“Grindset” is based in old puritan morality dictating that you must suffer in order to deserve anything, including to live. It’s still “Christian” values fucking us over.
It’s really not, it’s about greed and capitalism. People aren’t grinding just for the sake of grinding.
Left leaning spaces have become really good at pairing “don’t work too hard” meme’s with “I can’t pay rent or eat” memes and also “why can’t we get anything done” memes. They all go together.
People say that as we age that most people gravitate towards the right. I think it’s that as we age we slowly realize how full of shit the left are and how they really are just lazy people full of ideas they can’t bother to fight for themselves. That “grindset” or whatever the fuck you call it mentality is at the core of the right wing. And it shows in that they tend to hold power even when they don’t. The average right winger will drive across states just to go shit on some insignificant thing because they all feel they can change things in their life with effort. The left can’t bother to do much beyond tell others to disengage and not work too hard.
This is actually changing. Historically, folks usually moved more right as they aged, but that is shifting as folks agr now. Times are different, tons of people who did everything right can’t even afford a house now.
Is it really changing?
Anecdotaly I see more right leaning people of all ages. People on the left are in hiding.
The left can’t bother to do much beyond tell others to disengage and not work too hard.
You’re American, aren’t you?
You do know that in the US, roughly one people out of 10 are literal millionaires, yet your major cities still have huge homeless populations (whom most have jobs by the way, some homeless people working several jobs) and literal shit on the street.
Say what you want about the Nordic model but it’s definitely much further left than whatever bullshit America is doing.
And we’re doing pretty okay. We have no human shit on our streets. Can you say the same?
I’m Canadian. We get American politics infecting our country all the time. I agree inequality is rampant. Which pisses me off even more how ineffective the left are at capturing any of the population. It’s dead in the water.
ineffective the left are at capturing any of the population. It’s dead in
In North America.
I think your sense of politics on a national level, is massively dirtied by your southern neighbour.
The left isn’t ineffective. Most people definitely know and favour leftist policies if you go ask them. Only some weird right wingers wouldn’t agree that it’s the government’s job to help it’s people.
So because there’s no good talking points on the right, the current propaganda is “don’t even support the left, they won’t achieve shit”. As is sowing apathy. Apathy is the single greatest tool an oppressor could wield. When people don’t believe change is possible, no-one does anything about it. “why bother” they say “it won’t work anyway”.
You can’t know until you try. I know I’m too guilty of this as well. But realising something and being able to not be affected by it are two different things.
What has the left done that you would say it’s effective politically or culturally on the last ten years
Again, quit being so ethnocentric.
The reason that Europe is yet to be fucked as bad as the US is that we still have prominent leftist parties who actually do further leftist agenda.
I can reject cookies when I visit websites. Thanks lefties.
I don’t have to pay for my medications or doctors. Well, at most like a few hundred. At most. And if you don’t make any money, you don’t have to, social security will take care of your bills.
What has the right done, on the other hand? Taken away free dental care from under 18’s, massively fucked the dental for adults as well, mostly privatised it. Similar attempts with other systems.
So if one is actively seeking to make my life worse by not caring a single bit about the consequences of their policies, and the other is attempting to drive through policies which would counter said privatisation, and also have attempts to help the general populace, then yeah, I know who I’m voting for.
Luckily I don’t live in a silly two-party system, although partisan systems in general are kind of dumb in my opinion, even the multi-party ones. But that’s a step too far to discuss with someone used to North-American politics, I think. I mean granted Canada isn’t a two-party system but in practice it is closer to the US as a system than most European governments.
And let’s just skip over the whole part where your spreading of apathy is playing directly into the pocket of the right wing American parties and thus serving the Russian agenda.
What has the left down. I didn’t ask what have they done in America. What have they done effectively in any country in the last ten years. Rejecting cookies isn’t it.
Globally the right wing has regained power and are capturing and spreading their views to new generations through effective campaigns. The left as a group, including the voters, are lame. They are not engaged. They are not informed.
Just look at your response. Left is full of excuses and no self awareness. It uses morality as an excuse. It uses claims of propaganda as an excuse. It uses accusations of oligarchy as an excuse. Reality is the average leftist has lost the plot long ago and are outclassed and outsmarted and outperformed by the average politically right person. What matters is the end result. Nothing else right now. The end result is that the right have a strangle hold globally on media and the average person’s beliefs and world views. The left doesn’t know what the fuck is going on half the time.
I would argue it’s not really even a solid overlap with Christianity. Puritan ideals are a small subset of the overall Christian world, and might not even be the most relevant religiously centered ideals affecting our society today (prosperity gospel folks might be more politically relevant in America these days, and they are basically saying the opposite, that their religion offers promises of riches now in this life, and Catholics don’t seem as likely as Protestants to see toil as virtue).
Perhaps more importantly, there is a strong overlap with some cultural forces in distinctly non-Christian societies, like in India and China and Singapore and stuff, where people actively preach a philosophy where people must suffer in order to develop their characters and earn happiness/prosperity. I have had colleagues from Singapore (both Chinese and Indian heritage) who talked about this kind of stuff a lot, and it’s consistent with some of the LinkedIn nonsense that I see and make fun of on a regular basis. I think the concept and the origins of these ideas are pretty far removed from Christianity.
Removed by mod
It comes from rich people starting on third base telling others they aren’t working hard enough.
“Pressure creates diamonds, yes, but it also creates rubble.”
I like your analysis. It feels more optimistic than the idea of an upper class foisting it on us to have us work harder and question less. Though I suppose they’re not necessarily mutually exclusive things.
Wind in the willows is the shit! Should read that book again
This, except the otter is making out with the rat while the mole is inside the otter with the rat in its mouth
Then five minutes later Toad shows up with his special brand of chaos and massively fucks up the lives of these three yet again.
The toad:
I would normalize hanging out with otters.
This is the inspirado I needed to make a random ass Star Trek: The Animated Series screenshot work. It’s been lingering in the back of my mind for months, but now it has a purpose. Many thanks.
Share it when it’s done!
There ya go.
Hahaha that is great, and what an odd scene - I’ve never seen the animated series, didn’t know it go so whacky.
Yeah, it gets weirder.
I feel like that devil picture was used as an image macro back in the day?
I did notice when Spock stands on the pentagram the lines get all messed up.
Getting murdered by a on3 of your most dangerous predators?
I kinda have been, lol.
Make food for friends two days a week and f in a dog bed while watching great movies after eating.deleted by creator
No we don’t need to work, we are forced to work.
The work needs doing, and currently only humans can do it, so someone has to do it. The problem is with how it is handled. What we need is a system that incentivises working but allows people to thrive without doing it, which is a difficult balance.
Removed by mod
Thats not true at all. Much of the work humans need to survive still requires humans.
The fact is that people aren’t going to work and getting paid by businesses that produce products nobody wants.
You are overthinking about a meme. There is nothing stopping you and 3 people from having a picnic in the park. I could do it every week. Someone unemployed getting the benefit could do this every week. Thinking that the current economic system is preventing people from this is insane.
Removed by mod
A lot of the work doesn’t need doing.
I remember an anthropology class where they were talking about early hominids who found these nut trees that produced huge caloricly dense nuts. They went from every day being a gamble trying to hunt or forage enough food to break even to all the sudden having a stable calorie surplus. One individual could gather 20k calories easy, this allowed others to not work. While some slacked off some took up past times and invention and they started inventing the tools that would eventually lead to them becoming human.
There is no reason that this doesn’t hold true today. Take everything you need, food, reasonable shelter, phone, meds, etc and you come way, way below the amount you produced if you compared it to calories. We went from gathering the nuts to, farming to at least 3 periods of Industrialization and at each stage we easily 10x that amount of calories the average person produces. To the point today we could probably survive with half the people working like 12 hours a week.
My point being that I believe UBI should be done, as the surplus that we produce is more than enough to cover it. I believe that if UBI were to happen we would see a new human renaissance bigger even than the Paleolithic or Neolithic Revolutions.
Interspecies polyamory? Yes.
How high do you need to get to do that?
- ban advertisement
- bunch of jobs would not be worth it anymore
- more people would take on real jobs
- split up the work that’s left and only work 2 hours a week.
- just give everyone enough money
- …
profithang out with otters
-
Rich panic because number stopped going up
-
More class warfare
- The rich lose the class war
-
- Supress the counter-revolution.
You misspelled hang those who horde resources.
For the Horde!
God damned billionaire orcs
- Ban company’s from using so much water for Ai data centres which in turn will reduce the number of data centres and hopefully would cap how much shit Ai is shoved into.
Removed by mod
Firstly, get fucked. I’m British, you imbecile; not everyone is American. Secondly, thank you for pointing out the mistake.
As per usual, shitty autocorrect replaced the word I was typing. Since then, I have reset autocorrect.
I hope you have a delightful new year!
Removed by mod
Better yet, we stop bankrolling AI with tax dollars and the problem solve itself.
Being a furry on a picnic?
This is called “actually living”
It’s called being homeless
deleted by creator
