of seeing this new technology #with the reality of how this is being used to turn your entire life into a product #because capitalism #it’s the same kind of feeling i get watching spacex launches #pure joy mixed with pure existential dread

[everypigeon]

I'm getting so many new followers! None of them have profile pictures except for the ones of conventionally attractive young women

Could be bots, or could be that my followers are all overwhelmingly attractive lurkers, who's to say

#Bots #What is the point of my army of pretty bot followers? #What are they trying to accomplish #I'm assuming the siphoning of money from somewhere to somewhere else #Because capitalism #But how

[buggachat]

deserved

#ml #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #ml paris special #ml paris #ml spoilers #claw noir #shadybug #toxinelle #griffe noire #shadyclaw #toxigriffe #ladynoir #<- kind of? #my art #I TOLD MYSELF I WOULD TAKE A BREAK FROM DRAWING BUT THEN MY INTERNET WENT OUT AND I HAD NOTHING ELSE TO DO #had to use a different application than usual though because capitalism is a scourge so my usual art program doesn't work offline

[uncanny-tranny]

The leftism/anticapitalism leaving people's bodies the zeptosecond you imply that disabled people who aren't "productive" still matter in society and need to be treated like intrinsic equals who have a place in this world:

#disability #disability advocacy #described images #image description in alt #ableism #ableism tw #my full-time job is my disability and you're lucky that i am still 'productive' as-is #your boss doesn't care that you think you're superior for being hired by them. they're still going to treat you like profit machines #it astounds me how people will capitulate for oppression because they place their intrinsic value in their ability to be at the top... #...or at least 'at the top' compared to others. it's the same impulse that makes people think their cisgender status makes them superior... #...you are placing your worth into systems which not only oppress others but offer you no true sense of worth... #...ESPECIALLY if you're also being exploited (even if just a bit)... #...you have a job sure but... do you actually get treated like a human being? are you actually paid? are you actually safe?... #...if the answer to any of those questions and more is 'no' then why do you place your value in capitalistic production. genuinely. #and why would you DEMAND disabled people to have the same exploitation you experience. why do you DEMAND productivity if you are proletaria #yes being a leftist and anticapitalist are linked but. some people still internalize capitalism without questioning it #being a leftist is about challenging that rather than assuming you're correct i think #also scientists were very silly when describing time that's like. less than a millisecond i think

[garlicbreadscientist]

me: I'm definitely too much of a fool for this job

*deep breath* me: how about I apply for it anyways

#google #why job #ah yes #because capitalism #:(

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

#this was much longer i had to cut it down for legibility #but i do want to say i am aware this post doesnt touch on human rights violations as a result of fast fashion #that is because it deserves its own post with a completely different tone #i am an environmental educator #so that's what i know the most about. it wouldn't be appropriate of me to mention off-hand the real and legitimate suffering #that people are going through #without doing my research and providing real ways to help #this is a vent post about a thing i'm watching happen; not a call to action. it would be INCREDIBLY demeaning #to all those affected by the fast fashion industry to pretend that a post like this could speak to their suffering #unfortunately one of the horrible things about latestage capitalism as an activist is that SO many things are linked to this #and i WANT to talk about all of them but it would be a book in its own right. in fact there ARE books about each level of this #and i encourage you to seek them out and read them!!! i am not an expert on that i am just a person on tumblr doing my favorite activity #(complaining) #and it's like - this is the individual versus the industry problem again right because im blaming myself #for being an expert on environmental disaster (which is fucking important) but not knowing EVERYTHING about fast fashion #i'm blaming myself for not covering the many layers of this incredibly complicated problem im pointing out #rather than being like. yeah so actually the fault here lies with the billion dollar industries actually. #my failure to be able to condense an incredibly immense problem that is BOOK-LENGTH into a single text post that i post for free #is not in ANY fucking way the same amount of harm as. you know. the ACTUAL COMPANIES doing this ACTUAL THING for ACTUAL MONEY. #anyway im gonna go donate money while i'm thinking about it. maybe you can too. we can both just agree - well i fuckin tried didn't i #which is more than their CEOs can say