Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
Reminds me of this headline from The Onion from right after 9/11
Are you not entertained?
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
I miss the time when the president wearing a tan suit was the biggest scandal in politics.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Right?
Who gives a flying fuck?
I guess the answer is apparently a shit ton of losers with no lives of their own.
I feel insulted that I’ve even been forced to be made aware of this over the last 48 hours.
deacon@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It isn’t helpful to think of them as losers. Like the image says, no bread all circuses. Without making any inferences about these two people pictured, the media and public focus on their engagement is in the service of maintaining and strengthening the status quo power structures.
Resist the urge to dismiss this as crank conspiracy thinking. There is a system, even if it wasn’t designed and even if it isn’t organized. And the media is by and large a tool of that system.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“We should stop indulging in celebrity and start GIVING A FUCK!”
“Okay, what should we give a fuck about?”
<insert list of cataclysmic horrors for which nobody in the audience has any agency>
“Wow, thanks. Now I’m full of helpless anxiety. Anything I can do about any of this?”
“DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!”
“Well, this has been enervating as fuck. If you don’t mind, I’m going back to hide in my den and watch movies until the world ends.”
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
“Wake up sheeple!”
“OK cool youre right I see now, I understand. What are we gonna do about it?”
“They’ve played you for fools! WAKE UP SEE WHATS HAPPENING”
“Yeah I see its awful. How can we help?”
“You’re a pawn in their game WAKE UP”
“Fuck it gonna go have a wank”
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yes but did you hear about Cracker Barrel??
DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 hours ago
That they fired Brad’s wife after eleven years of service?
Kirk@startrek.website 18 hours ago
idk OP… this is a lot more effort than I put into things idgaf about.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
The point here isnt whoever tjose people are.
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
That is a lot of effort to say that you don’t care…
hansolo@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I’m marginally happy that anyone anywhere is in love. Cool beans.
Beyond that, I’d rather see people I know have happy and healthy lives. FSM knows they deserve it just as much as these two.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
R’amen to that!
makyo@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Holy shit banning private jets, yes please
rothaine@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I dunno man. You’re already supposed to get to the airport 2 hours early.
Can you imagine the absolute clusterfuck if you were in the security line at the same time as Taylor Swift?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
No bread , all circuses
I’ve been saying a variation for the past year or a bit longer “Circuses are cheap, bread is expensive”
That’s why we have so much entertaiment, but no housing.Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Except the circuses AREN’T cheap anymore either, what with the likes of Ticketmaster/Live Nation making it so a concert ticket costs as much as a car and the NFL’s only goal being to maximize the profits of the team owners.
Just to use the examples directly related to the billionaire and multimillionaire depicted.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, you’re right. I’m talking more about the clown shows in the news and political systems. Although a netflix subscription or a phone plan is a lot cheaper than a mortgage, and the boomers love to say that the comuters and internet are why we can’t have houses.
Watching this idiot lipsync after flying in to a concert you paid a month’s wage for is a fucking insult.
modestmeme@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m annoyed by celebrity culture, but geezus anti-celebrity culture can be just as insufferable.
Just tune it out people.UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Just tune it out people.
I only ever seem to hear about Taylor Swift via memes that tell me not to care about Taylor Swift.
the_q@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Ah yes the anti anti…
Vupware@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
No! People need to get their heads out of their ass and focus on what is important.
It is right and just to hate on people who only speak up when the topic is useless drivel. They should be ashamed of their inaction and their complacency is disgusting.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I think we’re at a point where we can all agree that having interests beyond what’s serious and exigent is healthy and reasonable. Now we need to get past the idea that not liking something that’s popular (like sports and entertainment) makes you better than people who do. It doesn’t make you better.
People who like Taylor and Travis and want them to do well are not automatically complacent in other areas of their lives. They don’t have their heads up their asses for this reason. They have nothing to be ashamed of, talking about topics that, in your opinion, are useless drivel. Especially here, on the internet.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Yeah, I don’t mind propaganda, just don’t listen.
That’s a joke, in case it was not obvious.
deacon@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Everyone should really read ALL of this image. The headline obviously resonates with a ton of people, but there is a bigger message here that people need to engage with.
I don’t know if this is OC from the author or not, but this is genuinely brilliant.
Kirk@startrek.website 13 hours ago
/r/im14andthisisdeep
deacon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’m 44 and this is actually stone cold sober reality but have a day friend.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
The first I heard of Swift’s engagement was reporters asking Trump to react, cause every fucking thing is about Trump
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Finally, some good-ass manual meme creation!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
good ass-manual meme
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.
Kurious84@eviltoast.org 16 hours ago
Baby on board. That was her plan all along. Which is fine. Just saying it was obvious from the get go. She has the world and the only thing she doesn’t have is a baby.
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Cyberpunk Circuses
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Let people be happy about something. this is not helping anyone.
if there is ONE person on the planet who would by popular vote be allowed to have a private jet, it’s TayTay.
Gossip was and is a part of human nature, denying it makes no friends for your cause. Don’t call it bullshit, just because you don’t care.
If you want to DO ACTUAL GOOD:
put a story of palestinian/israleli couple on the fake front page.
Highlight the out of control Israel government with a story that shows protests in israel.
Be FOR something instead of AGAINST something.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You can argue they are for the end of worthless celebrity worship. Which is something I stand with