Yeah, it’s really dangerous when the religion lines up with the imperialism.

In the case of Israel, you have the base materialism that’s pushes the US to escalate there, but you also have the superstructure of holy war to cement it in the hearts of the population.

Fucking finally

Wish we lived in the conservative reality where trans people are running the government and hunting conservatives for sport.

Instead, we have to deal with them having all the institutional power to attempt queer extermination while they claim they’re the ones being persecuted.

When our time comes…

So is “Hollywood humiliation ritual” the new buzzword I’m gonna be hearing for the next few months?

I don’t know, if you read old letters even the casual correspondence is often really gorgeous.

Maybe those are just the letters we keep, though

Yogthos, NO!

He’s walking into a hexbear minefield!

Oh god, he he has his headphones on!

The first act of hexbear international terrorism

Data corruption, so I’m writing my own

Why is Cronus’ son so fucking thicc??

Who wouldn’t eat that ass??

Okay, just double the bpm and half note increments.

Same song, new bpm!

The dead MMO to crustacean pipeline claims another victim 😢

Vietnam won

nooooo, you have to consider your characters’ archetypes and craft your strategy accordingly

look at them jiggle

Liberal/welfare democracies didn’t stop growing because there was no room to grow.

Gotta partially disagree with you on this one. After WWII, imperialists got a free pass to expand throughout most of the world. All the way up through the fall of the USSR, the US was privatizing and gutting the public sectors of their client states and the eastern block.

However, with the neoliberal consensus overtaking most of the world, the US didn’t have any more big markets to crack open, which is why they had to turn their sights on gutting their own public sectors which they had free access to. Foucault’s boomerang and such

My common reading is that GDP is an indicator of growth. China is currently developing, so it’s GDP is going to be higher. However, at some point they will be considered developed and there will be less reason to grow and it will be more difficult to grow. So the GDP will level off. This has been the trend in capitalist countries.

Whether or not this will apply to the Chinese economy, I don’t know. But I believe this is the framework that people are using when they make this argument.

Sorry, I’m just speaking colloquially. I just mean the GDP has been very high for a long time now.

Can recent growth rates persist? China’s GDP has been running hot for decades now. Seems like they need to level off at some point.

Yellow cake 🤤

My mistake

I get how you can make it but “not playing the game” isn’t something that you or I may do.

I agree. I don’t think any of us have an honest choice in the matter because there’s a large level of coercion behind social expectations. I should have used a different word than “choose,” but I actually think your insight makes my reading stronger.

Even if he did “choose” not to play, the movie doesn’t present a positive outcome for doing this.

Also, I love Tolkien, but his writing is full of analogies lol.