How to make a hilarious “Downfall” parody, in two steps.
Step One: Make one like this.
Step Two: Don’t make one like this.
Naturally, the second video here went over like gangbusters on the Men’s Rights subreddit. One critic declared:
Another had this suggestion:
I dunno. “Your_Fun_Counselor” doesn’t really strike me as being very much fun at all.
Joe: You are missing my point…. when it’s boiled down… It’s all money. It’s not what you back it with (or don’t) it’s how it’s used.
You, however, are convinced that I am calling you a fool about gold. I’m not. I’m calling you a fool because you think there are different kinds of money; in some real sense. Money is an abstraction. The different currencies (and there are lots of them, in every community) are different ways of abstracting things.
But the MONEY you are ranting about, the stuff you “avoiding” because it’s not real… any transaction which uses an abstraction is using MONEY.
You strike and strike and strike against us. No actually, we just don’t care.
You threaten us and grasp at us. Well, that’s never happened, but whatever.
You tempt us. Ewwwww. If you think we’re tempting you, please tell us what we’re doing so we can stop. Ick.
You berate us and shame us and demean us. Eh, when you say self-aggrandizing or stupid shit, we mock you. If it bothers you, we suggest you stop saying self-aggrandizing or stupid shit. Or, you know, go away.
By ceasing to pursue all the things society insists we must desire. We win. Okay champ, that’s great. Now will you go away already?
and your doing a first joe and throwing a pissy tantrum because nobody else will make every little pedantic connection in your rickety chain of reasoning. so i guess it would be in everyone’s interest for you to go bore someone else instead of flipping out here?
Cloudiah: Only if you tell him how much you’ll miss him when he’s gone.
This, of course runs the risk he’ll believe you.
@Ugh – Not in the UK they’re not: as I’ve mentioned before most of our working class is indigenous (certainly outside London, Midlands & Leeds/Bradford). Nor in Spain. Nor in Mexico. You have a very parochial US-view of the world. You do know the US is only 1/3rd of a billion in a world of 7billion people, right?
@Pecunium – and you’re still doing it. Borrring.
don’t forget when he goes off on racist tangents about teh evil mu5lims
Ahahahaha! One of the points of living on a boat is they don’t know you do. Or where you are. Or what you buy.
They don’t give a shit. All they care is that you are buying. And, in your case, selling their stuff for them.
So what you’re saying is, you help companies sell products for a living?
If everyone lived at a lower level of consumerism, you’d be out of a job. Not much money in SEO if noone’s buying shit on the internet.
Also, obviously, most of the world does live at a lower level of consumerism than you do. If you spend more than a dollar a day you are consuming more than the world’s median person.
Poor Joe. He gets it wrong, and then gets bored of being corrected. If he didn’t get it wrong, he might be better entertained.
Would be a bit more dull for us though, were he to stop paying homage to Terpsichore.
Yeah, Pecunium, don’t you realize the goal posts are over here now?
*$2.25 i guess, more accurately.
there is always someone on the bottom rung of society to fill in when you get all huffy and stomp off dude. i know being sneerily pedantic is all you have going for you, because your argument is stupid and your just trying to make yourself feel important for living in a cave and whining about women, but still, it is not really a way to argue things.
@Pecunium – Wrong again.
There’s a HUGE difference between money that charges people for using it (i.e. USURY. Money created by “selling” interest yielding “bonds” to a small group of bastards in return for the privelege of using that money. That’s the $, the £ and the € among others.)
vs. Money which is does not carry any charge to use it.
well we know what he’s buying. tinfoil. lots and lots of tinfoil.
Whoops, thread’s pickin’ up.
Get the washing inside, it’s gonna be a big one!
Joe: Money is alive? Who knew? Where do I pay it the charge I am required when I use it?
Maybe it’s not the MONEY that does it, but the monetary system in question?
Wonder who might have said that here before? Shit… it’s escaping me.
Well Sharculese, since you called him a racist that just proves YOU’RE A BIG RACIST. In JoeWorld, anyway. Sorry, that should be J03w0r7d, so the NSA doesn’t find out.
ah yes the age old difference between ‘shit angry people make up to rant about’ and ‘shit that exists, like in reality and stuff’
So what money does not carry any charge to use it? Usury isn’t tied to a bank note. I can always say I’ll lend you 5 troy ounces of gold now if you’ll pay me 6 troy ounces of gold in a week (for example). Good on you if you don’t need the money, but plenty of people will (that’s how paycheck advance places get their hooks into people).
Oh, and calling us Yanks “parochial” is a hoot coming from a guy who doesn’t know the first thing about politics outside of his own country.
dont you mean the ns6?
@Joe
Well, across Britain more immigrants apply for shit jobs than native Brits, so if there are more Brits working, its more likely to be the result of discriminatory hiring practices.
http://www.good.is/post/experiment-finds-immigrants-apply-for-low-income-jobs-much-more-than-natives/
Not to mention illegal jobs that aren’t advertised, which would obviously attract a much higher proportion of immigrants.
if they MGTOW
“men going their own way” is now a verb?
@Sharculese – Yeah, yeah, you keep telling yourself that there’s an infinite supply of replaceable protein robots to keep the systems of your society running in the style you enjoy. Keep on fiddling with your privelege.
It never crosses your mind to wonder: when the peaceful MGTOW movement effectively pulls out the bottom rung – what if the next influx of the downtrodden won’t put up with all this shit? What if they rise up against the system? What if they overturn YOUR class privelege?
What if the sewer system stops working? What if YOU have to go work down a sewer?
(On average sewer workers in Paris live 17 years less than the average French person)
There’s riots going on in Spain, France and Greece. The crops are failing across the US. Enjoy your smug complacency in while you can.
Also, fuck off bigot!
@katz: Silly katz, grammar is a conspiracy of elementary-school teachers to keep MEN out of writing so that the only thing published is romance novels (you know how women love Harlequin).
So, you see, the best way to get back at elementary-school teachers, and prove that men can too write good novels, is not to write novels at all. That’ll show ’em.
The First Joe, how many MGTOW are there? 1000? That’s being generous. How could such a tiny number of malcontents have any effect on the rest of the world? You go ahead live on a boat and the rest of the world will go on just fine.