#It was awful.

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Ok so I’m catching back up on EAPs rn right. How many kids does Eclipse HAVE. This is like 5 now isn’t it. You got Andy n Jake, Andrew, Charlie, and now quite possible you could say that Roxanne is his sassy teenage daughter.

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Hey can you clarify why Caesar is so wrong abt Rome when arguing with Arcade? I woulda wanted to hear his rebuttal :)

So I’m far from an expert when it comes to Roman history but i do know a lot about facist talking points and Rome. And boy do they loveee talking about Rome(which is the basis of the Legion as a faction in general. Weirdo facist rome larpers). As mentioned in my shitpost they like to claim Rome Fell due to “moral degeneracy”. Its kinda the oldest talking point in the book you can see it used by Nazis in the 1930’s and The Daily Wire today. And an opinion i ascribed to the legion.

Many of these quote on quote “degeneracies ” that i hear from facists and neo-cons include taxation(which is a bit fair given lack of representation but they never frame this honestly or correctly, making the problem about taxes in general rather than lack of democratic representation)and womans rights. There’s also this vague idea of Roman’s “straying from tradition”.If you look more at the nazi side they focus heavily on immigration/integration and race mixing which i personally don’t think are reasonings sallow or the legion would call degenerate as the very structure of the legion is based on forced integration.(adding this later but also ‘degeneracy’ as in homosexuality and orgies which is so stupid because that was a part of roman culture from the start but whatever! Facists are never honest!)

Arcade, and any honest scholar who knows anything about Rome, knows that “The Fall of Rome” had numerous causes.( and the overall framing of the fall of rome being a singular event is inherently dishonest, as it occurred over hundreds of years. Also for further clarification this is about the fall of the WESTERN roman empire which is what the dialogue tends to revolve around)

So what caused the “fall of the roman empire”. The simple answer is they lost to the goths but why was this so devastating? And why didn’t they recover?( its far from the first time Rome lost). Well as previously mentioned there’s a lot of reasons. Arcade is well educated on Rome( the followers clearly have an extensive library regarding roman history). The points I see him using would be pointing out the internal political problems with Rome and its treatment of its conquered people. Specifically its enlisting of people into its army, taxing, and controlling of people(like the italians and gauls) while refusing them representation respect or proper citizenship. The last of Rome’s emperor’s was killed in an uprising from these armys full of second class citizens. Turns out building your military on conquered people you treat like shit is inherently unsustainable, and I see that as something Arcade would want to throw in Sallow’s face.

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I dreamt I used a bad shampoo on accident and my hair became really dry and crusty.

[peri]

Don't just take my word for it but I believe it was just a dream dw!! i haven't seen anything suspicious other than the usual annoying changes to mobile and it breaking every other day <3 ilysm

OKAY THANK YOU GENUINELY IT WAS STRESSING ME OUT

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I spent a lot of time handcuffed and in a cage in high school, for a charity bit the grocery store I worked at would do

the bit was that I was "put in jail for having too big a heart" and customers could donate to my bail to get me out (and the money would go to a children's hospital or something)

now. I was very clearly a teenaged employee handcuffed inside a large cage. and I would honestly tell people that I had been in there for hours. and people would say, that's terrible! that's awful! and I would show them my wrists red from the tight handcuffs, and say but I'm sooooooo close to making bail.

and then they would dump some cash in the basket, I'd thank them, and they'd walk away.

and every so often, one of the managers would come by and collect some of the cash, so I could keep being soooooo close to making bail.

I was very good with this bit. Parents with small kids would pay $5-10 if I told their children I had been placed in jail for not cleaning my room/doing my homework, etc. For people in their 20s, I'd threaten that I was very bad at playing the harmonica, but I WOULD play it and we'd all suffer unless they paid me. and for the most amount of money, older men in suits would almost always pay $20s if I avoided eye contact and stammered a lot.

eventually, the managers started to feel bad because I was in the cage so fucking long and often, that I'd need someone to brace me when I got out because I'd have no feeling in my legs. wobbling like a newborn giraffe.

but I would also rake in at LEAST $100 an hour in charity.

so they were like, hey champ. can we, uh, give you a pillow to sit on. in the cage. would you like a pillow so you're not just sitting on a cold metal slab. can we give you a pillow.

and I had to explain to them that if they gave me a pillow, people would think I was more comfortable, so they wouldn't feel as bad, so I'd bring in less money.

the compromise was that they'd bring me a nice coffee every couple hours, which I would have to try to block with my body from the customers.

all this money went to charity. that's what the money was for. it's what was on the sign. but how much they were willing to pay was very contingent on how comfortable I looked, never mind the fact that I was still a teenaged employee handcuffed inside a cage.

and out of the dozens of shifts I did this on, not ONCE did ANYONE say, hey kid I'm going to go talk to your manager because what the fuck is going on here. they would just drop money in the basket, and I'd thank them and sip from my secret drink.

I actually had people get MAD at me that I told them I was far away from bail, they donated like $15, and then 20 minutes I got let out because my shift ended.

again. the money was for charity. it was on the sign that was very clearly placed on the upper half of my cage.

so yeah. even when people think they mean well. people can be really, really fucking stupid.

[feralcringeman]

PROOF IN CASE YOU NEED IT

UPDATE:

I put this in my reblogs but I’m going to attack this to the main post.

TRUMP HIMSELF DIDN’T CHEAT BUT SOMEONE DEFINITELY TAMPERED WITH THE ELECTION RESULTS.

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Made by the amazing @the-gay-prometheus (genuinely thank you for saying this)

[beaft]

do genuinely find it fascinating how indeed.com is like the biggest job-hunting website out there and yet manages to be profoundly useless in every possible way

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op turned reblogs off but this post must live. it must live and spread malignantly .

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remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word "females" so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em 'smilies' not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this:

because someone was sick of incels using the word to refer to women

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Honestly I can tell you finding out art was made by AI really does immediately, legitimately sour it for me, like people will trot this out as a Gotcha for anti-AI people but it's just making it clear they don't consider art to be the conversation that it is lol. It's similar to the way Harry Potter immediately soured for me because engaging with it while knowing the kind of heart Rowling is writing from changes the way the work feels; there isn't any moralizing or whatever that I have to do, it's easy to drop it because it's rotted in my hands.

"Oh but you LIKED this song before, nothing changed!" The conversational partner did. A very large portion of what is interesting to me about art is thinking of why the creator chose that instrumentation, or what made them want to make the thing in the first place. Finding out I've been talking to a wall completely removes an entire third of the force that art is to me, and I can't argue that anything about art or its consumption is Objectively Correct but I can argue it's fucking boring lmao

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Hanging out

[cottagedreamy]

God told me to draw this

[redstonedust]

ngl for lot of my life i thought parents sitting their kids down and telling them how babies are made was just a thing they made up for comedies on tv so now im curious how common it actually is.

[demi-pixellated]

a silly addition

[chloesimaginationthings]

Harley Sawyer is a very normal man from Poppy playtime