Áloe

32. they/them. syndicalist. frog enthusiast 🐸 flower enjoyer 💐 multitude container

[🌎Kelly Pringle🌎 @kellypringleart]

POV: You are competing in a triathlon and these guys pass you

[witchfangs @vvitchfangs]

off topic but look how pretty my cat was today begging for her lunch

[Áloe @softplantdaddy]

@EricLDaugh Maher has always been Republican coded anyway, love when trash takes itself out

[Audra Nyx @TheAudraNyx]

Always repost this one, Comrades.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

CIA Director John Ratcliffe called China “our greatest threat.”

But this is not really about a “China threat.”

It is about American decline meeting a civilization it cannot break.

China has spent decades trying to surpass its own previous stage:
build better industry, better infrastructure, better science, better education, better technology.

America has spent decades trying to prevent others from catching up.

It sanctioned the Soviet Union.
It disciplined Germany.
It crushed Japan’s rise.
It bends Europe into strategic obedience.
It blocks, bans, tariffs, blacklists, and weaponizes every system it controls.

So when Washington says China is a threat, what it really means is:

China is the first rival we cannot easily destroy.

That is the wound.

America grew up believing history ended with itself.
That it was the final empire.
The permanent winner.
The author of rules.
The judge of legitimacy.
The only power allowed to rise without permission.

Yet America has no civilizational memory of humiliation.

It was not colonized.
It was not carved up by foreign powers.
It was not burned, invaded, occupied, sanctioned into weakness, and forced to rebuild from national trauma.

China was.

China understands rise and fall.
Dynasties. Collapse. Humiliation. Revival.
The long rhythm of history.

America understands victory.

So when it finally faces a civilization that grows stronger under pressure, it panics.

Not because China wants to destroy America.
But because America knows what it has done to every weaker country it could dominate.

And now it is terrified by one question:

If we lose our monopoly, will China treat us the way we treated the world?

[Áloe @softplantdaddy]

@HouseGOP Only after decades of absolutely eviscerating public education does this dog shit work on anybody... Oh wait

[soli @solisolsoli]

A Cat with her Kittens, 1896, by Charles van den Eycken

[Cats for Happiness. @JoyfullCat]

VROOOOM‼️

[The Internet Fish @TheInternetFish]

How it feels driving fast through the city late at night

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

体の動きに合わせて音が出ちゃう猫ちゃん

[💖💫🐰🌸🐰💫💖 // WORKING ON COMMS @BUNKlNS]

like PLEASE unmute this it will honestly make your day

[Partna @onIychloexhalle]

Some Janet songs you just feel in the nipples

[Cats for Happiness. @JoyfullCat]

A photographer's shots, capturing a kitten that wouldn't stay still for a minute during the shoot, have garnered likes..👍

[Áloe @softplantdaddy]

@SeptonFratelli It's historical. What part of "long time ago in a galaxy far away" didn't you people get 🤨