How come it's 'taboo' to mention how broken the economy is anywhere?

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[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

That's a very good point especially when it comes to public messaging. But that doesn't really explain individual responses. .

I think frankly there's an "anti-negativity" culture of sorts, where saying anything bad about anything is kinda viewed as anti-social by some, unless it's something that is agreed upon by everyone as ok to hate on, like Goldstein in the five minutes hate essentially.

That's where you get the super "Why don't you just shut up and enjoy the movie" responses to stuff like not enjoying the latest installment in tired overdone Hollywood franchise going straight into unbridled sheer hatred of someone like JK Rowling because of some twitter bull shit.

When it comes to the economy, a lot of people are just going to get upset by bad news and they'll attack the messenger. Why they are this way I don't know. There's certainly an opposite problem I've seen, where negativity bias causes people to become enthusiastically married to the idea of total economic collapse and they'll also attack the messenger who points out how that is unrealistic.

I think it's mostly a bunch of idiots with extreme views on the margins screaming bloody murder at everything and preventing more nuanced discussions from happening. You mention the economy is shit and getting worse and you'll find all the gold grifters and Weimar republic LARPers coming out of the woodwork. And god forbid you try to actually tell a gold hoarder that the government can just confiscate their gold if they want or you'll get the nth degree.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

don’t be cynical

Shut up and enjoy the movie.

Really great point, and I think ur right.

“Their driving the economy and our country into the ground”.

Shut up, eat your hamburger, and enjoy our demise or the sun down in peace and quiet.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

One can be an insufferable asshole about it if one goes on about it too much but I won't really participate in what I consider to be "fake positivity emotional wank sessions"

People seem to gravitate towards total doom and gloom or rainbows and sunshines. And get quite upset when others don't go along for the ride. You see that very often with issues like climate change where the discourse is split between "it's all a hoax lies! Everything is perfectly fine" and the "Oceans are boiling sky is falling human extinction imminent Earth be the new Venus!" Types.

In reality even the most dire climate change predictions don't predict imminent human extinction and most of the stuff you see in the news is basically social engineering. But, the people that realize they are being manipulated go the other way and flat out reject all of it which is also a stupid approach.

I think it's quite funny though how we could have essentially cut a lot of the carbon by simply going with nukes back in the day, but the same hippie types protesting those are the doom and gloom plastic straws will destroy the earth dumbasses we get today.

Oh you banned plastic straws and disposable plastic, I mean great, now we'll just have to make them out of paper and cut down more trees. Hooray. Also what does that do for carbon emissions? Fuck all?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. I really like the take:

fake positivity emotional wank sessions.

And

don’t go along for the ride.

You make great points.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

EXACTLY! I didn't think that about paper straws though but good point! Some places are giving you plastic straws again quietly.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Shup up and eat the cow they killed that never see's sunlight in the corporate farm. Actually it's the chickens that don't see sunlight at least I think it's only chickens.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sums it up.