saying the deserter is the final boss waow there's a whole like quarter of a game left

I mean yeah, aura farming is not 100% one thing because the nature of 'aura' as a meme is usually complimentary. I'd actually say that the Evola pic would probably resonate more with fascists (or young men who don't know better) with just an 'aura' caption rather than 'aura farming' because like I said - aura farming is usually derogatory.

'Yes bro we see the fit' and aura farming go hand-in-hand. It is not usually meant to be complimentary. Imagine you have a friend who out of the blue posts a pic of themselves at some popular/trendy spot clearly framed so their entire outfit you've never seen them wearing before is in the picture - that's aura-farming and most people would be like "yes bro we see the fit" in what would not exactly be a complimentary tone lmao. Now, if you complimented 'aura' on that post, you'd be a good friend in a way but i digress

what

i don't think 'aura farming' can really be tied to fascism quite like you're saying lol. I'm sure if you posted that pic of Evola on X and said 'aura farming' it probably would get a bunch of nazis gooning to it, but the actual slang itself was not borne out of someone posting Evola or anything like that. Literally one of the oldest usages of it as far as I could find was this tiktok of some kid doing the water bottle flip and hitting a strike at bowling lmao

edit: i wanna add that, in most uses, saying someone is 'aura farming' is not usually meant to be a compliment. Piccolo aura farming is the most common meme and the reason is because he always gets his ass clapped 5 nanoseconds afterwards. Someone like Ichigo or like, Lae'zel aura-farming is usually like "come on why are you aura farming right now" lol. (realizing all my aura farming knowledge is from anime & video game discussions and locking myself in the chamber until i've gotten it out of my system)

FIVE bladed weapons?? are they all just knives?? it sounds like they're all knives

At least 10 god willing

why did his parents name him 'one who struggles with god' lmao he's gonna be struggling alright, struggling to explain to god why he willingly participated in a genocide

boomers love the "you catch more flies with honey rather than vinegar" line but THEY NEVER PUT IT INTO ACTION.

Was once on a family vacation with one of my best friends, her parents are like 65ish. So not boomer boomers but they were able to buy a house right out of college on a single income, etc etc. Well, we had to change rooms suddenly at the hotel we were at and my friend's sister, hours later, realized the bottle of perfume her dead grandmother had given her was missing and was in tears talking about how she should've never brought it on the trip, yadda yadda. Well, she goes down to the lobby still crying and tells the manager on duty that she think it is in the bedside table's drawer & the manager is like

Well, turns out the lost and found DID have an empty ring box that was also in the drawer (she had bought a ring at some store and put the box in the same drawer with the perfume) - so sister comes back, still upset, and is like "I think one of the cleaning staff probably took it because the lost & found had the empty ring box but not the perfume and they were in the same drawer, so I'm not sure how one would've turned up but not the other".

Whole family is about to make a scene and me & her dad are both sitting there in the pool like "guys...chill out, forming a militia to hunt down some poor cleaning lady is not the move here" (in retrospect I should've just kept my damn mouth shut but I felt I had to be the voice of reason before a bunch of angry women started harassing every cleaning lady they saw about perfume)

Her mom looks at me and smiles. "ABC is right. You catch more flies with honey instead of vinegar. ABC will you come with me down to the lobby? I'm just gonna tell the manager that we're offering a $100 reward no questions asked if the perfume turns up" Stupidly, I say sure and go to the room to put on some dry clothes.

Tell me why the first words out of her mouth when we get down to the lobby and the manager shows up are "I'm not accusing ANYONE of theft but it seems like someone may have accidentally put it in their pocket..."

I wish I could've seen my face during this because the entire time I was sitting there just thinking "you're using vinegar! you're using vinegar!! this is not honey at all!!!"

and no, if you were wondering, the perfume did not turn up but I made sure to tip the housekeeping staff on our way out because none of them were willing to do so lol

its two syllables why would it need a nickname

"socialistic in a capitalistic society" lmao that's going on my tinder profile

Debt was written (at least partially) during the 2008 Financial Crisis so it makes sense that it is a lot different in tone/scope to Bullshit Jobs which was borne out of a bunch of essays.

Idk why OP even put Bullshit Jobs in the same vein as anything of Naomi Klein's because Bullshit Jobs doesn't even talk about 'totalitarianism' lol; and to be fair, even Shock Doctrine talks about various points in Chile, China, Iraq, and the USSR's histories like Pinochet's coup and Yetslin's dissolution of the USSR.

you've gotta live in the city for like 10 years at a minimum before you can even open your mouth about bodegas or the MTA so I don't think this plan is well thought out

the Queens grandmothers are not going to be happy when you knock on the door to canvas and they ask you "where are you from" and you say "i just moved here" they're gonna kill you

i say this as the son of a native NYC resident who moved out of the state (why did you fuck your children like this mother, we could've been living in Rochester or Albany since you didn't wanna raise kids in the city, why did you move out of the state...) but every time she goes back, our cousins/uncles/her friends who still live in the city will NOT give her the time of day once she starts yapping about how X or Y has changed - except for the Chinese restaurant they all used to eat at around Christmas, apparently it was the highlight of their childhood and all of them will get real morose anytime one of them brings it up.

i'm sorry but as a diabetic i'm not letting my friends breastfeed me to prevent a low - hypoglycemia take me i'm dying in the woods

actually i changed my mind i wanna be part of Butch's Tunnel Snakes

TUNNEL SNAKES RULE

Whichever gang snaps their fingers menacingly as they do shit; I think they'd probably be fun to hang out with and gentlemen all around

thanks babe did you like twin peaks

Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, & Twin Peaks: The Return - seminal to so many other TV shows and video games. Had a trans character (played by a cis man fwiw but still) in the 90s that was not meant as a joke and they return in 2017's The Return where Lynch gives the (arguably) famous "Fix your hearts or die" line. Great soundtrack throughout. And all around amazing cast of actors (many of which, sadly, never anything better afterwards). Can still be debated to this day about certain themes, the meaning, etc. If the theme song doesn't evoke something in you we can't be friends (I knew my best friend was my best friend when we used to live together back in 2016 and I was rewatching through S1-2 in prep for The Return & they came out of their room one night and went "alright tell me about this damn show, I've heard this theme song every night from my room for like the last week")

Mad Men - One of the shows that really ushered in the current 'golden age' of TV we're in at the moment (although I'd argue that ended basically; so maybe 'last golden age of TV' is more proper). The last show I remember getting really popular before streaming was big. Seven tight seasons of 1960s American advertising, the cynicism that dwells within it, and one man's struggles. This isn't exactly a communist show or anything & is set in the late 50s-60s, so there are moments where you'll go 'wtf is this' but the show never really tries to use the era for shock value. Also has an amazing soundtrack. Both Jon Hamm and Elizabeth Moss' big breaks & they never have a bad scene or episode. I will always recommend this one to people who haven't seen it because, like how Breaking Bad (which aired basically concurrently to Mad Men) and Game of Thrones were a lot of people's first 'prestige' TV show they watched as it aired, Mad Men was mine. Watch the Carousel pitch from the first season's finale if you want some idea of what the show is about.

The Rehearsal - I think Nathan Fielder and I would get along (or hate eachother) if only because we are very weird but also strangely sincere. Nothing like Nathan For You, which was more comedic but that isn't to say The Rehearsal doesn't share a lot of the same roots - it just goes in a different direction.

David Graeber slander you could've just recommended Debt instead of Bullshit Jobs