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At this point I kind of want them to just not challenge calls tbh

Rorty got it right and has yet to be beaten imo - you just have to believe we can do better but also not permit yourself the fantasy of a radical break from what there already is

welp, i can't say nobody tried to stop me

the novelty is that there was far sloppier slop possible than anyone could have possibly imagined around the time that 'survivor' and 'big brother' were premiering

it's really like they're going after every single kind of job that the degree i spent like, 8 years getting qualifies me for.

if paramount-warner-disney-palantir has to eventually file for bankruptcy after trying to get into short-form video, mencken will have finally been defeated: someone will have gone broke underestimating the taste of the American public

plenty of clout in it, maybe - but if there's a way to pay the bills with clout i haven't heard about it yet

it's not quite the same thing, but i remain just absolutely astounded at how many very thoughtful, intelligent, aesthetically mature people i know nevertheless absolutely love watching reality tv bullshit about people who seem deeply stupid and awful

i saw a few days ago a screenshot from that piece that was like 'it's unbelievable that we - content creators - made these tiktoks just so a model could be trained on them, and we haven't gotten any money for it' and it's like...well, exactly how much do you honestly think you deserve for this

as a society we are well past due in establishing No Content Zones where making shit for tiktok is explicitly forbidden

a redistributionist vision is not progressive or even necessarily good if it's premised on a zero-sum worldview. likewise, if antisocial behavior is justified by pointing out endemic injustice in society, you can only get to the idea that 'society can be better' by essentially magical thinking

any righting of the wrongs of capitalism relies on the imposition of rules and requires buy-in from people who are inconvenienced by those rules. the only way to bridge that is a sense that we owe each other a certain level of behavior, and 'don't poop on the train', 'don't shoplift' are examples

the reason reflexive anti-americanism is bad is that it breeds cynicism, and cynicism breeds anti-social behavior. if a basically pro-social attitude is not hegemonic, the ability to achieve any kind of social justice or redistributive end gets that much harder.

the kids want SLOP

i think a lot of studios are realizing that they've just been trying way too hard by making actual tv shows, movies, etc and that a terrifying number of people just want absolute lowest-investment dogshit they can use to completely zone out

his big dumb bloated head makes his skinny ties look like a balloon string

me with my bluesky mutuals

you either die woke or live long enough to see yourself become the chud

once again the environmentalists have made laws against them