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A Boring Dystopia

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Happy Pride, everyone! Here's your Brick. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Be sure to write "Finish them" on it before you throw it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From the source: Stonewall Uprising documentary

https://youtu.be/SLwE45vd80A

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

The first Pride was a riot! 🏳️‍🌈

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

quieres

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why is there a hole in the brick?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Aerodynamics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Concrete too espensib

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It looks like a tasty new flavor of PEZ that has been through some tough times.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where straight brick?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I believe the idea is that you are supposed to distribute these bricks to deserving straight people.

[+] [email protected] -17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

An ironically poignant post in this era of social media where people allow themselves a back pat for posting something and then thinking their activism is complete.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you’re doing anything remotely approaching activism with a brick, don’t post about it online. Being that sloppy is for War Thunder forum posters.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s…not what that comment meant.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm saying that you don't see people posting about their brick-adjacent activism because it's a terrible fucking idea to post about it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

And I never said post about it. This is kinda the problem I’m talking about. Social media is so entwined with “activism” these days that so-called activism is nothing more than Coachella to some people: if they go, it’s mostly to post about it. I’m saying do it, dont post about it. Am I being unclear? I don’t understand this miscommunication.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I’m being unclear, I’m saying it’s not possible to know who is doing brick-adjacent activism if they’re not posting about it and you’re not there to see it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Maybe I’m being unclear, I’m trying to say that the amount of people making political statements about X problem or Y issue on social media dwarfs the amount of activism. It’s not at all a new fact that social media activism has largely replaced activism. My argument is that people consider their work done when they make a post. It’s like a scheduled, permitted weekend march that largely gets over-documented on social media and used for clout/profile building. It’s a real problem. I’m not calling anyone here anything, I was making the point that posting on “aboringdystopia” about activism that largely doesn’t happen anymore was ironic because of this problem of social media posturing replacing effective activism.