I refuse to believe that someone who calls me ‘captain smug’ is seriously interested in my opinion.

I’m not and would prefer you just fuck off, but since you’re still here, NAME ONE OF THOSE COUNTRIES THAT HAS A SYSTEM YOU CLAIM IS BETTER.

I found the moment they met on video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL94sCAsPPg

He collected it all for himself in one mighty scoop.

Name them, Captain Smug. Tell us about whatever quaint Northern European social democratic paradise that you got excited about after reading about it on Reddit, that compartmentalizes and outsources all the suffering you don’t want to know about.

You may be on to something there, though some of the quieter ones I have names for, like the Mercers or the Waltons, do seem miserable from what I know about them.

Still, if those are outliers, unless the quiet capitalists are secretly richer than their loudest and most obnoxious counterparts, I can’t help but wonder why the richest among them are also the loudest and most miserable.

Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top

Therefore the best system is the one that directly rewards the most horridly destructively greedy assholes around without the slightest obligation toward the rest of society!

they live like gods

Miserable gods, like the ones in ancient Mesopotamia.

The richest and most powerful of them seem preoccupied with trying to escape the world that they currently rule, whether through space colonialism or “waking up from the simulation” or the like.

Here’s how you hustlegrind to trick more people to pedal unicycles and hold up bowls for you. Passive income is a lifehack!

We got you covered!

Something something sit down with fascists, one more fascist now added to the table.

face.

both sides

Which side are you on, exactly? I kind of doubt you’re a leftist if all you see is “liberal vs conservative.”

Are you one of those pretentious “independents” that wants pretty much everything the conservatives want except you also like legal weed?

I’ve seen enough kids in the nurse’s office, some with head injuries, to indeed want to yell at that cloud.

The fad seemed to be on the wane maybe just before I left, but even one kid getting hurt because a rich narcissist on a screen said to do so is too much.

but for LD my daughter and I always skip to the nacelle-eating alien (we named him Yum Yums), yell “YUM YUMS!”, and then skip to the end.

That’s adorable!

Those bad things were set in motion decades ago, too.

Most news articles try pulling the “bad things may happen soon but it’s not too late” card, but bad things are already happening and are getting worse.

then they might stop using whatever LLM gave them that advice.

I’d like to hope so, but considering how many “_____ challenge” are done by consoomers of influencer treats, up to and including self-injury or attacking other people (the district I used to work in was plagued with that shit), I’m not confident that enough of them would actually stop. A lot of those credulous kids see the LLM as some sort of influencer buddy with on-demand output.