edit: now it’s a meme and we can all hug in the comments.

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    Somebody should make a movie around this message of jaded adults refinding their humanity in an absurd, hyperconsumerist world through the rejection of cynicism and embracing of liking things again, but cleverly disguise it as a movie made to sell plastic dolls to little girls to play on the concept of hyperconsumerism.

    I think this hypothetical movie will be a smashing success in the box office. And probably win the lead actress an Oscar this year.

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      Totally irrelevant to your comment, keep up the strike and hold the line! Assuming you’re the real Margot Robbie and have a prolific platform. I know it’s not fair, especially to the less recognizable members but a lot of other people who are thinking about unionizing are watching the WGA and SAG strikes to see if labour can still win. It’s not just you guys, we’re all with you. Even if they’re too stupid to realize this strike is more important than a new season of NCIS. Labour winning this strike proves that labour isn’t out of the fight and capital hasn’t completely won. Stay strong! Hold the line!

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      I’d like to think even as a jaded adult this isn’t just an impersonation.

      And I assume the Ken dance off scene is an allegory to the obliteration of the ego resulting in self reflection?

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        Ok if you had the opportunity to make Ryan Gosling do a dumb song and dance number you would have done the same thing.

        It’s funny for actors to play against type because it’s unexpected. Like Leslie Nielsen in “Airplane!”, for example.

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      I absolutely agree, I think you ahem that lead actress should win an Oscar.

      But I think it’s important that we don’t let enjoying things become synonymous with liking (mindless purchasing) the corporate products that are being sold to us at a breakneck pace.

      What ways do we have to still create our own ways to have fun? How can we make our own “weird barbies”?

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        The difference is that you should enjoy things not because nothing matters in this world (that would be hedonism.), but because the world matters to you, and you will fight to make it better.

        There comes a point in everybody’s life where they are faced with their own mortality and finally figure out what they are meant to do. None of us will be here forever, so, I think we should use our short time on this Earth to fight for a world where everyone is free to find their way in life, and be themselves again.

        Kinda vague, but everyone is different, so, everyone will have to figure it out on their own.

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      completely agree. people can have their decorations whenever and whatever else their heart desires, but i draw the line at christmas music

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    I don’t mind people putting up decorations early, it’s when stores swap out their seasonal stock early that triggers me

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      Last year local Home Depot started clearancing out Halloween decorations to make room for Christmas stuff in September.

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      Halloween is the only good holiday. It is the only one that maintains any connection to it’s pre modern roots. It is about giving candy to children for free fuck capitlaism. It is about enjoying everything society says is wrong. It requires some creativity in ways most people don’t get to experience the rest of the year. It invites experimentation and self expression.

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        Halloween is still pretty capitalistic. You have to buy the candy you are handing out, and are encouraged to purchase decorations and make your home thematic to the season

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        Have you just never been to a club on halloween? Halloween is, by no stretch of the imagination, free from capitalist endeavors.

        Those between 18 and 34 participate at the highest rate, and they end up spending the most on their costumes (capitalism).

        You can like Halloween all you want, don’t kid yourself into believing that it’s somehow “pure”

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    I don’t criticize people for enjoying those things, I criticize the corporations for relentlessly monetizing those things, making them insufferable and sucking all the enjoyment out of them for money.

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    Letting go of the part of you that judges other people is important. It hurts, because that is one of the few avenues of control we can experience in our lives alienated by capitlaism.

    Letting your self be free of those childish emotions and learning to replace them with love for your fellows is the path towards true happiness however. That is one of those weird tricks the government doesn’t want you to know. Except it is real and it works. The more negative you are about other people the more negativity you experience and the more treats you need to buy to survive. The heart of every true revolutionary is full of love.

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      You’re welcome to dislike something, but that doesn’t mean you need to discourage someone else from liking that thing. You can share an opinion without making it sound like it’s a sin against nature to disagree with that opinion.

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          PSLs are gross, overly sugarladen drinks and emblematic of both crass consumerism and America’s obsession with unhealthy food. Halloween decorations are gaudy and an eyesore and also emblematic of crass consumerism, while also representing a non-trivial amount of non-biodegradable plastic waste that just winds up buried in landfills every year.

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            Ahh yes, the classic emblem of America’s crass consumerism checks notes flavored coffee.

            PSLs and Halloween decorations are bourgeois decadance, clearly.

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              No, not flavored coffee. PSLs. Different things. It’s like saying “pork sandwiches” when someone brings up the McRib. It’s not that simple. Food has a cultural component tied to its manufacture and identification. And, similar to the McRib, Starbucks style PSLs are food that probably shouldn’t exist and which only does as a byproduct of market capitalism. They’re the Lacanian ‘object a’ - an empty, manufactured falseness. We don’t desire the thing itself, but the thing whose absence it symbolizes. What you’re really consuming when you drink a PSL or a McRib is its innate mechanical predictability.

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                Have you considered the possibility that some people like the taste of pumpkin spice lattes? Or do you just get to dismiss everything you personally dislike as “The Lacanian ‘object a?’” You could substitute literally any food or drink for PSLs in what you said, it’s completely meaningless.

                It’s just empty words and phrases for you to feel superior to others based on what treats you enjoy or don’t enjoy.

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    You had me until the too early decorations. The other things don’t take away my joy. That does.

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      Also harm isn’t why people care. Its the erosion of well defined seasons in order to push corporate products on us and in the end we get fucked up melding of events like remembrance day while people are preoccupied trying to get Christmas shopping in.

      It turns what was once cultural events into corporate buy shit quarters. Because its easier for Walmart to sell Christmas stuff in October then wait until it’s the season.

      Its a loss and erosion of an important shared culture in favor of only corporate sponsored ones.

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    The problem here is that all of these people have turned their consumer choices into their identities and thus they feel personally attacked whenever they hear criticism of the products they consume.

    It’s incredibly unhealthy and something everyone should work to weed out of their mindset if they want to grow as a person instead of being perpetually unhappy because others criticising things isn’t going anywhere.

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    The drug cartels receive a substantial amount of money from avocado production (weird but apparently true)

    Cinnamon is carcinogenic

    Many fandoms have a disturbingly sexual element (especially my little pony)

    Halloween is a celebration of consumerism, microplastics and diabetes.

    I’m sure there’s a dark side to d&d but I can’t think of it right now.

    You’re welcome

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    Serious.

    If you are seriously annoyed by any of these things, then it should be a reminder of how unburdened and care free your life is that such a thing actually bugs you, and spark a sense of pride and contentment instead.