Pet Peeves

[The Heretic]

It's their money, they can spend it on whatever the they want, although potential certain death would be off my bucket list. In any event the hypocrisy is rife with virtue signallers. A subset of the same people probably pay subscriptions to watch footballers get paid ridiculous money to kick a ball about and act the cunt when tackled, its all relative.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

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

I don't know. I'm not hopping on the sneering bandwagon, to be clear. Tis as ye say, crass, and mostly a social media game anyway.

Just saying I don't think there's that many who fall into both camps there, so it seems like a weird point to pick? Really haven't seen nor heard that set of opinions expressed in combination often, but maybe I need to spend more time in estates in the north of England!

[ldj]

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

I'd disagree, the greatest trick ever played on the working class under capitalism is that if they work hard enough they can be wealthy, this is the whole basis of the American dream, anyone can become a billionaire if they pull up their bootstraps, and if you don't become a billionaire, well, you just didn't work hard enough.

The working classes aren't resentful of wealth, they're resentful of the rigged system that dooms them working for peanuts for the benefit of a handful of super-rich.

[Bürggermeister]

Thanks, comrade. You started out by accusing me of saying the working class should know their place. I made it clear I was saying the opposite, are you now saying the working class should (and quite possibly do) know their place?

[ldj]

Thanks, comrade. You started out by accusing me of saying the working class should know their place. I made it clear I was saying the opposite, are you now saying the working class should (and quite possibly do) know their place?

Not really, I just think it's odd you're on here crying about the lack of sympathy for a group of billionaires who killed themselves doing something stupid, and then using that to create some weird narrative about the working classes not being ambitious enough to be billionaires,and on top of that you think working class people should be grateful for the crumbs that drip down while they slave away making money for said billionaires.

[Bürggermeister]

You have a very interesting interpretation of the last few posts 🙂

[ldj]

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.

[Bürggermeister]

Yep. Next time you get on a plane to fly somewhere on holiday or for a gig, bear in mind all the kind rich folk who selflessly gave their money and their lives in the early years of aviation, when it was the frequently lethal domain of the wealthy, so now you and I can afford to spend money frivolously on luxury things like tourism in relative safety   

[Bürggermeister]

I'm putting in smilies now because either you have a blind spot for very obvious efforts at humour or my very obvious efforts at humour skills are not what I hoped. Either way, you're quoting a (hopefully very obvious) attempt at humour and engaging on a lecture in communism over it 😉

[ldj]

I was hoping it was satire  .

[Bürggermeister]

 

[Ollkiller]

For all their billions they couldnt understand that a submersible that did not go through the proper safety protocols and was steered by a fucking playstation controller might not be the ideal vessel to go deep sea diving. Absolute clowns.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Hubris; great when it pays off, hilarious when it doesn't. That's about the sum of it.

[astfgyl]

For all their billions they couldnt understand that a submersible that did not go through the proper safety protocols and was steered by a fucking playstation controller might not be the ideal vessel to go deep sea diving. Absolute clowns.

I've heard those Logitech controllers are great

[open face surgery]

Hubris; great when it pays off, hilarious when it doesn't. That's about the sum of it.

Debris; hilarious when found.