We’re all rightfully upset about the fascism, but also I think it looks like the B Story here is that Musk and Trump are both materially broke.
Unless they liquidate assets that would cost them power and control, which obviously they don’t want to do. So instead they’re staging a heist on the US Treasury and trying to redirect our tax dollars into their own businesses.
This feels like the plotline to a South Park episode and I mean that extremely derogatorily.
Obviously, this doesn’t apply to military coups, which are very evident when happening, but there’s a reason why most authoritarian regimes today don’t start with a coup: it’s much easier to get a firm hold of power by starting inconspicuously and growing from there.
In fact, many authoritarian regimes start growing years before the people on top of them reach power, with little incremental measures and laws to allow external influences to control politics, to curb legitimate citizen dissent, and to give more power and discretionality to the police and the armed forces. You might be living in one of those right now.
Japan literally came to my island (Guam 🇬🇺 ) during WWII rounded up the natives on the beach and chopped their heads off but sure lmao
>arabic text in name
>soviet in the name
Reminder that not only can empires exist outside of Europe, but sometimes non-European Imperial powers have even conquered and colonized parts of Europe.
(Remember- it’s Istanbul not Constantinople.)
Al-Andalus anyone?
Idiots online thinking that imperialism is stored in the Europe.
Ive been saying this for years. You need to understand blue eyeshadow to understand anything at all. Today, blue eyeshadow is regarded as a “choice.” Its either trendy or tacky or outdated, depending on the shade and style of application. But for about 30 years in the late 20th century, maybe the 50s through the 80s, blue eyeshadow was regarded as subtle, conservative, middle-of-the-road. Feminine. A “correct” shade to use. Brown or beige eyeshadow was the new thing, too subtle and casual to look like a “full face” of makeup. My grandmother (an enthusiastically conventional woman) has only ever worn blue eyeshadow.
The last 10 or 15 years have seen a real takeover of neutrals, beiges and grays and whites, in consumer goods and interior design. We’ve all seen the car color chart. Other people smarter than me have discussed the reasons for this, the caution brought on by economic instability. Nobody wants to paint their walls green because their home isnt a place to get comfortable, its an investment that will need to be made palatable for a new buyer (and why give yourself the extra task of repainting when youll have so much else to do when you move).
Neutral overload (and “clean design,” with its lack of ornamentation) is aimed at creating a consistent, timeless, elegant look. Its adherents dont understand that this is also a trend. This subtle, conservative, middle-of-the-road design choice will look tacky and ostentatious someday. And necause you value timelessness, this will embarrass you.
now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself
“yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story” thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code
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