You heard it here first: you should only fear the market once it becomes a bazinga-imperative robot god. Before then, lazy women keep the worst excesses of the market in check, which Grimes claims is a good if temporary thing… i think? morshupls

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      She must have read some Nick Land, and in her “gobble up anything techbros and techbro bootlickers say as very smart” belief system she must have seen the meth-powered old man yelling at clouds as a super genius. i-love-not-thinking

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      She’s paid a lot to keep bullshitting in a vaguely techbro power fantasy way while LARPing as the average freeze-gamer 's wet dream, so she has no material incentive to stop doing it.

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      I feel the same way about Grimes that I do about Kanye West: I didn’t like the music to begin with, liked the message/themes of the music even less, and yet there was a great fandom wall of “this is a tormented genius, separate art from artist” immediately erected once they got their cryptofash on.

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        I’ve never understood the fascination with Kanye West. I knew so many people who just thought he was an absolute genius. The same goes with Taylor Swift.
        I feel a bit like a contrarian in that I tend to avoid anyone that large numbers of people call a genius in the music world.

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          I’ve never understood the fascination with Kanye West. I knew so many people who just thought he was an absolute genius.

          I got pushback everywhere, including on this site, during my early attempts to criticize him. He was literally announcing he was a god even at the time, but tormented artist this and separate art from artist that. nyet

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    I can’t follow the first part. I think she’s partially figured out the “capitalism as real god” paperclip maximizer thing and is crediting women with keeping it from happening, but doing it in an extremely awkward way.

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      I don’t think she has any motivation to have a complete or coherent thought: all she has to do is shove techbro fantasy cliches into a vocalizer the way Bill Murray’s Hunter S. Thompson crammed random scraps of newspaper into the fax machine to temporarily shut it up.

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    che-no regulations protecting us from grime’s delusional future by preventing laissez faire capitalism, I think

    che-si lazy women protecting us from grime’s delusional future

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    When she finally saw the movie, she realized to her astonishment that this story she’d adored since she was far too young for it, that she knew almost by heart, that inspired her first album—this story was now her story. Specifically Lady Jessica’s story. This goes by fast onscreen, but Jessica (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is not a wife but a concubine. Grimes saw herself in Jessica, and she saw X in Jessica’s son, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet). Paul is more than a duke’s son. He’s a chosen one, tasked with becoming a great leader. “When I see X,” she says, “like, I just know X is going to have to go through all this really fucked-up shit that sort of mirrors Paul-type stuff.” Watching it wrecked her. “I was just crying my eyes out the whole movie.”

    https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/grimes-cover-story-on-music-and-mars

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      I wonder if she’ll start stacking the pandering props and wear multiple cat ears, elf ears, glitter, light-up neon and quasi-cybernetic props (and costume pieces from recent hit movies) and do it while pretending to be decade-too-late steampunk elf and an uploaded hologram and a robot that attained consciousness and the sapient gestalt of all human communication exclusively through The Everything App Le Epic X Dot Comm all at the same time to try to spike that revenue. brrrrrrrrrrrr

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    Grimes I get that you like Dune but nobody is going to let a bunch of silicon valley dweebs literally become the Tlielaxu and I need you to stop zapping yourself with the bimbofication ray you’re already drooling your brain out on the floor for everyone to see and it’s fucking embarassing

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    I love grimes and elon because they both literally represent the “I’ve only read the summary at the top of the wikipedia article and will proceed to both horribly misinterpret the topic/subject & also combine it with my own neuroses” class in the US which has historically been underrepresented!

    Many of us have probably known. or perhaps even previously been, a proto-Grimes or demi-Elon. The dipshit who used to argue with me about Guantanamo Bay being ‘needed’ back in 2008 on the bus but, when asked, literally thought it was on US soil? demi-Elon.

    The cheerleader who burst into tears in HS when our AP Biology teacher told us in no uncertain terms that we would all have to do an individual presentation on evolution, got fired from her nursing job during the pandemic because she refused to get the vaccine when doctors & nurses were literally dying from treating patients, and since then has been selling Scentsy wax melts on Facebook & constantly posting shit like '“has anyone thought about the fact that during 2020, we had ZERO cases of flu but suddenly there’s a ‘pandemic’?? WAKE UP!!!”?? Proto-Grimes.

    Anyways all this to say I love people like this because I am constantly going “is this slop for me???” and getting into arguments with them because it is always funny

    • i can’t stand people like this directly, but i love hearing about them second hand.

      like my aunt is a class 4 (fully blown) dumbass. i guess she drank heavily as a young adult or something and was “wild” but eventually transformed into an extremely pious evangelical and with MAGA characteristics. lots of other negative characteristics as you can imagine.

      when covid hit, she refused to vaccinate or mask. due to her own independent research. the broader family isn’t perfect, but there are a lot of very elderly people in it and people with spines so everyone decided, as a bloc, to refuse her entry into homes and what small family functions occured, if she would not take precautions.

      and lo, there began a great wailing from her mouth, but she would not vaccinate or mask.

      eventually she moved away, which i guess was supposed to be a tantrum / invitation for people to chase after, but nobody did lol. the general vibe seems to be “good riddance.”