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I don't begrudge anyone their campaign preferences, and I think there's plenty of valid reasons to like Campaign 3 the best and this is not directed at people who are genuinely having a great time with it, but it feels like virtually all the nostalgia and wishful thinking I see surrounding Campaign 3 is screaming "you guys want Campaign 2." You want more slow travel and downtime and interparty conversations and slow-burn romance? You wish their main focus was fighting governmental corruption? You want a party that only semi-settles down at the end and keeps adventuring and remains very close? You're frustrated by how everpresent and overarching the moon plot is? You miss when they were just fucking around in a city? I genuinely believe you want Campaign 2, or at best you love a specific ship or a character from Campaign 3 but aren't happy about basically anything else, and would vastly prefer the tone and events and plot of Campaign 2. And I don't really care if you watch Campaign 2, or if you think I'm being annoying here; I simply genuinely believe you'd be happier watching Campaign 2 than Campaign 3 and are so deep in a sunk cost fallacy well you can't see it.
#the number of people who SCREAM if you imply campaign 3 is not the greatest campaign but also openly resent the moon focus is. high.#i've had my complaints about the people from c1 who would shit on c2 but i'll give them this: they actually do love c1.#it feels a lot of people just want bells hells at a chuck e cheese birthday party and like. that's not campaign 3 babe.#i actually have grown to really like the moon plot once it finally took off#and c3 has had some satisfying lore resolutions and new places#but it feels like the people who showed up to ship kind of hate the core plot of the campaign which. is the core plot of the campaign.#cr tag#this is intended to be read in conversation with the post from earlier about things not being deep too#like it's ok if your blorbo or otp is in c3...but if that's the only thing you love do you love the campaign or do you just love them#also. i also don't begrudge anyone their reasons for watching a show#but I've seen like three people i follow try to watch wot solely bc Lanfear is hot and give up bc there's so much lore#and people get mad candela didn't give them a happy ending for their ship#it really is like did you show up for c3 or did you show up for a blorbo delivery system#not realizing this is prix fixe instead if made to order
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Gaza is NOT an excuse to sit out this election
I don't usually post about politics on this blog (if anything I try to avoid it since I know it can be a distressing topic) but, to be honest, the upcoming U.S. presidential election has me concerned.
This is going to be one of, if not THE most globally consequential election of our time, and I have been deeply perturbed to see people spreading sentiment that sitting this vote out (or even voting for Trump) is justified by the Democratic Party's handling of the genocide in Gaza.
I was going to write a post about why I think that's really dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric, but then U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders came out and said the same things far better so I'm going to share his video, and some key quotes:
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"SOME of you are saying: "How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she is supporting this terrible war?" And that is a very fair question. And let me give you my best answer. AND that is that, even on this issue, Donald Trump and his right-wing friends are worse. In the Senate, in Congress, the Republicans have worked overtime to block humanitarian aid to the starving children in Gaza. [Current President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris] support getting as much humanitarian aid into Gaza as soon as possible. TRUMP has said Netanyahu is "doing a good job." And has said Biden is holding him back. [Trump] has suggested that the Gaza Strip would make excellent beachfront property for development. [...] AFTER Kamala wins, we will together do everything we can to change U.S. policy towards Netanyahu: An immediate ceasefire, the return of all hostages, a surge of massive humanitarian aid, the stopping of settler attacks on the West Bank, and the rebuilding of Gaza for the Palestinian people. AND let me be clear: We will have, in my view, a much better chance of changing U.S. policy with [Kamala Harris] than with [Donald Trump], who is extremely close to Netanyahu and sees him as a like-minded, right-wing extremist ally. [...] AS important as Gaza is [...] it is not the only issue at stake in this election. IF Trump wins, women in this country will suffer an enormous setback and lose the ability to control their own bodies. [...] IF Trump wins, to be honest with you, the struggle against climate change is over. [...] Trump believes [climate change] is a hoax. And if the United States, the largest economy in the world, stops transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel, every other country, China, Europe, all over the world, they will do exactly the same thing. And God only knows the kind of planet we will leave to our kids and future generations."
And now I am going to editorialise a few more points:
Firstly, I want to emphasise that the upcoming election is about damage control and harm reduction, not about political allegiance or moral purity. The point of casting your vote is not to signal support for a candidate, but to cancel out a vote for the more damaging candidate by voting for their opposition in the two party system. Let me be clear on that: under the U.S.'s current first-past-the-post voting arrangement, voting for a minor third party or independent is functionally useless during an election of this magnitude. It is a symbolic gesture that's functionally and morally equivalent to sitting out.
Story time: I come from a country which uses a preferential ranked-choice system and where voting is compulsory for all eligible citizens (a system which lowers campaign costs, incentivizes governments to make voting more accessible country-wide and limits attempts at voter suppression not that right-wing parties haven't tried). Despite us actually having a few substantial progressive third parties, there have been several times where I've sucked it up and voted for the major centrist party specifically to keep the major conservative right-wing party from gaining or maintaining power. We call this vote-them-out and keep-them-out politics - it's pretty much the default approach here, and it should be yours too because the idea of a "perfect party" is a fallacy. When human rights are on the line, pick the least-worst major option. The aim is to cancel out a vote for the other guy. Even with this, we recently lost our state to the major conservative-right party (running on a platform of youth-criminalization and abortion-bans) by a mere 8 percent margin - just in case you want evidence of how much impact a small number of votes can make, and how dangerous it can be to get complacent.
Secondly, for those Americans who still believe that not voting will keep you from being complicit in the Genocide in Gaza. Let me speak to you as a White Australian: you are already complicit in and benefiting from a genocide. Multiple, in fact. You and I both live, learn, work and profit on land that was forcibly seized through the murder and dispossession of First Nations peoples, similar to how Palestinians are being murdered and dispossessed of their land right now. When you enjoy chocolate and vanilla, you are benefiting from spices that were brought to the Global West via the colonization of Latin America, and that were historically (and in chocolate's case still is) cultivated by enslaved people. The phone/tablet/computer you are reading this post on is likely made using conflict minerals. I'm sorry, but you don't get to wring your hands over Gaza at a distance and pretend that sitting this vote out absolves you of genocide, while ignoring the ones your (and my) ancestors committed to bring you that luxury. You just don't. And again, as Senator Sanders said, Trump wants to bulldoze Gaza and turn it into Netanyahu's beachfront property development. You don't get to pretend that standing aside and knowingly letting someone else vote for him to do that is the more moral option.
Thirdly I want to point to that last part that I highlighted in Senator Sander's speech. I am not a USAmerican, but this election scares me because of America's global impact. If you are an American voter reading this, you need to understand that your country is too globally influential for you to neglect your civic responsibilities. I was working as a member of my country's national public service under a right-wing government during the Trump era and things got bad. A woman was raped inside Parliament House, video emerged of male staffers masturbating on female colleagues' desks and our then-Prime Minister quipped that it was a "triumph of democracy" that the women who marched in protest weren't "met with bullets". There was the same sort of culture-war mismanagement and misinformation about COVID-19, there were Neo-Nazis, and there was a failure to properly condemn or correct either of those things. Progress towards sustainability and clean energy slowed, and our Prime Minister secretly tried to seize personal control over five separate government departments. Sure, some of that would have happened with or without a Trump administration after all, we didn't need a Republican U.S. President to produce an onion-eating misogynist who hates homosexuals despite his own sister being one but the rest of the world looks to the U.S. to set the tone on what is acceptable in government. When the largest country votes in (or sits aside and lets other people vote in) someone as egocentric, openly prejudiced, corrupt, anti-science, greed-motivated, war-hungry, and dictatorially-minded as Donald Trump, it signals to other leaders that that is the acceptable standard. Even when it's absolutely not. When you choose to sit out (or cast a meaningless symbolic vote) rather than effectively use your civic power as a U.S. citizen, the outcome affects millions of global citizens who never had the option of giving their input.
Finally, I want you to listen to this podcast by Dr Robin DiAngelo and think about what the choice to waste your vote signals to the people around you. To the members of your community who are women, BIPOC, LGBT+, disabled, have migrant parents or who live countries that are effected by American policy (which is all of them, by the way. Y'all are big). We are not asking much from you. Queue for a slightly-annoying amount of time, get your identity confirmed at a sign-in table and then cast a ballot. Tick a box that indicates you'd rather let a qualified centre-left attorney and former senator have a chance of improving things, instead of a dictator-lionizing convicted felon who openly wants dismantle voting systems so that he'll never lose again. That's it. Get yourself to a polling booth and tick a box. We are not asking you to make an effort. We are not asking you to volunteer. We are not asking you run petitions, or call representatives or donate money or do meal deliveries or any kind of community work. Just tick a box. Vote. Anonymously. No one even needs to know what box you ticked.
If that is too much to ask of you, then what right do you have to call yourself any kind of ally? Think about the enormous privilege you are displaying by deciding that you can neglect this, and the fragility you are showing by deciding that a simple anonymous vote is too morally taxing. What reason would we have to ever believe you'd help us compromise on future solutions when you've shown you'd rather throw away possibly the last meaningful vote you may ever get on a Nirvana Fallacy? Why would we ever believe that we could rely on you to help or defend us when you couldn't even work up the courage and stamina to tick a box?
If that's too much for you, then fine. You're a coward, but fine. Just don't pretend to be anything else. And certainly don't hide behind the actual, ongoing suffering of real people as justification for your civic negligence. Do not use Gaza as an excuse to sit out this November 5th.
This website provides information on how to check your registration, register if you haven't, and find a polling booth. So does this one.
Do your duty. Get yourself ready. Go vote.
Then buy yourself some ethical chocolate to wash the bad taste out of your mouth.
#3WD Gets political#US Politics#US Election 2024#I'm sorry but if you are treating Gaza as a single-issue topic to justify not voting... you're making an excuse for civic irresponsibility#You don't have to agree with the Harris-Walz administration#but for goodness sake at least they are willing to uphold the rule of law AND can be swayed by calls and campaigning#you are NOT voting for the parties because you like them#you are voting because every vote you cast in a 2-party system cancels out a vote for the other idiot#do you want to pick the centrists who can potentially be pushed further left?#or the strongman-fetishist who wants to dismantle the voting system?#this election cycle has filled me with hopeless anger and watching people be clowns about sitting out is enraging#if you clown in the notes I WILL block you
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#fingers crossed but i may have my breakout moment in politics next week#where hopefully i can get a fake job in the party and watch Baron Noir The Thick of It & the West Wing like every mediocre#science po yale eton twit#more likely i'll actually end up doing something good for the world and not get a job out of it but i will chase my apparatchik dreams#jokes aside#it's good to be in a place in local politics where i feel i can help and where cynicism is not a useful reaction#and it feels good to know that on a Sunday i can email my congresswoman about a real problem and get a concerned reply#and that there is a real chance of a problem being fixed there because i nudged the system#fingers crossed i can see this through
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im new here- is dean abusive?
imo yeah. smarter people than me have written dissections of the way he treats sam & others (he’s also Awful to his psuedo-son jack, but i haven’t gotten to that season yet), i’ve probably reblogged a bunch of them.
he certainly doesn’t mean to be & i don’t say it to condemn him as a person or as a character & i’m still very attached to him & he loves sam very much (not that that makes a difference in whether u abuse someone or not) - but the way he treats sam a lot/some of the time is emotionally abusive and sam is clearly badly impacted. s4 and s8 come to mind as his worst moments also ofc moc era - after that there’s less interpersonal conflict (up to where i am at least) but that’s because sam mostly stops disagreeing with dean not because dean actually gets much better <3 spn is cycles of abuse show after all. family is hell. dean’s learnt pretty much everything about how to behave from his abusive father and as a result. well. cycle continues
#anon i wonder which way ur approaching this from - having not considered that dean treats sam badly or having never thought of it as Abusiv#mutuals pls feel free to chime in with ur opinions#wrote a bunch of more detailed responses to this but none of them felt right so i was just like. eh#narrative portrays dean as right like All Of The Time bc the shows morality is deans morality its fucked up so that makes it harder for#fandom to see how awful he is sometimes#but i think a lot of people see his awful behaviour but just wouldn’t call it abusive and rather toxic etc because abusive#is such a ‘strong word’ and people have a lot of personal connotations with it#i don’t often even actually use the word abusive to describe him. but he is! and i’ve been watching s4 and he’s just So awful and it’s been#reminding me hugely#dean crit#<- i guess#spn#oliver talks#asks#it’s more than just like. being awful sometimes. bc it’s this systemic pattern of eradicating sam’s sense of identity outside of him#and punishing sam for ‘disobeying’ him (like s4/8)#dean winchester#supernatural#Also when you start recognising dean as abusive the show becomes a legitimate horror story because fucking hell!!!!#narrative just. sides with him most of the time!!!!#if u wanna think abt it for urself id say make sure u know what abuse actually Is and how it can present & then look at a lot of sam and#dean conflicts. do they seem equal? r both parties being as awful to each other? whats the context?#look away from the view the show is trying to get you to take via like. ending shots and closeups. and look at what theyre actually saying#to each other and what has actually happened#<- i feel like this sounds patronising i dont mean to be😭#if u already think sam&dean r fucked up and had just never defined it as abusive before then feel free to ignore me#there r probably posts in my dean winchester tag much better than this#<- okay apparently i had a lot to say actually. sorry for doing it in the tags
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7.21 Ending Happy
#csiedit#csi cbs#nick stokes#george eads#george eads thirst club#mk.op#mk.gifs#mk.edit#csi 7x21#story time:#so as another in a long list of things i was exposed to long before becoming obsessed with#and after weeks of people telling me 'mk have you watched the last of us yet'#about three weeks ago i did finally sit and watch it#and then i sat and played the first game within like two weeks after that#and now here i am#completely satisfied and my face wet with tears from what i think is the best adaptation of anything converted to a tv show#and that first exposure came from me playing the game at this party i went to years ago at this place that's like a fun little arcade#but with console game systems#it was a work thing and i wasn't super social and so i started playing it but never picked it up after that#though i was told it was a great game#flash to now and lol it's funny cause i knew ashley johnson from her appearance in this episode of csi#so now that's two connections TLOU has to CSI given that pedro also guest starred lol#but anyway yeah. completely obsessed#been playing the second game all weekend#and spent the day rewatching the show up to the finale#it's nice to forget about the real problems i'm facing right now and just...immerse myself in something like this#as emotionally charged as it is lol
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i voted
took me forty minutes to put the x in the box of the party i am literally a member of
successfully rationalised that we’re a new and probably swing constituency so we’ve got to
feel a truly unmatched sense of depoliticised disenfranchised hopelessness
#uk politics#the thing is#most people don’t even know#they’ve effectively been removed from the political system#they think that if they were to put in the effort#they could join and change a party’s policy#they could become a councillor#an mp#they just don’t want to#but actually they can’t#they literally can not#i made that trans rights guarantor policy#and got it passed bindingly at conference unanimously#and they’re just ignoring it#i’ve watched good people#be pulled from selections#for councillors and mp’s#cus the party can just choose not to have you#have watched them run no-one#cus the alternative was the most barely socialist individual#not even radicals turned down but child psychologists#and you can’t even not vote for the party wholesale#because we are in an abusive relationship#as they take society by the neck towards the edge of the drop#walking rightwards to the wind blowing through the overton window#saying ‘if you don’t vote for us then the guys a step ahead win’#‘then we’ll all fall off and die’#and they’re correct#if you ever shook your head at depoliticised apathetic russians#you have been cursed to understand them
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It's so weird watching fullmetal alchemist in contrast to naruto. Because both are set in fucked up worlds where everyone has committed war crimes, has had war crimes committed upon them, or is a war crime. But I trust that fma fundamentally understands how fucked up everything is, including the sinister qualities of the institutions that allowed this to happen. Naruto understands its fucked up on a surface level, but also glorifies the institution and never changes.
#like the idea is similar at the root bc atrosities have been committed in both worlds on both sides and someone needs to come in#and say. thats enough. enough of this. further violence isnt helping make anything better#and fma does a better job bc it unites all the warring parties agaisnt one monster villian#but i think naruto is more interesting bc the same thing happens but the betrayals feel much more huge and the pain feels more visceral#bc the familial love is so tortured under the shinobi system and all the pain arrises from that system but it never fucking changes#bc the author still feels the need to glorify the village system despite the clear cursed god tree metaphor#idk its just interesting to me where theyre similar and where they differ#in fma the characters r more insane to me bc the fucking ego and hubris is so crazy#idk in naruto it feels more like everyone is so fucked up they think they have to accomplish their goals or die but in fma thry just seem#like they have a right to do the things they do and it unnerves me more#but hey i mostly passively watched fma over 3 days so maybe i missed some stuff lol#naruto ramblings#fma rambling#unrelated#i do think i understand now how naruto never changes. they think: weve been saved. were in a time of peace. everythings good now#and then they never fucking talk abt how fucked up everything was. they just move forward without catharsis#and thats why everything is still fucking awful. they never truely reflect
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I fucking hate America. You dumb stupid motherfuckers I hate living here. We are NOT getting out of here alive.
I think I'm really understanding curses back in the day. Curse you, curse your family, curse your home and curse every small pleasure you have in your life. I hope they vanish like dust in the wind and I hope you're the only dumb fuck left. I hope you're only left for the amount of time it takes you to realize the events that followed are your fault.
#words#I could actually go feral#the next person I see I'm telling them to shut their fucking mouths#if they present themselves#watch this be my first and only physical fight I swear to GOD#i sincerely hope life gets worse for you DIRECTLY#and SPECIFICALLY towards your family and your home because it's the only motherfucking thing YOU CARE ABOUTTTTTTTT#and fuck oregon#for not passing rcv#IT WAS YOUR WAY OUT OF THE 2 PARTY SYSTEM#YOU STUPID DUMB MOTHERFUCKS#WHY the FUCK would vote AGAINST#VOTING HOW YOU WANTTTTTTTT
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finally watched the ravening war episode and uh. that's the plot? the plot is shadowy secret organisation? in the huge expansive politically unstable continent populated with a multitude of people all trying to influence politics according to their own ego, self interest, and beliefs? in the vastest world we've had in d20 with endless potential for player conflict? we're uh. making them put aside their personal motivations for the sake of a secret society that is orchestrating everything. okay. oh what's that? this plot also undermines all the events in acoc because anything could now have been orchestrated by a secret group? oh okay. well that's great isn't it.
#the ravening war#a crown of candy#acoc#dimension 20#d20#ravwar#lol 👍#case study of how bad a system d&d is for this#watching the ap had me screaming internally bc brennan and matt both gave reasons as to why d&d is bad for this#you need a unified party? NOT IF YOU PLAYED ANOTHRR GAME#you're frustrated because you have to do politics and cant do wild shit? NOT IF YOU PLAYED. ANOTHER. GAME!!!!!!!!#every day i lose#fiasco would have ruled for this#'fiasco is gmless' GOOD!!!!!!!!!!#and dont get me started on the connotations of secret organisations in charge of everything lmao#nourpost
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thank you this is a safe space for communist fall out boy fans. i love em but hate them and thats okay. i do wish they were better. i think one reason why people act like that in the fandom is they spent a lot of time associating with it and spending money and making it part of their identity which i am guilty of and still do, its almost an attack on them. to rethink what they consume. i think a lot of people just dont want to ever think of letting them go. and i get it it can suck. ofc i am not saying people should let go of them entirely or whatever but realize your faves may not be as progressive as you think they are and to acknowledge that flaw. i think one thing that sort of helped me “grow apart” from fall out boy is deadass making ocs. sure they don’t have a whole fandom or actual media but its honestly helped me a lot with just being able to put in my creative energy into something else besides fob. i still like to dabble in the fob fandom but its nice to have something else beyond fall out boy and sort of a “safety net” if things truly go south if fob gets actually “canceled” if they do something that i truly can’t really be all fandomy over if that makes sense hahaha
i think you're probably right tbh re fans feeling guilty abt spending money on them; a fair amount of western activism revolves around consumerism, which makes sense for a capitalistic society but like i really do wish these people would just get real and own up to the fact that their enjoyment of fob has nothing to do with their politics for better or for worse and if they actually believed that it did they would stop spending money on concert tickets and stop spending money on merch, not as a form of boycott or anything like that (imo most forms of western modern day boycott are ineffective in terms of constituting material change bc they focus on conglomerates; we should boycott bc it is the right thing to do to not pay in to companies that are supporting genocide, not bc we are expecting large scale change to come of it) but because it would be in line with the ideological/moral boundaries they have set for themselves
imo engaging with art/celebrity in a capitalistic society is a net neutral, for the most part; simply saying this among the most radical of accelerationist twitter grifters would get my head chopped off for paying attention to a band instead of the glorious revolution that's supposedly forming amongst russian soldiers doing genocide in the donbas or whatever but unless leftists want to actually get serious about global suffrage then idk what to say lol people are going to look to art as a coping mechanism and continue to pay in to these systems bc it helps them survive mentally/emotionally. now that being said that's why i think it's hypocritical and grotesque to participate in faux outrage against a band that you like by doing pretend activism bc none of these people actually give a shit that fob do business with/are friends with zionists, they just want to look good in front of their friends for caring about the right thing at the right time. if their disgust was genuine they would quietly drop them and move on but they're more invested in their own comfort than doing what they perceive as being right. so i guess to clarify i don't think spending money on and paying attention to a band with milquetoast lib politics is inherently materially harmful; what i do believe is actively harmful to the cause you claim to serve is when you put on a performance for a few days because the band you like fucked up in a way that can't be ignored and then never talk about it again and go back to pretending that pw is a radical leftist and not a run of the mill democrat. like if you're just going to stop talking about it eventually don't even bother bringing it up in the first place lol
i support you tho i do think OCs are a good idea esp if you want to pull away from engaging with IP tbh and i think just a good thing for enhancing your writing/creativity in general
#re pw and ps i think a lot of this issue is how young this fandom skews#and many of them have never actually interacted with democrats before like they're from conservative families#and so they believe that run of the mill human rights ideology is like. radical#but the average tumblr “socialist” is going to agree with the average party member on everything except foreign policy/interventionism#which is why i think these kids think fob is like particularly based or whatever#when you could watch a speech from andy beshear or brian schatz and find out that they also use trans inclusive language#and believe that systemic antiblackness is still very much a problem in modern USamerican society#like idk what to tell you man LMAO put down that ao3 tab and pick up what is to be done
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Just jumped in the joe biden tag and the latest post is THANKING HIM FOR STEPPING DOWN.
IMAGINE THANKING GENOCIDE JOE FOR ANYTHING
Fuck you bootlickers fr 😭
#self#watch the vote shamers line up to shill for kamala since abstaining and third party are not legitimate options according to them#God forbid you ever attempt to challenge or subvert or disengage with the system in any meaningful way#I am just constantly reminded that the political goals of the liberal and my own do not align
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Me? Trust the government?
#in this economy?#while Hobie Brown is watching?#while I can’t afford basic healthcare?#when they’ve committed and hidden or been complicit in multiple genocides?#while gas is $4?#while living through so many historical events in my quarter century of life that it’s like a shitty soap opera?#while being homeless or trans is a crime in at least one state near me?#while the promises of my youth are now all proven to be fiction and exclusively reserved for a generation before my birth?#while we have a two party system?#while corporations own the country?#while my country is the laughing stock of the planet?#while the burning shame and anger inside me rips apart my mind because I’m powerless to change things?#while the two candidates are a convicted sex offender and an alleged sex offender#while I’m romanticizing the idea of living in a Ghibli film instead?#when I see the ways they’ve brainwashed the generations before me into constant fear?#while I’m systematically healing from the ways my country’s predatory systems have tried to devour me?#while knowing that they only care about the humans they can profit off of and even then only as cattle#while I could be whimsical and silly instead#goblin posting
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"In the depths of the Great Depression, the Roosevelt administration rescued capitalism by creating social provisions that assisted white, urban, industrial working-class households headed by male breadwinners, because it feared they could be radicalized by the socialist and communist Left, destabilizing the State and the capitalist economic order. Ten years of progress in American civil rights, beginning with the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education , stemmed from Washington’s desire to present itself as a champion of freedom and democracy in the face of what it viewed as a global rivalry with the Soviet Union. The Great Society programs of the 1960s were propelled by the Johnson administration’s “guns and butter” strategy to shore up support for its war in Vietnam and its desire to contain the urban uprisings of the period. Today, no other superpower provides a countervailing force; labor unions and erstwhile social-democratic parties like the Labour Party in the UK, Germany’s Social Democrats, France’s Socialists, and—marginally—the Democratic Party in the United States have been co-opted and driven into a defensive posture; and an ever more precarious economy has forced individuals to focus ever more intently on keeping themselves afloat materially. The pattern has become predictable: parties of the Left are raised into power by the support of the working class and the precarious middle class; as their operatives become more professional and technocratic and the parties themselves acquire more hierarchical power structures, they move to the right. Eventually, we find them implementing milder versions of the same policies pursued by the Right, from promoting the corporate global trade agenda to “reforming” social services, generally in the name of achieving political consensus. Thus, the Left lends its hand to the reproduction of the State, which is then free to bail out the financial sector, deregulate the extractive industries, and encourage property speculation at the expense of the urban poor and middle class. To insulate the propertied class’s investments, the State facilitates, or at least turns a blind eye to, the sheltering of assets in offshore tax havens and condones a fast-growing, ancillary market in citizenships and residencies for the rich." -The operating system: An anarchist theory of the modern state
#anarchism#the operating system#god this is what i've been telling people#watching the social democracts just inch closer and closer to the right in denmark#and take the other left parties with them#leftist parties are a complete mirage they will always turn right eventually
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not to be obvious and repetitive but bro......i really love one piece so much
#just watched the latest episode I love luffy I love one piece!!!!!#in such a complex story with such a vast world with intricate politics history and geography luffy's message is so simple!!!!#he wants people to be able to eat! that's it!!#he wants people to laugh and be happy and party when they want to and!!! that's!!! it!!!!!!!#there is a vastness and grandioseness to the op world that is so at odds with its protagonist and i love it so much#luffy knows nothing!!! he doesn't care!!!!!#the very fabric of the system the world he lives in is built around is shifting /mostly thanks to him/ and he's got no clue!!#he just wants his friends to eat!!!!! he's so simple!!!!#i love the way at its core op is just a story about a guy wanting to have fun#despite being so complex and intricate and full of mysteries still#luffy has no idea#most of his crew has no idea!#they're so small despite being so huge#oh i ADORE one piece
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sat here thinking of the ichigang playing mario party and i was like 'i should make a tierlist of how rgg characters play mario party' but wouldnt you know it my brain is huge
#snap chats#ive been watching my favorite guys play mario party while i work on comm stuff so thats why i was thinkin LMAO#i was also thinkin of one of my fave hcs wherein despite ichi being a true lover of videogames hes not super good at them#like hes GOOD but not AS good as you might think- true casual behavior he's just here for a good time#esp not after not bein able to play anything for like... two decades..#anyway maybe i should update the mario party list.... no i think im still solid on this analysis#i miss playing mario party with my sibs..#we played 4 a lot growin up and APPARENTLY 6 also but when i was Too Young To Remember#apparently i got so mad losing a minigame i accidentally pulled the controller and the gamecube off the table#and that damaged the disk enough to make it unreadable. LMAO baby rage real#ok bye i should finish at least one comm today i have a lot to catch up on#also can i remind everyone tumblr tag system still sucks cause i KNEW i made the mario party post before#but of course trying to look for it tumblr was gaslighting me into thinking it didnt exist like OK. Asshole#luckily i had the og png portraits so i just checked the file date on those and went to look for the ask#ok im gone now bye
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[being a hater about AOS under the cut]
Currently watching St4r Trek (2009) for the first time... And I'm at a loss for words at that awful, awful, awful characterisation of Spock. What the absolute fuck. And Sarek. I get that it's an AU but there ain't no fucking way that makes sense in any universe. Heart-to-heart talks? These two? Spock & Sarek's relationship is so delightfully complicated in TOS and here they just... Got along? Spock talked about his feelings? With his father. Like that's a normal thing to do
Also I didn't think it was possible for K/S to have little to no chemistry, yet here we are. I'm not even gonna talk about the Uhura thing. I don't get how you can cast one guy who's gay and one who is Chris Pine and make the entire thing so violently heterosexual. They made it so straight that there's nothing left between Kirk and Spock and that destroys the entire point of these characters, doesn't it. And the whole "Star Trek is a love story" thing.
Also Kirk... Man. What did they do to him. The rebelliousness & daddy issues weren't even the problem, those could've been interesting, if there had been anything at all to contrast that. But there was nothing behind that facade, I don't know how he made it through the plot (or whatever you'd call that) without showing even one character trait besides 'cocky fuckboy' and 'guy who's just there for some reason.' Again I get it, AU, but...
I absolutely loved Pike tho. So I got that going for me, which is nice
#all this has been said before i'm sure. i'm super late to the party#i just need to get it out of my system. staring at my boyfriend in befuddlement ever#y time something happened didn#'t quite cut it#every time i watch something new of this franchise i feel it's worse than the last thing i've seen but ST 2009 might just be rock bottom#rio.txt#I'm probably gonna delete this later but i need to talk about it rn before i explode
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