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I rarely bring this up because it feels like fairly silly and low-stakes compared to all the other effects of american imperialism, but one of the funniest things when Americans deny that living in the imperial core and the center of global cultural hegemony confers them any sort of privilege over people from the imperial periphery is that like. In order for this conversation where you tell me you have no privilege over me to even be able to take place one of us had to learn the other's language, and it wasn't you.

I think the fact that by default the onus of learning the other's language to enable communication is always put on the other side is a pretty significant privilege on the cultural front.

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One of my favorite things about the difference between Protestant denominations and Catholicism is that Protestants made their whole thing being So Fucking Boring(tm) and normal that if you were raised around Protestants with little to no connection to the Catholic Church when you find out about all the saints and rituals and bones and shit it genuinely comes off as a little like...pagan isn't the right word exactly but you know what I mean? Like for my entire life good Christians sat on folding chairs in a beige basement eating shitty donuts from Albertsons and told me liking Pokemon and Halloween made me a sinner and then I go to see an old Catholic church and there's just like. A fucking ancient corpse in the room?? That everyone is praying over??? Like????? And THIS is actually the religion all the "Pokemon normalizes devil worship" guys originally came from several hundred years ago??????

It's wild okay. It's just wild.

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Kissinger had an assistant named Lawrence Eagleburger, which is possibly the most American name conceivable.

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"Yagami-san, please help me! A horrible act of hatred and violence has occurred. People are dying and I have no one I can turn to. No one but you, that is. Please, you must do something to stop the bloodshed!"

Yagami:

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I saw a strange gay couple today in Sotenbori

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looking at literally anything about the amazon prime like a dragon adaptation

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"windows 11 upgrade ready!" "your computer is eligible for windows 11!" "download windows 11 now!"

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no! cozy games will kill the patient. she needs violent dogshit to live

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spin this wheel of fanfic tags. this will be the theme of your day tomorrow.

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LOLOLOL

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who was going to tell me ed sheeran not only is covered in tattoos but also that they are the ugliest tattoos known to man

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"im tired of living through major historical events" is now "dear lord please let me witness a high profile political assassination in the next 1-2 years. amen"

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i like it when a little drop of water gets on a screen and magnifies a single subpixel, hi green and red and blue my good friends