#capitalist propaganda

[shinyasahalo]

Capitalist propaganda: "Monthly food rations per Polish citizen in the early to mid 1980s. But next time socialism will work."

Michael: "Can someone please explain why so many people still take socialism seriously? It has always failed badly, every sing time."

Comrade Jake: "This kind of propaganda completely falls apart when you understand that ration cards were not a limit on how much food you could have. They were a guarantee of your basic necessities. You could still buy surplus food in addition to your rations."

[trianglewins]

This is your reminder that practically all living creatures slow down in the winter. There's less sunlight, less available food, and it's colder. It's written into our DNA to do less, sleep more, save our energy, and prioritize warmth and comfort. The idea that winter is the ideal time for new goals and strenuous exercise routines is absurd and driven by capitalism. Winter is for cuddling up under a warm blanket, basking in the aftermath of our holiday feasting, drinking warm drinks, and resting.

Give yourself permission to spend the winter the same way the rest of nature does. Rest, eat, stay warm, and wait for the natural unfurling that comes with the spring sunshine.

[bunchacrunchcake]

The best dating advice I could ever give is:

If someone thinks you're hot the first thing out of your mouth, on an app DOES NOT MATTER. You can literally say "Hello, I'm ___ nice to meet you." If they think you're hot they will keep talking to you. If they do not, it doesn't matter what you say.

Why is this good advice? Incels say you should looksmax so that everyone thinks you're hot, but that's the stupidest advice ever. Women are constantly asked about who they think is hot by RESEARCHERS and the answer is the same every time: It depends. Men tend to cluster around the same type of women a bit more, but I'd argue that it depends for them too.

The reality is that someone, somewhere will find you hot, without any changes to your looks or personality.

Your goal isn't to craft the perfect message, make the perfect profile, wear the perfect clothes, do pushups, get surgery. If you do that you'll actually become MORE insecure because you're constantly obsessing about how awful you look. And that will make it harder to find love because you will be more hesitant to be yourself in public around people who would like that.

If you do the above, what you're actually doing is trying to fend off rejection, instead of chasing success. Because you can't date everyone. It's not physically possible. And ironically, no matter how much work you do on yourself, TONS of people still won't like you, not because you failed, but because they just like different things. Instead of seeing that for what it is, the world being a big and diverse place, you will internalize it as a personal failure and you'll be like that weird monk in The Davinci code who beats himself with a mace in private because he was a bad bad boy.

Your goal is to literally just go out into the world, be proud of who you are, and do stuff you like. You will run into someone who likes the same things and likes you and thinks you're hot. And... if you're okay with being rejected by a lot of people romantically, you just see it as you're not their cup of tea, you will be proud of yourself, outgoing, and you'll find someone who is like "holy shit where have you been my whole life."

And you didn't do one situp. You didn't learn a new makeup routine. You didn't buy a cool car.

You just said, hey maybe I am actually hot and cool. Maybe people do like me. Maybe I'm fine the way I am.

And someone else out there said, no you're not just fine, you're amazing I want to date you.

Stop overthinking your dating profile. That's the moral of the story.

[echosblanketfort]

Happy Labour Day y'all

reminder that there has been an uptick in articles where someone is interviewing a rich person and that rich person is talking about how "work/life balance isnt always necessary" and "true visionaries don't believe in work/life balance".

This is propaganda. Covid and class consciousness is weakening the level of exploitation people are willing and able to accept in Canada and the United States. Don't fall for the violent propaganda of grind culture.

[mintconditioned]

let's talk about rage bait

some images are not neutral, nor are they accidents. they're designed to provoke a reaction--shock, jealously, disgust, even defensiveness--because emotion drives engagement, and engagement drives profit.

when you see a room full of makeup, a 30-step skincare routine, a even just a "quick haul", the goal isn't to inform you, but to make you feel something. that feeling is usually insecurity or outrage, mainly because both keep you scrolling.

some people feel inferior and ask "why don't i have this? am i behind?" others feel morally superior and declare "this is disgusting. people are so wasteful." both reactions still boost the post. both still feed to algorithm. the key point is that neither reaction threatens the system that produced the image in the first place.

that's usually why context is always missing. you never really hear whether products were gifted, returned, written off, expired, unused, etc. or whether the person is a professional, sponsored, or staging excess for attention. ambiguity is the point; confusion keeps you arguing in the comments instead of questioning why your questioning in the first place.

and i understand! professionals may need an excess of items to get their jobs done, but the system doesn't target professionals. it targets everyday people like you and me.

late stage capitalism doesn't need you to want these things, but it just needs you to be emotionally activated by them. outrage is just as profitable as aspiration.

so when people say "this is just meant to make you upset," they're right. But not in the way that they think. The issue isn't that you felt something, but more so that you're trained to emotionally respond to excess instead of critically interrogating it.

calling it out doesn't make you a buzz-kill (and believe me, people may call you that.) it's recognizing that when a system benefits from your insecurity, anger, or self-doubt, those feelings didn't come from nowhere.

[nwodwols]

And sometimes I talk myself out of falling for capitalistic traps by chopping up paper at work and making zines out of it lol

[sunnyguitargirl]

#american retrowave but we acknowledge that its a warped mirage hiding a dark and sinister reality of imperialist capitalist oppression worldwide, and all the beauty we find in it is our crushed humanity striving for a higher world from within imprisonment in the cruel maze of poverty and enslavement that penetrates all relationships and spaces

[sparksinthenight]

Mac:

"But Bezos built Amazon, Musk built Tesla and SpaceX from the ground up." No the fuck they didn't. Neither of their companies would exist without gov subsidies and countless workers who put their labor into the companies. Capitalists don't create value, they control capital.