#capitalism is destroying my life

[sciderman]

How do you feel about the increase in really weird NSFW ads on here (advertising panels that look like sexual encounters, and AI art apps that pride themselves on porn) but will take down NSFW posts from their users, even if it isn't technically sexual.

i hate all social media and it's consistent prioritising the advertisers over the users and the internet simply was a better place before capitalism sunk its hooks into it

#i could write essays about how capitalism ruined the internet. #i was actually talking to someone earlier today about how youtube was kind of effectively ruined by monetisation. #and they were raised in the soviet union and we had a bit of a talk about how art was better because it wasn't for profit. #the people who made art made it because they wanted to do it and because they loved it. #she said that communism was terrible for every aspect of life for her. people's lives under communism wasn't pretty. #but the art was better. and i feel like it's true for the internet – it was better when it was a free-for-all. #the companies didn't know how to exploit it yet and turn it into a neverending profit-driven hellscape. #people created content because they wanted to. because they wanted to make something silly to make people laugh. #not for profit. not for gain. not for numbers. not to further their career. #i miss the days of newgrounds and youtube before monetisation. #capitalism has soiled everything that's joyful and good in this world. #people should be able to share whatever they want. #people should be able to tell any story they want without the fear of being silenced by advertisers. #that's what made the internet so beautiful before. anyone could do anything and we all had equal footing. #but now we're victims of the algorithm. and it makes me sick. #i'm quitting my job in social media. i'm quitting it. it makes me too depressed. i have an existential crisis every freaking day. #every day i wake up and say "ah. this is the fucking hell we live in #i'm so sorry i feel so passionate about this. #social media is a black hole and it is actively destroying humanity. forget ai. social media is what's doing it. #i miss how beautiful the internet used to be. it should've been a tool for good. but it's corrupt and evil now. #sci speaks

[spaceagebachelorstan]

seen a lot of people saying that episode 13 is a spider episode, but am i the only one who sees it as a desolation episode? idk it’s just the cycle of the finance bro clawing his way up to ultimate fortune by losing everything else, and at the end of it all he doesn’t even get to keep his riches. he literally has nothing by the end of it, he’s burned every bridge, alienated himself from his friends and parents and completely fucked up his health. all that suffering just for one terrible loss, he got a taste of the top and it was stolen from him right at the finish line. life metaphorically going up into flames.

#the magnus protocol #magnus protocol #the web argument has good points tho #compulsion and addiction and honestly i think luck in of itself is pretty web coded #having to trust the one thing you are physically incapable of changing to guide your life #very ‘my will means nothing all factors are out of my reach’ #but would the web honestly let people cheat it? maybe that’s why all the luck-based people die horrible on-screen deaths #maybe the web has shifted to chance #the fears have been reconfigured #i remember seeing that somewhere #maybe luck is some sort of desolation web hybrid fear #fear of the loss that comes with a complete and utter lack of control #and with the episode #it’s also lowkey a capitalism metaphor but i feel like i’d word an explanation wrong #man finds app that lets him profit on suffering of others #find loophole and hurts himself + those around him #app terminates him because he made money from his own suffering instead of ruining everyone else’s life #man destroys himself for profit and gets none of it

[vidoe-gaem]

I know its been said a million times but it's truly fucked up that we spend a vast majority of our waking hours at jobs. A better life is possible but would jeopardize a few people's exorbitant luxury so instead we continue in a system made to chew us up.

#im just so sick of....everything really #cuz god every last tiny detail or minutae of my life #is controlled in someway by the influence of capitalism #and contorted for the pleasure of the “market” #i want it all destroyed :] #i want to bomb a government build-I MEAN

[theboost]

Top three moments from robocop 2 that make me think that frank miller accidentally made robocop trans

#i had a breakdown about this on twitter when I was watching this. but man. #okay remember that essay I was writing in my head I’ll sum it up here. so robocop 1 is all about well actually it’s a critique of capitalism #and the dangers of giving cooperations to much power and modern action movies and what have you. it’s a good movie. but it’s also about #robocop reclaiming his identity which is signified by 1. the fact that he spends the finale with the mask off to show that it is in fact #alex murphy doing this not robocop and 2. the way it ends is literally on the exchange of dialogue “what’s your name son’’ “Murphy’’ #it’s literally him reclaiming his identity. so if robocop 1 is about him and his rediscovering his humanity then it tracks that robocop 2 is #about how society reacts to that. and it does kind of. there’s a lot of like moments like this where murphy asserts his identity only to be #broken down by the people with positions of power over him - he’s not alex murphy he’s not even human he doesn’t even have rights. and like #they bring up his wife and kid in the first 15 minutes and you think okay so they’ll explore how this has effected them. how do they feel #about each other? it’s stated in the first movie that he remembers her but he doesn’t really feel for her I believe- something contradicted #in this movie by the fact that he apparently constantly drives by her house. so if it’s not love driving him then what is it? is it the #desire to have what he can never really get again? a normal life with his family? well guess what! they have him say to his wife alex murphy #is dead and not even what appears to remain of him is really left and she disappears from the movie #they do explore how he’s viewed by society somewhat but it’s mainly a juxtaposition of how his friends and coworkers see him vs ocp the corp #that created him and it’s basically like his friends acknowledge his personhood but in the eyes of the law and ocp he has no rights because #he’s not a person he’s a tool! and this gets taken to the extent where he is literally reprogrammed by ocp once he gets destroyed to be a #‘better’ tool for fighting crime and you think oh okay this is where this movie is going to go it’s an exploration of Murphy’s rights and #him dealing with these forced changes is going to be a big part of the movie and then no. it lasts for like ten minutes and then abruptly #ends when murphy risks wiping out all that remains of him to be free- an interesting idea that never gets brought up again because any #real continuation of the themes of the first half of the movie kind of stop and he practically disappears for 40 minutes and I think that’s #where my problems with robocop 2 really come in because like. it’s written by frank miller and another guy with a story by frank miller. #he’s not the most subtle man in the world and he certainly lacks capability of the deft political commentary of the first movie and it just #kind of becomes a less subtle rehashing of the old one. the lack of subtlety is apparent when one of the characters literally says the theme #of the movie to a bunch of reporters ‘we can’t let cooperations have this much power or they take away our rights’ which is true but that’s #what the first movie said FRANK. you have to come up with something new FRANK #and that’s why I liked the exploration of Murphy and his rights and his feelings because the first movie was about him like. learning that #he had them and coming to terms with it but now a year or so later what’s the situation? and the situation is that it’s the same. #it even ends on the exact same note as robocop!! murphy says to his partner ‘we’re only human’ which could have been impactful if murphy #ever truly doubted his identity- sure he can be convinced to say that he’s not but everytime he’s pressed about it he repeats that he IS #Alex murphy until he is literally forced not to! like there’s a scene where he has to literally be programmed to stop saying that he is alex

[jchall110]

I had intended to go to bed at a reasonable time because I know tomorrow is gonna be super stressful and now here we are at 20 minutes to 2am and I'm still not asleep yet. Because I can't sleep because tomorrow is gonna be super stressful.

I think. I am going to explode.

#ignore me #talking with my parents about money and getting a new job tomorrow #and a lot of shit is gonna come out #and I'm gonna express a lot of frustration and anger #and I'm going to cry a lot #and my dad is going to feel hurt by it #but i need him to understand where I'm coming from and why I've been struggling and just exactly how deeply frustrated i am by my life #we should destroy capitalism please and thank you

[perikrone]

"what you don't understand is that it's not like they have that much money liquid, they actually can't spend..."

i'm gonna stop you there, so what you're saying is that the money isn't actually real it's just an imaginary proxy for the amount of power they can wield exclusively for the purposes of immiserating us all

#eat the rich #billionaires shouldn't exist #guillotines #anarchism #money isn't real #fake economy #destroy capitalism #anti capitalism #thankfully i don't have many of this kind of neoliberal in my life #but it happens every time i try and talk about this shit online

[ruthytwoshakes]

howdy strangers in my phone B)

I am leaving for a week!! I’m super behind on homework and so I’m going to bore myself into working on it by eliminating anything fun.

I’m also very much regressing health wise so I just don’t have the energy to do more than one thing right now. I really don’t want to have to drop out of school,, . Scary stuff.

anyway. I’d really appreciate it if some of you put some art requests in my inbox while im gone :3 gives me something fun to come back to.

See ya later pardner,, yeehaw. (Rides off into the sunset with my epic horse)

#trying to warm my frozen pizza with my old ass heater is sure an experience #almost burnt the house down with her accidentally #can’t imagine my life without her. #Autism swaged so hard this week tbh #but the capitalism swaged harder and destroyed my mind and soul #time to listen to hatsune miku #brain rot

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

irt that post i do also think op maybe doesn't have the best reason to post it in the first place because if you KNOW your dad loves you despite the way he treated you then it can't have been that bad lmfao. not that i'm at liberty to say that anyone's abuse is better or worse than mine but if all he did was yell at you a few times as a child, i'm not really sure if that makes you eligible for the childhood trauma discount at hardee's. like perhaps if your childhood trauma was very slight and it all stems from your dad being too tired to be a father because of his hell job then sure that post applies to you but lol not everyone had that and that sure doesn't excuse everything

#i'm not gonna say that it's capitalism's fault that my dad molested his children lmao let's be real that is not a one-size-fits-all excuse #or the continuous threats on our lives that made me terrified to be around him for most of my life #etc etc so sure it can be an excuse if you didn't have that but i'm pretty sure #when your dad destroys your 9th birthday cake simply because he's angry he can't get the candles lit then maybe you'll realize #sometimes there is no excuse. particularly because some of our parents were not good people in the first place #like sure maybe his job made him a worse person i'll believe that lmao but i don't think it forced him to do all that

[cupcakes-and-pain]

You know what, it’s getting late and I have some advice

Life is too short to be normal. Life is too short to do normal things. Life is too short for monotony or doing the same thing every day. I just finished taping popped balloons to my wall. These balloons came from a party that I didn’t even attend. My friend stole their balloons and when they popped, I stole them. I stole stolen balloons and taped them to my wall and you know what? I like it. I like taping things to my wall. I like spicing up life a little. I found an abandoned beach ball at a park once and stole that too. I wrote the word “graffiti” on it. Spice up your life. Steal. Even if it’s little things like taping balloons or scribbling on beach balls, break up the monotony of life.

#will I cringe at this or something in the morning? yeah probably #but life isn’t about that #life is about slightly sleep deprived wisdom that may be super stupid or cheesy but at least it’s something real #a real person in real time wrote this because he likes taping up shit #this isn’t tried and true packaged wisdom like “work hard and you will be rewarded :)’’ or something vaguely capitalism #I hate capitalism so my advice is to steal and be weird and also destroy the American dream and capitalism one beach ball at a time #ugh will I even post this? #im already cringing at it #eh I guess just destroy everything #also I know some people don’t live in the us but honestly the American dream has leaked out into the rest of the world I’m pretty sure #could be wrong but then again it’s America so #you know what I will post this in hopes that someone will read all these tags and wants to destroy capitalism with me #anyway love yall

[mommalosthermind]

Adventures in virtual education: middle kid’s school issued laptop died at the end of last year. They ‘are working on sending a new one’ for… weeks. (Turns out the laptop he had been using is registered to Kid1 instead of Kid2 so system fuckery is involved but hopefully cleared up soon??)

Middle kid was using my ancient shitty laptop.

Ancient shitty laptop’s screen cracked. (I’d been waiting for it tbh but…. Gonna assume Child Helped. He’s stronger than he realizes. It’s. A problem. A reoccurring problem. All of my doors are fucking broken.)

Still no school laptop.

Middle kid now struggling to use my iPad.

Guess. Guess what middle kid did.

If you went with ‘managed to wrap charging cord around chair, which led to iPad faceplanting on the floor and shattering,’ you’re a winner!

Means he’s gonna be very carefully finger poking at a broken screen and hopefully not cutting himself OR I’m sacrificing the Apple Pencil to save his fingertips because I have literally no other device for this kid to use and it’s only fucking Tuesday.

Now I’m apparently going to go shake a tin cup somewhere to figure out how to replace both the laptop and the iPad and still probably not have the school issue laptop.

…how’s your day, love?

#don’t mind me #parenting means I calmed the kid down and shot the partner a ‘get your rage out now before you come home’ text #and then went out onto the deck and stared into space while the hamster in my head just yelled about lack of fucking money for this shit #I just wanna play my stupid game and read my stupid stories and write my stupid fic #and. well. #time to figure o #it of this screen is salvageable or if I’m destroying the savings account #this is why I laugh so hard when they come home from Rich Friends House and say things like #why do they get to have an electric scooter?? #my dear darling innocent little babies #it’s because we broke as fuck and also because you keep breaking want little we have to being with #I’m. tired. life is tiring. anyway #reminder that capitalism is violence

[cherryview]

halsin is very cool! though he gave me the like… Too Perfect And Noble vibe that made me think it’d be awkward to be friends or anything else 😭 like he’s someone you’d want around but just as acquaintances?

shadowheart feels the coolest of the main group imo! and she’s so pretty to boot. 10 out of 5 stars! (feel like you agree bc. yk. gfs.)

i’m sorry to hear you’ll have to work so long tomorrow! is it (hopefully) relatively easy stuff or a long AND heavy day?

halsin just gives me himbo bear man, which is what i enjoy most abt him!!

i learned that shadowheart is the most popular pick for straight men, and since then, i’ve had go double down!! she can be ur bestie ofc

also, it will be long & heavy 😢 as usual

#don’t ask me abt halsin’s storyline though bc I only watch my roomie play #shadowheart is my gf confirmed thanks to anon #my job is very long & heavy that’s pretty much the description #so don’t feel too bad for me #i signed up for it 😢😢😢 #free me from capitalism #anon who would u absolutely destroy in the bg3 universe #me and astarion would have real life beef #not for any particular reason #just based on vibes alone #♥️ #he has done no wrong #♥️💌☘️ nation

[artificial-ascension]

I started thinking about my OC Azure and I thought "This man could reasonably meet Ciel Phantomhive in his life time" before realizing that this man owns and orphanage for the explicit reason of exploiting those kids for cheap labor and then eats the ones that can't work anymore because he's a freak and I think that soundly qualifies him to be a Black Butler villain. The only issue is that he lives in Not Quiet Yet New Mexico so there's not really a precedent for him and Ciel to meet and or be at odds. Also he'd be like nearly 60 by the time Black Butler takes place and disregarding the cannon events of the book he's from, I doubt he'd live very long before catching some disease from his diet of orphan meat and internalized homophobia.

#my oc azure #my story sandstone #I really hate azure. like I vitriolicly hate all my villains because I love to make them super evil for dumb reasons #like he was already a mid 1800s capitalist his wife dying and him coping by eating kods was just tonmake him even more cartoonishly evil #also it is metaphorical and symbolic of Capitalism destroying human innocence and what not #this isn't the time to disect my extremely obvious and in your face symbolism I hate this gay cowboy #he isn't even a cowboy he just steals the aesthetic. he's the ranch owner and he's never hearded cattle a day in his life

[oomox]

literally when is the revolution coming i can’t take this shit anymore bro

#my body hurts #i don’t want to do this for the rest of my life #i don’t want to have to always worry if my next check will keep a roof over my head #i don’t want to be nocturnal and I don’t wanna smoke cigs to stave off the stress-induced heart attack only to die of lung cancer #capitalism is so. degrading #it’s humiliating #I’m destroying my mental and physical health and for what #i can’t take it anymore I can’t take it!!!!!! #vent post #ig #sorry if u read all these tags lol

[desmondkane-of-ao3-fame]

Inside Job didn’t just get canceled.

It had its first season split in two, a tactic animators said was used for Cuphead to let them pay staff less. Then, the show was renewed for a real second season.

And then the show was canceled before that second season anyway.

Final Space didn’t just get canceled on the most depressing cliffhanger ever. It was removed from all platforms before becoming a tax write-off, essentially meaning the only ways of really watching the show is through DVD or pirating.

The Owl House wasn’t just given a shortened third season. Disney, a company already known for a, let’s say, complicated relationship with its LGBT+ history, took a show created by a bisexual woman, filled with beloved LGBT+ characters, some of which were teenagers just like the audience, and told said creator to destroy her shows pacing so she could finish her story in just 3 45 minute specials.

I can go on about how Hollywood and television don’t respect animation and the like but this is endemic of a larger problem:

Capitalism destroys art.

The constant need for shows to be either the biggest thing in history or a complete failure, the constant need for a cash cow, leads to any show that doesn’t immediately become Squid Game or Stranger Things levels of popular, especially animated shows, getting scrapped for no reason other then it doesn’t make them enough money.

In our hyper capitalist hellscape, I worry we’re going to see more Inside Jobs, Final Spaces, and Owl Houses: shows made with love, that showcase potential, and dedicated fanbases, having a renewal reversed, or becoming a tax write off, or having its story rushed, so that the executives can save a few cents, while also fucking over employees.

I think that’s the part that always needs to be remembered too; the people behind these shows. Not just the creators or voice actors or well known animators, but everybody. As NewDeal4Animation illustrated, staffs on these shows are often underpaid and overworked. And to then, to not just lose a show you spent months, years of your life on out of nowhere, but to essentially lose a job… it’s terrifying. And every staff member, from the creators to the unpaid interns, deserves better.

So yea. That’s just my thoughts on the matter I guess.

#inside job #final space #the owl house #animation #save inside job #fuck disney #fuck capitalism #fuck all this

[maxknightley]

on the one hand I do understand where people are coming from when they respond to The White American Desire For Authentic Culture by going "you already have a culture" and pointing out that this desire often has reactionary undertones

that being said, I think it's largely sidestepping the actual issue, which is that American culture fucking blows chunks. American culture is strip malls and military worship and the elevation of mass-market pablum to Bold Artistic Statements.

and subculture is only partially an escape from this, because most subcultures exist within the same constraints of American culture as a whole; they are captured and redefined by capital on such a frequent basis that it often feels impossible to hold onto them in any meaningful way.

moreover, even the parts of American culture that aren't complete garbage are more or less inextricable from the colonial, imperialist, and racially-stratified history of the country. like, I think of that post that went around a while ago talking about "America sucks but has some good parts," and one of the things it listed was national parks, and people (rightfully!) pointed out that the national park system is fundamentally flawed and tends to shit on indigenous nations by design.

the only thing I can think of that's even sort of an exception is pop culture - jazz and rock music, superhero comics, Hollywood. and all of those are, again, captured and defined by capital, and in one way or another have historically been built on screwing over the artist.

so we come to a position, one way or another, where a lot of people say something like: "I'm alienated. I'm surrounded by traditions and institutions I think are shit; I have no way to meaningfully undermine them, and I can't escape them without effectively destroying my life. the culture I was born into is a gravestone on top of another gravestone, lifeless and miserable, and people are constantly shouting that I should be grateful because it's The Greatest Country In The World."

at that point, one seeks an escape, and I think there are three major routes here.

one is to become a weird lib obsessed with the Real Soul Of America. America is really about the good parts, not the bad parts which outnumber them and which they are built upon.

another is to fixate on the Exotic, for lack of a better word. cultures which you do not have an obvious "connection" to, but which fascinate you or appeal to you. obviously this can be pretty fucking fraught, though I would argue that taking an interest in other cultures is a good thing if you aren't shitty about it. (That's its own conversation.)

the third is to fixate on the culture(s) you feel you "ought to have" had, that which was sacrificed on the altar of whiteness by grandparents or great-grandparents who, frankly, had different concerns. to look at a culture that may still be defined in many ways by cruelty and stratification - the way I would argue most human civilization has been - but that seems to have had something else going on, at least. a culture that may not have been recognizable 500 years ago, but at least it existed.

again, none of these impulses is beyond criticism, and I think it would be naive to say that the last one can't have reactionary undertones. I also doubt these impulses are unique to the USA! alienation is extremely common in today's world, and it's not as though the USA is the only settler state in existence.

what I am saying is more that I think the conditions that lead to these fixations are worth paying attention to, and that dismissing them with "you already have a culture" kind of misses the point in favor of getting in a zinger. people wouldn't want a different culture if they were happy with the one they had. like so many other things, people want one that Doesn't Completely Suck. failing that, they'd probably like to not be defined by any culture at all - but that, tragically, is just as impossible.

#related to the post i just rb'd obviously #idk. i don't know how Developed these thoughts are but they're bouncing around in my brain