privilege as a meme

Good news everyone moved on from the privilege thing like 5 years ago mostly. The new meme is abolishing the police.

not in my facebook feed!

Maybe quit Facebook, dunno what to tell you dude

yeah, facebook fucking blows

I'm too old for tik tok

ty Karl

not really specific to this thread, but since we discussed integrated schools, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html.

IDK if there's a critical mass of people for a thread on school integration, but it's an issue I've followed a lot. Interested in that podcast for sure, particularly as I try to reckon with the fact that I attended an integrated middle school and a 90-95% african american high school but haven't prioritized school integration for my kids.

Is it easier to integrate virtual classrooms?

will be interested in your thoughts xp

found this completely maddening btw. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/parenting/children-screen-time-games-phones.html. i can see why people find the privilege self flagellation of, e.g. the integrated schools movement (above) a turn off, but the smugness with which she concedes that she has no idea what she's talking about because of privilege, and then proceeds to tell people what to do, is on another level.

Oh, I worked with that author once, and yeah, I can’t say I’m surprised she wrote that.

so is doordash good…or bad

It is new look carriage trade, so bad. Shop for your own damned groceries.

delivery is bad. got it.

I don't have a problem with delivery per se. I usually do pickup when ordering food because I have a car and it's often quicker, but different strokes. That said, if I needed to have food delivered, I'd rather just go through the restaurant directly than use an app like Doordash or Grubhub.

how many more times

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-prole-info-abolish-restaurants

Can I pay someone to read that for me?

food is bad

making the same dish over and over again increases the power of the simulacrum

delivery groceries are good when everyone in your household has covid and needs to eat

anyway, in my glorious communist future, we will all have delicious restaurant meals served to us by comrades talented at cooking who enjoy it

how many more times

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-prole-info-abolish-restaurants

― brimstead, Monday, 25 March 2024 15:02 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

can still have doordash without restaurants tho, needs a second "abolish grocery stores" article

anyway, in my glorious communist future, we will all have delicious restaurant meals served to us by comrades talented at cooking who enjoy it

It is new look carriage trade, so bad. Shop for your own damned groceries.

― steely flan (suzy), Monday, March 25, 2024 7:41 AM bookmarkflaglink

it's for food delivery, not merely groceries, and services like this were extremely important to my mother and I when she was home alone and couldn't leave dad in the house by himself, or when we were emotionally drained after a long day of caretaking and didn't have the energy to leave the house. I imagine there are plenty of others who use the service for similar reasons who also aren't rich.

I’m in an area where a lot of healthy, physically fit and wealthy people use our version of doordash, the rich lazy fuckers.

Anyone living with illness or a disability (or caring for others who might) isn’t catching wrath from me for using delivery services!

IDC if people use it or not as long as they tip well.

For groceries anyway. For restaurants that already have existing delivery though you're just putting money in the pocket of a big corp that could be split between you and the restaurant instead. I try to go direct for food delivery where possible.

replace this thread with claude.ai

Honestly pretty good https://t.co/GWJEESAbsC pic.twitter.com/hLzCG0NwPe

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) March 25, 2024

_anyway, in my glorious communist future, we will all have delicious restaurant meals served to us by comrades talented at cooking who enjoy it_


It is a wonderful idea … I have friends who attempted this… the place still exists but not quite the way they had envisioned

robots, obv

leaving aside the optics of piling on someone who is clearly unwell, the miami vice affair seems like an important and fascinating cultural document

I regret looking that up but the wrongest people in the conversation are those championing the director's cut over the theatrical.

yeah the cold open is one of the coolest things

Someone give me the short version of whatever the Miami vice thing is, since I'm not on Twitter / X anymore I couldn't really get very far.

This is all I could find. Not sure what the privilege angle is:

It’s a pretty wild clip, and when combined with Streuessnig’s glowing words it ignited a firestorm of discourse about whether or not the film, which stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, was any good. Detractors said it was just another bro movie, dismissing it as fodder for straight men. Supporters, including our very own Carolyn Petit who has been singing Miami Vice’s praises for years, said otherwise. But I had never seen it, so I sat down this weekend to watch it. And guess what? Miami Vice rules.

alls I have to say about this thread which I regret having watched...

I am thankful that in my early 20s, when I was at my most unhinged and awful, that the shit I was posting wasn't viewable by hundreds of thousands of people.

like if this was a real-life conversation, it'd have been over in 5 minutes, but there's something about having your fuckup permanently encased in amber that tends to make people much more defensive when called out. like a wound that keeps getting re-opened.

that said, holy LOL at the "fuck you Brandon" post lol

wut

xxpost basically, a writer's girlfriend wanted to watch Miami Vice and then wrote an article about how she loved it, and the writer posted the review supporting his girlfriend's review, and the piled-on individual (a random woman on the internet) quote-tweeted it with "Straight men live on a completely different planet than the rest of us, WHOT is this", he responded "Making a lot of assumptions here lmao. She asked to see it and had a great time. Good luck with your miserable fuckin life".

she responded "fuck you Brandon <3" and then....the rest is internet.

part of the reason for the blowup is he is openly bi-sexual and she called him a 'straight man', then continued to do so even after many people pointed out he was not straight.

however, at this point, people participating in the takedown on Twitter are largely bad people who are piling on for social manna, whereas at the beginning there were legitimate people calling out bad behavior

that...does not sound like the important and fascinating cultural document we'd been promised xpost

she responded "fuck you Brandon <3"

I'm sorry but I heard "Let's go Biden"

part of the reason for the blowup is he is openly bi-sexual and she called him a 'straight man', then continued to do so even after many people pointed out he was not straight.

― perpetually awkward, perennially unhappy (Neanderthal), Tuesday, July 9, 2024 9:12 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

she’s also straight!! it’s the funniest possible thing

lol i missed that part

You know sometimes I think there's just simply not a single person who acquits themselves well when expressing anything on social media, ever.

The initial response to 'my favorite movie is Miami Vice' was 'straight men live in a different world from the rest of us' - which isn't particularly mean or rude, just baffling in its bad open mic quality comedy. Don't have a meltdown over something that wouldn't get into your tight 5 at Yuk Yuk's!

https://archive.ph/DwnEe

this lady has a whole lore and backstory! (links to an atlantic article)

the thing about, like, message board/USEnet/chat room etc flame wars is they used to eventually burn themselves out because other people occupying the same space got tired of it impeding their ability to discuss things and eventually things just dissipated.

meanwhile Twitter is like this wide open sandbox that everybody has access to/shits in, so just when things die down, a bunch of bots/agitators show up and stoke the flames again, and those with Calum-esque impulse control can't ever free themselves from the temptation to respond to every tweet/quote tweet, and it begins an endless cycle.

so you can be some obscure dude with a Suzuki and a large collection of vintage Pogs and wind up in a USA Today article because you lost your mind after hundreds of people reacted critically to your insensitively timed dick joke.

also I regret to inform that I tweeted something she didn't like to someone who had tweeted in response to the OP and now she has blocked me, so now I'm ~part of the story~ yay

I considered being person 900101 to respond to her that Miami Vice rules.