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While people in the Imperial core do benefit from imperialism to the extent that it makes them unrevolutionary, it doesn’t mean that making them worse off will make it any better outside the core.

Increasing income inequality in America doesn’t make third-world countries any less exploited. It just means more of their labour is going to the American bourgeoisie rather than the American worker. The only argument you can really make is American workers should be worse off because they benefit from exploitation. But that’s not a Marxist position, that’s a moral position. It’s a position that only seeks to punish people.

Regardless of whether American workers unfairly benefit from imperialism, I don’t like when children go hungry, I don’t like when LGBTQ+ folks are attacked, and I don’t like when people die because they can’t afford medication. Fighting for these things in America will not stop nor make worse the exploitation of the third-world.

Magic

Always has been.

A wasp stung me once 10 years ago so I now murder all wasps’ nests I see on sight.

Shouldn’t have fucked with the insect equivalent of an eldritch god with the power to wipe out your entire colony with a spray can.

The last thing this universe needs is more anime.

I dated a black woman for a short period of time and the only time I ever got visibly angry on a date was when she said that “white people don’t like mayonnaise.”

That shot me up to the top of socially acceptable anger for like 10 straight minutes.

Are my tonsils supposed to produce pop-rock sensations?

I’m pretty sure that wasn’t in the manual when I bought them.

The thin man from Xcom is a trans woman because they turn into snake women in Xcom 2.

Alien HRT is really powerful stuff.

Does anyone else get pop-rock sensations at the back of the throat when they’re hungry occasionally?

This has happened to me since I was a kid and I have no idea what causes it.

I like Japanese VNs because the default auto-read speed is about as fast as the high speed on most English VNs.

I’d like to imagine Japanese authors just shitting on English speakers for being slow readers.

I got a fucking horrible trip once watching a nature show on acid. But I have never gotten a bad trip while watching scary stuff.

I can’t wait to just die the most meaningless death possible. My wife is gonna send me out to get oregano or something and I’m gonna trip over my own shoelaces into a ravine and die.

Fuck meaning, just let it be so random and pointless.

Windows Vista on my old family desktop.

First Linux distro, if it counts, was the Raspberry Pi OS

The contradictory impulse of wanting to understand and love people while simultaneously being scared of them understanding you. Essentially, the hedgehog dilemma. Each of the characters wants to love and be loved. They want genuine human connection. But they’re also terrified of being rejected by others or being abandoned. AT fields, the energy shield thing, are literally “Absolute Terror” fields that exist to prevent people from getting close to you. Angels just have a beefed up version that can block physical matter rather than just emotions.

The last few episodes get metaphorical but essentially the message is “Start with loving yourself.” Everything with the mechs and angels is cool but not really relevant to the meaning of the series.

Again? It never stopped West of the iron curtain.

As someone who lost their tongue in a freak hotdog eating accident, I can confirm this is true.

I had to get a new robot tongue and it’s not as effective. But with practice, you make out the sounds you need.

American troops choosing to drown themselves rather than spend another minute in France.

Yes

Stalin is cool.

He was adamant about “cruising” being an activity where you got a bunch of cars and drove around town.

I’ve never heard it in the context where it wasn’t about gay sex.

This is I how you know haven’t met me yet.