{"id":45461,"date":"2017-11-13T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45461"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:48:37","slug":"people-are-fucking-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45461","title":{"rendered":"People are fucking dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For reasons completely outside of my comprehension, I\u2019ve come across numerous articles about how people are deliberately smashing and breaking their Keurig machines<\/a> out of protest for them pulling their ads from some talking head show.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first thing that comes to my head is: why??<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Keurigs are expensive machines.\u00a0 I love my Keurig.\u00a0 It allows me to have consistently reliable coffee at the push of a button, and I never have to worry about making too much or too little, and ever since I switched to a reusable pod, the whole wasteful argument from k-cups goes out the window.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I would never destroy my Keurig because I disagreed with their non-business related views; they\u2019ve already gotten my money, what\u2019s the sense of destroying it out of protest and denying myself future coffee that I rely on and enjoy so much?<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if I were in a position where I had replacement hardware for my Keurig, and could feasibly destroy my Keurig so I could try and fail to farm attention on social media, I still wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Instead, I could give my old Keurig to someone who might benefit from having one, or better yet, donate it to charity, so I can inflate its value on my taxes and actually make a little bit something back from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Destroying a Keurig accomplishes absolutely dick in the grand spectrum of things, even if it gets you a paltry number of inconsequential views, likes, hits or some other intangible, irrelevant or gratifying reward that probably has less than actual currency.\u00a0 In fact, destroying anything out of protest accomplishes as much dick as destroying a Keurig.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like sports jerseys.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen plenty of jerseys being burned, shot, shot-then-burned, or destroyed or degraded in some sort of fashion throughout the years.\u00a0 LeBron James Cavs jerseys, when he jumped from the Cavs to the Heat.\u00a0 LeBron James Heat jerseys when he jumped back<\/em> to the Cavs from the Heat (lol at all the fucking losers who burned their prior jerseys that have to drop another $100 on replacements<\/em>).\u00a0 Colin Kaepernick jerseys for standing up for his beliefs.\u00a0 And all sorts of other jerseys destroyed in the name of protest.<\/span><\/p>\n

What did any of those accomplish?\u00a0 Dick!\u00a0 These sheep have already lost their money and padded the pockets of those they once supported, and destroying these jerseys changes nothing about it.\u00a0 If anything at all, most of them end up screwing themselves over with their violent stupidity, like when LeBron James comes back to the Cavs, or like when the Baltimore Ravens offered up free replacement jerseys<\/a> to anyone with a cooler head who didn\u2019t<\/em> just burn or destroy their Ray Rice jerseys.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for whatever reason, people just like to destroy shit, regardless of the foolishness of doing such.\u00a0 Often times in front of a camera, so that it can be shared recklessly on the internet for the amusement of others, more often than naught on the ironic side of things however.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I just don\u2019t get it.\u00a0 The things being destroyed are often things with actual value in some way, shape or form, and personally, I\u2019d rather try and extract whatever value possible from something, before I come to the decision that I should just destroy it and film myself doing such.<\/span><\/p>\n

Granted, it\u2019s not lost on me the hypocrisy of criticizing those who destroy shit, considering I once destroyed a CD from a particular artist whom I didn\u2019t care for.\u00a0 But if I may backpedal a little bit, it could be argued that it did fall down the criteria list, although simple destruction of it was my knee-jerk reaction.\u00a0 I got the CD for free, along with a few others, from a radio promotion, so it was no money out of my pocket, but in spite of the promotional stickers all over it, I probably could have flipped it for some money, or at least given it to someone who enjoyed them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Welp, I never said I wasn\u2019t an occasional hypocrite, but this was also 12 years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019ve since learned the error of those ways, and instead feel perfectly justified to criticize those who have not.\u00a0 Shit\u2019s expensive these days, and best to extract what can be extracted, before destroying it for petty attention.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For reasons completely outside of my comprehension, I\u2019ve come across numerous articles about how people are deliberately smashing and breaking their Keurig machines out of protest for them pulling their ads from some talking head show. The first thing that comes to my head is: why?? Keurigs are expensive machines.\u00a0 I love my Keurig.\u00a0 It … Continue reading People are fucking dumb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,45,156,146,124,49],"class_list":["post-45461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-social-media","tag-triggered","tag-trolls","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45463,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45461\/revisions\/45463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}