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In Europe there's this initiative called European Night of Museums when you can, not only go to them, but it's entirely free for the time of the event

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Ah yes, the difference between those who created the problem and those who suffer from it

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It's funny in a "there's nothing we can do besides either laughing or crying" way seeing whatever the fuck USA is up to from European perspective. Like I'm genuinely sorry for you all, scared shitless, and laughing hysterically

I kept forgetting to unfollow Gina Carano but now I don't want to unfollow because I get a preview of what the stupidest people alive are up to.

Like a canary in the stupidity mine.

The replies are just dead canaries all the way down.

Oh wait, they mentioned a doctor.

I'm sure this doctor has an evidence based approach to this topic and is not a giant grifting quack.

Let's take a look at Dr. Mihalcea's work...

Looks like she wrote a book.

Oh no.

Maybe the SubStack is better.

Oh no.

Oh no.

Oh no.

A part of me can't help but feel sorry for some of these people. Grifters took advantage of their low intelligence and used fear to prey on their belief systems. There is always a book or a supplement or a treatment at the heart of these conspiracy claims. This doctor and people like her are taking advantage of naive people. And some of these people are going to die because they think getting blood from vaccinated people is worse than getting no blood at all.

This isn't me trying to excuse their beliefs and behaviors. But bad people can be victims too. And my brain doesn't always know how to feel about that in situations like this.

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What the fuck did I just read and why does it actually make sense?

Also: never expected to see an Iron Man comic/character analysis that basically goes into cosmic horror category of lovecraftian monstrosities where capitalism and Stark Industries basically is the fucking Cthullu

There are two intuitive ways to do an Iron Man deconstruction, in my head. The first is to go back to the original depiction of the character who, stripped of the 1960s anticommunist propaganda framing, is straightforwardly a deeply evil motherfucker. This is the tack taken by Spider-Man: Life Story, and to a significantly lesser extent The Ultimates, where he's portrayed as genuinely well-meaning but nonetheless deeply complicit in atrocity as a byproduct of his job and his Intelligence community connections. To an extent this was also what Garth Ennis did in The Boys with Tek-Knight, where the irony was that despite Tek-Knight being one of the more genuinely well-meaning heroes on a personal level, the power armor he used to participate in the superheroic lifestyle was called out as a truly grotesque and unjustifiable misallocation of resources that could only occur due to the ridiculous sway that capitalism allows a single well-positioned egomaniac.

The other method is that Stark's company outlives him, was always going to outlive him, and moreover was always going to metastasize into an unrecoverable force for destruction because once the ball was rolling it was never actually within the power of one figurehead visionary, no matter how plucky and heroic, to reign that process in. Stark loses the company during a takeover and doesn't wrest it back, or the sprawl becomes so great that systemic evil becomes an unacknowledged inevitability of how many systems the octopus is interfacing with every single day even if he's ostensibly trying to exercise oversight. Stark eventually shrivels up and dies somewhere while the Company integrates itself into the bedrock of global infrastructure and starts to chew. His ultimate failure was thinking he was a sufficiently singular heroic force that he could wrestle the corporate leviathan and win, or even try to tame it; ultimately he was less a visionary and more some guy reading passages aloud from the Necronomicon.

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Is it possible for a positive racism to exist? Like basically something like this?

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Jesus Christ it's great

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Fuck em rich fucks, my man Kunnal Nayyar is on point here

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California Baby Shower

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Nazi propaganda and Trump propaganda are the same thing. Republicans are too busy licking boots to say anything.

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