Things You Just Don't Care About

lol calz, I knew you were going to respond. I'll make an exception for you and your lab.

Amanda Palmer

Baby Yoda

van halen's rep with teenagers

^ I've seen about 10 bajillion people on my social media feed defending Billie Eilish and have seen exactly 0 people attacking her. This is almost always the exact pattern I witness for any big social media controversy & it makes me want to scream. Just shut the fuck up everyone, please.

otm

Twitter in a nutshell. I saw some refer to this as "eggmanning" yesterday.

^ I've seen about 10 bajillion people on my social media feed defending Billie Eilish and have seen exactly 0 people attacking her. This is almost always the exact pattern I witness for any big social media controversy & it makes me want to scream. Just shut the fuck up everyone, please.

― 💠 (crüt), Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Or it's Twitter reading your mind.

it WAS really weird and stupid that it even became a thing though. like I could take or leave VH (mostly leave) but seriously, they're not the fucking Beatles. if she had zero familiarity with like the Stones or Prince or something I still personally wouldn't care but I could at least comprehend the incredulity.

British elections. My Twitter feed is a hellscape right now.

Yeah a part of me was like "is your 'Vote Labour Today!' tweet just money in the bank to pay dividends on some 'the world is bad' tweets tomorrow"

Things You Just Don't Care About

Twitter, in general

moodles, i have bad news for you

Is the election eternal? I don't really know how it works over there.

Its consequences will be eternal, yes.

Yeah, I can understand feeling hopeless or fatigued but I find it hard to not care about a crucial election in a world power and one of our closest allies.

superhero comic-book intellectual property rights

British elections. My Twitter feed is a hellscape right now.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, December 12, 2019 1:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah a part of me was like "is your 'Vote Labour Today!' tweet just money in the bank to pay dividends on some 'the world is bad' tweets tomorrow"

― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, December 12, 2019 3:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Well, hope you're both happy now!

To some people "the world is bad" = getting deported and left to die with stateless status or disabled ppl in such reduced conditions they commit suicide. Sorry to ruin your jolly old timeline though lads!

Debunking things that have already been debunked decades ago

Krampus. This was interesting a few years ago when I first learned about it, now I'd like everyone to stop.

To some people "the world is bad" = getting deported and left to die with stateless status or disabled ppl in such reduced conditions they commit suicide. Sorry to ruin your jolly old timeline though lads!

^in case anyone still wonders why some people get annoyed by liberals lol

tulsi gabbard

xp

would not giving a shit about hostile environment and PIP/UC related deaths make me good ? My partner with MS tried to OD after a bad PIP experience so I'm not exactly insulated from this myself. Anyway stfu dickhead.

no

apparently the only way to "give a shit about something" is to make holier than thou pronouncements on a internet msg brd lol u choad

get stuffed Granny

chuckling at calz being called a Lib tbh

That's what confused me at first but LOL American I suppose.

what is PIP/UC

in my world that's 'university of california/performance improvement plan'

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit. UK social security programs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Independence_Payment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Credit

(xp) ... designed to kill poor and disabled people.

"benefits" systems for the sick and disabled which are deliberately engineered to stop them getting money / support

You'll notice part 4. of the Universal Credit Wiki entry titled 'Criticism' is subdivided into 17 parts.

maybe we shouldn't mention it though, wouldn't want certain posters to waste their precious time reading this thread

PIP/UC is Picture in Picture / Unbelievable Clarity

That's what confused me at first but LOL American I suppose.

― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Thursday, December 19, 2019 1:35 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Knew this was you before I read it. Ever the dependable, near-obsessive Americans-basher

Is this the same "dole" that all my favorite British rockstars were on back in the day?

you could actually live on the dole

Knew this was you before I read it. Ever the dependable, near-obsessive Americans-basher

Not really, I'll bash some ignorant cunt that calls calzino a liberal though.

... and then doubles down on it.

liberal? I'm on the verge of enlisting for a suicide assassin mission for Al-Qaeda!

right, fair enough, but wtf does his nationality have to do with it

It doesn't have much to do with it beyond the automatic assumption that 'liberal' means the same thing to people outside the US as it does in the US - which is excusable but not when married to a sneery post which displays a complete ignorance of the person it's aimed at.

we're all stepping carefully around ppl now are we

sorry

stepping carefully around people now, is it

Isn't pejorative "liberal" pretty much the preserve of MAGA lunatics in the US?

Phil Ochs will be spinning in his grave.

it is also a pejorative on the leftmost margins of the left