/b/, what is today's opiate of the masses?

traps

it's the liberal media because i disagree with it but at the same time watch other network news

memes

>>728639193
air jordans

Facebook. Self-indulgent social media.

>>728639193
Opiates

>>728639193
>posting cards against humanity questions to /b/

what an faggot

You mean besides TV?

>>728639317
This. Or professional sports.

>>728639338
It's a communism reference you plebeian. "Religion is the opiate of the masses"

>>728639319
Where do I buy opiates

Video games.

>>728639472
you were dying to explain that weren't you.

benzodiazepines and cheap carbohydrates
also opiates literally literally

>>728639317
>>728639379
>>728639464
>>728639319
>>728639298

these it's like you have to go outside and get off the internet to avoid it

without a doubt it's this and if you think not then your a bigot

https://vimeo.com/210862415

>>728639293
>liberal media
it's an interesting term that gets thrown around a lot. So I have to ask, which news outlets do you consider centrist media? (which is what all media should ideally be)

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>>728639472
U smart
U so smart

I itched my nuts and accidentally twisted one. Everything sucks now.

Try not turning on the TV for a while. You might find you don't miss it.

>>728639193
videogames. it always blows my mind to see how much time and thought and energy people waste trying to get good at playing with what's essentially an electric toy. you could've learned how to change your oil, you couldve learned how to cook for yourself, you couldve been building a better mousetrap, but no instead these guys just sit on ass all day, spending thousands of dollars a year doing literally nothing. people caught onto it so they started calling themselves gamers and making some kind of psudeo-religion/lifestyle image around their crippling addictions.

fuck, man. i mean, sure play tetris on your phone or some game on the web from time to time, but being great at videogames means being worthless at something important.

>>728639475
It's pain meds, son. Make up an injury and talk to your doctor.

>>728639630
Not much in the way of "centrist" thankfully, fale balance is one cunting annoying bias.

But pre-spin media would be reuters.

Fair right wing: national review, daily wire, federalist
Fair left wing: nyt... Uh that's all i got sadly they have really fallen off the deep end.

For libertarian you got Reason.

communism

>>728640123
I think most people play games as a pastime. I play video games in my off time, I also work, go to school, and I'm told that I'm a pretty good cook.

>>728640805
*false balance.

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>>728640123
>posting this on a mongolian basket-weaving forum
I agree with you though. Video games were my opiate during childhood, but it's fucking bizarre seeing working adults spend the majority of their free time on probably the worst hobby available.

>>728640123
Noy really.
There are people with time management skills that get great at vidya with more time to spend on important shit than retards who spend half their day scrolling their phone or Facebook or even 4chan. Competive gaming is still strategy, often timed teamwork, reaction time and other skills thst translate into the realworld. Not to mention it is a hobby with a social aspect. Besides literally any retard can cook or change their oil. I've never seen anyone say, no I can't do easily googleable things cause i play league or whatever.

Entertainment. All forms of it that aren't artist driven and most that are. It takes a great skill to make truly transcendent work and great skill requires, in most cases, great dedication which most people lack. Without the dedication and a work-withable amount of natural skill/inclination, the chances of your work feeding into the mind control paradigm are pretty deng high, meng.

A prime example of this is the Fight Club film. It failed to capture the underlying message of how (outwardly)smart, well connected and charismatic people can lead others on, convincing them that these ridiculous tests and goals are set to better them, when really they're clever ploys plotted to play on these people's will and want to "fix" themselves. They become slaves to an end-game that they don't get to see. Living for a goal that they're not even actually aware of. They're told to walk west and they do because they trust the voice telling them to, though the voice gives them no honest reason to. The character of Tyler Durden came off as extremely likable(intentionally) and this halted most peoples' delve into the deeper themes of the story. Because of this small error in judgement a movie that was intended to be about mental and social liberation became a war-call for the very the very paradigm it meant to fight against.

tldr; You are as long as you use involve yourself with sites like this. "Open" forums made of "closed" minds make no actual progress. They just get that old historyh ball rolling again. How's that saying go? What's done in shadows will be held to the light. Again and again and again for both and all ends. Something like that.

>>728639475
the opiatrium

>>728640123
This
Gamers are all sad virgins who never leave their parents basements

>>728641302
LOL triggered neckbeard

>>728642512
I really don't care.
I just thought it was an interesting discussion as vidya gets taken more and nire seriously these days.

Sometimes i will spend 2 hours pissing away on the internet and realize I'd have rather been playing vidya. I imagine that's a reasonable hierarchy. Videogames are something people complain they don't have enough time for, while social media and shit is stuff we don't have the time for but use all day anyway.

>>728641302
Man, I'm a long time gamer myself and I cringed s little bit st that.

Don't kid yourself into thinking your hobby is anything more than it is, a distraction from ... Sadness, real life, work, boredom and of course the ultimate finality of your own life.

>>728639319
this. I'm 26 and I've known almost 10 people who od'd already. and I'm from a relatively affluent area. cant even imagine what it's really like where it's bad in wv or western pa.

>>728640805
Far left:
Washington Post
Huffington Post
ABC
CNN
MSNBC
Comedy Central

>>728640123
I never had a problem playing too much games until phone games started becoming popular.
Fucking puzzle and dragons

>>728642840
Well vidya is a wide gammit.
I mostly play single player shit which is basically just the equivalent of reading or watching a movie. Nothing more nothing less. Shit like phone games might fit your description. I play multiplayer stuff more as a social thing, like you would a board game or something over beers. Just hanging out with friends.
But i don't think there is anything wrong with any of those.
And i don't think the Lcs needs you to cringe on their behalf while they make millions.
As for real world skills act as cool as you want, but a WoW guild leader is going to get management skills, shit like that.

I mean fuck me i spin pouring beer into cups for interviews but admitting on the internet you got skills from vidya is cringe?

>>728643026
Yeah but i said fair.
None of those are fair.
WaPo at best but even then "DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS LE TRUMP MAN!"
Difference between right and left media these days is right seems to be alot more open about their bias.

>>728639193
>/b/, what is today's opiate of the masses?

Social media.
Finding worth in how many fake online friends you have,
getting likes, and obsessing about the minuscule details of your life and everyone elses.

Painkillers.

>>728642781
You are fat aren't you

>>728643390
I don't cringe because of any of that you spastic loner. It was your answer that did it.

Also, this second paragraph has pushed your life from cringe to absolutely depressing. I'm sorry man, I'll leave you alone. God speed, noble Autist.

>>728643026
>Far left
Jesus Christ Amerifats are retarded

>>728643623
Social media has evolved to something worse. A political circlejerk.
People surround themselves with chearleafers only and then viryue signal their hearts away, deleting and blocking any opposition.
>>728643658
Nope nice projection though.
>>728643672
Well I'm having fun.
Sorry you base your views of vidya on what cable news said in the 80s.

>>728640123

Agree, as soon as a preference "yeah I like computer games" became an identity "I'M A GAMER", an entire generation of young men was lost to their parent's basements.

Religion, Partisan Political, Nationalism

>>728643483
Being more open about your bias lets you have more of it. That's why they do it.

>>728643390
>but a WoW guild leader is going to get management skills

lol, keep telling yourself that, gameboi

>>728643806
Are you seriously going to sit here and tell me gamer isn't a real gender you racist homopbobe?

>>728639193
Cellphones, we're completely addicted.

cvs pharmacy sells opiate meds but not the over the counter opiate antidote.

perscription pills are the masses opiate. older generations clinging to life.

>>728643791
I said originally that I play, I've played since the 80s, I play all the damn time. I don't have any views other than a clear perspective... It's a timekiller, nothing more or less.

>>728643912
Sure but the problem is with left wing bias they do the bullshit "reality has a left wing bias thing"
I have a friend who only reads The Guardian and refused to believe they have any bias. Say what you want about fox news, nobody is under the illusion they aren't a right wing mouthpiece.

>>728643947
This guy is kind of right... Sort of.
>The men are repugnant and never fuck; making them not really men.
>The women are repugnant and never fuck; making them not really women.
Gamers are genderless.

>>728644092
I play games and fuck, it's not hard to balance the two. Also I'm 150lbs and my face is decent.

>>728640123
>you could've learned how to change your oil, you couldve learned how to cook for yourself
I play videogames but I guess I'm not a fucking mongoloid like you. it's sad that you aspire to "learn" the modt basic thing of everyday life. Seriously, learn to cook? Cooking is fucking simple and if you don't knoww how to cook you deserve to starve to death and thin out the gene pool a bit. change oil? really? that's enough mechanical skill to wow and amaze you? remove oil filter drain oil new filter new oil W°W h4x

>>728644043
It's sad that you value vidya so lowly yet still have nothing better to do with your time. I consider phone games a "time killer" so i don't play them in my limited day. Understand some of us actually gain utility from games.
>>728643917
Confirmed never been in a serious guild.

>>728643791

Psychic here.

Your 23
Live at home
Chubby
Have friends (even online) that own fedoras even tho you think you are to cool to wear one.
Like edgy music
Eat shitty food.

From left field predictions now.

Child of diverse, live with mom.
Has had sex... Once
Last job was... In retail.

>>728644189
>never been in a serious guild.
>proud of a >serious guild
>this autistic

>>728643390
fucking

>>728644255
Psychic here

You're a faggot

From left field predictions now

Suck a dick

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>>728644172
>Works of fiction and memehood
>I play games and fuck

>>728644343
>everyone's a virgin because I am

>>728644255
(you)
>>728644263
So you admit you know absolutely nothing about WoW, running a guild or the skills associated with that then? I too enjoy making posts about things i don't know.

>>728644182
>Cooking is fucking simple and if you don't knoww how to cook you deserve to starve to death and thin out the gene pool a bit

>ate pizza rolls for lunch and hot pockets for dinner

>>728644077
Doesn't reality have a left wing bias though? At least a little bit? Right doesn't believe in climate change, wants to defund planned parenthood because less than 5% of what they do is against what a 2000 year old book says, wants to keep guns in mentally handicapped people's hands (look it up, Trump actually passed a bill allowing this), and they think vaccines cause autism. Call me crazy but as far as these issues go, the right are objectively wrong.

>>728644384
You've got the wrong meme, son. Keep going; you'll get there eventually.

>>728644189
I don't think it's an insult what I have been saying tho. The industry is worth billions, the people worship their favorite consoles/franchises, it's not going anywhere .

The whole idea is to waste people's time.
The game developer that is the most successful are the ones that can get people to waste the most time.

It's true, it hurts your little gamer heart, but it's true.

>>728644407
>projecting this hard

>>728644182
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>>728643390
>>728641302

ooohoohohoo i knew this would rustle some jimmies!

>>728644482
> :*

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>pic related

>>728644424
Thinking vaccines cause autism is more of a left-wing thing and the gun bill was revoking of an Obama-era regulation change that allowed the government to deny SSA beneficiaries their second amendment rights without due process.

>>728644403
Nice comeback. Post a timestamp and selfie and I'll take back all my predictions if you don't have a neckbeard, double chin or a stained t-shirt

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>>728644403
>So you admit you know absolutely nothing about WoW

lol, not me, you're getting your posters mixed up.

But anyway,
being a good WoW guild leader is a skill.

Thinking that skill relates to anything other than being a good guild leader is a self-indulgent lie no-life gamers tell themselves.

>>728644634
Word

>>728644403
50% you hit ratio
come on anon you can do better than that

>continuing to defend muh wow
enjoy your hand

>>728639193
facebook and twitter, plug yourself in for 20 minutes, read a few poorly written clickbait articles the pages link to and BAM there's a political identity based off nothing but made up nonsense from clickbait or facebook echo-chambers.

>>728644424
See what i mean?
Fucking more brainwashed than the breitbart droolies.
"the right" is not a single person. Almost all believe in climate change, some debate what exactly mans role is. Many agree with "the left" many are just sceptical of sacrificing the economy for no evidence of actually achieving shit with policies more aimed at looking good and back patting. People like Micheal moore with 0 scientific background spouting the world is gonna end if you drive to work or whatever are worse. Not to mention not believing in biological sex is an interesting stereotype you could through the other way. There are plenty of decent non religious philosophical arguements against abortion. And as a pro-choicer i personally think it's fucked up to force prolifers to pay for your abortion, though i understand the dilemma of poor people shouldn't have babies but can't afford abortions... Still if the left is as obsessed with abortion as they claim. They should have no qualms privately funding pp as a charity. No elected republican or writer for any outlet i named thinks vaccines caude autism. And gun control doesn't magically make criminals obey the law. Because if it did, it wouldn't be needed. Murder is already a crime.

>>728639193
GLAMOUR.

>>728644485
its interesting, around 1999 my little brother was diagnosed with autism. i dont mean aspergers but cognitive deficiencies, and a permanent inability to care independently for himself. i remember him being 8 and still watching blues clues and wondering to myself "i wonder what it will look like when these people become adults and big companies catch on that they're a demographic to market to"

looks like i got my answer

>>728644634
rule of 4chan: if you can find a cut, shit in it.

>>728642840
You described all hobbies you autistic nigger.

>>728644485
It's not a time waster if i am having fun though. I eas legitimately excited for persona 5 and have been having a blast. I love discussing it on /v/ and i have fun playing league every other week with my buddird from the town i grew up in. I'm sorry you can't have fun with them. But don't blame me. I made a vow to stop wasting time, cut out social media almost entirely, cut back on 4chan substantially.
>>728644523
>i respectfully disagree
>HAHA TRIGGERED I GOT YOU!
ebin.
>>728644652
Not really there are legitimately skills pertaining to managing a group of 50+ people organizing events scheduling, recruiting, interviewing, vetting etc. Not every single skill is unique and not passable on to other things.
>>728644684
Literally only thing you got right is that i do infact enjoy edgy music. Keep projecting though. Maybe you can convince yourself you are cooler than an anonymous guy on the internet!

Games, pornography, Facebook are the biggest opiate for sheep in this time. Think about it famous inventors used all of their time to think and create. While every person in modern times spends it on their fucking ass doing what we're doing. people need to start making decisions not these rich corporate bastards. Unfortunately people are to happy and complacent getting by with just enough

>>728644424
Last I checked, being right wing was about having a stance on economic policy. I'm right wing and I believe in climate change, am pro-abortion, and am well aware that vaccines cause autism. Please don't conflate economics with this irrelevant bullshit.

>>728644043
Lmao seems like you have the opposite of a clear perspective.

>>728645295
vaccines DONT cause autism* was typing too fast

>>728644816
Not the original guy, just saying, as a tax payer sometimes you have to suck it up and pay for things you don't believe in. I don't think a lot of my tax money should go towards paying for useless wars, but it does. It doesn't matter though because the government is going to take the same cut of your money anyway, just pretend your dollars go to veterans' programs and boarder patrollers and I'll pretend all of mine goes to the EPA and PP.

>>728645295
>and am well aware that vaccines cause autism

Murrica..

>>728640123
I don't think half the shit you said is strenuous to learn in any way. Both completely mundane things that only spaghetti faggots would die not knowing how to do. Games are time killers and bring you joy good memories and pride if you care enough for them. Same return as any hobby. Ya people waste their time doing them like sad fucks but the same could be said for people in sports who aren't great and waste time trying to aspire to go to national leagues

>>728639193
literal opiates?

>>728645295
Well in today's 2 party system you can't be economically right and socially left in the voting booth.

>>728644343
The opposite also.

>>728645295
Not really.
Right wing can typically get conflated as social conservatism.
While whst you describe is more liberal economic policy
But can be considered right wing today. It's a very complicated. I like the grid chart better but even then classifications like this are just a quick and sloppy barometer, or way of making it like sports teams for retards.

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>>728645295
>vaccines cause autism

>>728641290
They could be furries tho. The video game craze will go forever because it's just endless loops of chasing curiosity and nostalgia. It's getting even worse today with over hyped false promises and even the companies that used to deliver fuck us like bungie and bethesda

>>728645356
If you want liberty to thrive you can't take sides. Government spending should be doshed out because why not? It should be the other way around. Onus is on you to explain why someone who has a deep seated and well argued belief that a optional procedure to terminatr a pregnancy is murder, should be forced to pay for it? War can't be privately funded it's a public good. I gain utility from defence. There is a free rider problem. I don't really gain from your abortion. Nor does your abortion require large costs unrealistic to privately fund. Also you are a complete retard if you don't think you have the right to oppose any military operation.
Pretending your taxes are going somewhere else is moronic.

>>728644614
Ok, I will concede that, after doing some research have I found that slightly more people in left leaning states believe the vaccine-autism thing than in right leaning states, which I didn't know before so thank you for making me actually do the research on that one. HOWEVER, I think all of my other points still stand.

>>728645324
They actually do in very rare cases my dude do a little research. I don't think we should stop vaccination because of a small amount of people get autism though if we can get rid of dangerous diseases.

>>728645756
Yeah I gain a lot by having my friends and family go to the middle of a desert and get blown up by an IED because all they want is for us to leave them the fuck alone.

>>728645876
This. The play boy lady and jay cutlers wife said so.
That quality source you included really convinced me to.

>>728645876
The faggot who falsified the only research toward proving vaccines caused autism had his M.D revoked. It's like the jew who made up ADD and confessed on his deathbed. Shit is fake u tard

>>728645356
Keep being a slave for the rest of your life m8. That is your time and labor being used for something you don't want it to. Just cause you bite down a grit when the government fucks you in the ass doesn't change the fact they are butt fucking you.

>>728646024
So what do you suggest, I quit my job so there's no more income tax, live on the street so there's no property tax and spend all my time protesting. Fuck you, hypocrite.

>>728645975
>>728646022
I honestly don't care if you don't believe me guys. I work in the medical field and the subject was taught it in class. Don't go the rest of your lives being morons please.

>>728646172
> I work in the medical field

No you don't. If you did you'd know that there is no correlation between autism and vaccines. Show me a credible source and I might consider it.

>>728645947
we don't have a draft. Your friends volunteered. The arguement can be made that these wars provide security. It's debatable, but the taliban did harbour the organization that attacked new york city. Rumsfled had very credible intel about WMDs. I oppose both wars, but do acknowledge these people want more than "just to be left alone" and military as as a whole provides defence, a public good.it is not excludable, you can't opt out of the security. And it is non rival, yoir ability to use one unit of defence doesn't impact my ability to use it.

Abortion is the opposite. Anyone can opt out of getting an abortion(or be denied) on an individual basis. it's excludable . It's rival, abortion doctors only perform X amount.

The only arguement you could make is there is an externality in that aborted kifs have a high probability of becoming criminals and thus harm my risk of survival. And so publicly funding abortion reduces everyones risk of being a victim of violent crime.

But i think that's fucking stretching.

>>728646172
I will give you an ounce of credibility as soon as you provide your source amd i can read it

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>>728639293
I kinda like it because it's a different viewpoint than and sometimes his jokes are passable. He's more palatable than Colbert and Noah, even if he's the same level of cucked.

>>728646133
Lmao wow someone is pissy. Do whatever you want man seems like you are fine with getting ass reamed like a good little slave. I live my life by paying as little taxes as I can and informing people about them being slaves. It will take time to convince the masses and I won't probably see a change within my lifetime. I'm not going sit around and be content with being a slave though.

>>728646318
I liked him at the beginning of his run (and it was alright when he subbed for Stewart at the Today Show), but the elections fucking ruined it.

His humor is basically: (screaming) NO, IT'S NOT! THIS IS NOT HOW IT WORKS, CONSERVATIVES! (audience laughter)

Disgraceful.

>>728646318
I prefer Maher over all three of these cucks. He's probably the most left and most arrogant about it. But he actually puts thought into shit, is willing to go against the grain and isn't just a virtue signalling faggot.
>>728646532
Basically this.

>>728640123
>but being great at videogames means being worthless at something important.
Get good

>>728640123
>life is zero sum.
Yeah man, just like how bo Jackson spent time getting good at baseball so hr was shit at football!
And there is nobody who is just shit at everything!

>>728646313
>>728646264
Lmao I'm not on here to convince you guys of anything. I don't care if you think the world is flat. I'm still for vaccination so what's your issue?

>>728639193
The internet. Most notably porn and social media.

It is also, however, possibly the greatest invention in modern history and up there with greatest invention ever, and gives us unprecedented access to the collective knowledge of our species.

Tough call. I guess it says something about our species that we're given the Library of Alexandria times a billion, and we use it to jerk off, stroke our egos, and post pictures of cats.

>>728646842
Nothing. I'm just pointing out you are misinformed and should look at the sources of information. But i am sure you are just trolling now so take the (you) with pride

Religion still. Only thing marx was right about.

>>728646817
>And there is nobody who is just shit at everything!

Looks like you've never met me.

>>728646936
The funny thing is I'm not...... So yeah.

>>728646532
Yeah, I would agree with that. I'm hoping eventually he'll put more effort into it again. I was hoping for him to have some good material about the missile strike but it was just fear mongering. Poor form for sure.

>>728646616
I want to like Maher but he's just 3edgy5me. A lot of the time he feels like he's just being smugly contrarian for the sake of getting more views. He's really good when it's not that though, but he devolves into that so often it makes him less tolerable than the liberal crying. I can see how that would be preferable to the whining though.

>>728646936
Lol my teacher and text book aren't good enough information I guess.

>>728639537
lol

>>728639193
1,6 billion of muslims = their dogma
1,3 billion Indians = their zoo stuff
1,4 billion chinese = work and survive
1,3 Billion Western World = hedonism
...

>>728647162
I think the time he seperated himself from the these faggots the most for me was when he was talking about kids getting doped up on Ritalin and shit they don't need and he argued it was because of privately run/for profit drug companies. I disagree with him, but i get his point and it wad logically argued. While the whole panel just ignored everything he said and was like "WE NEED TO REMOVE THE STIGMA AROUND MENTAL HEALTH" as if this was some sort of revelation expecting applause while saying shit everyone agrees eith and rambling out anecdotes about how they supported people with mental illness, like the rest of us were telling people with depression ro fuck themselves wnd saying schizophrenia is made up.

I think when he is a contrarian faggot it's for comedic effect or because of time constraints. Like his interviews often suffer for that reason.
>>728647207
They actually aren't.
Both of those are secondary sources reliant on primary sources, that you failed to cite.

>>728641700
More examples?

>>728647570
>not being a hedonist
Faggot.

>>728639193
electronic stimulation

>>728639193
Opiates.

You retard OP

>>728647910
That was the 6th reply, anon. Step it the fuck up.

>>728647576
He does bring up some good arguments, I would agree he doesn't really fit in with the rest of those types. Mainly because he seems like he wants to start a conversation that could actually lead somewhere instead of just producing good sound bites and gifs with captions later.

I would like to think that's all it is, it still turns me off of him a lot though. It just seems beneath him to sink to that level.

>>728648096
I'd do it to surrounded by celebrities talking about politics all day tbh. I'd just roleplay a different ideology everytime. Play white nationalist just for shits.

>>728639193
Well, green frogs got Trumo elected, so... shadilay, I guess?

>>728648484
Go full Alex Jones, but for the left

>>728639193
The opiates?

>>728639630
Media shouldn't be centrist, it should optimally run the same way as science
Just. Tell. The. Facts. With no own opinion
I know that's not really possible to not let opinions slide in, but a good journalist should at least try

>>728640123
I'm 29. When I was a little tot I saw the DOS screen and all the keys and learned what IBM meant. I played games for the first time and was already learning how to read and write before anybody taught me shit, before I had even go to preschool.

So fuck you gay man. I haven't played a fucking game in a month, too busy working.

BTW the real answer is still ABC/FOX/CBS/NBC/ETC, Facefuck, Tweeter, and MARIJUANA

People still think paying school is helping. People are ignoring public k-12, the real problem. Technical schools need to be buffed, auto engineers, carpenters, horticulture, culinary, etc can all be learned by ANYONE and it costs fractions of fractions. You LEARN a trade instead of getting some bullshit pedigree among a bunch of clueless dumbfucks.