DandomRude

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats the political message of Spongebob?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s true: Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob, and his team certainly had some socially critical intent when they created the show and its characters - after all, there are often deliberately exaggerated everyday situations and the like which address social issues in a humorous way.

  But also yeah, exactly: I added /s because, while the underlying message is at least somewhat recognizable, I presented it in such a pretentious way. I was just lazing around in bed and thought I’d have a little fun with some kind of pseudo-intellectual silliness.

  So /s - mainly so no one here thinks I’m some completely out-of-touch political theorist or something who actually takes this exaggerated view all too seriously :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats the political message of Spongebob?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mr. Krabs’s relentless emphasis on profit -expressed through wage suppression, obsessive cost-cutting, and the conversion of social relations into transactions -renders him a concentrated embodiment of profit-driven logic. SpongeBob’s boundless cheerfulness and dutiful labor on the other hand present the idealized worker who performs emotional compliance as part of his job; his behavior makes visible the moral contradiction at the heart of an economy that prizes surplus extraction over workers’ wellbeing. The Krusty Krab’s daily rhythms - timed shifts, commodified leisure, scripted upselling, and constant attention to margins - show how extraction becomes normalized through routine rather than force.

  The rivalry between Mr. Krabs and Sheldon J. Plankton further highlights the system’s subtly coercive nature: their ceaseless competition is less about innovation than about maintaining status atop the same extractive order, a ruthless free market theater in which two capitalists conserve and contest power while workers absorb the costs. The comedy works because it literalizes these dynamics - affection as account entry, friendship as transaction - so that the satirical clarity of the show forces viewers, even while amused, to recognize how profit as an organizing principle reshapes everyday life and renders cheerfulness itself a technique of compliance.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨COWARDS!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be great if that were the case, but unfortunately, I’m afraid it won’t last long. Gun lobbyists are already scrambling to strike deals that will sooner or later sway corrupt politicians. The fact that Western countries have still not imposed any sanctions - neither against the U.S. for its blatant violation of international law, nor against Israel for the same offense and, additionally, genocide - shows that this is a thoroughly realistic assessment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that’s a shame to hear. I’d read about his case some time ago, but now that he’s so openly siding with those responsible for precisely this kind of ridiculous abuse of the legal system, I’ve immediately lost interest - it’s inexcusable to me, because I firmly reject everything this criminal regime stands for. Besides, as I said: calling Afroman a musician would really be an exaggeration - no matter what standard you apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Afroman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Has he always been such a spineless traitor, or is he just sucking up to the orange pedo so he can get off the hook?

  I know absolutely nothing about this clown - except for the fact that he has remarkably little talent.

  Well, he’ll soon realize that the clan is even less interested in his shitty music than everyone else. What a moron…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb glasses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not the people who make the laws, but their representatives, who, all too often, unfortunately do not make decisions in the people’s best interest. Nevertheless, it is indeed the people themselves who decide whether to use Twitter, speak to a voice assistant, or reveal their personal secrets in an AI chat.

  Of course, it’s true that it may be appropriate to protect people from themselves, but I still think it’s also entirely appropriate to hold them accountable for their decisions and the consequences. For example, there are countless alternatives to Amazon, but people still order from there because it’s just so convenient.

  In addition, people could also put pressure on their representatives if they allow themselves to be bought off by lobbyists yet again. Unfortunately, that just doesn’t happen very often.

  What I’m getting at is this: None of what we’re experiencing today would be possible if people didn’t make it possible by buying products from companies that everyone knows are harmful to society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb glasses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wonder how we ended up here.

  Why do people use mainstream social media? Why do they buy those stupid glasses? Why do they willingly feed corporations their most personal data?

  Unfortunately, one has to conclude that it is, to a very large extent, people’s blatant stupidity that has led us to a point where there is now something like a new monarchy of unscrupulous billionaires - if not their stupidity, then at least their indifference, their apathy, and laziness. It’s just awful…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eric, Don Jr. invest in military drone company amid Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, the orange mob boss has nothing to worry about…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eric, Don Jr. invest in military drone company amid Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lately, I’ve been wondering more and more often what it would take for the American people to oust this regime from office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it is unfortunately becoming increasingly clear that even in the EU, billionaires and their companies are above the law. The legal situation should be clear here and there should be consequences - but there apparently aren’t any.

  Unfortunately, this applies not only to Twitter, but to most US tech giants in particular, to meta, for example. I have already stopped counting the massive violations of the GDPR that meta and others are constantly committing, because nothing happens anyway. If anything, the fines are so low that violating the law brings these companies far more revenue than it costs them.

  So unfortunately, the same major issue that brought the US to the brink of a straight up dictatorship also applies in Europe: even the most blatant violations of the law have no serious consequences for the richest of the rich – and that is why billionaires are becoming more and more powerful.

  The situation may be better in the EU for now than in the US, whose legal system obviously no longer even maintains the appearance of fairness, but even in the EU, the enforcement of the law is miles away from anything that could even remotely be called justice.

  The reason seems to me to be the same as in the US: concentration of power in a tiny billionaire class that asserts its influence through corruption.

  I think that if things continue like this, and I see no indicators that they will not, it will not be long before even the appearance of justice is abandoned in the EU as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you very much for the explanation :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone explain this to me? I’m out of the loop when it comes to mainstream social media, and I suspect that’s what this is about…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s fair to say that pretty much all the dystopian visions of the future from literature and films have now become reality. Brave new world…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The German philosopher Hannah Arendt asked herself a very similar question when, during the trial of Nazi official and war criminal Adolf Eichmann, she attempted to understand how a human being could be capable of such monstrous atrocities. In this context, she coined the term “banality of evil.”

  It is very worth taking a look at her book “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” because her observations in it are, unfortunately, once again highly relevant today.