As I recently said to a friend: “I fucking hate being right.”

And he said “I fucking hate you being right.”

(he was never in disagreement, he just still had a sliver of hope)

  • @apex32
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    511 month ago

    If you want to see an apocalyptic political satire black comedy film that explores this concept, watch Don’t Look Up (2021).

    • @Allonzee
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      The final lesson of the movie is important.

      The sociopaths ending the world will never be satisfied, and they’ll win because good people have too many rules and too much good faith. It isn’t the failure of decent people, hug your loved ones, be happy and content as the sociopath capitalists can’t be.

      The greed class will end the world for our species, but unless you let them turn yourself into them trying to beat them at their own monstrous propaganda game, and you can’t beat them as they revel in lies and cruelty like decent people can’t, they can’t force you to be as empty, hateful, and insecure inside as they have to be to need so much affirmation and power(capital).

      They have no friends, they have no loved ones, they have no trust, only associates and threats and assets and “big moves.” They see their own children as investments in legacy that they cast aside when they fail to become hateful, greedy, ambitious little clones of themselves.

      • @P1k1e
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        161 month ago

        The intentions are pure and the message is good, but I’ll be goddamned if it’s gonna go that way

        Do not go gentle into that good night

        • @Allonzee
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          101 month ago

          Rage em if you got em, I’m spent.

        • @AeonFelis
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          71 month ago

          You know it’s satire because the tech-bro billionaire’s future-predicting AI was accurate.

      • @[email protected]
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        The funny thing was when people criticized it for being so on the nose and unrealistic

        Well… here we are!

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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      181 month ago

      I remember when that blew up during the pandemic, and everyone was thinking it was about COVID. In reality, it had started production way before the pandemic was on most peoples’ radars, and was intended to be about climate change. But the partisan reactions to both so closely mirrored each other, that it was easy to mistake.

    • Final Remix
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      131 month ago

      That movie’s so depressing and frustrating.

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        So you’re saying its tone is accurate of reality.

        • @Snowclone
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          91 month ago

          Reality is so much worse then pessimism. People have no idea how much even the most dreary and down trotten people they could ever meet are unjustifiably optimistic compared to the raw numbers.