plov_mix [comrade/them]

I’m too chicken to be out, so I actually tell people I’m a libertarian when they ask about my politics, mostly cuz (1) they’d hopefully get annoyed/cringed and stop the convo, or (2) if they do ask why the fuck I am a libertarian, id say I believe in the freedom from exploitation, from alienation, from slavery, from commodification, from colonialism, from imperialism, from bourgeois ideology, from false consciousness, etc, and, you know, in the American political calculus, freedom = libertarian.

Idk let’s do this with the military, I’ll just cancel my subscription and surrender whenever there’s a war, yeah?

ABBA = are bad bureaucracies all?

I used to have no idea why so many “rad” academics love their Arendt. Now I do.

ancient Chinese heaven didn’t take nukes into account

It looks like the US hegemony is getting only stronger, not weaker, no matter what it does.

“If Heaven wants someone to perish, it’d first make them go unhinged,” actual Chinese proverb (天欲其亡必欲其狂)

I typically only watch the first half of each episode, precisely for the bullying.

I don’t need the wholesomeness of class reconciliation in the second halves. (“CANT YOU SEE, BOSS, THAT WE CAAARRRRREEEE ABOUT YOUUU?!”).

The scary part is the combination of declining education and the increasing illusion that all knowledge is available a mere click away. Prefect recipe for media saturation & propaganda