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5 events every leftist in the US should know about:

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Well, I reread the novels and couldn't help but draw it!! Sorry!!! 😞😖✨😭💖

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It's really funny that by censoring the necromancy in The Untamed they ended up making it way more of a horror story. Instead of recycling already-dead bodies we're mind-controlling live humans! A-Qing was very much alive when Xue Yang destroyed her in the fight against LWJ! Wen Ning could have had his spiritual cognition restored the normal way!* Like the implications all over the place are way more tragic than simply reanimating corpses/interacting with ghosts...

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thinking about wwx growing lotuses in the burial mounds, and jc rebuilding lotus pier, and jzx making a lotus garden for jyl. thinking about the homesick children of lotus pier building new lotus piers wherever they are because they can’t go home to the one they grew up in. but it’s never the same because they aren’t together

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“Rulan, your uncle Xian is coming to your first-month celebration. Are you delighted?”   → @mdzsnet​ Jiang Yanli Birthday Event

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Historians have been pointing out for a while now that Trump’s attempt to consolidate a dictatorship is wildly at odds with how it has been done in almost every other instance. As a rule, aspiring dictators do not mess with the health care system, or food aid, or rip out great chunks of their state capacity. You want the population bored, apathetic, and quiescent—not losing income, if not starving outright. Food riots are a common spark for dictatorships being toppled, from the French Revolution to Tunisia in 2010.

You also don’t want to obliterate the state bureaucracy, because you’ll need it to consolidate your rule. Hitler’s process of Gleichschaltung involved bringing the bureaucracy under his direct control, not tearing it to shreds.

But Trump has done just that, with the gigantic cuts to Medicaid and food stamps in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and with all of Elon Musk’s Nazi teenagers crawling around in government agencies firing people by the thousands, ripping the wiring out of the walls, and uploading your Social Security information to an unsecured cloud server.

Would-be autocrats are most concerned with establishing firm control of the military, and Trump hasn’t done that either. Neither the U.S. military nor National Guard troops signed up to be MAGA brownshirts occupying American cities, and they certainly did not sign up to potentially fight citizen militias—if not other soldiers, which is where a full-blown confrontation between federal and state governments might end up. If these deployments involved more than standing around, I would expect mutiny in the ranks. So far, Trump has beaten the odds, because just as has happened throughout his entire life, he has flagrantly flouted both norms and laws, and almost everyone in a position to oppose him just lets him do it. But as Pritzker proved, he does not actually have the power—yet—to impose a dictatorship in the face of determined resistance.

-Ryan Cooper

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fuck marry befriend kill: operator addition

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richard nixon is q*eer because he did watergate, subverting the societal expectation we all had for him to not do watergate

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i think any time a politician so much as suggests creating a national public registry of a minority group they should lose their job immediately, and then be shot

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"Fantasy authors don't know how long a thousand years is!!!!!! Knock a zewo off the end!!!!!!!111!!!1" Did you know that it's never too late to learn whimsy and joy

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BONUS CONTENT FROM JIEJIE(LY) — day twenty

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“Lan Zhan, come with me to Lotus Pier, I’ll serve you lotus seeds! :D”

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over & over the only truth

Sometimes self care is making a painting using only a fan brush

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