| 21:27 |
thimbronion |
So evidently Miami Beach has been taken over by people vacationing using their stimmy checks and unemployment. |
| 21:27 |
asciilifeform |
thimbronion: how didja find out with what they paid ? |
| 21:28 |
thimbronion |
asciilifeform: Rumor from local uber driver. |
| 21:28 |
asciilifeform |
a. |
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| 22:39 |
thimbronion |
Miami climate is pretty much intolerable btw. |
| 22:40 |
thimbronion |
eternal Maryland Summer fwics |
| 22:47 |
thimbronion |
I still don't quite understand the descriptions of various places as instances of Miami found in the logs. Not quite sure what is charactaristic about it. |
| 22:47 |
thimbronion |
Perhaps the idea place to blow drug money? |
| 22:48 |
thimbronion |
Or the kind of place that results from the spending of drug money? |
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| 23:14 |
billymg |
thimbronion: i always understood Miami as an aesthetic, created by and marketed around the world by usg.hollywood. mansions, luxury condos, sports cars, bimbos at nightclubs |
| 23:15 |
billymg |
and with sleight of hand, sold not as "this is how the elite lives" but as "this is how average successful american lives" |
| 23:18 |
billymg |
think of the beginning of GTA IV. if you're not played, it's where niko's cousin is telling him about how great life is in america. the women, the cars, etc. niko comes to finally meet him and discovers he's living in a run down apartment next to train tracks in brooklyn |
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| 23:18 |
billymg |
and you don't get the idea that his cousin was even lying, but that in his own head, even believed it somehow. that he was living in Miami america, despite living in poverty |
| 23:22 |
billymg |
so the propaganda works in different ways depending on the audience. for poor foreigners, bait to come to the US. for poor residents, something they can fantasize themselves being, simply by association |
| 23:23 |
billymg |
and for people who come across some money somehow, an instruction manual for how to blow it all quickly, in the least effective way |
| 23:25 |
billymg |
if you've* not played |