if you don’t want to be assaulted.

you don’t have to apologize, that’s not my point. in fact i want you to quietly think about how what you said before, and just now might be wrong til it hits home for you.

i know it seems like im baiting an answer. its the net, arguing is fun, nothing’s stopping you from replying, but I’m being straight with you. stop victim blaming. you’re not stupid, im not saying you are. *please, stop. it only helps the oppressor, and we’re all getting stomped by that boot.

i want you to know im not tryina bust your chops specifically. sure, i picked your comment to reply to, but it’s nothing personal.

I’m also speaking broadly to the room, reminding everybody what we already know; that how we look at pervasive surveillance n how we got to live under it is absolutely broken.

i’d like to point out that it shouldn’t be on women (or anyone) to be on constant guard against attacks on their privacy.

yes, it is the state of the world, but the attitude of your comment is victim blaming.

let’s not forget that while we on Lemmy may be aware of the danger of mass surveillance tech, we’re not the majority.

snowden told us years ago how fucked everything is, and surveillance has only grown since then. let’s not forget that it is not normal that corpo data-mining is the norm (along with included de-facto warrantless surveillance). Even though we all should be better, nobody should have to be as careful as we are.

hell, let’s be real. As long as we use a smartphone, we’re not being careful enough either.

im still over here fucked up about the bookmarks toolbar

trickle down economics lessons. Reagan was right all along

when you put it in those terms, i tend to agree.

im only saying that if ya take ops statement “always has been” to mean “for longer than you’ve been living” then it’s nitpicky to bring up what the party was — in response to a joke meme comment — before anyone here was even born.

but it’s not like we disagree or anything, nor did op explicitly say that. it was just my own readin.

have a good one

stay in your own thread, woody

“reach for the sky!”

“there’s a snake in my boot!”

“this town aint big enough for the two of us”

Heeheehee! If only voting brought us further away from fascism

i wonder if that’s true.

let’s be real this is being nitpicky cuz even if you’re right most of us cats were babies or eggs in reagans time. I’m old as fuck and i didn’t even get to vote till bill Clinton

heeheehee! if only the world was as simple as the mind that made this meme

Ahh. i hope you gave a long memory and the capacity to learn shame, cuz this is a bad look that a future-you should remember and cringe at.

save these, ok?

Because you didn’t offer any. You didn’t offer any cuz you don’t.

Now sit down, this isn’t debate class

You don’t have any experience youngin, so don’t offer your opinion. It’s useless at best, and arrogant at worst.

Naw it’s valid anger in response to “surface civility” i see “pretend intellectuals” use when they speak.

Just… repeating what talking heads say, just deadass parroting some pundit on tv like it’s gospel? Quite rage inducing.

Combined with lil comments assuming superiority? Haha of course OP got pissed. Arrogant + ignorant is a powerful combination

Enough about that.

Let’s talk about you.

You need to tend your own garden. Fascism is on the rise worldwide, including wherever you are from. Stop wagging your finger and pick up a hoe.

If you’re getting your perspective from billionaire-owned news, (which no fault to you, is most major news-sources) it’s no wonder that you’d think that. By the way, that’s the exact same narrative the “billionaire-bullypulpit” push here in the States, even though it isn’t so.

These politicians and the media have the same lock step lie. They say they’re moving to the right “because their voters are”, but they’re just gaslighting folks as cover for what they were doing anyway; whatever their rich donors tell them.

Made me think of this scene from Office Space

By the by, pristine is commonly used to mean “perfect spotless/like new/cherry” but actually means more like untouched/never cleaned/left alone/original state.

This fact brought to you by my ADHD! Byeeeeeeee!

It’s about time.

To find the One Piece

Sounds like avocado toast-ian blame-shifting to me. Just like the rest of these pieces, they ignore the obvious, horrible conditions of life, and choose to tut-tut at the abused for ‘improperly’ using their free time.

just like the avocado toast shit, the translation of these pieces is broadly:

Look away, reader, from the terrible low wages, high cost of living, and soul-crushing work hours japanese people are forced to endure. Focus your attention on these 19% of young people, who don’t know any better, who you are better than. Laugh at these losers who admit that one time they almost couldn’t cover their expenses!!

Let’s look at the article.

Interestingly enough, while these results indicate that the popularity of in-game transactions may be increasing, the average amount of money spent on them is actually decreasing.

Hmm, could it be the actual problem is the immense increases to CoL young (and all) people have been under? I wonder why the article doesn’t even bring it up? So curious 🤔

Oh well. So like, how much money are we talking about on gacha? How much are these 19% of young folks spending? Must be a ton eh?

Article doesn’t say, but we do get these numbers

In 2024, young people spent an average of around 5,138 yen ($35.85 USD) on microtransactions per month while this year’s survey results state that the average amount of money spent on microtransactions is 4,247 yen ($29.63 USD) per month.

So it’s not a lot, not really. I say again, this article is slop created to take your eyes away from the real problems of the world and victim blame the ones suffering under them.