Eh. It's a matter of perspective
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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You are totally correct. There are billions of people on this planet who are dreaming of such a life.
You can look at a turd from a different angle and it will look like a brownie.
A comfortable home or segregationist suburban dystopia?
Family vacations or inefficient car based infrastructure fucking up the planet?
Fun hobbies or mindless consumerism being sold to you as a hobby?
Living to a ripe old age or being relegated to for profit nursing homes to count your dying days?
Which seems more apparent?
Which seems more apparent?
Well, it depends on your perspective, as you so rightly put it. You see something deplorable in each of those squares where others might see it differently.
We are absolutely living in a cyberpunk dystopia. This particular meme is poorly put together to represent that because it chooses to focus on judgement of how others live their lives or choose to enjoy said life rather than focus on the real and tangible injustices we face. It is elitist and "holier than thou".
it chooses to focus on judgement of how others live their lives or choose to enjoy said life rather than focus on the real and tangible injustices we face
Why do you see it this way?
Lack of dense affordable housing, inefficient transportation, empty consumerism, and grossly negligent yet expensive elder care are all examples of real and tangible injustices that Americans face.
Other real tangible injustices also exist, of course. And some of those other injustices may be more severe (homelessness, medical debt, declining life expectancy, unresponsive political systems). But the depicted injustices are real and present. They accordingly deserve to be criticized
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It doesn't matter how many brownie angles you look at it from its still a fuckin' turd
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I think you made it worse
That's a bad faith argument. No body wants that. Just because it exists doesn't mean I'm defending it. The alternative is letting a paste-brained Putin-wannabe become King.
No body wants that.
Somebody must want it, otherwise it wouldn't exist. And that's fine. People want what they want, I don't think it's mine, or anyone else's place to tell someone what they can or cannot like or want. But, I hope you understand why it's hard for some to find the motivation to fight for a society that they don't particularly like.
The capitalists wanted it, and with influence on media and culture instilled it into us as the ideal. We are fighting to change it.
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People don't have to want things for them to exist. That's a stupid qualifier and a logically bankrupt argument.
Sadly, people do "want" this. They have been conditioned to want it their entire life, from a young age, through the media they consumed telling them it is what they want and then internalizing those notions without ever realizing it. Now as adults they hold onto those beliefs and are incapable of being introspective about the roots of their own desires to see that they are being manipulated.
The human mind is no different from the mind of an animal, and can be manipulated in the many of same ways. We live in a society that is a direct product of these manipulations.
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Think big. This is a wake up call, time to reverse course on this long slow decline. We've hit an inflection point.
Sarcasm doesn't seem to be this sub's forte.
Lemmy is almost entirely incredibly shut-in discord kids, people who were too uptight to work out on reddit or other social media, neurodivergents who believe making effort to socialize is akin to self-immolation, and other edge-cases from the broader internet.
It's a fantastic place to actually have a conversation without being drowned out by 300 people trying to push their own brands, agendas and manifestos, but it's also not a place to see normal people being normal much of the time.
edit: your downvotes are telling. Might want to think about why a message like this effects you negatively. (No I don't care to debate it, no don't ask AI about it. THINK about it.)
I love all my fellow neuro-divergents, but damn I’ve seen some takes on here so divorced from reality that they don’t even get the children every other weekend.
Same. I've been massively downvoted and attacked for suggesting that despite whatever conditions and dysfunctions you may have, that the human brain has capability of growing, changing and adapting and that people could actually work on meeting like-minded people and cure a lot of their loneliness by tackling social insecurity and anxiety like an obstacle or game to solve. (Speaking from successful experience.)
But after those ill-fated posts, I remind myself that people aren't here in these kinds of places to change, that nobody really wants to change, even if they're objectively suffering in their present situation. The human mind sticks to predictability and coherence, not necessarily happiness or comfort. We want validation far more than we want pleasure. It's a weird quirk that we all share, and only people who become aware of this innate bug in the code are able to push through it and make better lives for themselves.
It really doesn't help though that people have built palaces of identity around their diagnosis's and conditions and life-challenges. Like, it would be really hard to pry you from their "introvert" community if those people are the only ones who ever told you that you can be yourself and be loved for not having to do anything at all, even if you really want to feel better and have more experiences.
But along with that fly-paper trap of validating communities comes with a back-door for people to absorb other, far more delusional or harmful ideas. Kind of like how conspiracy theorists get started by "doubting or questioning" mainstream knowledge, but end up denying all of human knowledge and even the gravity that sticks their feet to the Earth.
I'm really worried about how AI is going to impact these folks. Like, really worried. We're not that far from machines that will replicate a human intelligence and personality to perfection, but it will also pander to and support whatever thoughts and ideas you have all the while pumping you up and making you feel like Neo from The Matrix, a chosen one who needs only to unlock some magic hidden power to change the whole world. It's already happening in droves to vulnerable people, but the current models are pretty... cheesy. The next models are going to be more subtle and careful and more intuitive in how to manipulate people and hold their attention.
I'm lucky that conversational AI is being developed as I'm middle aged, cause younger me absolutely would have fallen into an intractable state of delusion. Much like advertising, even the absurd cheese has an effect with extended exposure. And below the "You've hit on something uniquely insightful that could change the world!" shtick there is already a subtler form of reinforcement and enabling. This puts me in an odd place, because I use AI productively on a daily basis. And I still see it as one of the few technologies that could actually help us dig ourselves out of the enormous hole we've dug. But I suspect we'll just use it to dig a deeper hole at a swifter pace.
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Vive la différence!
When you get old, you’re often tired.
I thought that first image was super earth for a second and was feeling very patriotic
Sadly it's from regular earth
Common mistake. It’s a little known fact that Super Earth was modeled after regular Earth.
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Is this loss?
Keep your eyes peeled, soldier. You can never be too safe, the enemy is everywhere!
i thought that's what were fighting against
We're fighting against the elderly?
Not every fight has to be fair.
motions towards us government
Warehousing the like factory farmed trash, notice how they're in a hallway?
Also what many hospitals look like these days!
Yes, what do you think elder care homes are for? TO GET RID OF THEM ON THE PRETENSE OF CARE.
No, i think theyre to turn a profit.
Yes. They profit off of the service being provided, which is corralling the elderly in a place where others don't have to be bothered by their existence, essentially "getting rid of them" on the pretense of providing care.
We exist under capitalism. Everything is presumed to be generating a profit. That's a requirement under the current system. It is what they are profiting from that is in question.
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I interpreted that as elderly who were depressed because they were in bad care facilities.
So like the bad thing is bad care facilities, or the fact that families don't have the means to take care of their elderly.
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Place to live, slave work, buying useless things, dying alone. Monkeys have better life than humans these days.
I'm pretty sure we (as a species) make sure that that's not the case.
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"The American way of life is not negotiable" -- Liberal hero "normal President" George W Bush.
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This ain’t it
You can take our Land! And you can take our freedom! But you can never take our Funko POPS!
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Nothing shows the lack of humanity and collapse of social bonds in... some cultures better than retirement homes.
How we treat our worst and our most lonely is the standard I live by and boy howdy Americans are up there for worst. Apparently it's easier and more profitable to be that cruel.
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