hot take: warhammer 40k novels are the modern equivalent of the shitty chivalric romances of cervantes's day and yes that DOES mean i will declare myself an adeptus astartes and begin Fighting for the Emperor [committing domestic terrorism]

rue yi In life it’s never about trying to be more Chinese. It’s about discovering how Chinese you were always meant to be

The Monkey Who Had Seen the World, Edwin Landseer, 1827

introducing myself to patient Patient: "You don't look like a Rob. You look like a hippie." Me: "...well, you can be both a Rob and a hippie." patient: "...No." okej

as someone DECIDEDLY on the left with some "trad"-y tendencies (i.e., i like latin, the classics, etc), i 1000% agree. we should NOT cede these things to the chuds, we should NOT allow them to become "chud coded" as they kind of are already

this is me

yes, the chinese peptides have removed all subjective experience, but now i can directly perceive noumena, so it's kinda a wash lot more tentacles than i expected tbh

the Biden WH had some absolute banger Press Secs just in general. remember when Ptaki asked, with shocked incredulity, if a reporter would was seriously suggesting they send COVID tests to every American home that requested them? as if that was the dumbest question on Earth?

wait wait i'm sorry trump got inaugurated january of 2025? we haven't been at this for even a year?! it somehow felt like we were in year three or something, mother of FUCK

I think this is my complaint about Chernobyl as well, and it's one of my favorite series. The backbiting, ass-covering, narrative-tending habits of the Nomenklatura are absolutely 100% present (in many of the same forms!) in modern American life, it's not a Communist thing.

"but other countries have done terrible things too!" yes. this is because the State is a necessary evil, an unfortunate necessity that is a thing of violence and suffering. the only thing that can stop it is our awareness and moral determination never to let those crimes recur.