Bluegrass_Buddhist 3w ago • 100%
No idea
Bluegrass_Buddhist 3w ago • 100%
Nah you gotta do what's best for you two, I'm just trying to get a read of where people are. I don't plan on ever owning a house, so my concern's more with getting my paycheck garnished.
Tomorrow not paying back student loans actually means something again. I don't wanna go back to paying again but I'm not sure the ratio of debt strikers to student debt collector mafias is in our favor
Bluegrass_Buddhist 7mo ago • 100%
Critical support to Tennessean used car salesmen with brains so fried by Qanon they're stumbling backwards into opposing Bill Gates geo-engineering bullshit
Bluegrass_Buddhist 1y ago • 0%
Suddenly flashing back to that one dialogue where a human woman is desperately trying to get her mixed human/asari daughter out of a warzone and the galactic beuracrat she's speaking to initially won't do anything until the woman gives an emotional Sorkin speech that changes the beuracrat's mind.
where an impoverished young woman is trying to sell herself into slavery and the game presents the most ethical outcome as helping her negotiate a better contract for her indentured servitude? Looking back those games were Fukuyama'd as shit, jfc
Bluegrass_Buddhist 2y ago • 0%
Very interesting. Are there any works you'd recommend that talk more about this? Besides the one @Wertheimer recommended, that is.
Bluegrass_Buddhist 2y ago • 0%
Didn't Hellenistic era Greeks have their own internal ethnic chauvanism going on though? Like Ionians didn't like Dorians who didn't like Magnetes or whatever?
I tend to rankle when people compare the colonialism of the last few centuries with the pre-capitalist expansion and settlement of ancient societies. It seems like there's a lot of daylight between the English founding Jamestown and ancient Ionians founding Massalia or w/e. But what do Hexbear's historians think? Is it fundamentally the same social phenomenon across time or is capitalist settler-colonialism its own unique thing?
This question has been bothering me for a while. Please note I'm not asking if we are alive. That's a different question and I think it's pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that we are in fact the dreams of a tortured god.
Bluegrass_Buddhist 2y ago • 100%
I jotted down a line after finishing the game and its DLC that I was pretty proud of:
"Two species came to this star system to find God. One could not bear His truths. The other, He smote."
I know it's just compulsive attention-seeking by a very sad, lonely manchild but still, lol. Lmao even.
Bluegrass_Buddhist 3y ago • 100%
The problems of 2014, of 1992, of 1979, of 1968, of 1963, of 1955...
Bluegrass_Buddhist 3y ago • 100%
A good handful of mostly Black, leftist organizers have "mysteriously" died since Ferguson way back in 2014. Same as it ever was.
Bluegrass_Buddhist 3y ago • 100%
This 10-year-old girl already owns 2 companies is a tax patsy for her rich parents and could retire become a run-of-the-mill failchild at 15 as a multimillionaire
I was just casually talking with my mostly white, white collar coworkers about drug legalization. I made an offhand joke about how nearly all my old school friends dealt drugs, mostly just weed, at one point or another to make ends meet. Shocked silence. Mumbles. That weird pursed lip thing that white, white collar types do. Luv 2 not be able to make friends at work because of a fundamental disconnect between our formative experiences. Luv 2 probably have just hurt organizing efforts because I spooked the people I'm trying to organize :deeper-sadness:
Bluegrass_Buddhist 3y ago • 0%
Who are the settlers in Palestine? The poor and dispossessed from Israel and from around the world.
Is this really the case though? I know there are some Israeli Haredi groups (with members living below the poverty line) that sponsor settlers, but I've also known some perfectly comfortable Americans that move out near Bethlehem.
Some of the settlements have pretty comfortable conditions even by U.S. standards, and even as nearby Palestinian neighborhoods still have to ration daily water.
My mantra is, we've lost the present (meaning the next few decades at least), but we will win the future. What is the shape of that future, if we're being just slightly optimistic?