#firstworld

[nando161mando]

The migrant crisis in Latin America is the consequences of the Capitalist Modernity

Those people that are fleeing their land at thousands, if not millions, are met with the military and oppressive apparatus of the “first-world”, the “north-world”, European countries letting people die in the seas of the Mediterranean sea so they don’t get to the borders of the south Europe or the concentration camps in the Mexico-US border where agents of ICE and the United States Border Patrol behave as Gestapo agents by leaving people without food or any human care as they are caged – even children are separated from their families. This happens due to the eugenicist mentality of this countries, their white policies that had origin in the colonisation and the bases of the creation of the nation-state mentality.

[andzi-a]

Suppression of Self-expression

The system says ‘go to school, get good grades, a good job then work to retirement so you live off your pension in your senior years’. People have been complaining for years about the lack of jobs in my part of the world. In essence this means they get hired later than most; resultantly they settle in jobs they are unqualified for while some earn peanuts. Our schools, on the other hand, condemn…

[bloomsburgu]

"With graduation now, comes a bigger challenge in life. May you face every challenge with your sincere efforts as you have always done before." 🎉🎓🐾 #FirstWorld #HuskyPride #BUClass2022 #BloomOnward #graduation (at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmgEaMLO_r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[princessmyriad]

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[andromerot]

lmao??

[leviathis-krade]

Whoever fucking changed the quick reblog feature from alt+r to r to shift+r needs to be fired

[maoistyuri]

Kill the petit-bourgeois aspirationist in your brain!! Doubly important for yanks and other firstworlders!!

[apas-95]

trying to talk about social change with the average firstworlder is absurdly tedious because you need to go through a dozen more steps for every single point. like if you propose 'we should build a walking and cycling path here, between these two parklands, where that highway is' their first response would be 'ummm but if you built a path where the highway is youd get hit by cars'

[khrysalisposting]

Heyyyyyy heres another question abt your AU :3

How's Veg doing in all this? The political chaos of Schism v Arcanum v Council of Light, the fallout of Karamelle (if he got mcCavity'd like in canon), and the strain of his more personal bonds with other Schismists like Freddie?

i have thought long and hard about this (shoutout to my veg playlist for keeping me locked in on this) and this is actually super interesting to consider cuz i initially never thought of him involved in this au but NOW I DOOOOOO

i feel like this really does fuck with his head because now he doesn't know what the "right thing" is anymore. obvi the firstworld goal isn't for him anymore post-cavity, but now seeing the CoL and Arcanum and Schismists at each others throats he feels truly lost in it all. Ofc the Council was supposed to be the good guys and its very clear that they're not, they're on the same tier as the Schismists in terms of making their "ideal world" so he can't side with them. he hates seeing everyone at each others throats bc it reminds him too much of how he used to be when he was in league with the Schismists and thats the kind of person he explicitly avoids being. seeing things get progressively worse might even draw him back into being in line with the Schimists as much as he doesnt want to, but he feels like he has to pick a side, so why not choose something he's familiar with? while he might not agree with them anymore, he feels an obligation to choose and it eats him up.

[stormbreaker101]

How did Para happen?? Always separate from Nora, or separated FROM Nora...?

ALRIGHTY SO. I'm gonna start from a really zoomed out perspective and narrow in.

Way back in the Firstworld, we have the big three gods: Raven, Spider, and Bartleby. The edges of reality are weak, fuzzy things, a gradient between what was and wasn't.

When the Spiral was made, the gradient became something a bit more solid. A semi-proper border between what is and what isn't: the Dreaming. The "what if"s and "what could be"s. The way that Bartleby holds the Spiral together with his roots, the Dreamer maintains the Dreaming. It stands completely opposite of him, and he of it, with only the Springs Eternal being the slimmest of overlap between the two.

Flash forward to October 22, 1997. Nora is born on Earth. She is the child of destiny. Savior of the Spiral, Child of Light and Shadow, Scion of Bartleby, Divine Paradox, all that jazz. Nobody knows how it all fits together, not even Bartleby himself, but the Spiral has its Wizard.

Nora stepping into the Paradox Essence essentially 'awoke' the Dreamer, and it was able to join with Nora into becoming the Divine Paradox. It's kinda a Christian Holy Trinity situation except not a trinity, where the Scion of Bartleby and the Dreamer are two separate things but they are both the Divine Paradox now. The Divine Paradox coming to be is also what allowed the Nothing to glimpse the Spiral.

The following year, Nora had her Moment TM (can you tell it's getting late) and left the Spiral, leaving the Dreamer as the only remnants of the Divine Paradox. Now fully conscious and her own person, she names herself Para.

[malilebowitz]

amerikkans and other firstworlders talking about their experience with cars as if they were universal will never fail to annoy me. cars are a fucking nuisance and expensive to maintain, I fucking rather spend half an hour more on the bus or the subway and sleep, than waste my time in traffic and not being able to do anything but keep my eyes on the road.

[firstworldlevelgod]

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Wish you could've seen it but there was a post of some idiot clutching pearls and crying because "Gazans are losing the ability to communicate because Israel is shutting down communications networks before intensifying attacks,".

Useless Pampered Firstworlder Discovers Basic Military Strategy, More at 11

I guess all Gazans are mute or something. Or maybe the pearl clutcher has only seen video of them shouting in some strange, incomprehensible language and thinks that means they all just make gibberish noises instead of speaking.

[andromerot]

hm i need money i think any firstworlders want to commission me whatever for 5-10 usd? (paypal 2 weeks completion)

[endoyamato]

this is gonna sound #firstworld but i promise its not anyway i never understood the idea of flavored water bc water already tastes really good? like. why do u need it flavored. but then i remember how water tastes outside of bulgaria and im like actually i understand now

[thomasthetankengine]

i have a love-hate relationship with musicals because on one hand there a quite a few that i absolutely adore one of which has genuinely fundamentally changed my philosophies but on the other hand the online audience for musicals kinda just sucks. like if a musical isnt on broadway (or a firstworld anglophone countrys version of broadway) it just isnt talked about at all. even if a musical does make it on broadway the creators non-broadway works arent touched upon (for example, the great comet is gets a lot of love but dave malloys other works dont even tho those other works are a lot better imo). and then like even the popular musicals like six and hadestown are hardly engaged with beyond fandomization like what about the themes guys. those two are so upfront about their messages but its overlooked in favor of "girlboss omg" fandomization. all analysis is watsonian, rarely doylist.