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"you guys watch Joe Don Baker movies?" (he/him)
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December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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thought margaret thatcher said there was no such thing as society
Stephen Miller @StephenM: This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands. ~ quoting Dave Brown @dave_brown24: WSJ Editorial: Afghan refugees "shouldn't be blamed for the violent act of one man. Collective punishment of all Afghans in the U.S. won't make America safer and it might embitter more again...
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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when the climax of your rpg is actually the not-even-a-boss offering a lotus for you to eat, and not the sexy charismatic demon final boss guy the game's sucked off till then #MetaphorRefantazio
Katsura Hashino, hands raised, palms up, imitating Martin Scorsese in the Absolute Cinema meme, with the words Absolute Fantasy
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"As I have said before, the best defense of Citan [Uzuki] goes like this: the Emperor told him to guard an emotionally unstable amnesiac who's essentially a walking hydrogen bomb, but you can't just dismantle the bomb because your superiors said so, and also because the hydrogen bomb might be the key to saving humanity from becoming a bunch of grey goo. So that's a pickle. You, too, might do some ethically-questionable things if placed in that situation."
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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i made this post while i'd still only seen it with its big dumb pacifier in. "haha you can't take it seriously, it doesn't have teeth unlike the giant babies in drakengard"

well friends,,
Burgerpants from Undertale, leaning back with a grin and a cigarette
September 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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September 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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August 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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You call this a "hint" of lime you fucking fascist? This is a fucking book of revelations of lime. #Tostitos
August 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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the kains are clearly the empire. Moving against Katerina the Mistress of Earth (and it wouldn't be untoward to call a mistress in Pathologic a kind of goddess) who is, uhh, befuddled by the whisperings of a rat prophet (sexual attraction to her brother? ok it's breaking down)
In only a short time, the Empire has become powerful beyond reckoning, and now it turns to attack the castle where the Union safeguards the goddess.
July 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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July 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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July 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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i prefer james connolly's version from a century ago
We have ere now pointed out in the columns of the Workers’ Republic that the ordinary capitalist press can find time and space in its pages to chronicle anything and everything, except those matters which are of the most importance to the wealth producers. In considering this phenomenon we are often at a loss to determine whether such neglect of matters affecting the social welfare of the vast majority of the race is malice aforethought, is the product of a desire to please the capitalist paymaster to whom the journalist has sold his pen – and his conscience, or is only the offspring of a real, though disgraceful, ignorance upon all such matters. We might be inclined to attribute this boycott of the graver issues of life to the latter cause, ignorance, rather than to the former, deliberate malice, were we not deterred from taking this charitable view by remembering the fact that the journalists in question can always be depended upon to gravely undertake to act as instructors-general to the working class, during every crisis in our history, be the crisis political or industrial. As the assumption of the functions of instructor precludes the possibility of taking shelter behind the plea of ignorance [the following is highlighted] we feel constrained to regard capitalist journalism as an effective weapon in the hands of a well-informed, but utterly unscrupulous, enemy, rather than merely as an unbiassed, but ill-informed, recorder of passing events.
July 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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if you think about it too long, all words become foreign to you and stupid, but none as fast as "garb."

the fuck is up with "garb"

it's even worse with roots meaning "elegant or graceful," which this word is not. It's what a zombie says talking with its mouth full.
Etymology of "garb" from Wiktionary From Middle French garbe ("graceful outline, silhouette"; > Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”), Middle High German gerwe (“outfitting, jewelry, clothing, robe, regalia”), modern German Gärbe, Gerbe and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).
June 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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June 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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If you see this, share a skeleton
A skeleton stands next to a naked woman in a medical auditorium. "My learned colleagues, I have invented... flesh!" A skeleton replies from the first row, "It sucks!"
June 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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there's a famous post of a communist(? anarchist? who knows) claiming we should abolish standards of measurement, which is rightly mocked, but i can vaguely see the seeds of that insane idea here

comes from a sort of essentialism that immersion in socialist thought should keep you from embracing
...The ideology of "sound money" reached its apogee in nineteenth-century Britain and has found its most dogmatic supporters in late twentieth-century US academic circles. But its practice first flourished in fifteenth-century Genoa. The central tenet of this practice was the notion that the availability of "good money" was essential to the processes of capital accumulation. Then, as now, capitalist organizations...needed a sound and reliable unit of account with which to measure the profit and losses of their commercial and financial operations. If no such standard was available, then as now, these organizations were bound to mistake losses for profits, and vice versa, simply because of variations in the value of the means of payments... They were bound, that is, to fall victim to so-called monetary illusions. But were they to command a unit of account that effectively discounted these variations...they could profit handsomely from the monetary illusions of those from whom they bought and borrowed, and to whom they sold and lent. The merchant bankers of fifteenth-century Genoa understood very well that it was neither in their power nor in their interest to eliminate variations in the value of actually circulating money, including the money that circulated in Genoa... But by the middle of the century they had come to realize that it was both in their interest and in their power to introduce an invariant unit of account with which to settle their mutual business, assess accurately the profitability of their far-flung commercial and financial deals, and be in a position to profit rather than lose from variations in time and space in the value of actually circulating money. Thus, in 1447 a law was passed requiring all business accounts relating to currency exchanges to be held in gold coin of fixed weight... From the early 1450s onwards, this "good money" became the standard unit of Genoese business accounts not just for currency exchanges but for all transactions...
June 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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"The feats of words and swords are more easily remembered than those of money."
page 96 of Giovanni Arrighi's book The Long Twentieth Century. -- (quoting from Mattingly) It was ... natural for the ruling groups - merchants and professional men - most of them with some legal or notarial training ... and most of them experienced in the haggling of the forum and the market place - to believe that words might be as potent as swords. The faith of the merchants and the politicos in the efficacy of diplomatic and forensic persuasion as an auxiliary to or substitute for military force was probably heightened by the reviving interest in classical literature. In turn, no doubt, this faith strengthened the new humanism and helped give it its prevailing bias towards public rhetoric. The real effectiveness of this form of psychological warfare no one can hope to estimate now. Certainly public opinion among the educated classes was more or less susceptible to propaganda, and certainly, from the time of Petrarch and Cola de Rienzi onward, there was an increasing tendency to try to manipulate this opinion by literary means. (unquote) -- The increasing but never complete substitution of words for swords as means to power was a central aspect of the consolidation of the Italian inter-city-state system in the century of incessant warfare that ended with the Peace of Lodi in 1454. But neither words nor swords would have sufficed to create the prototype for the future inter-state system of the European world-economy had they not been supplemented, or rather, underlain, by the power of money. The feats of words and swords are more easily remembered than those of money. But the most decisive and lasting contribution of the Italian Renaissance to the development of capitalism as world system was in the sphere of high finance. This was the "invisible" sphere in which the agencies and structures of the first systemic cycle of accumulation were formed and to which we must now turn.
June 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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about 3/4-joking when i say the only good piece of star wars media is the Lucasarts PC game TIE Fighter
The Emperor's Palace in a TIE Fighter cutscene, which remains To This Day the coolest-looking structure ever created in a medium through which the human imagination is expressed.
May 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Chris Hayes tweet on 7/26/2020: I'll confess I'd always thought of a "hornets nest" mostly as a metaphor but I just took a stick to one and...yup. I get it.
May 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Achewood strip. Panel #1: Why I must walk this earth with the bright-eyed liars and titans of inner filth shall ever plague me Panel #2: That the universe should misspend one mote of its grace and bounty on a fool like that is all the proof I need that the throne of the Lord sits empty
April 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM