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fuck sri lanka don't give two fucks. |
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We buy a lot of product from a company in Sri Lanka. It's been a total disaster. I've driven autos (tuk-tuks) all around the country. Was never impressed - but I do feel for the people. As usual, governments create suffering instead of prosperity. |
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mostly just a reaction to bbc world service just being a steady stream of utter disasters in far-away places, loads of them, constantly, to the point where i am like: is this the one in africa or the other thing? that so many i'm getting them jumbled up and at that point i just sort of throw my hands up in the air, and say: you know what? i didn't cause this, i cannot do anything about it, why should i care, why am i even listening to this? and turn off the NPR icecast floe but it's kind of like "care" is a muscle and it's tired of running a marathon some days. and nothing against sri lanka itself. just, oh hell no, not another cognitive/emotional burden. get lost sorry sri lanka has screwed teh ur produkt. |
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My happiness increases inversely to the amount of corporate media I consume. BBC/NPR/CNN/Fox/MSNBC/YouTube/etc That stuff sells you stuff while rotting your brain. It is so awful. I don't pay any of those companies attention whoring anymore. I am free and feel great. I am also always surprised when someone says 'I was watching BBC/NOR' - I just tune out. I know the next thing they say will be stupid - so I ignore it. Corporate media is the ruin of what's left of democracy, in my view. (sorry, feel better telling the truth) |
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^^^ typos from a rotted brain, clearly... |
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so i tune into NPR and it seems good at first: "...you might have to take care of an aging parent, you might have to keep that car until you're on a first-name basis with the tow-truck driver, you might have student debt... and you do these things so that when you get to the point you no longer can work, or want to work, you then have the resources to take care of yourself" and thus far i am thoroughly nodding and saying yes this is important conversation; there is policy there then they cut to the break and say: "we're talking about the finances of black women in america" and i immediately close the connection to npr's icecast. though i quite feel all of this myself, i am not a black woman, so i really have no business here |
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if it makes any sense -- like, zero personal bias, just a pragmatic assessment -- everyone is going through shit right now, and that makes it a rather poor approach to say "well i'm going through some shit because i'm a black woman" and stuff that noise can we just say "things are rough now" and have a hug and then "alright now what can we do about it" |
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tuned back in. bbc complaining about how only 20 of 400 roles went to latinos and james franco is playing fidel castro after sexual harassment allegations. i have to say i fail to see how these two things fit together, even though i'm not arguing with you when you say it seems the guy went over the line and should feel the heat for it then they cut to shouting out sponsors and this is why people just watch mr. beast on youtube; i hate that guy more than anything |
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i guess, it's a point about mixing concerns as a tactic to claim ownership over a grievance, with all the dividends provided. there are genuine concerns a black woman has that others in america do not. white actors regularly get cast in ethnic roles, the same way a school system will buy 40 licenses for windows 11 every year. james franco did something like "learn to do intimate acting scenes with james franco" and then obviously some girls sign up thinking it's just what it says on the tin and pay him a bunch of money for this and.. it's not what it says on the tin. but then you take it too far; you start saying "as a black woman, i have student debt," or "as a black woman, i have to take care of an aging parent" and at that point you are hardcore tuning everyone out from any sort of sympathy in your direction because like this youtube link will get pulled because it's doing weird ugly shit to dodge copyright cop and i've linked it because the ones that don't require age-verification because there's some f-bombs. i hate soccer moms |
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i guess i just feel like what i'm hearing is stuff like "the system is racist because james franco abused some poor girls and he's now been cast as fidel castro" and "the system is racist because i am black and i have student debt and an aging parent" and it's not like you can't find obvious places to call the system racist, but... step the fuck off |
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i guess it's kind of like i just put it all out of my mind; shrug it off. but eventually i just need to rant a bit and somehow i wind up here |
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i really miss when NPR was just weird cool interesting things like an hour journey into some weird specific ethnic music, when i could actually tune into 'wait wait don't tell me' by accident but now blink and you'll miss it. instead it's all syndicated TED talk BBC world poop |
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