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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldAfter Work
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    4 days ago

    You know how rabbits eat their own shit? …and the shit is kind of round?

    Is that where Rabbits shitting chocolate eggs at Easter came from? Like a kid saw a rabbit doing that, and the parents had to come up with something so they said it was chocolate eggs… Then the kid wanted some… So the adults has to be like “that’s bad rabbit chocolate, it’s only good once a year”… Around easter time…

    … and you have to goto the garden and look for it.





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    I mean democracy has never been real in The West. It always operates and constrains popular media, and cultural forces to constrain the resistance to Capitalism.

    It’s always coopted and cooperative with the forces of wealth and repression. So yeah, yell this shit on social media, maybe one day a diluted form will appear on CNN or NBC, but there’s no way it will go further than that.

    We’re along for the ride, censored, confined, robbed of time, money, power and lifeforce… And only existing to be used in someone else’s dreams of wealth extraction and labour exploitation.

    EDIT: people don’t understand manufacturing consent anymore.


  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldfediverse punk month
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    7 days ago

    I’m fine with downvotes, but often the problem with the left is not enough money… And it’s understandable if they’re always anti corporations and anticapitalist.

    But… It would be good to have more rich leftists and punks. They could treat workers better with stock sharing (like that Chobani company did that one time), or by letting the workers have more time off, or just have the company (making it a worker owned coop)… Or in a much more centist way, like Mark Cuban (probably not a leftist) making generic medicines more accessible.

    I’m just saying, a punk complaining about “corporate media” whilst valid, also feels cliche, and like a pathway to apathy, defeat, and being fairly voiceless in comparison to that corporate media (which is often loud, prevalent, and leans right).

    What if instead - there was a Punk company, that WAS a media “corporation”? They could push punk messages all the time, whilst being a source of money, art, culture, and sustainable messaging and events.

    I think that could be more punk, than the great traditions of amazing zines, in runs of 20 - 50 or less… and Yelling into a microphone and calling it music.

    I guess all punks of action must become antiheros, and no corporation can be completely without heirachy…

    …you know what, forget I said anything.











  • I said deflationary meaning less inflation.

    But also, deflation doesn’t stop people spending, it just means the dollar is “worth” more goods, and can stretch further. Can buy more stuff. Inflation means goods cost more, and the dollar is worth less. Can buy less stuff.

    These are measures of price. Prices go up = inflation. Prices go down = deflation.

    Japan has been in a deflationary economy for 30 years or so, and people were buying and selling stuff the whole time.


  • “The Girls’ Club of America” used the Swastika before the Nazis. It was originally a sign of good fortune and good health used by new age health types. Much closer to how we think of the Peace symbol.

    That’s why The Nazis used it, it had youth appeal and good sentiment. The Nazis advertised themselves as being a health and good living movement. That’s part of where their love of healthy ideal bodies and features came from.

    They believed in hiking, and young people forming bands, and camping and practicing music and singing and marching in alpine hikes. All very wholesome healthy stuff.

    We know now what they were, but they were seen very differently at the time.