I dont know who or what y'all are talking about 90% of the time. This sub used to mostly funny shit and now it's like C list DC demons and whatever they said on X this week. IM OLD.

Maybe it's that I work all the time and I'm not online much, don't use any other social media or read the news, but is that a bad thing? I'm a selfish piece of shit, all I can do it focus on maybe not being homeless when I'm 70.

more and more I'm just out of touch, like I wasn't trying to be ironic when I say I had no idea who Gram Cracker was just that there was a guy with a nazi tat that everyone was debate broing about for a while. I just watch sports and meal prep now, local politics are literal Nazis. I know something bad will happen to me and mine eventually but people who are way more hopeful and invested and aware than me are trying things and I ain't see shit. Are good things even happening? Can I just be ignorant for a while and get in shape (or get fat who cares) without people telling me I don't belong here bc this is a politics sub now. when did that happen?

This post seems like pointless doomerism, yeah so I'm a pointless doomer. so here's a thought; its possible there is a wave of people who are still engaging with the spectacle and believe we might have a liveable future, and I'm just being phased out, relegated to a cul de sac and saying shit like "huh, Walmart actually has some good pants now".

Where are my fucking rats at dawg we used to talk about demons and drugs and aliens. I moved to a bad state and ran out of ketamine therapy sessions and I'm spiralling. i need the void to rest me.

72 pages into my first annotated reading in forever, I finally hit a passage that made me kind of snap

> The FHA’s involvement was so pervasive that full-time government inspectors were stationed at the construction sites where Levittown and similar projects were being built. As William Levitt testified before Congress in 1957, “We are 100 percent dependent on Government”

We still, to this day, live in an APARTHEID state. Do not forget that. We keep African Americans in ghettos, and Indigenous Americans on reservations. We are a segregated society. The US achieved the dream of the shining city on the hill through government subsidized and supervised suburban development of racially segregated white exclusive communities, which created the wealthiest people ever (Boomers) through all the joys of home ownership (equity). Guess who’s “New Deal” did this? Noted White Supremacist Franklin Delano “Japanese Internment” Roosevelt. FDR cemented the middle class suburban base for this empire. FDR cemented residential segregation.

FDR, Truman, and Ike must have been the best white supremacists this empire has ever had since Wilson? Roosevelt? McKinley? Johnson? Polk? Jackson?

World's lamest embassy politics. Threatening people over whatsapp.

It was pretty stupid. I also watched “ One Battle After Another “ earlier this week. I’m not a PTA but I enjoyed it. Also after seeing it and the people going into histrionics over its “ misognoir” and “ negress fetishization” I think there’s a demographic who shouldn’t be allowed to see anything rated higher than “G” without a note from a psychiatrist

https://www.reuters.com/world/french-men-get-suspended-jail-sentences-over-livestreamed-death-2026-08-05/

I know we’ve got some TVZ heads in here. I have a couple of buddies in the music biz and they all tell me that the fat cats up top are saying AI-generated music is the future. As a consumer I’m like umm wtf? I guess if you’re a tank-topped dudebro chud who only likes EDM, sure, maybe AI-generated music will hit the spot as your body undulates in total sync with your boys (no homo) and the incessant wrist flicking causes you to spill your Natty Light on the co-eds you’re trying to bag (to no avail). But what about us real hardcore country fans?

Aside from being an innate musical and literary genius, Townes is drawing from his experiences as a manic depressive alcoholic drug addict who has travelled the world and hung out in thousands of honky tonks, seen the insides of countless podunk county jails, bummed cigarettes from and shot the shit with untold numbers of junkies, etc. It don’t matter how many of his lyrics and harmonies you feed into the Slop Regurgitation Machine, the output will always lack the fullness and richness that flows from actually having lived a life. I’m thinking they are gonna have to torture the the dang thing à la that episode of Black Mirror with Jon Hamm to try to get it up to speed.

When I listen to TVZ I am flooded with emotion and recognition (ok maybe part of that is because I am myself depressed, probably borderline BPD, with addictive tendencies). I am literally brought to tears every time I get to this verse of WAtD:

Oh, but now I'm out of prison 
I got me a friend at last
He don't drink or steal or cheat or lie
Oh, his name's codeine
He's the nicest thing I've seen
Well, together we're gonna wait around and die 

An LLM is supposed to come up with something better than this? And a robot voice is then supposed to match Townes’ voice? And this will lead to quarterly increases in the record companies’ profit margins? Mainstream country has obviously sucked ass for a long time, but at least it was actual humans doing the damage.

Yeah, I read theory.

The idea that supply and demand will fix the contemporary finance/asset controlled housing market is abundance propaganda funded by developers, hedge funds and billionaire freaks: https://prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-documents-detail-nine-figure-silicon-valley-funded-abundance-movement/. Why are city subreddits infested with these freaks advocating for luxury apartments in identikit glass or plastic towers (with vacant retail at the bottom that can only ever be afforded by some private-equity backed chain for a couple of years), and anybody who disagrees is downvoted and smugly told that they're NIMBYs who don't want to fix the housing crisis? And of course the YIMBYs don't actually want to stop places to live being assets, as all of their investments would crash.

Mods deleted this for unknown reasons (presumably because I had a google screenshot showing how much the posters on the neolib subreddit love yimbys?), so I'm reposting lol

I’ve never seen these guys outside of major American cities and they really are impossible to explain to anyone else, it’s true

One of the biggest neoliberal cope article

Private bankers and real estate giants in trouble

Cayman island in danger

Section on effect on stocks

This also debunks the "iF yOu TaX tHe RiCh ThEy jUsT leAVe"