#you're a peasant without an iphone

[maximum-effort-wade]

Put 5 of your favorite songs and tag people or your friends or people you look up to (or no tag)!

@deadpool-the-pan-menace

I like putting my own special little snowflake spin on things. Here's my favorite of mun's PeanutBub playlist with links that actually work for everyone. And no, I won't be using the ones you're all expecting. My music taste expands beyond just what Ryan Reynold's nostalgia plays on repeat. Enjoy!

BRAINWASHED. Waterparks

Make Up Sex. MGK and blackbear

Come Thru. Juno (feat midwxst)

Go To Hell. Letdown.

Your Love Is My Drug. Ke$ha

[matt-the-radar-techncian]

The thing about the Bors comic is that if you just have the last panel out of context, it does make sense

You just have a medieval peasant who clearly didn't choose to be a poor serf and has no upward mobility in society, and he's being "gotchad" by a random dude who calls him a hypocrite for "participating in society," when the poor guy obviously didn't choose to live in the circumstances he's lamenting. If you just have this panel than the peasant is obviously in the right and orange shirt guy is obviously in the wrong

The problem is that there's 3 panels that come before this:

In the first two, orange shirt guy is completely correct. It absolutely is hypocritical to criticize Apple by virtue signaling on social media if you continue to support them financially by buying and using an iPhone. Based on how the text is worded you could make the argument that the woman lives under a rock despite owning an iPhone and just found out about Apple's business practices now, but I think that if you're adult enough to be spending your own money on a smartphone and posting criticisms of unethical working conditions, then you're adult enough to know the ethical implications of the money you spend

The third panel is actually in the same vein as the last one. I remember another post that said that the guy in that panel is supposed to be the inventor of car seatbelts but I couldn't verify it. This does make sense though, since it looks like the argument is that this is back before cars had seatbelts, so it's foolish to criticize someone for buying a car without one, which makes sense, just like the last panel

The problem with the comic is that it conflates "participating in society" (and not having a seatbelt back in the olden days before cars had seatbelts), something that obviously isn't a choice, with buying an iPhone, something that is entirely within your control. The argument is bad because of the juxtaposition of these two different scenarios as if they're the exact same

I think the reason this comic has gotten so much traction is that people only share the last panel, so that's all they ever see, to the point where they might not even know that this isn't the full comic. If you only see the last panel, the comparison is gone and you're just left with the part that actually makes sense, so you don't know how flawed the argument actually is

TL;DR: being a medieval peasant isn't a choice, but buying an iPhone is, and people only ever hear the first part

Libertarianism is the freedom from thinking about one's own oppression and trying to experience self-reliance. Leftism is the realization that we can become free of our oppression and not be complacent.