and this is actually *worse* than being a cynic because it instrumentalizes the value of happiness- it sends the message that people can only be happy when it is useful for you to get whatever you want

Yeah, but my point is that fake positivity doesn't last long as a brand because of how easy it is to recognize. You can tell when someone is using positivity in others as a means to achieving their own ends.

conservative realism has made people so paranoid of each other that anything fun or positive is equated with superficiality or fakeness

they want you guys to be so paranoid and miserable so that you‘ll have no desire to fight back, or even convert you their side

I know *exactly* what you mean lol, peach ice tea is extremely
good

I LOVE COCAINE!!!

- but in the legal sphere, capitalism is reinforced by sadomasochistic institutions. The capitalist is protected by the state to be as much a ruthless sadist against their own workers and other competitors as possible, and non-capitalists are only protected as masochistic customers of businesses

- if economics describes how people produce and distribute goods to meet their needs, then capitalism is very much an inverted or upside-down economic system. Instead of producing goods that people need, capital only produces what can be sold for money (which may not even be tangible goods at all)-

This is true, and reason for this is immanent to the logic of capital itself. Since capital is the activity of buying commodities with money to sell them for more money, it depends on wage labor that produces the commodities to be sold and consumers who will buy the commodities that they sell-

not yet, not yet ntoyt yet I'm at the baby shower www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-l1...

*sucks raw sugar off my fingertips* what if gary was SCARY

Galactic Grunt Gets Growing Gluteus

I just woke up so I misread plural as plus sized and thought you were complaining about time dilation

thank you for your service

oh sweet heavens thank GOODNESS you're here I just got this bottle of ranch and- *drops glass bottle on foot and shatters into 8 million smaller bauricians*

can you help me open this bottle of ranch my fingers are too small for the cap

*tap tap tap tap tap tap*

c'mon... get out of the bottle *tap tap tap*

*shakes bottle up and down (up and down and up and down)*

my god I HATE off-branch ranch! I hat-

*SPLORCH*

this is what Jax REALLY looks like when the cameras are off

pre-evolution jon