MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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‘I put my life savings in crypto’: how a generation of amateurs got hooked on high-risk trading
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/19/life-savings-in-cry...
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"Barstool Sports" aka David Portnoy, is one of the main leaders of these people you're trying to make a thread on.
FWIW He just tweeted this, about Dave Chapelle & the Foo Fighters and he has 2.9 million followers. And anti-woke sympathizer Gen x-er Yglesias just retweeted it.
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 11:00pm
Yeah, Radiohead covers will cure us. Just as long as they spare us Oasis - worse than the plague (or just as bad, to be fair)
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 8:21am
#cryptocrash trending; apparently is a bloodbath
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 8:51pm
Bloomberg pushing this video:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 9:24pm
Thought he was holding a condom - what gets up will go down
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 1:29am
the cryptocrash continues:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 3:38pm
just in case you haven't noticed these folks exist:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 8:00pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 3:15pm
At a catholic gathering? He was probably there looking for criminal pedophiles.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 06/26/2021 - 11:58pm
Idunno - I'm rethinking Jimmy Olsen and all these other young hangers-on. I suspect superheroes weren't doing this for adultation so much as childulation. Marvel, DC - we have a problem...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 7:26am
a considerable number of young people are enamored of extreme capitalistic endeavors perhaps because they think this (thought-provoker just retweeted by Matthew Yglesias):
Encouraging innovation and risk is fundamental to this cohort? Not like their "cancel Antonio at Apple" and "force Yglesias at Vox to be more politically correct" robotic identitarian hordes of their generation?
Also just a reminder to check out Shit Nonprofits Say from time to time.
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/26/2021 - 7:44pm
I would, but it would violate my professional non-bias, plus they might poach me.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/26/2021 - 8:19pm
noting another libertarian trend among the crypto friendly:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 2:25pm
I was immediately reminded of this tweet regarding recent Minneapolis protests and someone running them down with a car:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 2:32pm
Yeah, i read about Chinese doing it and I'm like "ugh", and then i see it in the US and it's like "that's cool..."
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 3:23pm
Carribean-heritage blacks cancel evil appropriation attempt by capitalist colonizing Afro-American overlord:
Enquiring minds want to know: Why not just cancel rum all together? It was part of the colonialist slave trade, after all.
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 5:24pm
and this is definitely appropriation of northeastern white Ivy League ruling class cultural traditions:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/28/2021 - 12:29am
Not just greedy capitalists but private do gooders! (Thousand points of light! Who needs gummint? So someone got a little freewheeling with the building codes, so we'll make up for it!)
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 5:41pm
and if they would just get rid of these authoritarian pigs and let people go dig through the wreckage for their own families with their own choice of volunteers?
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 5:48pm
much increasing desire for assets:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/28/2021 - 1:10am
related to the above - chart showing denial of reality acoming in the Pacific NW:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/28/2021 - 6:38pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/28/2021 - 6:53pm
Note who thinks they're saving the environment while the rest of the city dwellers jack up a/c use. Zero sum game?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/28/2021 - 9:48pm
It's the "it's only money and you can always make more and I just did by going viral" meme:
P.S. and it has gone viral
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/30/2021 - 3:43pm
This Gen's Rev Ike
The wretched, venal life of Rev. Ike
TONY NORMAN
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Columnist
[email protected]
AUG 4, 2009 10:00 AM
Even in death, Rev. Ike tried to keep the hustle going that made him a millionaire many times over. "In lieu of flowers," Ike Ministries announced before its scheming patriarch was cold to the touch, "Rev. Ike would ask that tributes and/or Offerings be sent to: Rev. Ike Ministries ..."
The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II -- that's "Rev. Ike" to us rubes -- died last week in Los Angeles from complications of a stroke he suffered two years ago. He was 74. We were so consumed with the White House beer summit, the health care debate and the president's slipping poll numbers that the passing of one of the nation's most remarkable scoundrels almost slipped by without notice.
Rev. Ike was a staple of AM radio when I was teenager in the 1970s. His sermons from the pulpit of the United Church Science of Living Institute in New York could be heard on 1,770 radio and television stations across the country. An estimated 2.5 million people tuned in every week to hear why enlightened greed and self-interest was closer to godliness than what our parents and Sunday school teachers taught us. He was our generation's Father Divine -- a media-savvy African-American huckster who made up the rules of the prosperity gospel as he went along....
[more..]
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/30/2021 - 3:56pm
here's another one:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/30/2021 - 4:24pm
Kabuki culture war protesting at Wi Spa in L.A. for social media "where's the outrage?" attention:
couple examples of some of the (probably staged) festivities:
And a couple a BTW's
Tucker's Folly. (he learned from Trump how to troll better?)
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/03/2021 - 5:15pm
Two grown black men clearly disgusted and embarrassed that "Democrats" stereotype them as belonging to what they think of as idiotic lowbrow hiphop culture:
this is the video they are talking about
On another note, I must admit as a first wave feminist I find most twerking pretty offensive. It's not really sexy, it's more like saying: fuck you, we're low,.base, stupid pieces of meat, and we like it that way, deal with it.
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/08/2021 - 8:58am
Well I'm sure you enjoyed the "twerking on the Emergency Vehicle sent to clean up the mass shooting" video I sent you. Great when memes converge, ain't it?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/08/2021 - 10:09am
Fight to PC-up the Bible
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/10/when-evangelical-snowflakes-censor-the-...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/11/2021 - 11:12am
there's still one born every minute:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/11/2021 - 12:11pm
two competing sub-cultures:
one found retweeted by Gen. Russel Honore:
(hope they are not the only one offering her a scholarship!)
and the other:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/11/2021 - 10:26pm
Now that the greatly increased percentage of children who identify as transgender can dream of becoming a respected lead actress in "Hollywood":
I wonder what happens to the psyches of children that identify as nongendered, as they still have to pick between being an "actor" or "actress."
And apology in advance for any age-related offense as I haven't kept up on whether it's still kosher to identify people as "children".
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/13/2021 - 7:23pm
Less sure if kosher to refer to people by Jewish deli meat categories.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 12:32am
there's still no such thing as bad publicity
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 4:26pm
a message from the Great Spaghetti Monster for those who believe vandalizing statues accomplishes something?
Psst: He's not a hero. He actually was: a victim! Famous because of victimhood. And furthermore, he was a victim who may have victimized others in his own life.
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 4:33pm
I note all the big right wing online voices seem to be on board with promoting this Bitcoin guy's new phone and helping the promotion go viral, starting today, with shipping starting in August
Keep in mind, though, that the concept he's selling is not necessarily "right wing", what it more accurately is is libertarian. And the latter is the political sympathy of most bitcoin maniacs (as well as quite a few geek iconoclasts.)
I have no idea of the practicality or whether it's bullshit or real, just pointing out the meme
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 4:51pm
Take it to The Man, man.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 5:07pm
interesting thread of bunch of lefties arguing about whether the DSA (Democratic Socialist party of America--a reminder that they basically took over the Dem party in Neveda earlier this year) is mostly a bunch of tankies or not. Starts here (I don't know who the Lina is that he is referring to):
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 8:20pm
hmmm, a relatively new twitter user, @krypto_kingpin wonders about something on Chicago police radio
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/15/2021 - 2:32am
no I didn't put this on the wrong thread, as it's already gone "viral" on twitter (no pun intended) I suspect stock in makers of RNA vaccines is going to go fucking crazee
and once again the Thos. Frank "what's the matter with Kansas" people, now Trump fans, anti-vaxxers, believers in Christian Science rather than Science, the Qanon, etc., are going to be "left behind"
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/16/2021 - 7:25pm
gotta say that personally I don't like this as an omen about the culture, it really creeps me out:
Give me like K-Pop kids instead, any day, that's normal stuff
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/22/2021 - 10:02pm
For us uninitiated the skinny
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/07/22/kanye-west...
Yeah, he can go away any time now.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/23/2021 - 6:19am
Trump just wasn't dark, depressing violent and sexist enough for the current reigning rap meisters?
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 10:50pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/26/2021 - 8:16am
Parapsychology quantified?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 12:55pm
I doubt this news is about generational desires, I'd be very surprised if all generations aren't included in these numbers. What it does though, is to CLARIFY ANARCHIST LEFTIES' campaign using Starbucks as one their favorites to attack as a multinational corporation is a total failure. Probably going into the range of "turn off people who might otherwise be friendlies", i.e. "I'm going to support the local Starbucks more precisely because you broke their window"
It's the greatest generation that notoriously didn't like the idea spending a lot on little luxuries, if they could find similar enough way cheaper they would think: crazy. My father was a true coffee addict all his life, would always have a togo cup from like Dunkin Donuts or a gas station with 7-11 type setup the moment he started a drive somewhere. And that was way before there were cup holders in cars. I think he would shrug at Starbucks, not knowing nor understanding much about it's reputation in pop culture and react that he can pay a lot less for coffee at McDonald's and hang around drinking it all day. At the same time, not being judgement either, he didn't pay attention to any pop culture about food, once notoriously saying about 20 years ago about a joke on TV what's wrong with fruitcake?! He truly wanted an explanation, had no idea. Grew up with people gifting it on the holidays and appreciating it.
Also about GenX I have two Gen X sister-in-laws and one Gen X bro, another Gen X bro-in-law, all very worldly, who became addicted to one or another version of Starbucks brand. Like on arrival to stay in a new nabe, the first thing they ask is "is there a Starbucks around here?" Almost ashamedly they have to admit to people they are staying with that have become addicted to that Starbucks to-go cuppa. Surely that became a thing when they were in college!
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 8:48pm
Hmm, maybe I'm not GenX - give me that bottomless diner coffee - I've got shit to write. Not sure how people focus in coffee shops anymore.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 11:16pm
Nature or nurture? Bronx Jewish experiment
(Are politics & diners hereditary?)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/a-bronx-tale-one-sperm-dono...
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 8:12am
BARBIE CONTINUES HER GREATNESS (yes as she/her). As a first wave Boomer feminist, who owned an original model as a child, I was always a supporter; she was be all you can be or imagine (if you could afford enough outfits to role play) and it wasn't her fault she had a deformed unrealistic body missing several joints and details like nipples and pubes, all the better for her physical handicaps:
(p.s. any girl who envied the original Barbie's body had a screw loose somewhere and perhaps needed a Dr. Barbie psychotherapist, maybe with a pink Corvette as a bonus?)
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 2:34am
Pretty sure Klaus Barbie ruined the Barbie brand in the psychotherapy sphere. A shame, really - the dolls would have certainly fit the Nazi aesthetic of the perfect woman.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 11:41pm
Health success, American style
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/08/2021 - 3:34am
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/08/2021 - 9:54pm
OIC here's what the wild kids these days are thinkin'?
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/15/2021 - 6:26pm