I'm convinced most people still don't understand what "all cops are bastards" actually means.
"bUt My UnClE/dAd/BrOtHeR/fRiEnD iS a CoP" Yeah, now imagine how many situations where they had to bite their tongue and look away because interfering would lose their job.
Even the "good" cops aren't really good because even if they try to stop other cops from being bad they'll be punished. Being a cop is just being in a govt sanctioned gang.
I wish it was a guillotine blade instead of a razor blade.
Maybe it's a guillotine blade sized razor blade
Gillettine
Jelloite and Touche
I wonder I would explain the format given I'm the resident Californian with neighbors who have signs like this. Here's an example:
Which itself I think is a riff off a more conservative religious sign. Can't find the OG, but this made me laugh on Etsy:
(The stock model photoshopped in is as confused about this as we are, naturally).
Lastly, this whole hunt got images had me find this, which made me smile.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1359743922/in-this-house-we-believe-funny-yard-sign
Which I give the authentic Etsy link cause fuck those first two people.
Love is love
Baby, don't hurt me
Those signs are definitely elsewhere in the us
Hello, here's all the things I'd like to argue about today.
Apparently they also believe in blanket statements.
Yeah this kind of reeks of "I just found about systemic inequality yesterday and now I plan on single-handedly fixing it tomorrow" energy.
It's not ideal...
I guess it's better than being totally ignorant.
Totally ignorant isn’t the only option outside of this.
Consider that not everyone is at the same level of progress in their journey of being unplugged from the matrix. Everyone starts somewhere, and maybe this post gave someone their quote of the year. Encourage radical thinking or post better memes. Be the change, yadda yadda.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
I don't think I'm getting the "money if fake" one. Money is just an IOU that we've all agreed on the value of to simplify bartering.
I never agreed to it, and the way it's dispersed only benefits the people that already have too much of it from exploiting other people's labor.
I never agreed to it, and the way it's dispersed
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You can disagree with giraffes too, to the same effect.
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You're going to hate something because of the way governments distribute the thing it represents? How is that not like hating all water because you had a flood? Hating air because it's too windy?
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You sound like a sovereign citizen
Sounds like you are exactly getting the "money is fake" one
Right but what point is it trying to make by pointing it out?
Yes, money is a social construct, but it's a construct that represents something real, i.e. trade. Without money we'd replace it with something else, but it ultimately comes down to the same thing.
Like, I can understand the perfect world without landlords or billionaires and so on, but what's this perfect world look like that has no currency?
I see what you're trying to say. But I gotta ask tho: did "we all" actually, really agree on that?
Yes. We have all agreed to exchange tokens (which have little to no inherent value) for goods and services, in lieu of trading other goods and services directly.
All other mechanics surrounding money are up for debate, but for any society more advanced than the hunter-gatherer stage, some form of "money" is required to facilitate trade.
Problem is the majority of money is tied up overseas and in shit like the stock exchange, the insurance market, crazy real estate speculation and various other investments. If any decent portion of that gets leveraged back into material goods everyone trying to simply live is suddenly poor as fuck and starving to death. The value of money is based on so many assumptions it's unsound.
Not that you're wrong in practice, but there's nothing at guaranteeing that practice is stable and people's lives depend on that very stability.
Careful with that thinking there, mister. Soon enough you'll be rederiving civilisation and suggesting things like power structures and statutory social order.
the origin of the idea is that since you can no longer simply go exchange your money for its equivalence in actually valuable metals, you can't expect prices to be based on the value of their material components and labour any more. Money is no longer a promisory note for gold. Admittedly, that logic is a little iffy, and yet the threat has come true:
the more updated version of that is to simply go to any big store and look at the prices - say, $65 for a DVI to HDMI signal converter - and see that price has been divorced from the real value of products in favor of capitalist bullshit like artificial scarcity and the total enshittification of society, which i daresay has already been achieved.
If I had any talent at all I would 100% make a fabulous looking embroidery of this to hang in my house..
E: also I love how this has gotten so many people to openly declare both their ignorance and determination to maintain it, in their refusal to look up a topic that has been written about extensively for centuries and actually educate themselves, instead of confidently and incorrectly declaring something they know nothing about wrong or impossible or whatever capitalism has indoctrinated them to believe about its alternatives..
What’s the razor blade about?
It's edgy
The only billionaire I have even the slightest bit of respect for is Mark Cuban cause he actually tries to make people's lives a little easier.
Everyone else can bite bricks and or be stripped of their wealth cause they are wasting it.
It would have made his employees lives a lot easier if he wasn't pocketing all those unpaid wages.
Give it some time. He's helping people at the moment with his current business model. But his model really seems like he's just moving to corner the market. Once he has cornered enough of that market, his true colors will show.
You don't amass that kind of wealth by being altruistic.
This really needs a part about how all churches are scams to bilk you out of your money.
I can't get behind all cops are bastards.
I've watched so many police bodycam videos by now to say that anyone who gets caught red-handed for their criminal bullshit, are the ones who'd be screaming about how all cops are bastards.
I'll trade all cops are bastards for religion is a business.
In this house we believe in stereotyping and short sighted beliefs
Bill gates?
That bastard?
The guy that got his wealth by exploiting thousands of workers? The guy that wants to get countries in the global south to overexert their healthcare resources eradicating a disease with no major outbreaks when they have real disease outbreaks to handle, all to fuel his ego as "the guy that eradicated malaria"? The guy that lorded millions of dollars over Oxford when the university wanted to open source their covid vaccine?
Yea, he's a bastard
