this is why I only ever use my phone to call and text people. However, for the convenience of phone posters and their awful portrait shaped screens, I will switch my desktop browser over to mobile mode when snapping screenshots of cringe to repost. Sometimes. If I feel like it.
Tachanka
joined 2 years ago
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Heartache is powerful, but democracy is subtle. Incrementally, you begin to notice a change in the weather. When it snows, the flakes are softer when they stick to your worry-worn forehead. When it rains, the rain is warmer. Democracy is coming to the Administrative Region. The ideals of Dolorian humanism are reinstating themselves. How can they not? These are the ideals of the Coalition and the Moralist International. Those guys are signal blue. And they're not only good -- they're also powerful. What will it be like, once their nuanced plans have been realized?
The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.
truly she's on the 21st century ernst rohm speedrun
Disappointed as well, but never surprised. Capitalism, through division of labor, forces people to have extremely narrow focus to survive in their chosen career field. If they don't, they'll fall behind their peers, and potentially even get fired. This means a lot of people never learn anything about humanities, particularly social justice. The pursuit of a stable career, even a proletarian career, reinforces reactionary attitudes, by depriving people of a well-rounded education outside of their chosen field. People tell themselves anything anti-capitalist, anti-bigotry, anti-imperialist etc. is "useless" because it won't make them money.
Capitalism expects skilled workers like programmers, scientists, and engineers to care about their fields outside of work, to the extent that you're even expected to go back to school sometimes and/or renew certifications, and that's on top of unpaid internships and mandatory overtime. This means someone who tries to pursue hobbies or be a polymath/autodidact (i.e. "jack of all trades, master of none") is treated as an "unskilled" worker in our economy, and therefore less likely to survive in any kind of career field with sufficiently developed division of labor and narrowness of focus. People who are able to focus hard and keep their focus narrow will eventually however attempt to have "takes" that are outside of their chosen field, and these "takes" will be shoddy, mishmashed, and biased, like this physicist trying to talk about political economy. However, she'll be fine because she's toeing the establishment line. It is actually the Marxists who will get laughed out of the room in economics, not because they're wrong but because they don't echo a power-serving narrative, which is the other problem with Capitalism. It goes from something "efficient" that tears down pre-capitalist social structures to something reactionary that serves to perpetuate itself (regardless of efficiency) in a heartbeat. Marx's theory of value, after all, was derived from Adam Smith and David Ricardo, albeit with some nuance added, and some contradictions resolved, and taken to the logical outcome of proletarian revolution, but the bourgeois economists, upon encountering Marx's work, immediately abandoned the labor-based value theories put forward by Adam Smith and David Ricardo, and began to retreat into the la la land of subjective value theory and marginal utility theory, showing how quickly the bourgeoisie will decouple themselves from reality if it is in their own short term political interests.
my mom is brown, and uses the brown ones, but the brown one is way darker than she is and so it just seems kinda off. It's like, mom, your skin tone is Halle Berry, not Grace Jones
(i'd never tell her that tho)
We will give reparations to BIPOC, but only in the form of an IMF loan, with 200% interest rate
digital coolers at wallscreens 
be looking like a PS2 game's texture for a vending machine, but irl
reposting based takes
Extremely secure government confident in its legitimacy
Xi Jinping was reached for comment: "These burgers think I need a balloon? Motherfucker I can go on google maps and see your damn swimming pool in HD!" 
he's dead now. not by my hand
maybe they patched it or something idk