I don’t know if your older (16yo) groomer-handlers have broken the bad news to you yet, but karma points are not redeemable for waifu pillow-cases, Baja Blast, MAGA beanies, or tiddy volleyball vidya games. So punching at the downvote button with your Dew-‘n-jizz sticky little digits may make you feel like you’re wielding mighty katanas of vengeance, but it’s really no more productive than what you did to all of those crusty socks under your race car beds. But don’t let that stop you, lads! Avenge your brother Elliot! You are proud child soldiers in General Rodger’s personal army!
I'm afraid it's too late. Every post mocking right wingers has serious posters trying to do damage -control. It's over. The MDErapefugees have already raped our children and impregnated our women
Ah ok. But I gotta sympathize with the women, I couldn't be paid enough to give birth, i'd be having a panic attack daily until d day. I still feel bad about it, she was panicking.
$400 seems like a good price though. We paid like $600.
Who are the chapoposters tbh? PK left a long time ago and pizzashill anheroed. Where are the lefty equivalents of the MDEgenerates's "look at my epic /pol/ meme, daddy /r/Drama"?
I find it interesting how few people realize that this meme came from a study on inner monologue misinterpreted on /pol/. There were a bunch of autists who unironically believed the NPC thing at first.
The relationship between soy and being effeminate was misunderstood by many. It's like sucking dicks and being gay; sucking dicks doesn't make you gay, they just go hand-in-hand.
Like is there any evidence that the people who don't think in inner monologue are less creative or intelligent? It might actually be the other way around.
Tbh the thought process of the 4chan community was basically:
some people don't think in inner monologue ->
these people are obviously stupid and uncreative, like NPC's ->
jeez I wonder what such a person would look like
And then they just started piling on a bunch of traits that represented what a 4channer is not. Because of the human group tendency to flatter those in groups to which we belong. So that at the end NPC effectively meant, more than anything, "not a 4channer". Just the process of a long process of circlejerking and self-flattery, eventually settling on users of other internet forums like reddit and twitter with a more left-wing bias who say things that make them mad. When in reality we don't have any clear picture of the people who reported no inner monologue in the study, their level of intelligence, their political leanings, or cultural habits.
It did not help that such conversations almost inevitably devolved into "Wow NPC's aren't even human so does it matter if you kill them haha?!" Which is a great way to kill your meme dead in the modern world where most platforms have stopped allowing /r/killthosewhodisagree.
Like is there any evidence that the people who don't think in inner monologue are less creative or intelligent? It might actually be the other way around.
Therein lies part of the misinterpretation, which is that the fact that 75% of people don’t have an inner monologue at a given time while performing a task doesn’t mean that those people never have an inner monologue. Almost everyone does have an inner monologue at times, but it is more pervasive and constant for some than others. It’s difficult to realize when you’re not internally monologuing because you have to be thinking in words to actually think about that.
Also, like you said, it’s probably not so advantageous to be constantly thinking in words.
It would have been forgotten in a week, like any gay forced meme, if rags like Kotaku hadn't breathed new life into it by treating it as some serious threat
Instead of that, my radical centrism is identifying as an NPChad myself.
Read Peter Watts' "Blindsight", it's all about how inner monologue and consciousness in general is likely a product of sexual selection or something, and makes humans overthink things, act slowly, and sometimes break in weird ways (as per the actually real titular phenomenon), while Chad aliens and to a somewhat lesser extent Chad vampires (extinct but Jurassic-Park-style-resurrected solitary carnivorous subspecies of Homo Sapiens) act swiftly and decisively on their superior instincts.
It is no coincidence that one of the major ways to enlightenment is minfulness meditation, which is all about learning to stop your internal monologue.
Without giving away too much personal information, I have an ongoing medical disability that marked the end of my employable years. This took years of life-halting agony, terrifying sudden attacks of said illness that would leave me curled up on the floor, weeping and vomiting, waiting for ambulance rides that costed thousands of dollars each, ininsured, to see emergency room doctors that had somewhat-more-waivable fees, only to be turned down again and again for anything but medication that was, at best, a temporary relief, IF I could keep it down.
I was told by local clinics and doctors that there was NOTHING they could do, and in one case "It's in god's hands", which is a cynical way of saying "you have no medical insurance and corrective surgery would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars." The way medical people would carefully evade mentioning WHY "there was nothing they could do" grew more apparent and horrifying over time.
I took a longshot chance and applied for disability during this increasingly disabling period. After two rejections and hiring a lawyer, I finally saw the inside of a courtroom and put a human face and a lot of pain and hardship forward that sheets of paper could not express.
The timing of the urgent need for surgery coincided with the end of a years-long legal struggle to have that disability legally recognized. Because of that, I dodged a bullet the size of a freight train. There's no way I'd be alive today if I didn't have the disability and Medicare-covered surgery when I did, and I could not have access to that surgery if it weren't for a few fraying strands of what's left of the social safety net.
End result: I live. I can function in limited ways, but I am unable to do any "profitable" work, and even if I could, the entire infrastructure of work-while-disabled programs locally are cynical right-wing trapdoors designed to remove people from disability payments entirely. It would be criminal if laws had a conscience.
I live extremely frugally. This computer, old and getting older, is the one outstanding luxury I afford myself. I have relatives I'm barely in contact with that complain about how little they have when their income is ten times mine, and then snidely complain that I have it too good. My significant other works tirelessly, often all day, and one of the few things I can do for her is offer massages for constant backaches and stress-related fatigue.
She wants to start a family, but I look ahead into the future and feel crushed. What future would that child have? What could I possibly provide other than the local stigma of that kid coming from a poor family, being mocked and bullied for it? Will WIC be cut next? Or food stamps? Or will Social Security/Medicare be "privatized"?
My health is middling. I am temporarily immobilized for medical reasons, so exercise is very difficult. The only medical care I can get takes months to secure an appointment, with a cynical "one problem per visit" policy that I only learned about through a social worker, but that was my day to day experience.
In summary: I feel crushed. I know I'm a "burden" because I didn't win the genetic (or financial) lottery when I was born. The reminders are everywhere, both publically and from my biological family. Christmas, and other get-togethers, are framed in a "did you bootstrap yourself back to work yet?" asked by elderly people that watch too much Fox News and are cheering on Trump in hopes of sticking it to "those dirty Mexicans and welfare queens" with me in earshot.
I hold out vague dreams of being a writer, and have completed one novel with another on the way, but that's not capitalistically viable. If I churned out some kinky monster-fetish schlock or wrote harlequin romances, maybe I'd be a slightly more productive cog in the machine.
I know exactly how Burgess Meredith's character felt in the Twilight Zone episode "The Obsolete Man." Where I used to cheer on technological and medical advances, all I see are things out of reach, toys and indulgences for the fantastically rich. I could, plausibly, restore most of my functionality with some around-the-corner medical promises, but I know all too well that they are things for the rich. Medicine is a frustrating and futile sector for someone expected to address one medical problem at a time, once per visit, one visit every few months, with many visits being, even now "there's not much we can do. Have you considered psychiatric medication to help with that anxiety and depression?"
That's my story. One Obsolete Man in the late stages of capitalism. I really don't know if I'll live to see a more just and less destructive world. A part of my is dreadfully afraid that the Zuckerbergs and Shkrelis will commodify, rule, and cow us, while taking smarmy selfies and living utterly apart from all human compassion and decency. I fear that this new Gilded Age will drag on, unchallenged, until there isn't much left to save.
We need strict controls on the levels of agenda posters so that the lolcows are never able to overwhelm the lolers, and no one faction of lolcows is able to dominate.
Naturally we have birthright citizenship. All extant posters should be allowed to remain. But immigrants must be vetted thoroughly, and regulations must be put in place so that the lolcow:loler distribution and cth:gc:mde ratio remains steady and largely unchanged. Mass immigration should be discouraged.
The NPC meme is tragic. It was made in response to a study that showed a huge portion of a group within a study claimed to have absolutely no inner monologue, just empty brained existence. Sadly it only took a week for it to degenerate into just another "lol _____ is dumb" meme.
The meme is fine. A bit dumb, but so are most. The constant insistence that it's "so triggering" is the insulting part. Also the screeching about it being banned from Twitter (it wasn't).
I like how the left has a bunch of super mainstream news stations while the right has a bunch of tiny niche sites that most people have never heard of outside of Reddit, plus Fox News.
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-10-15
I don’t know if your older (16yo) groomer-handlers have broken the bad news to you yet, but karma points are not redeemable for waifu pillow-cases, Baja Blast, MAGA beanies, or tiddy volleyball vidya games. So punching at the downvote button with your Dew-‘n-jizz sticky little digits may make you feel like you’re wielding mighty katanas of vengeance, but it’s really no more productive than what you did to all of those crusty socks under your race car beds. But don’t let that stop you, lads! Avenge your brother Elliot! You are proud child soldiers in General Rodger’s personal army!
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1 thedicktwist 2018-10-15
I'm afraid it's too late. Every post mocking right wingers has serious posters trying to do damage -control. It's over. The MDErapefugees have already raped our children and impregnated our women
1 Faze-Cumshot 2018-10-15
So what's the final solution
1 ManOfBored 2018-10-15
kill all the impregnated gussy
1 Wheretheflowersgrow 2018-10-15
I did my part, I once went 50/50 with some guy because we both fucked her around the same time and she couldn't afford an abortion.
1 Think_Once 2018-10-15
Nice meta.
1 Wheretheflowersgrow 2018-10-15
No meta, youre the meta.
1 Think_Once 2018-10-15
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/9nwxnd/i_18f_think_i_might_be_pregnant_i_dont_know_who/
1 Wheretheflowersgrow 2018-10-15
Ah ok. But I gotta sympathize with the women, I couldn't be paid enough to give birth, i'd be having a panic attack daily until d day. I still feel bad about it, she was panicking.
$400 seems like a good price though. We paid like $600.
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
Banning literally every single CAtard and MDEfag
1 LightUmbra 2018-10-15
Inshallah
1 thebrokenbell 2018-10-15
To enforce radical centrism, we need to ban left and right at the same time, senpai. ❤️❤️❤️
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
No doubt, senpai. But the ratio of retarded rightoids to retarded leftoids is 10:1
1 thebrokenbell 2018-10-15
Let work together to balance it out! ❤️❤️❤️
1 vavskjuta 2018-10-15
*snap*
1 BradAnders0n 2018-10-15
Thanos????
1 deere442 2018-10-15
imagine believing this, in a sub that whines about a banned subreddit every thread
1 SuitableHippo999 2018-10-15
Anyone who uses either term unironically should go with them, CMV.
1 I-need-MAYO 2018-10-15
Go run to daddy, mdefugee
1 SuitableHippo999 2018-10-15
I'm not white nor burger tho. How many of those boxes do you tick?
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
/r/asablackman
1 I-need-MAYO 2018-10-15
I'm a Xhosa who was imprisoned during Apartheid, how about yourself?
1 Watermark03 2018-10-15
I'm a Xhosa who was imprisoned during Apartheid, converted to Islam, and then moved to the Gaza Strip.
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
You need to go back sweaty
1 SuitableHippo999 2018-10-15
Only after I send you to Tatooine.
1 Wraith_GraveSpell 2018-10-15
Go poo in the loo, mother chode
1 jallopsmith 2018-10-15
But not chapoposters?
1 ItsSugar 2018-10-15
Who are the chapoposters tbh? PK left a long time ago and pizzashill anheroed. Where are the lefty equivalents of the MDEgenerates's "look at my epic /pol/ meme, daddy /r/Drama"?
1 cmakk1012 2018-10-15
pizza’s back wearing a disguise
1 WarSanchez 2018-10-15
Thank god!
Did you see his lazy eye? I'd wear a mask over that too.
1 Greatpointbut 2018-10-15
/u/IDFshill is this true? Also, what is wrong with you?
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-15
Basically only watermark
1 Watermark03 2018-10-15
Stalin made errors.
1 Kiru-Kokujin11 2018-10-15
PIMM
1 ItsSugar 2018-10-15
/u/physicsismymistress address this accusation.
1 PhysicsIsMyMistress 2018-10-15
This Chapoposter has taken over
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
There's 10 MDEfags for every 1 chapofag.
1 jallopsmith 2018-10-15
Yeah but there's like 6 Chapo mods.
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-10-15
hating mdefugees doesn't make you a chapo mod sorry sweaty
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
Even if that were true my last comment is still correct.
1 Automaticus 2018-10-15
Put this fuck on the list
1 jallopsmith 2018-10-15
t. a literal chapo poster
1 Automaticus 2018-10-15
Calling chapos lame ass faggots in their forum = chaposter
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-15
Only if you ban every chapo and srdine. It’s smelled way too fishy in here for a while.
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
Every single time lol. The day of the can will come, but we have bigger fish to fry.
1 LemonScore_ 2018-10-15
And surely your distorted perception of the sub's demographics has nothing to do with your own politics?
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
Sure it does, I just don't care. Banning people that disagree with me politically actually gives me a raging hard on.
1 FullPoet 2018-10-15
Muh shoa
1 HumongousGentleman 2018-10-15
Thy will be done.
My body is ready
1 Wraith_GraveSpell 2018-10-15
I can get on board with that
1 DutchGuyHere 2018-10-15
Slithering Stewie the Hipster Lord speaks with Forked-Tongue
post reply: It's high time we reclaim our radical centrist culture and kick all the agendaposters
from Wraith_GraveSpell - via /r/drama
Things Reptiles Say
Neoliberal hipster reptiles... Each hipster reptile is a political genius in their own mind.
Things Authoritarian Reptiles Say:
The Reptilian Lord Commands his Servants
Hop to it mods. The Hipster Reptile commands it.
These poor kids. They're abused
Look at that narcissism What a disgusting little brat this one is. Steward the Hipster Reptile Lord Cares for All His Unworthy Human Subjects
what a fat head slithering stewie has
That reptile/person will be miserably unhappy for their entire reptilian existence.
Reddit is just where hipster trolls live. This platform is for kids only.
fucking late capitalism man. Reddit is mostly comprised of disgusting, insufferable hipster know nothings....
Lost Generation Is Lost
Maybe I should just give-up, and rub the hipster reptiles bellies..
1 YoureRuiningAmerica 2018-10-15
There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.
1 Watermark03 2018-10-15
Ban them randomly until the CTH:MDE fugee ratio is at acceptable levels.
1 CrumbsofPiety 2018-10-15
how do we mathematically express 0:0?
1 Greatpointbut 2018-10-15
((()))
1 Watermark03 2018-10-15
NaN
1 CrumbsofPiety 2018-10-15
Based ISOposter
1 -Morgenstern- 2018-10-15
Use L'Hospital's rule.
1 NewW0rldOrder 2018-10-15
Boo
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
OUT
1 BigBrownDog12 2018-10-15
Inshallah
1 tyuijvhvhcfcjf 2018-10-15
Do it, pussy.
Didn't ban Ed 😠🍯🍟🈂, not gonna ban rapists 🍗🔙🔙🔙🔙
1 itsmauitime 2018-10-15
What about CA centrists?
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
Banned on sight
1 itsmauitime 2018-10-15
Ohshit
1 taytaybraps 2018-10-15
user reports:
1 MozzerDozzer 2018-10-15
Please ban CTHretards as well.
1 g_sunn 2018-10-15
genocide
1 cheers_grills 2018-10-15
Mayocide, as it always is.
1 youcanteatbullets 2018-10-15
Mayocide
1 Spookybooks2 2018-10-15
Gas them all.
1 Cycloptichorn 2018-10-15
Mayocide NOW!
1 headasplodes 2018-10-15
🤔 every post about right wingers has even more lefties serious and smugposting
1 thedicktwist 2018-10-15
Smugposting about everyone is literally radical centrism. Yet here you are crying
1 headasplodes 2018-10-15
Wow you are fucking stupid. If you think the autists spamming out out out also make fun of left wingers then boy do I have news for you
1 thedicktwist 2018-10-15
Lol magatard soyboys are really easy to trigger.
we literally do.
out out out!!
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
How do you feel about the extinction of the white race?
1 redsmokee 2018-10-15
Fixed that for ya'
1 cantbebothered67836 2018-10-15
No, we literally want to genocide all white caucasians. Does that make you uncomfortable?
1 I_love_nigger_cocks 2018-10-15
White genocide starts at home.
1 JamesRobotoMD 2018-10-15
Just, wow. I mean, wow. I can't even. Wow.
W o w
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-15
I compare socialism as an ideology to incels and tell you to get the fuck out.
1 TRAPLORD_MILKY 2018-10-15
Nobody is safe from scrutiny, do only things that strike a nerve register within your memory?
1 Heydammit 2018-10-15
I have said "out" a few times in my day and I think anyone that unironically prays to Noam Chomsky is an idiot.
1 gerradp 2018-10-15
Get the fuck out, MDE dumbfucks are not welcome, you need to go back
1 kermit_was_right 2018-10-15
I do. Now get the fuck out.
1 pepperouchau 2018-10-15
Dude lefties lmao
1 DistortedLines 2018-10-15
1 Watermark03 2018-10-15
/r/drama is pretty random about who they upvote tbh
I will write exaggerated lefty posts intentionally to get downvotes and it'll get upvoted and that's just embarassing
Then the next day it's like one huge right wing circlerjerk
I think I should try working white privilege into more of my posts, that always works
1 the_popcorn_pisser 2018-10-15
Lmao the fact this is getting downvoted just proves you right. Some people here don’t want radical centrism; they just want their side to stick.
1 Greatpointbut 2018-10-15
I want abortions AND the death penalty.
1 Strictlybutters 2018-10-15
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
1 kermit_was_right 2018-10-15
You need to go back.
1 Think_Once 2018-10-15
Didn't know that traps could become pregnant.
1 throwaway-familyhelp 2018-10-15
At least people are starting to realize resistance is futile.
Radical centrists are a minority that will be bred out of existence
1 MissionNobody 2018-10-15
Imagine being so much of an NPC you think neolibs and neocons are radical centrists
1 serial_crusher 2018-10-15
It's not over until the children are impregnated to. Get busy, mdefugees
1 CrumbsofPiety 2018-10-15
Don't be afraid, I'm sure these people bring a beautiful and enriching culture
1 Homer00025 2018-10-15
Lol at the suggestion that MDEtards could get it up for women without peens.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-10-15
NPC BUSSY lmao
1 LightUmbra 2018-10-15
This feels wrong.
1 VioletBroregarde 2018-10-15
Why? NPC bussy has no rights, it's an NPC
1 Certified_MDEfugee 2018-10-15
N🅱️C GUSSY LMAO
1 Imperial_Sardaukar 2018-10-15
I find it interesting how few people realize that this meme came from a study on inner monologue misinterpreted on /pol/. There were a bunch of autists who unironically believed the NPC thing at first.
1 Wheretheflowersgrow 2018-10-15
Its been like this for years, how is that interesting?
1 cheers_grills 2018-10-15
Blue checkmarks discovered it and made an article, then it snowballed from there.
1 transoceanicdeath 2018-10-15
misinterpreting scientific studies is the internet autist's bread and butter
1 pepperouchau 2018-10-15
skims one abstract from an irrelevant journal
See? SCIENCE agrees with me!
1 Wraith_GraveSpell 2018-10-15
See? Soy has ESTROGEN. Therefore eating it makes you a woman!
1 CannabisCumshot69 2018-10-15
The relationship between soy and being effeminate was misunderstood by many. It's like sucking dicks and being gay; sucking dicks doesn't make you gay, they just go hand-in-hand.
1 CrumbsofPiety 2018-10-15
woke
1 Greatpointbut 2018-10-15
No kidding who gives hands-free Beejs?
1 thrillhouze- 2018-10-15
I thought it was dick-in-hand?
1 InspiringShitpost 2018-10-15
Slurp that sausage with soy sauce senpai.
1 bored12345679 2018-10-15
Just like climate change nuts
1 WeWuzKANG5 2018-10-15
Just like every other retarded internet conspiracy meme hollow earth, flat earth, nasa is fake, moon landing didn't happen, reptilians, 5G, etc.
1 Watermark03 2018-10-15
Like is there any evidence that the people who don't think in inner monologue are less creative or intelligent? It might actually be the other way around.
Tbh the thought process of the 4chan community was basically:
some people don't think in inner monologue ->
these people are obviously stupid and uncreative, like NPC's ->
jeez I wonder what such a person would look like
And then they just started piling on a bunch of traits that represented what a 4channer is not. Because of the human group tendency to flatter those in groups to which we belong. So that at the end NPC effectively meant, more than anything, "not a 4channer". Just the process of a long process of circlejerking and self-flattery, eventually settling on users of other internet forums like reddit and twitter with a more left-wing bias who say things that make them mad. When in reality we don't have any clear picture of the people who reported no inner monologue in the study, their level of intelligence, their political leanings, or cultural habits.
It did not help that such conversations almost inevitably devolved into "Wow NPC's aren't even human so does it matter if you kill them haha?!" Which is a great way to kill your meme dead in the modern world where most platforms have stopped allowing /r/killthosewhodisagree.
1 Imperial_Sardaukar 2018-10-15
Therein lies part of the misinterpretation, which is that the fact that 75% of people don’t have an inner monologue at a given time while performing a task doesn’t mean that those people never have an inner monologue. Almost everyone does have an inner monologue at times, but it is more pervasive and constant for some than others. It’s difficult to realize when you’re not internally monologuing because you have to be thinking in words to actually think about that.
Also, like you said, it’s probably not so advantageous to be constantly thinking in words.
1 I_DRINK_TO_FORGET 2018-10-15
You sound like a soulless husk of a human, where did you copy paste this from?
1 CrumbsofPiety 2018-10-15
It would have been forgotten in a week, like any gay forced meme, if rags like Kotaku hadn't breathed new life into it by treating it as some serious threat
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-15
Centrism in r/drama is having one upvote and a controversial tag.
1 pepperouchau 2018-10-15
Ahh yes, the Holy Cross of Goodposting
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-10-15
I will never forgive Reddit for taking vote counts away.
1 CorporateAgitProp 2018-10-15
You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all. Poor soul, you were just too high strung.
1 istural 2018-10-15
Radical centrism is the light. Agenda posters must convert or be deported.
1 zergling_Lester 2018-10-15
Instead of that, my radical centrism is identifying as an NPChad myself.
Read Peter Watts' "Blindsight", it's all about how inner monologue and consciousness in general is likely a product of sexual selection or something, and makes humans overthink things, act slowly, and sometimes break in weird ways (as per the actually real titular phenomenon), while Chad aliens and to a somewhat lesser extent Chad vampires (extinct but Jurassic-Park-style-resurrected solitary carnivorous subspecies of Homo Sapiens) act swiftly and decisively on their superior instincts.
It is no coincidence that one of the major ways to enlightenment is minfulness meditation, which is all about learning to stop your internal monologue.
1 SlackBabo 2018-10-15
How can sentient life possibly compete?
1 flameoguy 2018-10-15
NPC gang
1 headasplodes_bot 2018-10-15
Dude NPCs lmao
1 HodorTheDoorHolder 2018-10-15
/r/Drama, the only news you should trust
1 Pepperglue 2018-10-15
Jokes aside, I only watch news for drama now.
1 dratamard2 2018-10-15
imagine not forming ur political and world views based on r/drama posts 🤣🤣🤣
newscels, showers, now 👉👉👉 ☠💀💨🚿🚿💨💀☠
1 Tobans 2018-10-15
Newscels are more likely to be conservative 😡😡😡. You can't say that.
1 69big69daddy69 2018-10-15
i use my own powerful brain to logically deduce what is most likely happening in the world, so i don't need news of any kind
1 gilmore606 2018-10-15
radical centrism is older than you think
1 NotAYuropean 2018-10-15
good post
1 anonymous93 2018-10-15
This is the only kind of radical centrism that I support
1 PixelatedFractal 2018-10-15
Put that where the star goes on the Liberian flag and you got yourself a deal
1 ElegantConvictionAdv 2018-10-15
I'm just mad this meme is defying Wojak that's all.
1 Tobans 2018-10-15
NAZBOL GANG
1 EasySchmitty 2018-10-15
Indeed. Chapotards and MDEfugees are getting too comfortable here.
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-15
Radical alt super anti-mayo centrism!
1 itsCaffeine 2018-10-15
This, but...
1 scottishandobese 2018-10-15
Without giving away too much personal information, I have an ongoing medical disability that marked the end of my employable years. This took years of life-halting agony, terrifying sudden attacks of said illness that would leave me curled up on the floor, weeping and vomiting, waiting for ambulance rides that costed thousands of dollars each, ininsured, to see emergency room doctors that had somewhat-more-waivable fees, only to be turned down again and again for anything but medication that was, at best, a temporary relief, IF I could keep it down.
I was told by local clinics and doctors that there was NOTHING they could do, and in one case "It's in god's hands", which is a cynical way of saying "you have no medical insurance and corrective surgery would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars." The way medical people would carefully evade mentioning WHY "there was nothing they could do" grew more apparent and horrifying over time.
I took a longshot chance and applied for disability during this increasingly disabling period. After two rejections and hiring a lawyer, I finally saw the inside of a courtroom and put a human face and a lot of pain and hardship forward that sheets of paper could not express.
The timing of the urgent need for surgery coincided with the end of a years-long legal struggle to have that disability legally recognized. Because of that, I dodged a bullet the size of a freight train. There's no way I'd be alive today if I didn't have the disability and Medicare-covered surgery when I did, and I could not have access to that surgery if it weren't for a few fraying strands of what's left of the social safety net.
End result: I live. I can function in limited ways, but I am unable to do any "profitable" work, and even if I could, the entire infrastructure of work-while-disabled programs locally are cynical right-wing trapdoors designed to remove people from disability payments entirely. It would be criminal if laws had a conscience.
I live extremely frugally. This computer, old and getting older, is the one outstanding luxury I afford myself. I have relatives I'm barely in contact with that complain about how little they have when their income is ten times mine, and then snidely complain that I have it too good. My significant other works tirelessly, often all day, and one of the few things I can do for her is offer massages for constant backaches and stress-related fatigue.
She wants to start a family, but I look ahead into the future and feel crushed. What future would that child have? What could I possibly provide other than the local stigma of that kid coming from a poor family, being mocked and bullied for it? Will WIC be cut next? Or food stamps? Or will Social Security/Medicare be "privatized"?
My health is middling. I am temporarily immobilized for medical reasons, so exercise is very difficult. The only medical care I can get takes months to secure an appointment, with a cynical "one problem per visit" policy that I only learned about through a social worker, but that was my day to day experience.
In summary: I feel crushed. I know I'm a "burden" because I didn't win the genetic (or financial) lottery when I was born. The reminders are everywhere, both publically and from my biological family. Christmas, and other get-togethers, are framed in a "did you bootstrap yourself back to work yet?" asked by elderly people that watch too much Fox News and are cheering on Trump in hopes of sticking it to "those dirty Mexicans and welfare queens" with me in earshot.
I hold out vague dreams of being a writer, and have completed one novel with another on the way, but that's not capitalistically viable. If I churned out some kinky monster-fetish schlock or wrote harlequin romances, maybe I'd be a slightly more productive cog in the machine.
I know exactly how Burgess Meredith's character felt in the Twilight Zone episode "The Obsolete Man." Where I used to cheer on technological and medical advances, all I see are things out of reach, toys and indulgences for the fantastically rich. I could, plausibly, restore most of my functionality with some around-the-corner medical promises, but I know all too well that they are things for the rich. Medicine is a frustrating and futile sector for someone expected to address one medical problem at a time, once per visit, one visit every few months, with many visits being, even now "there's not much we can do. Have you considered psychiatric medication to help with that anxiety and depression?"
That's my story. One Obsolete Man in the late stages of capitalism. I really don't know if I'll live to see a more just and less destructive world. A part of my is dreadfully afraid that the Zuckerbergs and Shkrelis will commodify, rule, and cow us, while taking smarmy selfies and living utterly apart from all human compassion and decency. I fear that this new Gilded Age will drag on, unchallenged, until there isn't much left to save.
That is why I feel crushed.
1 LongPostBot 2018-10-15
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1 Watermark03 2018-10-15
this
1 SignalEvent 2018-10-15
AngryDM lives
1 PixelatedFractal 2018-10-15
😴😴😴
1 Watermark03 2018-10-15
We need strict controls on the levels of agenda posters so that the lolcows are never able to overwhelm the lolers, and no one faction of lolcows is able to dominate.
Naturally we have birthright citizenship. All extant posters should be allowed to remain. But immigrants must be vetted thoroughly, and regulations must be put in place so that the lolcow:loler distribution and cth:gc:mde ratio remains steady and largely unchanged. Mass immigration should be discouraged.
1 skyrimporn64 2018-10-15
I will continue to do my part by not doing anything.
1 __Toradorable__ 2018-10-15
Does that mean that Reuters is our official newspaper?
1 EuthaniseTheDisabled 2018-10-15
ITT: drama retards not realising this image applies to them
BUSSY LOL
OUT OUT OUT
1 PretendConcept 2018-10-15
I vote we revive the "srs bsns" meme.
1 Oh_hamburgers_ 2018-10-15
The NPC meme is tragic. It was made in response to a study that showed a huge portion of a group within a study claimed to have absolutely no inner monologue, just empty brained existence. Sadly it only took a week for it to degenerate into just another "lol _____ is dumb" meme.
1 drtoszi 2018-10-15
I’m honestly amazed how triggered this NPC thing got on Drama.
I figured you guys, of all people, would just pass it over after a quick snark.
1 AnnoysTheGoys 2018-10-15
The meme is fine. A bit dumb, but so are most. The constant insistence that it's "so triggering" is the insulting part. Also the screeching about it being banned from Twitter (it wasn't).
1 Yiin 2018-10-15
It's supposed to be 😏
1 AnnoysTheGoys 2018-10-15
You can do that with anything tho, u fuckin' triggered ass fishhead 😉
1 Yiin 2018-10-15
I'm no gook goy take that back.l
1 AnnoysTheGoys 2018-10-15
I'm sorry. Sometimes I say things without consideration for the feelings of other people.
1 Yiin 2018-10-15
Same
1 PixelatedFractal 2018-10-15
Tmz is the only news I need.
1 flameoguy 2018-10-15
Do you go to the cloud district very often?
1 Chicup 2018-10-15
OUT OUT OUT
1 moush 2018-10-15
Nice agenda op.
1 Mistake-N0t 2018-10-15
I subscribed to The Failing New York Times the other week. With money.
I mean, with a name like that ... and their typography. 👌👌👌
1 MooseHeckler 2018-10-15
Fuck off MDE refugees and fuck off moralists.
1 GetComfyAndCozy 2018-10-15
I’m on the right and I don’t read or watch any of those, so yeah...take that.
1 Illyana_Rasputin 2018-10-15
Ah yes, the radical leftist rag that is USA Today.
1 DifficultBluejay 2018-10-15
I like how the left has a bunch of super mainstream news stations while the right has a bunch of tiny niche sites that most people have never heard of outside of Reddit, plus Fox News.
1 The-idiots114 2018-10-15
based and redpilled