trenchant social commentary 2

it takes work to be trenchant in the midst of this full on clusterfuck but juice media and boing boing is there for you

https://boingboing.net/2020/07/31/this-devastating-video-encapsu.html

It's been 4 years and the country's most annoying grifters are still trying to convince us that trump will be "demoralized and destabilized" by snarky posts

you'll know we've won the virus when the mass shootings happen every day again 🍃🌱🐑🐇🦔🐣🦢🐝🌻🌼🌷

i remember when a boss i didn't like had a poster in her office of a cat like that and the caption "i can haz a cheesburger" or something. i knew that i wasn't going to like where the culture was headed.

― treeship., Wednesday, May 26, 2021 10:10 PM (one hour ago)

I like the idea of this cat poster as a terrible harbinger, like some film set in 1933 Germany where someone catches their first glimpse of a swastika.

“hang in there, baby” was the original facist wall hanging

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/AnimalRightsNaziGermany.jpg

it sort of almost was really!

Big HIGNFY energy from Simplicissimus under the nazis

Big HIGNFY energy from Simplicissimus under the nazis

― maybe the beeple would be the times or between clark and hill (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 27 May 2021 10:05 (nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.amazon.com/THOUGHT-RETHOUGHT-Consciousness-Causality-Philosophy/dp/1613050178/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1622517351&refinements=p_27%3AT.+Max+Devlin&s=books&sr=1-1&text=T.+Max+Devlin

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/36321576_10214588339735351_4289374204903555072_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=uSvpgqzx_TkAX-lslHn&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=3ee4de104e3826f79589e1b40a25a346&oe=60EBA022

really doubt such a clear, linear thought process as "better dead than autistic" is actually going on in antivaxxers minds

“I’d rather have X than not do Y” when it’s those stakes are college stoner thought experiments and not great for the real world

so sure, how trenchant

I also feel like it follows a formula I see a lot on Twitter where you take something that is already bad (antivaxers, hatred of or misunderstanding toward autism) and extrapolate an even more extreme conclusion that doesn’t actually follow. Like “White America’s apathy toward police killings of black men just proves they would like to see every black person in America dead” or “Global warming inaction demonstrates how much our politicians hate our children.”

Hmm

I was following up to the examples and then hmm

it’s not far fetched at all there is a massive overlap between anti-vaxxers and autism parents. and neither of those other examples seem massively out there to me either

they might not necessarily be part of a conscious linear thought process but what is

anti-vaxxers generally question the efficacy of the vaccines. so it is a stretch to say that they would rather their children dead than autistic. this kind of thing is usually an emotional response, often from someone with autism themselves (or close to people with autism), so is a bit more understandable in that context

man alive is technically correct; more accurate statements would be "White America’s apathy toward police killings of Black men just proves they don't give a shit about the treatment of Black people" and “Global warming inaction demonstrates how much our politicians don't care about the existence of the world past their lifetimes.”

however, anyone capable of parsing sentiment should be able to understand what those original examples are driving at so it really is just splitting semantics for the sake of splitting semantics

hmm

fair

DJP has parsed those the same way as I did. Apathy becomes indistinguishable from directed harm when it’s unyielding

some philosophers may say differently, etc etc

and also indistinguishable from tacitly condoning

to the outside observer, you are just a guy staring blankly as it happens

Just a guy who thinks we shouldn’t do something to make these things not happen

Apathy becomes indistinguishable from directed harm when it’s unyielding

brb, getting this as a tattoo

Sure, but there are many evils in the world at a given time. You can't be said to be actively supporting anything you aren't actively opposing, it wouldn't even be possible to actively oppose everything.

Or, you can say it's bad on facebook, check a box, and you're no longer complicit?

man alive did you get vaccinated against covid-19

? of course

I guess going back to the original thing, my experience with antivaxxers is that their reasoning is a few steps removed from reality, and usually includes believing that their kids won't actually get those diseases for whatever reasons ("natural immunity," use of homeopathic immunity boosters etc). I guess it's possible that the grossly twisted thinking of an antivaxxer sometimes grows out of struggles with having a severely autistic child, even though it tends to take a life of its own from there.

been a banner 24hrs for this thread imo

tbf being trench about this stuff was a formative experience for many of us I'm sure

not to mention that everyone I agree with is otm

Benmont Trench

Found a book, this is gonna be great pic.twitter.com/78BDQ2Sqas

— Kiki Rosecrans (@KikiRosecrans) September 10, 2021

truth is now .. an opinion

— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) November 25, 2016

don't look up don't look up amirite

if you look up, the ruling classes do a shit on you. is that about the gist of it?

i skimmed that thread and chaki had the best responses

Back in the 90's, The Simpsons made fun of America and the world. Did things that were out there because it's seem to fit the animated world.
Now 33 years later, the world is becoming to like The Simpsons pic.twitter.com/jvkDeriG6C

— Out of Context Simpsons Couch Gags (@OOCCouchGags) January 20, 2022

The real March Madness is taking place in Ukraine at the hands of Putin aggression.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 20, 2022

oof

i was gonna say that the modern world is starting to make trenchant feel simply accurate but that's a great example of how this is still a thing

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/oct/04/david-squires-on-going-to-the-match-2022-ls-lowry

my god, it's full of trench

I assume Telsa will eventually use the subscription model for braking

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 October 2022 17:15 (nine minutes ago) link

the typo really makes it

A new British song (genre: folk) pic.twitter.com/L6KSuhNlPO

— Jonathan Coe (@jonathancoe) April 12, 2023

I'm no expert but this doesn't read as very folky to me, if I imagine this set to music it's more like some kind of poor man's Instant Sunshine or something

That has made me a gbnews/fascist minion meme guy

this guy gets it

https://i.imgur.com/GoEsOb8.jpg