Rachel 🍄🪱🦠

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Why even bother manufacturing consent when you can just kidnap a head of state and leave the entire world going "HUH???"

Every analysis I've seen of the Venezuela situation has a different interpretation of why this is happening. It's narcoctics... but really it's oil reserves... it's oil exports to China... it's regime change... it's domestic politics... Trump just likes big flashy action...

Me: can we have clean air and water and civil liberties?
The Guys in Charge: AI can write your screenplays now
Me: Are they good?
The Guys in Charge: No
Me: Ok, can we go back to my thing now?
The Guys in Charge: Your vacuum can connect to the Internet

the sound of all my English professors crying out at once

The desexualisation of media (everyone is beautiful, and no one is horny) combined with an increasing hysteria around the 'pointlessness' of sex scenes is a key part of the fascistization of western culture and if we're going to fight back we're going to need to make it normal to be horny again.