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Enough of the tiny screen that I play video games on. Time to wind down and switch to the tiny screen that I doomscroll on.
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Celine Ryan Ciccio retweeted
Bernie seems particularly interested in California ballot measures this year
All I could think about while watching is that I’m sure wearing a Ramones shirt now communicates something completely different to peers than it did when I was this age. But what that difference is, I will never know—and even if I did, I don’t even have the concept to map it to.
ChatGPT never gets resolution to the problems he tries to help me solve so days later he will be like “wow all this on top of your nail gun being jammed—-no wonder you are frustrated!”
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Omg they weren’t looking down on her because they thought she was poor. They were looking down on her because she’s a SQUARE. And *because* she’s a square, she assumed it was because they thought she was poor. Because she has no other concept of capital.
convinced the people calling Kelly Clarkson entitled have never walked into a pretentious high end store and been looked down on because the staff assumed they couldn’t afford anything. like there’s no way you can spin this where judging customers by their perceived wealth isn’t just plainly classist asshole behavior.
The funny part about the Kelly Clarkson thing is that Clarkson ended up looking like a spoiled rich lady because she isn’t the kind of person who understands how snooty Brooklyn art galleries work. And the snooty art shop folks end up being painted as struggling bootstraps entrepreneurs. It’s beautiful.
Yes… the point is that reason this situation is interesting is that there are two conflicting sets of power dynamics: rich lady vs store employees & artsy Brooklynites vs cultural simpleton. She was out of her element. She didn’t get caught berating a donut shop employee. She spiraled after not being able to navigate a particular brand of pretension that has little to do with money. But it’s still pretension. And that’s what makes it compelling.
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Yes… the point is that reason this situation is interesting is that there are two conflicting sets of power dynamics: rich lady vs store employees & artsy Brooklynites vs cultural simpleton. She was out of her element. She didn’t get caught berating a donut shop employee. She spiraled after not being able to navigate a particular brand of pretension that has little to do with money. But it’s still pretension. And that’s what makes it compelling.
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