• betelgeuse [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    People basing their entire view of history on magazine adverts from the 50s like they’re in some kind of post-apocalypse story, piecing together what the world that ended. They could just look stuff up because the world hasn’t actually ended, but that’s a cuck way of looking at things apparently.

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      It’s just so dumb on so many levels.

      One: uncritically accepting advertising as fact, despite exaggeration and puffery being standard practice

      Two: flying was an outright luxury during that time. Only rich people and new “middle class” Americans were doing it, so airlines catered to that crowd. That’s radically different from air travel today where most people have flown at least once in the past few years, and nearly half have flown once in the last year. If you’re tailoring a service to 85% of the population instead of ~30% or less, it’s clearly going to be different.

      Three: if you want your fancy boy meals and two by two seating, you’re welcome to buy a first class ticket for thousands of dollars. An approximation of this kind of service is available in first class today - these dipshits either don’t realize that because they’re completely unobservant and incurious, or, they’re just looking for an excuse to hate women and minorities and think that SURELY they’d be able to afford it if we reintroduced segregation or something. Just downwardly economically mobile white guys blaming the proles they’re forced to join instead of the bosses.

      God I hate these people.

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        uncritically accepting advertising as fact, despite exaggeration and puffery being standard practice

        In Communist North Korea, the impoverished masses are easily fooled by the ruling class’ propaganda, which is laden with exaggeration and puffery depicting an idealized life wherein people readily consent to their own exploitation

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    I haven’t traveled outside the US very much but when I was in China, I took a 2 hour domestic flight on Shenzhen Airlines and they served hot meals both ways for free with 2 or 3 choices of meal. I was impressed, I’ve never received that kind of service except on long international flights.

    This was the hot teriyaki chicken, rice, and vegetables with a box containing a roll, banana, pickled vegetables, and candy.

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    Once again antisemitism is the fool’s version of materialism. Could it be the never ending quest to extract evey iota of profit possible led to free meals being replaced with complimentary crackers? Or was it as this dumbass thinks and the secret Jewish cabal is taking away meals to further the great replacement or some other bigoted bullshit

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      This doesn’t even resemble materialism.

      This isn’t “jewish bankers control the world and everyone is enslaved by them”, this is “jewish space lasers control people’s minds”.

      Pure magical thinking.

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    The real reason airlines used to be like that is that there used to be stringent regulations on how many seats could be on a plane. That meant that there was a pretty consistent floor on how much airlines could lower prices and still turn a profit. Therefore, they competed on providing the best services and we’re able to do that because there was leftover space to fucking cook a roast in the kitchen.

    Deregulation prompted a race to the bottom for both prices and services because airlines could turn economy class into sardine cans and still make more money.

    The Jews didn’t do this, it was fucking Reagan.

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      Antisemites tend to use “goy” in derogatory fashion to indicate something being of Jewish origin. Got a lot of play back when 4chan nazis posted “happy merchant” memes all day.

      I hate so much that I know this shit

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        I feel like an Idiot now but wow that makes a lot of gaming YouTubers I liked just a few seconds ago into 4chan Nazis

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          IIIRC famed shitposter SsethTzeentach has used the happy merchant memes and “goy” memes a lot, which is weird coming from a guy who’s an Ashkenazi Jew? But it’s surprisingly widespread, yeah.

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              My man is extremely 4chan but I have to disagree about taste. On a freeze-gamer youtube where every second channel is some nintendobrained retro gaming reseller guy, I can respect a man who is willing to talk about Heroes of Might n Magic III, or Dungeon Siege II, or Impressions Games city builders. Shit that’s not the usual platformers-shooters-jrpgs.

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            Which also makes all of his friends 4chan brained buffoons and this unfortunately includes Mandaloregaming. Which is a shame since I really liked Mandaloregaming.

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        Depending on context, overtness, and precisely who’s speaking, “goy” can be invoked in a mockery of how the poster thinks a “Jewish overlord” might talk about nonbelievers. (See also: liberal sprinklings of “oy vey” and other assumed stock phrases)

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      “Goy” is short for “Goyim”, and is a word primarily used by Jewish people to refer to non-Jews.

      Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists often self-identity as Goyim to highlight their position as an underclass. In this case, the implication is that Jews feed Goys tasteless nutrition bars while, presumably, the Jewish passengers in first-class still get opulent kosher meals.

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    Remember the good old days of flight when Howard Hughes himself would give you a complementary piss directly from his milk bottle collection?