case in point

if you refute someone’s point, you need to provide a counterpoint - otherwise people will think that your only ability is to toss insults

well don’t leave us hanging

If that’s true, then let’s sue the right-wing media for glorifying every white-supremacist mass shooting as a misunderstood troubled souls, encouraging any angsty WASPs out there looking for attention

• Hippies create culture, born out of nothing more than mud and sweat as an escape from soul-crushing capitalism.
  • The idea is everything. It gives purpose and meaning.
  • If you’re a barely-scraping by mechanic that makes little metal figurines in your free time with spare parts just because it makes you happy – you’re a hippy.
  • If you’re a coder who can’t make rent but likes to put out free and open source software because it makes you happy – you’re probably a hippy.
• Hipsters admire this culture, but do not love the mud and sweat. They pay top dollar for Hippie products.
  • Image is everything. They project to others that they believe in a more fun and artful world, but their contribution to it is mostly derivative or parasitic.
  • They are simultaneously foes and allies to the hippie cause in the way that they compartmentalize and mass produce hippie products to the mindless masses, whilst giving the hippie message a stage

commiserate