• Vespair@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    It’s true, any time you have been slightly inconvenienced in life it was not mere coincidence but rather the targeted action of malicious wage workers against you specifically because they’re definitely that invested in your life.

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      The only way to take your revenge is to quit your job and take employment at a minimum wage service restaurant, in an effort to revisit the sleight against all those that have offended you.

      Anyone who does not start working minimum wage service work in this manner is merely faking their outrage for attention.

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        3 days ago

        Yes and I’m saying maybe instead of coddling the modern sense of cosmic self-importance by acceptance through jest, we should instead maybe tell people to like, grow up?

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          I really don’t see your argument here. The humor in the comic is based entirely on the subversion of expectation. Specifically the implicit understanding that these kinds of minor inconveniences are not the product of intent (malicious or otherwise).

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            I disagree, the humor in the comic is indulging out irrational feelings that things happen to us as a matter of cosmic consequence. This wouldn’t exist if we didn’t have a stupid internal voice that said to us “they’re doing this to you.”

            It’s “I know this isn’t true, but what if?”

            The problem is, people and psyche are subtle and nuanced, and by even acknowledging that question, even in jest which seems to point to understanding how silly it is, it effectively helps to legitimize said feeling.

            This is the case with a lot of “relatable memes,” tbh.

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          instead of coddling the modern sense of cosmic self-importance by acceptance through jest

          (anyone needing a translation of this admittedly fucking awesome sentence:)
          “instead of normalising entitlement with memes”