i think now that we're on the other side of it people tend to overlook that china's reform period may have worked out better in some respects but that it was absolutely a mass social upheaval on par with not only russia's 1990s but probably even the cultural revolution before it
KILLDOZER EFFECTS:
- Property damage against other petty bourgeois
- Children frightened
- Boomer suicide
KIRKENING EFFECTS:
- Major propagandist dead
- Conservative infighting immediately escalates
- Right-wing media increasingly reliant on repulsive naked fascists
@joolsd little arthouse I worked at had a 2.39:1 main screen but no masking, because automatic curtains are "expensive as hell" and presumably nobody wanted to manually move the curtains between showtimes
hegseth being so flamboyantly anti-catholic and anti-mormon that he helps destroy the Catholic–Evangelical alliance that has been the foundation of the religious right, replacing it with an even more cursed Catholic–Mormon liberal alliance
It’s well known Americans hate children but we also hate teenagers and absolutely despise people in their early twenties. In America you’re basically dead past 30 so the only acceptable age to be is 26, which is also coincidentally the worst year of your life.
I can’t think of a decision more vindicated by history than protesting the pending genocide that everyone with the most basic knowledge of Gaza and Israel knew was coming on Oct 8 2023
japan signed a faustian pact in the 1860s by saying all that "bushido samurai shinto zen" spiel to white chaps selling gatling guns and now the result is "japan" exists as both kind of ok real country and a spectral commodity for white people to trade on the cultural market
i'm a fucking indian trans man from buttfuck of nowhere. we didn't have proper water lines 15 years back and english is my third language stfu i've been through hell and back and still managed to transition but oh do tell me how privileged i am
climate change is the actual reason for expanding range of lone star ticks and rising frequency of AGS but that’s not based and schizo enough for his audience of 16 y/o anti-vaxxers so he has to pretend there’s a cabal of vegan scientists spreading it on purpose to own the chuds
"nothing this bad could ever happen in reality" but its actually happening is one of the most nightmarish feelings ever and i think this whole episode captures it so well