Pet Peeves

[Bürggermeister]

 

[ldj]

Are yous not just virtue-signalling about people taking the piss out of them dying because they literally had more money than sense?

Virtue-signal inception.

[Eoin McLove]

Life is one big virtue signal, you just have to choose the right side not to end up looking like a grade A gimp. Plant that flag, bro!

In fairness though, people who use the word privilege in every second sentence are the same pricks who type FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS on their iPhone. It's a quick and reliable way to make yourself look like a muppet. For further education on the matter just stay tuned.

[Bürggermeister]

The rich paved the way for interesting things like flying and even the motorised transport we now take for granted to eventually become commonplace and affordable enough so the likes of us peasants could get a taste of the sugar, too. Many of them died heroically fulfilling this duty. Lots of them will perish normalising and bringing the cost of space tourism down, for example. Don't let your inability to afford the nice things turn you into a jealous cunt, pointing cuntily at some corpses and weeping crocodile tears for some other corpses as if you actually give a shit, when you really don't and are just using the poorest corpses to try and give your petty economic begrudgery some validity.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

At the same time, it is fairly Darwin award stuff though, especially from the engineer, Stockton Wing or whatever his name is. Like this wasn't cutting edge technology that failed but will carry our knowledge forward by us learning from why it failed. He built it in certain ways he was told not to because we already know they're not suitable to the purpose.

[ldj]

Using the death of billionaires who were too dumb to live into a narrative about the working class needing to 'know their place' is a bit of a reach too.

[open face surgery]

Yep, it was a death trap and he seemed like a total charlatan. These people weren't groundbreaking explorers, they were rich idiots.

People having to compare it to immigrants dying in rafts etc is sickening shite but that's just the way of the world these days. One issue cannot be uncomparable to another, it seems.

[Bürggermeister]

a narrative about the working class needing to 'know their place' is a bit of a reach too.

Actually, it's quite the opposite.

[ldj]

a narrative about the working class needing to 'know their place' is a bit of a reach too.

Actually, it's quite the opposite.

Depends on your perspective. Pretty much every billionaire makes their money from exploiting the working class.

You seem to think people should strive to join them, I'd like to think most working class people would just want affordable housing, healthcare, education etc.

If becoming a billionaire was so easy I'd wonder why you hadn't stopped being a bum and done it already, you just need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps.

[Bürggermeister]

Our relatively comfortable way of life relies on exploiting somebody. In our case, they're often on a different continent, maybe that's how you and I sleep soundly at night?

[ldj]

Our relatively comfortable way of life relies on exploiting somebody. In our case, they're often on a different continent, maybe that's how you and I sleep soundly at night?

That's true, but I'm betting we'd sleep a little more comfortable if we did have affordable essentials such as housing, I also don't think you'd sleep any worse if all of those people worse off could sleep comfortably too.

The billionaires might have one less 0 in their bank but they'd still be doing pretty good, sure one less 0 and those lads on that submarine might even still be alive.

[Bürggermeister]

I don't disagree with you at all. Who here has suggested poverty was ever a good thing? The point I made was about the ingrained resentment of wealth - the notion of taking pride in being poor and never striving for more, the greatest trick ever played on the working class which, sadly, many still buy into - from those who already have a relatively high standard of wealth compared to those they're using as justification for taking some level of satisfaction in the death of some rich people. The same ones crowing about the dead rich people also, let's be very honest, owe their place in life to denying wealth to the poor bastards drowning in the Mediterranean, who our way of life exploits and, furthermore, voted to deny them an opportunity to share in our way of life when they decided to "take back control" of their borders and reduce the numbers of immigrants they would allow into the party in the first place.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

I would not assume many who voted to take back control of the borders as you say would be the same people protesting/giving a shit about the thousands drowning in the Mediterranean.

[Bürggermeister]

Do you think many of them comparing the deaths genuinely give a flying fuck about either?

[Eoin McLove]

Sneering at people who have drowned simply because they are wealthy and covering it up by pretending to be making some sort of political point is pathetic. It is the dictionary definition of virtue signalling. If they were making a joke in bad taste and taking the flak for it with good humour I would say fair enough, especially if I found it funny. But pretending to be a citizen deeply concerned with the plight of the poor while being a spiteful cunt... I'm not going to swallow that, no sir.

Avoiding social media and social wars generally helps, though