the left requires one foot in the world as it is and one foot in the world as it should be. you place both feet in the world as it should be and you’ll have no positive effect on the world. you place both feet in the world as it is and you’ll have no positive effect on the world.
@Rowndlet the best clubs in the world take your phone away and it makes for a vastly better vibe.
phones in the club are for suburbanite losers I'm afraid
Gwyneth Paltrow says her husband is a progressive and that he “wants to make sure everybody’s looked after.”
Paltrow says that she’s “pretty centrist” and adds that her husband “thinks I’m a Republican.”
She says she’s not a Republican, but an independent, and that she doesn’t “feel anything right now…”
@M_Core_Aberrant@MetalBlakedowns fails to consider that maybe the artist doesn't want a thousand phones in their face and they're entitled to ask for that. if you don't like it don't go
and this "I'm at the point where every show may be my last" is a ridiculous thing to say unless you have cancer or something
Western reactionaries: "It's okay for us to slaughter Iranian civilians because their government is bad."
Certain self-proclaimed anti-imperialists: "The only possible way to rebut that argument is to insist that the Iranian government is actually good."
@Indigo6553 The more people focus on tentpole mega acts the more people overlook how good of a time you can have seeing smaller acts for a fraction of the cost
this culture where deified music stars charge $300-$3000 for tickets, their fans lead an ascetic existence, barely going out bc they blew their yearly entertainment budget on two events, and therefore must assiduously phone document this presumed Core Memory, is so depressing
@evmcglam A lot haven’t but a lot have too. At some point it becomes an easy excuse to stay locked in familiar patterns.
I think a lot of people discount the fact that you can just ‘fall into’ socializing very easy at 22 but it’s always required a bit of effort at 30, pre-pandemic too
not bodies approaching 30!!
yup, it’s true folks. If you missed your mid-20s you might as well pack it in. nobody 32 goes to cool events, nobody 36 ever travels to places they want to go to, impossible to make friends in your 30s. your identity can’t evolve after pandemic/20s
everyone i know in their late 20s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 20s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 23-year-old brains in bodies approaching 30
@pixiazul 30 year olds are ridiculed for leaving the house or going on vacation? I don’t see a lot of that myself but I’ll take you at your word. An important part of being in your 30s is understanding that the opinions of 22 year olds should be as relevant to you as the opinion of kids
@RizzTheRatat@RAGNAROKNR0LL Since I bought an overpriced thing I’m entitled to do whatever the fuck I want. I’m the lord of the universe bc I’m the consumer and I’ll use a pseudo-class conscious argument to bolster the consumerist mentality I’ve been reared on by capitalism my whole life
@ihuffclearcoat but the overplanning seems to be in part a response to thinking you can only have ‘transcendent moments’ if you’re spending thousands.
and if you’re spending thousands you can’t risk it not hitting.
seems people do this on vacations too, which is a miserable way to travel
@ihuffclearcoat couldn’t agree more
I’ve gone to things pretty frequently for twenty years and I don’t think my motivation has ever been “I must make memories that will last a lifetime” lol
I’ve never approached life as if that was something you could plan in advance, let alone buy.