Of course it has, and this effect was completely foreseeable, and indeed, was foreseen, from the very moment they decided to whore themselves out with that IPO. They took their role as custodian of the baby internet and became a pimp.

Stop calling it anything else. As a musician, I promise you, trying to promote yourself online feels like prostitution. If you’ve ever tried, then you know too. The only difference is if I were a prostitute I might actually make some money back.

The comments in here are so depressing it’s actually funny. Evidently we don’t even know what the word means. “No metrics” ffs

Look, the fact of the matter is, as soon as you start even just inching over to the right of the curve, the people rolling the other way down the hill are already, let’s say, beyond your horizons. The reverse is true too but in the less salutory way. You will never be able to fully communicate anything to them, their heads are populated with bullshit and nothing true can remain in their minds because it just gets overwritten by the stupidity which they have chosen as their life. They do not see obvious connections, they can not follow principles or see how they apply to them, and they are too arrogant to have sense spoken to them. They can not learn, resent the suggestion that there is something they don’t already know in the first place, and they say things like “you can’t tell me shit”. I mean, thanks for self-identifying as a drain on society but we could already tell…

spoiler alert though, it’s literally everybody. because everyone else is doing it, it’s not possible to survive as a business in a competitive space without doing, for lack of a better word, the devil’s work. It will take a major social disruption to change this, but it won’t happen in an organized fashion because we as a species are pathetic. The disruption will be the end of the world - North America cracking down the middle due to all the fracking, the Greenland glacier sliding into the ocean all at a go, something like that. FAFO endgame shit, due any minute now anyway.

stop whoring yourselves to these evil fuckups

Israel’s existence is propped up solely to pander to the “authority” of the religulous. The creation of Israel was an attempt to make the Bible be true. This is the shit that happens when you believe that book - not only do you immediately and ultimately betray the principles in that book, but you discredit it utterly as well, which it richly deserves.

they literally did. that is what “allowing an action you could have stopped” means. They chose killing.

Why is everyone mad about politics these days again? This shit is fine

In case there are clueless folk here, america pulls stunts just as bad as this - CIA dealing cocaine to poor blacks in order to destabilize cities, to list just one unequivocal one - literally every day.

a “civilization” that involves “money” is simply not civilized.

shut up, you’re fucking wrong. it said so in the post.

Surprising, since not a fucking thing has actually been done.

No, don’t correct me. I’m insulting the measures you’re describing. That was the point. We deserve to die, as a species, given the shameful so-called response we have made to this existential threat. If it had been aliens we would have rolled over like a bitch. We coulda done something, but it looks like we actually are just a bunch of monkey-ass retards with nothing better to do than pretend money is important. We need a jihad against all religions and a cultural purge of capitalism, and hey, we’re gonna get it, pretty soon too, in the form of “too late you’re fucked”.

this sort of talk will get you killed in the revolution, fair warning.

Of course not. No one on earth is really an adult. We do not do things correctly here to foster adulthood, being in the service of “corporations” rather than other actual people. Money - dependence upon money - is the reason.

Here’s an example. I brought my car in for service today. In the car service game, they have broken the concept of “service” into itemizable, chargeable subtasks. This is not adult, natural human behaviour, this is marketing. The person you speak to is paid to upsell you on items which should be included in the concept of “getting your car serviced” - wheel alignment, fluids etc. The suggestion this makes is that if you do not pay two or three times for the same job, they will do the work improperly or not at all. We have accepted this behaviour as normal, because it’s common and we can’t do anything about it, but it’s still fundamentally wrong and our lives are absolutely full of insulting, greedy, corporate-mandated childish shit like this. This is done not because the business isn’t taking in enough money to be viable, but just to enrich the parasite whom is the head of the organization, and to be able to fund third party parasites like lawyers and the marketing department, out of your pocket.

The falseness, the fakeness that is part of every interaction, is the childishness. The reason for that childishness is money. Money is a child’s toy, greed is a childish trait, and “Western” culture which has now taken over the world does everything in its power to hamper the development of grown-up personality.

To the haters, no, I make six figures, I’m not poor, but you are being childish again.

yes no one is calling for the return of hostages

that is a reasonable thing to say

uh yeah. no. what people need to acknowledge is that israel shouldn’t be there and that dipshits shouldn’t use the bible to create nations. how the fuck did you think it would turn out. blood blood blood

The west needs to step in again, ctrl-z the postww2 treaties, and give the land back to palestinians. Israel has squandered its chance and this heaping pile of shit all stems from dickheads trying to make the Bible true.