AND ANOTHER THING!!
Oct. 15th, 2011 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_losPer FB: "What's your stance on defriending people for cluttering your feed w/ douchey NeoCon status updates? One-strike policy? Last week realized I didn't NEED to give irksome older family members a regular platform for whining about how it's the unemployed's fault for being so darn unemployed during a massive recession, yuk yuk, and it was REVELATORY, but worry that am now drunk w/ power..."
The Backstory:
me: there is no greater peace than defriending a horrible family member with Thatcher quotes on his facebook wall
god I hate my family
Daniel: hahaha
me: Unless you physically gave birth to me, I don't really feel like putting up with your bullshit. And even then: I could do with less bullshit.
Daniel: who is the member
me: one of my mom's bros who friended me AGES ago and I casually went 'well, whatever'
Today he posted a pic of some wallstreet protestor with a sign about student loans--and the kid looked FINE, but had some tattoos and a relatively clean-looking beard.
"NAME REDACTED
This guy was at the Take Back Wall Street Rally... Hey Ewok - you should have thought of this before the tats, face iron and flattering personal grooming habits."
--and I was ABOUT to say "Man, that's so witty. My copious tattoos and facial hair are probably what's keeping me from being employed and paying off mine too! ...wait..." and then I was just like nope, defriending
'hurr hurr, he has a stupid beard, I am republican, hurrrrrrr'
'people without jobs in economic crisis suxsors!!'
Daniel: tattoos are expensive
i don't understand how these people get them
me: idk if *you* wanted to rag on the kid, I'd somehow be fine with that
but this old fart with his home depot job who dropped out of school to get arrested for drug dealing and then assmunched his way into a position in a boom economy and the floated, turd-like, to the top over time through no particular individual talent despite his federal conviction?
he can shut the fuck up about how other people need to dress nice and work hard
all this Thatcher ass clownery is really cute, for a fucker who can't vote in federal elections
I'm 100% sure the kid's neat little beard and tattoos easily covered by long sleeves are The Problem Here
when you can't fucking get hired to do data entry anymore without an expensive degree, and probably have to eat 5 other people to get THAT
jackass
Daniel: hahahhaha
OWNED
convicted felon says what?
me: I was going to just saaay it to his face(book), but then I was like, no, don't out him--just walk away
EVEN IF HE DESERVES IT
'HEY, IF, LIKE THATCHER, YOU BELIEVE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SOCIETY--WHAT LOCKED YOU UP AGAIN?'
And today, fresh fuckwittage from a uni friend. As I told Tu today, I SERIOUSLY do not get the point of the "EUGH I AM NOT PART OF THE 99% I HAVE THREE JOBS AND EAT MY FEELINGS!!" backlash!people. Like, do you think that's... good? Why are you... anti-increased bank legislation because of that? What about that state of affairs makes you not want super-rich people to pay your level of taxes? It's not even that I disagree with you (though obviously I do because I'm not unbelievably stupid), it's that I ALSO don't see the rhetoric behind this argument/performative statement. Idek. I see that it's a smug reaction against the perceived 'laziness' of those unemployed and thus able to protest, or an internalized Protestant fear of 'whining' that I think Fromm would argue has always been a form of hierarchical control. What I don't get is how people think the hilariously self-loathing 'I'M NOT PART OF THAT PERCENT YOU SPEAK OF BECAUSE I AM CURRENTLY HEALTHY AND PRIVILEGED ENOUGH THAT I CAN GET AND WORK THREE SHITTY JOBS AND KIND OF SURVIVE!!!" rhetoric connects up to the issues it's ostensible about. Where is Disraeli, that he might cream himself over stupid poor people's eternal panting willingness to take class & wealth stratification up the ass without lube?
In other words sometimes I hate facebook.
ANYWAY, currently listening to:
I like a lot of this album, though I suspect it appeals to something a bit sophomoric in me. Ah well. It's also vaguely D/M fannish, for me, at points? Hm.
And obsessed with this video:
I mean who isn't, but seriously beautifully composed, and just so JOYOUS--it's a case of the music overcoming the lyrics and dripping bright, brassy, unconquerable triumph. It's not about the grinding and riding she suggests, it's about the victorious ascent of her voice, the love, the wonder, the movement, the thunder--and hell, sometimes the lyrics are great. 2:11's assertion of personal power--pitch PERFECT. and I LIKE the dancers/female musicians. The sloppy workout clothes around 2:30, contrasting with the earlier elegant lines and letting the dancers' movements come to the fore: yes! Her captivating expressions, her sparky Houston shout-out, the dancing--I initially didn't love the thrice-repeated 'Countdown'm but in the same way I initially thought 'Bad Romance' weird and jarring and later totally got used to it (meh, Gaga) and appreciated having had to overcome dissonance to like it.
The Backstory:
me: there is no greater peace than defriending a horrible family member with Thatcher quotes on his facebook wall
god I hate my family
Daniel: hahaha
me: Unless you physically gave birth to me, I don't really feel like putting up with your bullshit. And even then: I could do with less bullshit.
Daniel: who is the member
me: one of my mom's bros who friended me AGES ago and I casually went 'well, whatever'
Today he posted a pic of some wallstreet protestor with a sign about student loans--and the kid looked FINE, but had some tattoos and a relatively clean-looking beard.
"NAME REDACTED
This guy was at the Take Back Wall Street Rally... Hey Ewok - you should have thought of this before the tats, face iron and flattering personal grooming habits."
--and I was ABOUT to say "Man, that's so witty. My copious tattoos and facial hair are probably what's keeping me from being employed and paying off mine too! ...wait..." and then I was just like nope, defriending
'hurr hurr, he has a stupid beard, I am republican, hurrrrrrr'
'people without jobs in economic crisis suxsors!!'
Daniel: tattoos are expensive
i don't understand how these people get them
me: idk if *you* wanted to rag on the kid, I'd somehow be fine with that
but this old fart with his home depot job who dropped out of school to get arrested for drug dealing and then assmunched his way into a position in a boom economy and the floated, turd-like, to the top over time through no particular individual talent despite his federal conviction?
he can shut the fuck up about how other people need to dress nice and work hard
all this Thatcher ass clownery is really cute, for a fucker who can't vote in federal elections
I'm 100% sure the kid's neat little beard and tattoos easily covered by long sleeves are The Problem Here
when you can't fucking get hired to do data entry anymore without an expensive degree, and probably have to eat 5 other people to get THAT
jackass
Daniel: hahahhaha
OWNED
convicted felon says what?
me: I was going to just saaay it to his face(book), but then I was like, no, don't out him--just walk away
EVEN IF HE DESERVES IT
'HEY, IF, LIKE THATCHER, YOU BELIEVE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SOCIETY--WHAT LOCKED YOU UP AGAIN?'
And today, fresh fuckwittage from a uni friend. As I told Tu today, I SERIOUSLY do not get the point of the "EUGH I AM NOT PART OF THE 99% I HAVE THREE JOBS AND EAT MY FEELINGS!!" backlash!people. Like, do you think that's... good? Why are you... anti-increased bank legislation because of that? What about that state of affairs makes you not want super-rich people to pay your level of taxes? It's not even that I disagree with you (though obviously I do because I'm not unbelievably stupid), it's that I ALSO don't see the rhetoric behind this argument/performative statement. Idek. I see that it's a smug reaction against the perceived 'laziness' of those unemployed and thus able to protest, or an internalized Protestant fear of 'whining' that I think Fromm would argue has always been a form of hierarchical control. What I don't get is how people think the hilariously self-loathing 'I'M NOT PART OF THAT PERCENT YOU SPEAK OF BECAUSE I AM CURRENTLY HEALTHY AND PRIVILEGED ENOUGH THAT I CAN GET AND WORK THREE SHITTY JOBS AND KIND OF SURVIVE!!!" rhetoric connects up to the issues it's ostensible about. Where is Disraeli, that he might cream himself over stupid poor people's eternal panting willingness to take class & wealth stratification up the ass without lube?
In other words sometimes I hate facebook.
ANYWAY, currently listening to:
I like a lot of this album, though I suspect it appeals to something a bit sophomoric in me. Ah well. It's also vaguely D/M fannish, for me, at points? Hm.
And obsessed with this video:
I mean who isn't, but seriously beautifully composed, and just so JOYOUS--it's a case of the music overcoming the lyrics and dripping bright, brassy, unconquerable triumph. It's not about the grinding and riding she suggests, it's about the victorious ascent of her voice, the love, the wonder, the movement, the thunder--and hell, sometimes the lyrics are great. 2:11's assertion of personal power--pitch PERFECT. and I LIKE the dancers/female musicians. The sloppy workout clothes around 2:30, contrasting with the earlier elegant lines and letting the dancers' movements come to the fore: yes! Her captivating expressions, her sparky Houston shout-out, the dancing--I initially didn't love the thrice-repeated 'Countdown'm but in the same way I initially thought 'Bad Romance' weird and jarring and later totally got used to it (meh, Gaga) and appreciated having had to overcome dissonance to like it.
