#real great economy we've got going on

[ofs-razgriz]

I have officially entered one of those economic situations where the best thing I can do financially is drop dead.

[autisticshadowthehedgehog]

sonic the hedgehog tumblr dashboard simulator

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💠 extremegayr Follow

got held up in traffic today cause some noob couldnt drive the fucking loop-de-loop. lmfao fucking coward

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🎛 420zone Follow

ok but robotnik's kind of a dilf tho

🌫 wispgender Follow

he's literally a war criminal can we NOT do this tumblr

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📰 its-no-use Follow

@wispgender dont u literally simp for nominatus like who is one to talk

🌫 wispgender Follow

NOMINATUS ISN'T REAL????

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that you know of

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what

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🔷 sonicinthewild

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☣️ lineinthesand Follow

saw sonic the hedgehog irl once. he showed up at my village, released 30 feral pickys in the town hall, paid the ice cream vendor roughly a thousand rings for a single chili dog, told me not to waste my life worrying about the little things, and then caused a fucking tornado

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ok and??? you're not special

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THIS WAS A PERSONAL POST GO AWAAAAY

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🌠 chaoinspace2electricboogaloo

sucks that sticks the badger hates all technology you know she would do NUMBERS on here

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☸️ r0u3e Follow

being an islander be like "are those the kind of eggsplosions i should worry about or the kind of eggsplosions that are gonna repair our crops, fix the economy, and bring my dead grandma back to life"

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being a continenter be like "oh great what primordial diety has risen from the grave to block traffic and fight a 15yo today"

🥭 chao-official

being a chao be like "chao chao chao chao chao"

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you said it my mans

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🏵 sprinkles-the-chao Follow

hold on if sonic the hedgehog is jewish then how is he santa claus

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dont question him

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☣️ sparkygoboom Follow

hey guys real question are human/mobian relationships problematic

💠 extremegayr Follow

op is about to start the anthro church schism of the fifteenth year all over again

🛞 mobotropolis Follow

ok but in all seriousness did your mom never teach you that part of history

🎢 marxiobros Follow

someone doesn't know about the united federations public school system

🛞 mobotropolis Follow

what the fuck is a public school

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are we gonna talk about op's chaos radiation fetish

💠 extremegayr Follow

OP'S WHAT NOW

🏞 mobiancrossing Follow

ok but am i the only one who thinks that the public school system would be a good idea if handled right? like i know it's traditional to learn from your parents and then experience the world on our own from the ages of 7-13 but like combining all our knowledge and learning together doesnt seem like a bad idea

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bitch that's what the internet is for

🌅 s0leanna-apple-barrell

yeah where else am i gonna learn to make infinite chaos emeralds

❇️ freesurge Follow

"infinite chaos emeralds" that's called the phantom ruby

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everybody on this site has brain damage

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yeah. from the radiation

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caught this today

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if anything happens to this blog i genuinely hope eggman blows us all up as punishment

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🐊 teamchaotixofficial

Hey guys! Sorry to do this again but rent's a little tight this month :( If we've ever solved a case for you guys or made you guys smile, please consider sending a ko-fi our way! we just need a few rings to get through the month <3

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do we ever talk about that time the sky turned blood-red and shadow the hedgehog's demon dad descended from on high to murder us all and we only barely survived

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shadow fixed it it's fine

🎮 n0cturnity

yeah that was like twelve apocalypses ago move on

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kinda wanted to bang black doom tbh

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THE DEVIL???? FROM THE BIBLE????

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yeah. move over gayboy i'm boutta be shadow's new dad

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starting a conspiracy that time hasnt moved since 2006

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why the fuck was i shadowbanned after posting this

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tfw you finally save up enough rings for ice cream and you go outside and get hit by swatbot pieces and the rings just go fuckin everywhere

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🌌 h-o-l-o-l-y-n-x

so did y'all see that genesis wave or was it just me

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the virgin tweeter "if you use a bad word in the same tweet as the word 'cream' you get obliterated off the site" vs this chad site of "i want to put knuckles back in a microwave"

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BACK????

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ok posting my first fanart to this site pls be nice! <3

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why does tails look like he's always about to say "it fucken WIMDY"

🦊 miles-prower-official

Hello, @emeraldfwuitgummy!

I actually quote that image on a constant basis! Sonic thinks it's hilarious every time. He's quite the fan of memes, and it's nice to get a laugh out of him!

Formally,

Dr. Miles "Tails" Prower, PHD

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SO WAS ANYONE GOING TO TELL ME THAT TAILS WAS ON THIS FUCKING SITE OR--

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do. do you not know he created tailblr. dude it's in the name lmao

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he

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didn't eggman invent this site???

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THE EGG ABANDONED SCRAMBLR IN ITS TIME OF NEED AND THE FOX RAISED US FROM THE ASHES. YOU WILL NOT DISRESPECT HIM

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Hello, @milfwisp and @veganswatbot!

Very good question! This site was Eggman's until I ate his bones. Thank you for engaging! :D

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what's not clicking

[ms-demeanor]

if we're like, showing graphs and stuff, this is the type that i think a lot of people on tumblr are thinking of when they think about the economy.

Only one third of people with family incomes below $50k spent less than their income each month. I would guess that a lot of people on tumblr who get aggro about this topic (and the vast majority of people on r/povertyfinance, who discuss this sort of thing a lot) fall into this earning category.

Real wage increases only matter if you got a raise (one third of workers got a raise last year, which means that 2/3rds didn't - included in the economic wellbeing report linked above). Whether or not rent is outpacing wages only matters if you're not going to be rent burdened (more than a third of renter households are cost burdened in every state and 12 million rental households spend more than half their income on rent). Employment rates lose a lot of meaning when you're working multiple jobs to make ends meet (the percentage of multiply employed workers was falling in the US from 1996 to the 2010s, when it plateaued, then it started rising slightly then collapsed in 2020 and has been rising steeply since then and it's too soon to tell if it's going to go back to the plateau or keep going up).

Four in ten adults in the US is carrying some level of medical debt (even people who are insured) and 60% of people with medical debt have cut back on food, clothes or household items; about 50% of people with medical debt have used up all their savings.

Tumblr is the broke people website and yeah, people who are working two jobs to afford $900 for one room and utilities in a three bedroom apartment are not going to feel great about the economy even if real wages are raising and inflation-adjusted rents are actually pretty stable. "The Rent is too Damn High" has been a meme for 14 years so, like, yeah. Even if it's pretty stable when adjusted for inflation it is stable and HIGH.

It's hard to feel good about the economy when you're spending the last few days of the pay period hoping nothing unexpected hits your account, and it's VERY frustrating to be told that the economy's doing well when you've had to start selling blood to buy groceries.

Sure, unemployment is low, that's neat. It's good that inflation has stabilized (it genuinely has; prices are not likely to fall back to pre-inflation rates and eventually you'll likely be paid enough to reach equilibrium, but a lot of people aren't there yet).

But, like, it costs eight thousand dollars a year out of pocket to keep my spouse alive. I'd guess that we've paid off about a third of the 40-ish thousands of dollars he's racked up since his heart attack. His medical debt is why I don't have a retirement plan beyond "I guess I'll die?" So talking about how good the economy is kind of feels like being chained in the bottom of a pit that is slowly filling with water while people on the surface talk about the fact that the rain is tapering off. Neat! That's good! But I can't really see it from where I'm standing.

Inflation really is getting better. My state just enacted a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers. The Biden administration has worked hard to reduce many kinds of healthcare costs. A lot of people have had significant portions of their student debt cancelled.

But a lot of people are still having trouble affording groceries and it doesn't seem helpful to say "your perception of the economy is decoupled from the reality of the economy" on the "can I get a few dollars for food today?" website.

[matan4il]

Hello. Can I ask why everybody is calling Israel a "colonial" state? Because it annoys me very much when I see that for three main reasons:

1. My country was a former member of the British colonial rule. Do you know what happens when a country gets colonised? Every bit of the wealth generated went to the Crown, every political decision had to be approved by the Crown, laborers were exploited as much as possible, my people were directly under the orders from a British Monarch who actively hated them. The economy was in shambles after we got independence. As far as I know, since the state of Israel was created, it does not answer to any foreign country (the UN is not a country). How is this a European 'colony'?

2. Most(All?) people who immigrated to Israel were refugees. If Jewish people living in Europe did not have any ties to the land of Israel and were completely 100% European, why were most of them killed horrifically during the Holocaust for not being the right race? Why does nobody talk about the expulsion of Jews from the surrounding Arab countries? Where should these people go?

3. People also seem to forget that governments can be stupid. Just because they are the ruling party does not mean they're capable of making sound decisions for their people. Even a non-colonial government makes bad decisions. If you can separate Trump from the rest of the US, why can't you do the same for Israel?

I do not want to reduce the suffering of the Palestinian civilians. However using the wrong terminology is not the way to help these people. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm really tired of this 'colonizer' takes.

(I hope I made my point clear as English is not my first language?)

Hi, lovely Nonnie!

Please, your English is great! I would have never guessed you're not a native speaker. :D

And you are absolutely right about every single point. Also, my heart goes out to you! I'm so sorry that your people have also suffered due to colonialism. I'm sending you BIG hugs!

Colonialism is what destroyed my people. After our homeland was repeatedly colonized, the Roman colonizers went even further than previous regimes, and expelled most of our ancestors from this land (a small Jewish minority wasn't, and that's why there has been a documented continuous Jewish presence in Israel for over 3,000 years). The expelled Jews became a spread out minority in other countries. With such small numbers in each country, it was easy to vilify us, we were vulnerable to every attack, with hardly anyone defending us, and no real option to defend ourselves. The Holocaust happening to us is directly linked to this way that we were forced to exist for almost 2,000 years in the diaspora.

Meanwhile, our land continued to be repeatedly colonized by different regimes. Each one did exactly as you said, exploited our country for their own benefit. The Ottomans, as just one example, cut off so many trees to build the Hejaz railway (which connected today's Syria to today's Saudi Arabia for the purpose of Muslim pilgrimage to the Saudi mosques), that the Land of Israel went through a desertification process. When Jews started returning in substantial numbers (because in small ones, there were always individual Jews who tried returning to our ancestral land), we did exactly what native populations try to do, restore the land, through continued research and development, to its pre-colonized state.

That's on top of the fact that, as you mentioned, we don't answer to or serve any European (or western) country. Colonies serve a metropole, but there is none for Israel. It's just our country. It's just the place where we live, even when it's incredibly difficult, because it's our ancestral homeland, which we've returned to, after our ancestors prayed for that for almost 2,000 years.

You're also spot on about the fact, that Jews were always discriminated against and persecuted in every country in the diaspora (with a few exceptions in South East Asia, the most important one being India). We were treated that way precisely because there was a historic recollection that we are foreigners. That we were south west Asians, living as a minority in countries that never truly wanted us, like Norway, or Spain, or Morocco. That's why it was so easy to kill us in the Holocaust. That's why it was so easy to expel us from Arab countries. Because we were never truly accepted by the locals.

But even after expulsions and surviving the Holocaust, there are so many places in the world Jews could have turned to! Places where there would be less resistance to us forming a country. Yet, the overwhelming majority of Jews rejected such suggestions. If they hadn't, then we would have truly been colonizers. But that's not what we yearned for. We always dreamed of returning to our homeland, so eventually it became evident to everyone that there's only one real option for a Jewish state, and that is in the Jewish ancestral land.

The reason why people claim that Jews are colonizers of their own land (some deny all historic ties Jews have to Israel, despite every piece of evidence to the contrary, while others acknowledge the Jewish history of Israel and the continued Jewish presence there, but claim that it's been so long ago, it doesn't count anymore. I've never seen any other native group being told that there's a time limit on their native rights. Have you?) is because it allows a narrative that once again vilifies Jews.

When the worst thing Jews could have been was of an evil religion, they described us as evil in religious terms (accusing us of having killed Jesus, and accusing us of using the blood of non-Jewish kids to bake a special kind of bread meant for religious purpose). When the worst thing Jews could have been was of an evil race, they described us as evil in racial terms (describing us as being sub-human, and accusing us of wanting to take over the world, to destroy it for the rest of the human race). Now that de-colonization is such a powerful (rightfully so) narrative, the worst thing Jews can be is evil colonizers... So guess what we're suddenly described as? Evil colonizers, who plot, steal, abuse and genocide another population (when in reality we consented to coexist with it 76 years ago).

I hope that sort of answers it? Basically, it's the newest form of the same age old antisemitism. Find the worst thing Jews can currently be, and depict them as that.

Thank you for seeing past the vilification! It means a lot. I'm sending you lots of love! xoxox

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[yourheartonfire]

"Well, isn't this a pretty picture."

The protagonist jolted up to - oh no. Jolted up from where they'd fallen asleep on the floor of the backshelves, books and notes scattered around them like some kind of nerd bomb had gone off. And the antagonist, their old rival, was standing over them, lamp in hand and that same stupid sneer on their face.

"Shit. I mean..." The protagonist shook their head, trying to clear the cobwebs. "What are you doing here?"

"I work here now," the antagonist said with narrowed eyes. "Which you'd know if you bothered to keep up with changes in your staff. The real question is what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be throwing a diplomatic reception or issuing royal commands or snoozing in the royal sheets?"

"You want a command?" The protagonist pushed themselves up. It was easy to put on the imperious mask when they were so tired and so irritated. "Help me clean this up. Then forget you saw me. Think you can handle that, Second Aide to Librarian?"

The antagonist's face was a study. But they put down the lamp with only a small whunk. "Yes, Your Majesty," they said and started scooping up books into a pile. The protagonist choked back a yawn as they sorted their scrawled pages of notes into piles. For a few moments they worked side by side in silence, the protagonist ignoring the looks the antagonist kept directing to the back of their head.

"I'm sorry... for your loss," the antagonist said stiffly. "I know you were close to Dax."

"Thank you," the protagonist said. It was a rote response now.

"The kingdom of Sterztan?" the antagonist said, rather more tentatively as they glanced at the title. "Don't you have people now to be experts for you?"

"Oh yes." The protagonist folded their notes into a neat stack. "The ambassador to Sterztan is one of my greatest allies on the council. And this morning she looked us all in the face and assured us that Sterztan would never pose a challenge to our metals imports."

The antagonist's brow wrinkled. Their fingers twitched towards the pages in their hands. "But... half Sterztan's economy is based on their silver trade."

"I know." The protagonist rubbed. "So my ally is either an idiot or a liar. Not the kind of research I can outsource to a secretary."

"Ah." The antagonist put down their books on a an empty shelving cart. "So of course you became hyper-obsessed over this and snuck off to waste a night researching something you already knew about Sterztan's economy."

"I didn't sneak anywhere," the protagonist snapped. "I am the crown-"

Abruptly the antagonist moved. Suddenly the protagonist found themselves crowded up against the shelves, the antagonist towering over them. "The crown," they said, "without their guards."

"How dare you!" The protagonist shoved the antagonist back. "Are you insane?"

"Are you?" The antagonist grabbed another book off the floor angrily. "You're our ruler now. I expect you to at least make better use of your time."

"But this is the only thing I'm good at!" the protagonist wailed. The antagonist froze in a half-crouch but the protagonist couldn't stop. Exhaustion and the unfairness of all it was too much. "I'm not supposed to be ruling anything; I was supposed to be here, doing research for Dax while he dealt with all the politics and rituals and lies-"

"Hey, hey, hey." The antagonist was crowding up against them again. But this time it felt... supportive? A warm hand on their back as the protagonist gasped for air through the panicked sobs. "You've got this."

"I really don't," the protagonist moaned. "God, I wish I were you. No that's not true. But I wish I had your job."

"There you go, that sounds more like you." The antagonist tugged at the protagonist's arm insistently, until the two were sitting side by side on the floor. "Okay. I'm going to write you a report."

"I already figured out the Sterztan thing," the protagonist sighed.

"Not about that. About every stupid mistake every great sovereign we've ever had made in their first year as the crown."

The protagonist wiped their nose on their sleeve. "That sounds horrible."

"It will be. But," the antagonist scooted closer. Their hand was still rubbing circles into the protagonist's back. It was weirdly soothing. "My point is that every great sovereign starts out green."

"Green like inexperienced, or green like constantly feeling that you're going to throw up?" the protagonist muttered.

The antagonist grabbed their hand. "I'm saying that once you compare where you are now against where our other sovereigns were in their first year, you're going to see that you're actually doing all right. I'm not going to lie, you're doing a lot better than I thought you would be."

The protagonist huffed a tired laugh. "That sounds... like a nice theory. Got the data to back it up?"

The antagonist quirked their lip. Not quite the same sneer. "Are you ordering up some midnight research?"

The protagonist hauled themselves to their feet. "Nope. You volunteered. I'll expect that report on my desk by tomorrow. That is, tomorrow tomorrow," they added. "Not in - oh, god, in six hours."

"Go to bed," the antagonist said, picking themselves up too. "Good night."

The report was on the protagonist's desk in 10 hours.

[wr1t3w1tm3]

The Outsiders a New Musical Cast Recording Reaction

Here you go @its-a-hare-pom-pom

Please note: I do not actually know the voices of who is who. I am having to assume who is who in some of the songs so I'm doing my best. I looked up a cast list for this. This is confusing and I'd need several more listens through to figure out who is and that's probably not gonna happen anytime soon (ya'll fill find out why in a later post).

Also, I curse a lot and there's a brief mention of suicide in my section on I could talk to you all night, so be warned.

Tulsa '67: Interesting how they changed Johnny's jumping to just a week before the events of the musical. I don't mind that change. I kinda like it? Maybe?

Okay. I need to rant a bit here. I grew up just a day's drive from Tulsa in a town not very dissimilar from it. Just switch East and West and you're halfway there. (Meaning in my city the East side was the old money and West was more of everyone else/the new money side of town).

Ponyboy's diatribe about how people get stuck in the town for life hits home for me because, like, of the nearly 300 person graduating class from my highschool, a vast majority of them went to school either in town or within the state. While I'm technically still in the state, I'm right across the river from our neighboring state so the line's a bit funky. I feel his longing to get the hell out. I feel the sort of resentment he feels towards Darry, who could've been a sports star had circumstances panned out differently. I feel his heartache for Soda when he mentions that his girlfriend up and left and broke his heart. My little sister and younger brother are both up-and-coming in similar ways to Darry (albeit a different sport for my sister) and Soda. The only real difference is that my family isn't just above the poverty line. In this economy maybe we're starting to slip down there, but if that's the only difference... shit. I'm in for a ride.

Moving on...

Grease got a Hold: I did watch the performance of this for Good Morning America or whatever it showed up on so this isn't my first time listening. This is the first time I can't tell who is who. I looked up the cast so I think the first singer is Dally? IDK. It's the whole gang except Johnny. This is when I discovered that Steve was in fact a named ensemble character.

Not my favorite song. But I'm sure that it introduces everyone well. I don't mind it, just def my least favorite of the ones I'd heard before.

Runs in the Family: I'm pretty sure it's a Darry song. Shit. I feel this song. I am literally Darry in this song, except I have parents, they're just not around a whole lot due to work.

I think I mentioned here that I work at a Nursing home. And especially during the winter if I worked twelves (luckily I'm PRN, so I can pick up shorter shifts) I'd be in before the sun and out after it. That is one of the worst feelings I've ever felt. You feel like you didn't do a damn thing but your so tired you can't do anything so you end up getting down and just scrolling while you eat and you barely have energy to grab something to eat. Had I not been still living at home I would have just gone through a drive through. You are a different kind of tired after a long day of taking people to the toilet and passing meds and working with memory care patients as they sundown.

So while I'm not a roofer, I'm not out every night working till midnight, I think I can relate to Darry the best out of the three here, being an eldest daughter an all especially. I like this song as a character set up, though I have to point out it sounds like he's whining but I also know I've done this so like... I can't complain if I wanna keep my whining privileges.

Great Expectations: This is the first song out, I'm sure we've all heard it. It's about Ponyboy relating to Pip, one of the characters in the book Great Expectations I think by Charles Dickens. I never read it in school I think due to Covid so...

That being said, great song. Still very much relate to him and his wanting to get the hell outta town but feeling trapped by family and obligations. Like I get the kid is only fourteen, and S.E. Hinton was about this age when she wrote this but it is raw and I still feel it.

Come on, we've all felt like everyone expects everything of us and have just wanted to get swept up in a fictional reality where shit is hard but we know everything will be just fine in the end, right? Right?

The line about Darry hits harder after Runs in the Family. His bit about Johnny has always hit me too, because I've always wondered (anxiously, of course) about what my life would've been like had I been born to different parents. And as much as I think about that, pretty sure I'm lucky to have what I have and I'll take it over worse.

Friday at the Drive-in: So there is also a drive in in my city, and I've been several times. I freakin' love it, and it's kind of sad that they're disappearing. This chapter/scene/song has always been a favorite of mine in all Outsiders media. I love Cherry's actress. She's able to do a more country/southern accent without it sounding like a characture. Kudos to her. I'm sure this song is really cool to see in person.

I Could Talk to You All Night: Confession time: I don't like Cherry. I understand that maybe she does have a rough life, but it has always rubbed me wrong the way she told Ponyboy it's "rough all over". Bitch, both his brothers work to keep their house you shut up. Like I went through highschool with my mom hurt, grandpa dying, Covid, a whole lotta other shit and some kid literal told me to off myself b/c I got in his space while practicing a tap number for the musical. Also, I was working through the entire school year. It wasn't terribly uncommon among my peers, but to be in the musical was a sacrifice on my part and we just... we couldn't see under each others skin. My school was on the west side and his family was new money, so I guess he and Cherry are alike in my eyes in that way (even had the same hair, lol). I didn't know what was going on with him and I guess when he broke up with his gf (she was a senior and he was a junior) he got better.

That being said, I really like Cherry's character in this song. They see each other beyond the labels for the first time in their lives. It sort of feels like a love song, but also not so much, and I really dig it. I may eat my words later but I like this version of Cherry. She comes off a lot less snooty than book/movie Cherry. Its so cute.

Runs in the Family (Reprise): Shit. Darry. Okay. The silent oldest sibling burden has fucking snapped. Bro. This is so good. Seeing what all was going on behind his outburst at Ponyboy. Shit. Shit. Shit. I'm even more in love with Darry's character. Shit. The oldest sibling being a parent when the parents aren't there. The younger siblings all leading into it. The abrupt stop that is Darry slapping Pony. I wanna scream IT IS SO FREAKINNG WELL DONEOAWE RUH!!!!!! I can practically hear Pony throwing open the screen door and Darry yelling back that he didn't mean it!I@ :OUhoihlacwijhr ;iuaweh' riu

Far Away From Tulsa: Oh, oh Pony. You're innocene it showing honey. This is the one thing I feel I've got on him is that I actually live on the edge of town, so I really live within a smattering farm fields and disappearing small farm towns. Those people will be judgey as hell, they will stalk you anyway possible to get info on you and there will be rumors. Like I love that you two have a dream, but we're getting into Of Mice and Men territory with Lenny and George (is that his name?) with the rabbit farm.

Also, are they changing Pony and Johnny's motivations? Obviously I'd have to watch this but this sounds like they might be changing their motivations a bit.

The transition into Great Expectations!!! The leitmotif!??! The key change?!?!?! HOLY FUCKING SHITHLIUWE RHF AIVCWH TLGIUAWEHCFIUHA. I'm screaming!!!!! But they're dream sounds like a cowboy western fantasy. And the ending where they talk about that not being in Tulsa... realy gives me pause. I think maybe their motivations changed just a bit? BUt IDK cause I'll never get to fuckin' watch this because I am but a poor midwesterner and Broadway is a bitch.

Run Run Brother: Shit. I love this. The little boys coming to Dally. The only one they can trust to know this. This is the loss of innocence in real time. The implication that he gave them all he had (the 50 bucks) is realized here. The song sounds so frantic. Aggggg. It's so good.

The background: if you're not born into money your born into despair? The background singers are great. Grease isn't given its something you earn??? Shit. Run through the fire your bound to get burned? They really like using fire as a symbol (for obvious reasons).

The transition into "You're a Greaser now and you ain't going back?" Like he literally cannot go back. Johnny killed a kid and Ponyboy would be tried as an accomplice probably. Cheezits this is so fucking good! The wrapping back to earlier songs is so freaking well done! The desperation in whoevers voice pointing out the sign to Windrixville? I love.

Justice for Tulsa: Did they come up with a new character? Are there others? Is this the Greasers talking to each other? Immediatly suspecting Dally? So they added the interrogation that he mentions he got brought into.

Is Cherry at Bob's funeral? Honey, he's an asshole. Like I get he could've been cool but gees. I'm torn up about her. They made her way more complicated. So far I'm glad for Dally and Cherry's sake that they added this scene.

Is this Darry or Soda? No. It's a Soc. Is it Randy? Oh I love his voice. Shit, is she grilling him? She's talking about Johnny. Randy. Are they getting onto her for talking with Pony. What she did wasn't wrong? Yeah, it's a senseless tragedy. If you pushed him into it.

So this is the explanation of how they started jumping Greasers and how that tension switched things up. This might be the Act break? But I'm not sure.

Death's at My Door: Is he talking about his parents dying?

Oof. I feel him. So in my life I had a series of deaths where my grandma died, then two years later my grandpa died (different sides of the family), then a kid at my college died going home for winter break. Then a girl from my highschool died going back to school after winter break. Then working at a nursing home every time, I come back someone else is dead. So, I feel that sentiment that it feels like death is following you. But that is just growing up, and I think this is Ponyboy finally sort of coming to that realization a bit.

Are they adding romantic elements to Pony and Johnny's relationships, or is this just really flirty platonic stuff? Because now I'm confused. And I'm someone who does really flirty platonic shit with my friends.

Throwing in the Towel: Oh it's a Darry song. Oh. Darry feels guilty. Shit. Okay. Is he making up with Soda? I'm a bit upset that Soda has been jipped in here. Long list of failures, same here Darry.

Oh. Soda. Soda, ever the middle child. Trying to keep the peace, trying to hype Darry up. Their being the brothers we always knew they would.

There little harmony part is so good!

Soda's Letter: I have heard this one as well. We are finally getting a Soda song!! But still, ever the middle child, trying to keep the peace between the oldest and the youngest. Dammit. I like that they added context to the letter, since it's a bit briefer in the book/movie.

The fade in of Pony singing over Soda is so good.

Hoods Turned Heroes: I love the name on this. I think this is Two-Bit singing this. Interesting that they skipped over the fire incident and Johnny talking to them at Dairy Queen. I like that it's Soda and Two-Bit in this song. I love them as a duo. And I love that we get a Greaser son in response to Justice for Tulsa.

Interesting how they changed it to 1st degree murder for Johnny's charge, because it was manslaughter and I seriously doubt there's enough evidence to even get second degree murder.

Hopeless War: Another Pony and Cherry song. I do like the musical duo of them so far. He's not wrong about the soc's declaring the war. Cherry's also not wrong, but girlfriend, your privelage is showing.

Shit, she got a point about black and white morality. "Same mistake a thousand times" "Doing what we've all been raised to do."

Shit. I like this version of Cherry. This sounds like a country love ballad and I am all here for it. Seems like act 2, like many musicals I've seen, has fewer/shorter songs.

Geez, Cherry. Okay. I still like the Cherry best out of all of them. But girl, you've gotta understand that this kids got more skin in the game than you do. Girl. IDK, this version of Cherry is just more nuanced and I think that's what she needed.

Trouble: The way Hopeless War tansitions into this song is so fucking good!!!!

So I don't know if this is at the park or the Gang going to the park but holy shit. I love this. Is Darry trying to keep Pony out? Or is Dally? Who is telling him not to fight? Didn't book Darry let him fight??!

Little Brother: I have heard this one before as well. It's a Dally song, and it still makes me awe;u hgseruig. This is my favorite version of the Dally and Johnny relationship because it solidifies the brotherhood and the way that Dally see's Johnny. It's done fairly well in the book but the musical makes it much more clear. Even the movie does it pretty well but I like that it's a bit more spelled out here.

I think I've heard all of these last three songs so they'll maybe be a bit more in depth. Also, I am gonna say this now Grease got a Hold is growing on me as I type.

I don't really like how Johnny feels very shoe horned to the side in this version of events.

Is... is someone singing with him on the second little brother in the first chorus? Could that be Darry or am I just trippin'?

I love the way that they show Dally's descent. Oh. There's a chorus on here with him. They put a different version out on YouTube with just Dally on it. Holy shit. Holy shit!!!! I love his voice so much. When are the lyrics gonna be up I gotta see who sings what in here damn it!!!

Dally. Shit. The part where the music strips and then starts building. This will never not give me shivers. I love the orchestration on this version!

The now into no!!!!! ;jfh;ajwerhf;ija uvaiwrhf;aiu3wh I AM NOT OKAY!!!

Stay Gold: This hurts like a son of a bitch still. I can't really put my words on here, but it really is written like someone who knows they're gonna die and they're wanting to give their family a final message. Which is something you can do on hospice nowadays, but wouldn't have been avaliable in the 60's.

Can't believe we had to wait the whole musical for a Johnny solo song. But I love the touch that a man came to thank Johnny for saving the kids, because in the book that's not mentioned and neither in the movie and I like that touch. They added just a few scenes and all were very well done if not honestly needed.

The fading of Ponyboy reading it with Johnny will never not get me. They use this technique so well throughout the musical. But again with me questioning if this is platonic flirty friend shit or Johnny and Pony being romantically involved somehow? I lean towards platonic flirty friends due to the time period and the fact that they're both on the younger side... but geez.

Johnny telling Pony to tell Dally, when we know Dally is dead and Dally asked him to save a seat and just owehtouwaehrt;ouiawe I am not okay. Will never not hurt.

Finale (Tulsa '67): Is this an older Pony on the first line? Does he get out? Or is that his teacher reading it? Like the acknowledgement of Paul Newman.

Oh. This is so sweet, him turning to the hometown heroes, the little everyday ones.

He got out!!!!!! Him talking about Darry and Soda!!

Ah! They took the one paragraph directly out of the book!!!

Dally!!! Wearing grease for their disguise? Holy shit. Bro. You are killing it! Killing it! The chorus entering!!?!?! The excerpts directly from the book!

"He was just to damn good for growing old? And for his memory I'll stay gold!?!?!??!" Holy shit okay. Emotional damage dealt. You didn't have to do that.

I love me a legacy explaning final number. Shit. I love this. Beautiful ending. I love the jazzy bits.

My phone immediatly jumped me to Non-Stop by Hamilton. Fuck you spotify, didn't need that now.

Final Thoughs: Unfortunately, this is not like Hamilton in the sense that the entire freaking musical minus one song that not terribly necessary for context is on spotify. There are chunks of context missing that make me wonder how else they may have changed the story. If you're someone who's first exposure to the outsiders is this, you're gonna be left with a lot of questions. Luckily, you've got a book and two versions of a Francis Ford Coppala movie, but if this was a stand alone I think I'd be leaving the cast recording fairly confused.

I think it's amazing. I did find out while finding a cast list to compare to the featured artists that Steve is still a character. I also wonder if they're gonna release the track they use for the rumble, since I think that's a seperate track with no real singing? IDK man. I wanna see that so fucking bad.

A little mad about how they downgraded Soda and Two-Bit. I know Two-Bit was more of a minor character but it really felt like Soda got the short end of the stick here. Same with Steve, though he already had the short end so it was only a matter of time. Two-Bit makes sense despite my love of him so I kind of expected that.

Overall, I do like this, but it feels a bit incomplete as I believe some of the most critical plot details have been left for portions of the musical that are acted or spoken, which sucks for us broke ass plebs who don't live within driving distance of Broadway.

So long friends.

[edwad]

specialist literature such as? let's say we've exhausted Heilbroner and other intro stuff, what else is worth digging into from your perspective

sorta depends on what specifically you're looking for but in general i tend to like a lot of what you might call the "revisionist" historians. people like keith tribe, terence hutchison, donald winch etc are great at a more general level (although each has their focuses, for sure). tribe is still churning stuff out but the other two are dead, so although they have real strengths some of the literature has moved on without them.

otherwise ive been going through ryan walter's before methods and models which has been super eye opening for me while also basically affirming my prior belief that what we usually call "political economy" in its heyday was just a form of parliamentary debate with explicit concerns surrounding whatever the bank of england was doing. terry peach's interpreting ricardo seems to be a good corrective that i can work with, but i'm also about to revisit ricardo's principles with a group (after we finish smith) so it'll be interesting to see how a lot of my more recent readings map onto the primary sources. i'll likely be posting through it regardless.

in a big way, i'm trying to just chart a course through the history of econ which doesn't have to repeat the mistakes of the 20th century debates, especially re: ricardo. i disagree with sraffa, mirowski, and the marshall/hollander readings which tend to dominate so much of the literature and color our understanding of "classical economics", all of which have consequences for how we would necessarily have to read marx.

speaking of marx, i of course think heinrich's science of value and the biography will be crucial for how we ought to think about the CoPE, but allen oakley's work is probably the only available work in english of its kind which attempts to grapple with his sources in a meaningful way which gets at his successes in thinking through political economy as a discipline (although the works show their age, all being written in the 80s). a step removed from all of this (although closely related to tribe) is the anglo maoish post-althusserian reception of marx's CoPE from people like hindess & hirst, who spent a lot of time seriously thinking about marx and the limits of his analysis. i don't think they got everything right by any means, but they were able to deliver some serious blows to plenty of the marxists on the ground at the time and in some ways i think that they initiated the kind of crank project i see myself as contributing to.

[atomiccryptid]

mutual 1: do you love the color of the sky? lol

mutual 2: just got my fries at mickey double ds

mutual 3: just got back into ska!

mutual 4: toutch grass... or... ass...

mutual 5:

mutual 1: he bites my pepnis YEOUCH

mutual 2: peanis butter and jelly. is this anything

mutual 3: can't believe that jfk died...

mutual 4: i often wonder why horses exist in this economy

mutual 5:

mutual 1: hatsune miku? more like hat. she goes on your head.

mutual 2: look at my cat

mutual 3: do you guys ever think about infinity

mutual 4: i think the concept of infinity is stupid. if there was a number too big for me to imagine, i would just imagine better. skill. issue.

mutual 5:

mutual 1: jobs market to me not the other way around

mutual 2: can't believe one of my mutuals got back into ska

mutual 3: sometimes i wish that someone would let me take their shovels

mutual 4: be honest if i showed my therapist my tumblr how many medicines would i get

mutual 5:

mutual 1: weed smoke like a LIGHTBULB

mutual 2: i wonder what it would be like to live inside a ceiling tile. as an insect.

mutual 3: guys i just learned that triangles are real im so scared

mutual 4: using kneaded erasers is so erotic

mutual 5: i refuse to be another link in a chain both within and without myself

mutual 6: i am once again taking it upon myself to be the worse person

mutual 7: guys i hate tumblr

mutual 8: ok but why did no one tell me that the pentagon was this lushous

mutual 9: it is my first day in the hatred factory wish me luck

mutual 10: are you tumblr itself?

mutual 6: i HATE eating spinach. but how else would i become popeye.

mutual 7: just because someone can weite something doesn't mean they should -sun tzu the art of crackfic

mutual 8: guys be more weird you're scaring the hoes with your thing veneer of normality

mutual 9: anyone else need to keep the microwave running in order to sleep properly?

mutual 10: great gourds batman! i am a pumpkin. man.

mutual 6: join me in my Math Dungeon. there are Dragons.

mutual 7: strawberry cupcakes serve unimagined levels of cunt

mutual 8: in the terms of the universe we are nothing. does this comfort you or make you tired?

mutual 9: just got back into ska!

mutual 10: planting bones in my garden of ash. the ribs didn't even want to know your name and the femurs laughed at all of my jokes.

mutual 6: slammed my titties in the car door

mutual 7: something about the neverending cycle of violence has me feeling looplike

mutual 8: is that a ford f150 in your pants or is your penis. truck.

mutual 9: i think that i was put on this earth to look at beautuful men

mutual 10: I've never been one for confimrity but sweaters? i get it

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mutual 8: how many people are there on tumblr, really. like I've only seen 50? people tops ever

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mutual 10: going back to my emo phase because im hungry!!!

[nutria--oscura]

Atonement- Anointment- an ointment? Atonyment (tony peperoni?)

~s2 ep 44 spoilers below~

ron and beth business idea? ron and beth business idea

"in fact, the only hard part my be finding someone to share it with" "oh" "..." "..." "ron... what are we?" "I dont know beth... i dont know."

"about 4 teens that got married" "4 teens?" im just gonna pretent anthony is saying it like that cause of hermie and dood

TAYLOR IS A ROGUEEE FREDDIE WENT ROGUEEE

honestly, taylor as a barbarian would have been funny

goofy minmax? fuck yea

NORMAL AND LINK IN THE INTRO (sorry i loved when will and matt did that with henry and darryl)

PIANOOOO

stimming so hard cause of will

... i take it back- normal i love you but what the f-

time to update your normal designs yall

"scary doesn't run errands. she walks them... bitch"

OH YEAH- THE MEMORY--

what the fuck-

"hes[darryl] like a real zaddy" "no hes a daddy, you gotta be realistic here"

so the teens cant go to heaven, cant go to hell, where they gonna go when they die-

HERMIEEEEEEE

scary gets taken "no! my scene partner!" hermie gets taken "no! my future life partner!"

anthonys exhasparated "okay" when beth said scarys gonna look like a meatball is honestly a constant mood-

PIANO

now being a ranger is useful- bhahah

"you know its not gonna be the time out room and its not gonna be good"

"no pwobwem fowwow meee"

"i wanna see if there's anyone who isn't supposed to be in heaven so i can tattle on them" "i feel like tattling as an act immediately drops you into hell" "they love tattling in hell though" "wasn't the bibles most famous snitch, like, kinda vilified for that?" "who?" "judas dude?" "judas my man. my man judas" "wait well, judas wasn't a snitch per se" "yea he was just bad" "he was a betrayer" "he was a betrayer" "he was a business man" "he snitched-" "30 pieces of silver in that economy can go a long way" "no no no no, they're-they're right Freddie. what did he snitch? like 'hey, that's Jesus' like they knew-" "YEA" "like they knew who Jesus was" "do you think the last supper was Jesus being like 'guys alright don't tell anybody don't tell anybody'" "'but we- we've gotta fucking move 10kilos of this, ok? just don't tell the authorities'" "'this is my body, let me see your body- you wearing a wire?'" "oh my god- like the last supper was like a table for 13 but then more people found out about it and they were like 'yea, i had a birthday party, the sweet 33 but you weren't invited' and Judas was like do not-" "'are you Roman? cause if you're Roman you have to tell me'"

yes, i did just sped 15 minutes to copy that section of the podcast on my first listen. yes, i do in fact now know it by heart

anthonys "yea" like "yea, no fucking shit" and then its a mens rights activist who podcasts about spaghetti who is in front of his setup eating spaghetti at the mic and only got into heaven cause he was an organ donor and all his organs saved the lives of great people who were from minorities that the guy did not like, each of which discovered the cure for a different type of cancer

im 23 mins in and ive been sat here listening for an HOUR

"taylor walks by and looks at him asianly"

"so you know how in a chirstmas story they have them say fudge so you don't have to hear the f-word?" "uh-huh" "yeaaa-" "uhhhhhhh-" "where are you going with this bro?" "careful my friend" "hes gonna say: *slowmode* 'oh darn, it's a pppppeeeeeeerrrrrrrsssoooonnnn' and hes going to say a slur, a horrible slur"

FREDDIE ON THE KITARRA

TONY

OH

I GET THE TITLE NOW

FVCKING NEW IT

new narc type - narc on someone to their conscience

THANK YOU ANTHONY FOR REMEMBERING HERMIE

AND DOOD

YES DOOD <3

"do you[normal] really want to give me positivity? or do you want me to say thank you so you feel good about yourself?" "get him get him get him"

HE WAS SO EXCITED FOR MARGHERITA TO BE THERE NO-

"im glad you got into heaven despite everything"

CHA👏RAC👏TER👏DE👏VE👏LOP👏MENT👏

LINCOLN-

JESUS LINCOLN- I MEAN YEAH BUT JESUS

SCARY MY BELOVED <3

ooooo, new item! potentially!

love taylor asking how lincoln is doing cause of his thing with authority when he himself wont process his shit-

normal needs to go feral <3 please <3

HAH- I SHALL RETURN- YOU CANT STOP M-

[vaibhavi-01]

India as an Emerging Power: Challenges and Prospects- Part 2

Table of contents

• India's Role in the Global Economy

• Political Landscape and Foreign Relations

• Conclusion

India's Role in the Global Economy

Move over, world! India is stepping onto the global stage and ready to strut its stuff. With a rising middle class and a consumer market that is hotter than a summer day in Delhi, India is a force to be reckoned with.

But it's not just about shopping and spending. India is also making waves in the tech and start-up scene. Move aside Silicon Valley, Bengaluru is where the real innovation is happening. With a boom in technology and entrepreneurship, India is churning out bright minds and game-changing ideas faster than you can say "unicorn startup".

And let's not forget about outsourcing and the service sector. It may not sound glamorous, but it's a key player in India's economic growth. From call centers to IT services, India is the go-to destination for businesses looking for affordable talent and quality work. We've got all your customer service needs covered, with a side of chai.

So next time you're sipping on your morning coffee and using a fancy new app. remember that it might just be powered by India. We're not just the land of yoga and curry, we're shaping the global economy one billion-strong population at a time. So, buckle up world, because India is ready to take center stage. And trust me, you don't want to miss the show.

Political Landscape and Foreign Relations

India's political landscape is as diverse as it comes. With a proud tradition of democracy and a population that could easily create a football team, India's political scene is truly a sight to behold. It's a lot like going to a potluck dinner, where you get a little taste of everything.

One of the key pillars of India's political system is its democracy. Unlike some countries where leaders are chosen based on their ability to wave a flag, India prides itself on giving everyone a say in who gets to run the show. It's like a reality TV show, but with less drama and more debating.

But it's not all sunshine and rainbows. India also has its fair share of security concerns, especially when it comes to nuclear power. With great power comes great responsibility, and India knows that all too well. It's like having a pet tiger in your backyard - you have to make sure it doesn't get out and create mischief.

In addition to domestic issues, India also has to navigate the complexities of regional and international alliances. It's like trying to juggle multiple relationships at once. Sometimes you have to choose between attending your friend's wedding and going to your cousin's birthday party. It's a delicate balancing act, and India is the ultimate multitasker.

So, when it comes to India's political landscape and foreign relations, it's a colorful tapestry of democracy, security concerns, and international alliances. It's like a Bollywood movie - full of drama, action, and a few dance numbers thrown in for good measure. India is a protagonist in its own right, navigating its way through a complex web of challenges and opportunities. Buckle up, folks, because this is one rollercoaster ride you won't want to miss.

Conclusion

India, with its immense potential on the global stage, faces a multitude of challenges, Overpopulation and the management of resources pose significant hurdles. Social Inequality and poverty hinder progress and innovation. Corruption and bureaucracy add an extra layer of complexity. However, India also has promising prospects. The demographic dividend, coupled with investment in infrastructure, can fuel growth. Moreover, India's expanding global influence is a positive sign. In terms of the global economy, India's rising middle class and booming tech and start-up scene, along with its service sector, play a pivotal role. Politically, India's democracy and diversity, nuclear power, and regional and international alliances shape its position. In conclusion, India's journey as an emerging power presents both challenges and opportunities that need to be navigated strategically.

[mraberdeenwashington]

Florida bans lab-grown meat

Hey, fellow Floridians I just heard the most ridiculous news: our great state has banned lab-grown meat That's right, folks, if you're craving a juicy burger or some crispy chicken nuggets, it's gotta be from a real, live animal. No sci-fi lab magic for us!

I mean, I get it. Our governor wants to protect our agricultural heritage and all that jazz. But let's be real, this is just a thinly veiled attempt to keep us from eating "fake" meat. Like, what's next? Banning vegan restaurants?

And can someone please explain to me how this is going to help our state's economy? Are we going to start exporting "real" meat to other countries now? "Hey, China, want some genuine Floridian beef? We've got cows for days!"

But you know what the funniest part is? This ban is supposedly to protect us from the "global elite's agenda." Um, isn't that just code for "we're afraid of change and new technology"?

Anyway, if you're as confused and amused by this as I am, let's discuss it in the comments And if you're craving some lab-grown laughs, head over to my TikTok (@mraberdeen) for some meaty memes and jokes. Check out this hilarious video of a cow trying to order lab-grown meat at a drive-thru [https://www.tiktok.com/@mraberdeen/video/lab-grown-meat-drive-thru] or this Instagram post where I'm "protesting" the ban with a fake meat sign [https://www.instagram.com/p/CqU7hJ9oN7F/].

Oh, and if you need a good laugh, watch this video of a politician trying to explain what lab-grown meat is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ]. It's like they're trying to describe a unicorn

#FloridaMan, # LabGrownMeatBan, # RealMeatOnly, # GlobalEliteAgenda, # TikTokComMrAberdeen, # InstagramComMrAberdeenWashington, # MeatLoverProbs, # FakeMeatFiasco, # AgriculturalAbsurdity, # FoodForThought, # PoliticsAsUsual, # BanTheBan

[xenofact]

It's Imaginary Children All The Way Down

Imaginary Children play a huge role in America's "extractive politics." By extractive politics I mean those that use people and their resources as fuel, usually returning nothing, and often causing them great damage. One way to get people to go against their own interests is to invoke imaginary children.

We've seen this with evangelizing charities promising to help children in other countries - of course middlemen took their cut, evangelized, and ignored the real causes of suffering in the world. But everyone got to pat themselves on the back while surprisingly little got done. You might see pictures of real children in need, but there was always an abstraction in the pitches and grifting that made them less than real.

Then there's abortion in America, which historically was just a way to get votes without resorting to old racism routines. People are wound up by politicians and preachers to absolutely get distraught over imaginary children while ignoring the plight of very real human beings. You never see someone say "I worry about the children so I am against abortion and for universal health care" or something. So people vote anti-choice and then suddenly find they can't get IFV, medical treatments, and so on and everything is worse. No real children or people are helped, but those maybe-babies are somehow safe.

(Of course, you'll notice racist crap keeps coming into the anti-choice side when they argue things like we need more babies so we're not replaced with some kind of non-white people. Anti-Abortion politics always had racial fear in it.)

Further along the grift-on-imaginary is the Satanic Panic crap over the centuries that morphed into the entire QAnon/Save the Children insanity of the 2010s-2020s. Evil forces were doing awful things to children in rituals, draining their blood to make drugs, and other things fevered grifters and sanity-challenged posters could come up with. Just like other Satanic Panics there was no evidence, because it was all just a mix of grift and attempts to call political opponents child-victimizing pervert Satanists. It was all about imaginary children, and it led to real-world consequences from conspiracy theorists.

Oh, and of course, those propagating these conspiracy of child-consuming cabals somehow ignored real children, real suffering, and questionable sexual behavior among their heroes. Because of course they did.

By the time you get to imaginary evil cults victimizing imaginary children it imaginary scenarios it feels like you've hit peak made-up-child-for-grift. Where can you go when you resurrect anti-Semetic tropes, witch-hunts, bonkers consiracy theories, and pathological politics and voltron them together? It feels like there's no where else to go in the field of finding ways not to give a shit about real kids.

Wrong, you can go into the future and take the Imaginary Kids to the final fronteir.

We see this in weird futurists, startup grifters, and long-termist pseudo-philosophers. They have to think about the kids of the future! Those Future Kids are just as important as kids these days if not more so! Also this justifies them getting rich doing cryptocurrency startups for nutritional supplements and not paying their taxes. Someday all that money they have will be used to make a better future, and not just wasted in a midlife crisis after their fifth divorce and an FTC investigation.

The Imaginary Kids have gone cosmic, and assholes can justify being part of an exploitative economy and abusing people because they might help Future Kids. It's not a grift or daddy issues, really!

Conspiracy bullshit, religious fanaticism, and futurist greed-excusing are all the same. They rely on Imaginary Kids to get you to buy their crap and excuse their abuse.

Its up to us to focus on real people, not empower these assholes, and shove their face into the suffering they excuse and cause.

Xenofact

[the-firebird69]

We're starting to get really bent we have about 87% of the factories back up and running after covid-19 and 35% new factories and all the essentials are 85% covered meaning that people get stuff 85% of the time and it's increasing rapidly that's where the money is. You won't let her son have anything the economy is recovering and everybody is doing better and just sitting there laughing at him thinking that you got here by pulling him we got here because we took over the factory so we forced it to happen and you think we'll take a fall from Tommy f I've seen on the cake that is icing on the cake now we're coming after you to and the max bomb due to Oblivion for your stupid attitude towards us and he going to see it in the letter tonight. Add the fact in that in the letter it says several things about your attitude and demeanor it says that you are wrong it almost everything you're doing and that kidnapping him does not have a positive effect and you will not be trusted with him we will not allow you to kidnap him that's what the max say because you're fools and we're not going to terminate him or put him on the court that's your idea to imitate us anywhere you go and it did not have any effect and he's sitting there saying he knows you are so you shut your stupid mouth that's what they're going to say and then they're going I get used to it I can't stand it you'll be so f****** dumb that Daddy says and it's right you ruined him and he his plan was brilliant it was dangerous the clans planned was dangerous but not as dangerous and what you're doing is making the max fail and yourselves but not in that order you won't be around and see what happens to them and good we don't want you to your heinous who cares what heinous idiots say everything out of your mouth is disgusting your f****** pigs every night is a bad night when you're around and every day no one can have it any fun or relaxation and you blame everyone that you're not it's just that you're a huge pain in the ass evil people we've ever seen you like primates you're so dumb it's absolutely true and we're going after you too for all the stuff you're saying right now.

The letter goes on to say and it is only 4 hours and 20 minutes away, that you will be executed for treason and you will be brought into trial and hung and burned and all of this will start becoming public because of what you're doing and saying is so damned rude

The letter is pretty harsh once they do things you can't do so you do a few you can and see this one now and that's the thing

They're trying to exacerbate you and you're such f***** you just go around ruining everything for you and them it's greatness really is our son and daughter recognize it and the pattern and it's real and they also help make you stupid because it was a lot easier even though it's hard and we used to defeat them because they're trying to use you to defeat us in the process you're going to be gone before they will and that brings us to this topic that he is yelling at us about hey started yelling it and we do respond to it by doing mostly what he's saying yeah and her and we're taking territory above and below and elsewhere and it is good lots of it and we need it now because of their master plan and it's not really complicated but you guys can't figure it out ever. So that's what we're doing with it but further in the letter they say that you're going to be smoked but they go through this big list of things that you're doing wrong half of it is Satanist stuff and it says that you're truly sacrilegious that you don't hold hope and people who don't have much and you cause damage to yourselves in US they have hope in us being damaged and you being damaged not in that order and it's saying it different language finally at the end they say this we're going to come get rid of you until you're all gone because what you're saying now is gibberish you have like no power and you got really a power exchange the sit around and be these asinine jerks that you are saying stupid things to people. It goes on so you'll be fine every time and more and you're declaring war on us and it is a declaration of war if you do not comply by 9:00 p.m. and they're in the letter they give you a time frame to respond and I believe it's 24 hours and come Monday are y'all start talking about it round and round and round and son says you don't have a damn deceptive phone in your damn body and they said we want to be honest I said for Christ's sake even Dan tries to fool me a little then got up and said you're right you're a bunch of fools I want out of this we got three days extra who cares and he sat down they said you don't have any scrupels and you don't have any values. You say you're wrong he has scruples and he values his people Trump stood up and said it and you don't even know what the hell you're saying you're going headlong into a war with a huge group we can't win against in any way and sat down now finally other people start standing up say what's wrong with you you sound like complete knitwit and saying we're going to go we're going to go through this and allow them because we want to be stubborn jackasses and it's that down and people from the Senate and the Congress started talking we don't want you elected to anything we don't want you here you're worsening than he is and you're causing it to happen to him just like your nephew said and you're a bozo some CIA pro and you don't know how to do anything and it's all your stupid gay little kid s*** it's souped up and amped up and it's ruining us. So bja was not laughing he was in tears and he said if you don't like it leave just leave and he said they've been saying that to us the whole time. So corky will say you encourage them to do it CAA and our son says back to him shut up butternut squash. Opens his mouth and said you finally got a package of it they said we're going to beat you to text you so damn dumb we have to respond with something other than the middle finger you a****** so here are some you send a diplomat and apologize it says we need to restructure and we need some time to do it it started writing something up and the letter says you have this amount of time it's like 24 hours so you want to try and draw it out and BJ's saying no so going up to him one by Wednesday no to you you can do what you want with your group but you can't do with ours and they're different Mac gifted they're like him and he has a large number of everyone he's like 30% Trump is like 20% still and shrinking and the rest are miscellaneously outnumber him and the kids on saying to him

Few things else you're not listening to here because you're not you're getting hit people say do not go through the traffic light as if no one's there and they're arresting people for attempted homicide and don't sit there at a red light cunn. ing your engine trying to get people to race you to pull them over it's illegal. The proceeds to say that we are declaring warn you and these things will be taken and these steps will be taken against you and we are sitting up internment camps all over Florida and the United States and we are going to fill them all the time and you'll be treated as enemy combatants and moved off to your Islands will ship you there.

Well we get this too they said other things about people aidting and abetting and more and we were we don't really help them

Thor Freya for us and

Olympus

[ghostonly]

Has anyone else noticed how the fucked up economy has affected interior design trends? Or is it just me?

Like, maybe I'm not looking in the right places and I'm just missing new trends because I don't read magazines, but it seems like the economy basically breaking has left interior design at a standstill.

We've been doing contemporary interior design for about 20 years now and I don't see any obvious signs of it going away any time soon. All of the new interior design trends are just new things that fit into contemporary convention. We move from this white stone to that white stone. We switch from white rugs to black rugs. We keep using glass but this time it's round. We change the focus color from red to blue. Like, there may be some changes in trends, but they're all just different branches of the same thing. And I can't help but feel like this is obviously caused by economical fuckery.

In the past, interior design trends have changed dramatically from decade to decade. Even the longer lasting ones didn't stay mainstream for more than 15 years or so (at least from what I know of more recent centuries), because every 10-15 years a new generation of people move out of their parents' home and get their own place.

You know... until now.

Our economy is so fucked up that for the first time in a long time, people are literally incapable of independent living. Millennials who have moved out of their parents' homes moved directly into the arms of the housing crisis in 08. They got a small apartment. They furnished it with hand-me-downs and thrifted furniture that their personal sense of style had absolutely no bearing on. And since then, millennials have been continually doing this song and dance of replacing their broken furniture with the cheapest thing they could find at Walmart (pseudo contemporary, black or white, build-it-yourself flatpacks) or whatever thing from the 70s they could find at Goodwill.

My sibling is a great example of this. They're 35 with 2 kids and a spouse and had never had a new piece of furniture in the entire time they'd lived independently until I bought them a flatpack dresser from Walmart for Christmas, because they didn't have a dresser at all.

The younger millenials in their mid-late 20s and the older gen z either stayed with their parents or went from a college dorm to an apartment crammed with roommates who all brought their handed-down furniture with them.

None of us have the money to actually impact interior style trends. We may have interior design ideas in our heads, but that's where they stay, because we can't pay to make them a reality.

So, only the people with money are able to impact style trends, and who has money? People who are 40+ and have had the same stable job for over a decade. The same people who started the contemporary design trend in the early 2000s. Rich people who are also around that age. Older rich people who are hiring interior designers and architects who are 40-50, in the prime of their (non manual labor) working years, and who love contemporary interior design. They moved out and made a statement and no one has had the money to challenge that design statement since then.

So, instead, we all continue to buy cheap knockoff contemporary furniture, or furniture that's so old and outdated, our grandparents would think it's tacky (That's why they donated it)

And it just makes me so mad.

What beautiful interior design trends would we be coming up with if we all had the money, not only for housing, but for new furnishings and decor for said housing?

I know there are young people with that capability, but not enough of them to make a real wave in the interior design world.

Our interior design legacy is DIY and putting cheap paint on a cabinet from the 70s. Our interior design legacy is eclectic misery. And I'm sad about it.

[mdccanon]

For everyone still talking about St Paddy's Day and they insist that they just wished Mainstream America spent money in black-owned business celebrating like they do for their holidays, let's take some lessons from those holidays and apply them for maximum Black success!

We have 40 days -- that's 11% of the calendar -- designated as Black American holiday time. Let's make that money!

Every profitable American holiday has:

1) About 6-8 cheap, disposable, plastic and paper trinkets and decor for people to wear or keep. Although Mardi Gras and St Patty's Day have a lot of great examples, the real leader for this would be a Chinese gift shop. So many tacky things for suburban women to buy as keepsakes for that one time they remembered the Chinese New Year before it passed!

2) An official alcohol, preferably for each holiday, like how we have eggnog for Christmas, champagne for New Years, and wines for Thanksgiving, and tequila for Halloween -- I googled it, lol -- but let's start with the easiest comparison: if Guinness is the preferred beer for celebrating a Catholic priest, what hard liquor best represents Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr?

3) Tacky clothes, preferably bastardized, stereotypical costume. The same red coat for Santa, and now even Grandma's ugly sweater has been commericalized, the same Leprechaun suit for Paddy's, the same Dracula, witch, and sheet ghost for Halloween. You get the idea. But we're really going to have to tell all of those sensitive liberals to calm down on that whole cultural appropriation thing, because we're not going to be able to sell nearly as many Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass themed costumes otherwise.

4) Sickeningly wholesome music that can be played on loop for days leading up to the main events, until every retail worker in America wants to scratch off their ears. We need bangers at the same level as "Proud to be an American", "All I Want for Christmas is You", "Feliz Navidad", " Still I Rise", " The Monster Mash", and "Auld Lang Syne" and we need them yesterday!

I too want Black businesses to cash in on the holiday craze, but ladies and fellas, we've got to do the heavy lifting to make this possible. We can't just expect White folks to make stereotypes FOR us. If we work together, I'm sure we can sterilize Black History Month, Kwanzaa, MLK Day, Rosa Parks Day, and Juneteenth of all that cultural, spiritual, and historical significance and package it down into an easily digestible, cartoonish costume that can be sold online and in bulk so corporate offices and parade planners can decorate on a tight budget.

And I know that you think that I'm being sarcastic, but honestly, let's just take a look at the Chinese and Jewish communities to see how it's done. Since nobody really cares to understand the cultures of either of those communities because it would damage the fragile self-importance of their Christian perspectives, they have had the privilege of being able to sell a simplistic red-and-gold and blue-and-white version of their cultures for a CENTURY... which has not only helped them raise a lot of cash for other endeavors, but after they are done giving Mainstream America a theme park tour of their cultures, they're able to simply celebrate the realistic and authentic version in the privacy of their homes. And they aren't the only ones! Do you think Norway, Denmark, and Sweden care that comic books made their pagan gods into superheroes? No way! They've been prepackaging every Viking and Thor related piece of content that they've made in the last 20 years and shipping it over here so they can collect that sweet, sweet cash with very little marketing needed. The entire Japanese economy is held together by the budget of the average American anime fan.

Don't you want that for us?