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An American joins the US military: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

A white American joins the US military: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American of color joins the US military: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military voluntarily: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American gets drafted into the US military: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military and will return to a financially and mentally stable life afterwards: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military and will return to become homeless and suffer from PTSD: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military in an on-the-ground combat position: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military in an IT or engineering position: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military because they come from a family with an established history of military enlistment: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military because it's the only way they can pay for their college tuition: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military for jingoistic reasons and they just want to kill people: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

An American joins the US military because they got "groomed" by recruiters at their high school: a person of color in another country gets robbed, poisoned, raped, and murdered.

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the great thing about the wuxia genre is you can start a sect called the Evil Blood Cult in a place called Demon Mountain that’s a volcano full of poison and you all wear crazy gothic black and red hanfu and practice Sinister Backstabber Style kung fu and like. that’s not a deterrent to prospective disciples. do all that and a fuckton of bright eyed youngsters will still show up at your door and say hello i would like to join the demon mountain evil blood cult where do i sign up?

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I think "slop" is a strong contender for world of the year 2025, as it seems to be universally recognizable as a description for the majority of output produced in the name of Return on Investment.

Sure it means algorithmically generative slop now, but look at housing construction, durable appliances, food, automobiles, you name it and tell me it's not just more slop. If enshittification is the process, slop is the result.

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Demons are real and they write for the new york times.

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I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work.

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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It is your sworn duty, when you're in your 30's, to do something every day that would have gotten you viciously bullied in high school.

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the weirdly vengeful and petty tones aborted babies take in pro-life propaganda images are so funny like this passive aggressive "was it worth it mommy?" and "it's a shame you can't join me in heaven mommy 😔" like do you ever wonder if you were aborted for a reason you little bitch ass baby

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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weird how no one ever comments on the absence of smells unprompted. the nose just isn't a topic of conversation unless it's urgent huh

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literally any upper middle class tiktok self-identified ‘that girl’ in a pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice is a million times closer to being patrick bateman irl than any self-identified sigma film bro

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you’re hot and funny and good at things. stop investing in people who don’t see it

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i feel strongly about this

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why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic