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Related this to others and suggested that this might end with Marx strangling Smith.

"WHERE"S YOUR INVISIBLE HAND NOW, EH SMITH?"

It was suggested that this would all have to be tagged dubious consent 🤣

Is this my macroeconomics professor asking me to write economic fanfic?

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Is this my macroeconomics professor asking me to write economic fanfic?

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This is a chunk of my history of the modern art market class in a nutshell. It’s all wrapped up in colonialism! They emphasize what is profitable, conventional, and things that aren’t too foreign, and if they’re foreign, they’re going to exoticize them as much as possible to make it profitable. Oh, this was also the same class where we literally could not go one session without mentioning the Nazis, because before the war the Germans had one of the largest collections of art in the world, and because the Nazis stole as much art as was physically possible.

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Don’t trust corporations when it comes to these sorts of situations period. One of the biggest problems with unregulated capitalism is that there is no incentive to have morals. They can and will do whatever they want.

They will kill if they can get away with it.

One of the biggest mining disasters in Wales was the Aberfan Disaster in the mining town of Aberfan in 1966. A colliery spoil tip, where mine waste material(dirt and stuff) is stored, was on a mountain slope above the town, one of several. It was built way higher than safety procedures allowed, closer to a natural spring than was allowed, and after a period of heavy rain, it collapsed, releasing an enormous landslide of liquified material. It came down the mountain in less than a few minutes, completely flattened several houses in the town, but worst of all, it was practically pointed at the local school. It was around 9:15 AM, school was in session. A tidal wave of slurry completely and literally flattened the school.

I am not making this up. 28 adults and 116 children were killed, drowned, and squashed in what amounted to liquid cement, when it stopped moving, it solidified. The miners joined the rescue crews, these were their children! They couldn’t use heavy equipment for fear of hurting survivors, and were digging with picks, shovels, and bare hands. The prime minister showed up, the royal family made an appearance, this was national news. To this day it’s like 9/11 in Wales, everyone knows what you’re talking about. My grandparents lived only a few miles away, they would’ve known people in the town. An entire generation was almost completely wiped out by the company’s incompetence. The entire town suffered PTSD for years, the surviving kids had huge mental problems.

And how did the company respond? Were they kind, did they take responsibility? Wouldn’t being directly responsible for the deaths of over a hundred children make them feel something?

Why on earth would that be the case? They whined, moaned, griped, and dragged their feet. Trying to get reparations for their mistake was like pulling teeth. Nobody went to jail. I’m not sure if anyone from the company even lost their jobs. It took years to get the remaining tips removed.

Now granted, reparations were eventually paid, it did lead to changes in regulations. And still, they were directly responsible for a situation that sounds like a bad hollywood supervillain plot, and felt absolutely nothing. You’d think they’d want to invest in not wanting their business associated with literal child murder, but they dragged their feet and refused to pay. The coal industry in the 1960s griped that everything was too expensive. They whined that removing the tips was expensive, they whined that paying the people was expensive, they whined, and whined, and whined.

Oh, and decades later? One of the children who had survived grew up and got a job at a cigarette factory. She told them she couldn't take a certain shift because it triggered her PTSD of, you know, being buried alive with her classmates and being one of the few to survive. Now, for a cigarette factory, this should be an easy-- naturally they fired her immediately. She won the court case, but the point of both of these stories still stand.

Never take the corporation's side of the story. They lost the right to the benefit of the doubt when they murdered a town's entire generation of children.

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so if there’s one single trope i’m always down to fight it’s the animal bride (folklore motif 402??) which a lot of you are probably familiar with as the selkie - the fisherman either falls in love, steals her skin to trap her on land/gain power over her, or they fall in love and THEN he steals her skin to keep her from leaving, and either way she spends a lot of time gazing sadly out to sea and then she or her child finds the skin and never returns again. and that’s awful on a whole lot of levels - it’s not love, it’s control.

BUT. but the thing is. you how selkies/seal women was a pretty common variation of this? another really popular one was swans.

i just want you to think about that for a moment. swans. like…I get it, they’re pretty, graceful birds, certainly it’s easy to imagine them magically becoming pretty graceful ladies? but have you ever fought a swan. swans are awful. swans are the devil’s geese. imagine seeing a pretty magic lady and being absolutely enchanted by her, and stealing her magic feather cloak, and then you go up and say ‘hey i’m in love with you, let me make you my queen, it will be great, we’ll be so happy’ and she just looks at you for a moment and…

you know i was going to say maybe she just shouts for her sisters and suddenly you’re realizing you’ve made a terrible terrible mistake bc you’re surrounded by big fucking birds who are all hissing. but honestly if this swan lady is as aggressively down to brawl as any other generally unhappy swan, then she’d straight up fuck you up on her own. she’d just deck you roundhouse, honestly. you don’t fuck with swans. why does this trope exist

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Stargate SG-1 Season 1 summarized in It’s Always Sunny title cards, part 2

Thus continues the escapades of our lovable can’t-catch-a-break gang of misfits.

“Daniel’s dead, sir.”

“Hey look, a Sarcophagus!”

“Holy crap everybody’s dead on this planet!”

“Okay, Teal’c may or may not be a war criminal?”

“Uh oh, this planet is experiencing a nuclear winter.”

“I’m stuck on a glacier with Macgyver.”

“This place is weird.”

“That’s a funny-looking mirror.”

“Frakking republicans.”

“We’ve got coordinates, we’re going to stop the invasion ourselves!”

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Stargate SG-1 Season 1 summarized in It’s Always Sunny title cards, part 1

By popular demand(and cuz I wanted to), here are the amazing escapades of SG-1 as they try their best to do the intergalactic equivalent of a reverse on a highway. Instead of a 100-year-old blind dog drinking a smoothie and texting while driving, we find are a bunch of healthy socially-inept goofballs trying their best. Stargate SG-1 is amazing and nuts at the same time.

“Let’s go back to Abydos, we think an alien incursion came from there.”

“Ow, I have a headache.”

“Hey look, Mongolian planet!”

“We think we’ve found the planet where Apophis went at the end of the pilot!”

“One of our guys went rogue, that’s weird.”

“Hey, we found this planet full of harmless crystals!”

“We finally have a chance to capture Apophis! This is a perfect opportunity for intel and justice! He’s only got a few guards, what could go wrong?”

“Colonel, should we really be eating that food?” “Ah, it’s fine.”

“Hey, here’s a planet where we might be able to find some allies!”

“Holy crap someone went through the gate in 1947?!”

“Oh no, Teal’c’s family is in trouble! We gotta save them!”

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Albert Cashier has an extremely underrated musical made about him. Unfortunately there's few videos about it, but most of the soundtrack is on here. albertcashierthemusical.com

He was buried in his Union uniform despite being forced to wear a dress in the last few years after his secret was found. When the authorities put him on trial to see if he "really deserved" his pension, his old war buddies came out to testify in his favor. And they used the correct pronouns.

i wonder how many historic trans men we’ve lost to “this WOMAN went by a man’s name, wore men’s clothes, took the job of a man, lived as a man… GIRL POWER!”

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Before I posted my most recent chapter of a fanfiction, the previous two chapters were big cliffhangers. And there were weeks between these two and the one I recently added.

a fic writer: *ends a chapter with huge drama and ugly tears* ‘til the next update!

me:

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I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

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Conservative/capitalist rhetoric holds the double standard that one should be themselves, they have a right to be themselves, and they should be an individual who defies society, doesn’t need anyone and doesn’t help others(that last one depends on the day). Within the range of individuality they accept, society be damned, one has rights, and society being oppressive. Yet at the same time, if one steps out of line of the small range of individuality they allow and actually defy society by simply being oneself, they are the enemy. Now, it’s the individual that doesn’t matter, one is seen as an arrogant entitled whiner who must suffer so that society can survive.

It’s an evil double standard. When it comes to property, your individual rights to identity matter. When it comes to identity, your individual rights to identity are rescinded.

one of the inherently conservative things about radfem/terfism that i haven’t seen in so many words is this fixation on the individual serving the needs of the society above all else, instead of the society changing to serve the needs of the individual. for example, conservatives are fixated on the idea of gay people giving up their very human desires and happiness in order to preserve “society” or stop the idea of “degeneracy,” or how people should focus on how they can “contribute” to society instead of crafting a society to make people happy.

radfems do this but for feminism, the individual woman is demanded to give up the things that make her happy (relationships with men! kinky sex!) in order to further some amorphous idea of “female liberation” instead of understanding that feminism is a movement that should be making women’s lives better and be giving them more freedom - like advocating for womens’ rights to do what they want and be treated with dignity.

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Not to mention random people aren't the ones who built the power plants and industry in the first place, neither were random people the ones who chose to run them off of a limited power source, and adamantly refuse any efforts to change them.

corporations are actively convincing us the reason behind global warming is that you, personally, aren’t reusing your pasta water to make tea and eating the teabag for lunch #vegan and we just let them

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The vice chancellor of the republic looks like he's in blue face and offending SOMEBODY. Look at his eyes!

oh Darth Maul’s an alien I always thought he was just really committed to his aesthetic

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Okay I hate retail but shoutout to my boss for not being a giant dick which includes:

• taking us all out for dinner and drinks tonight to thank us for dealing with the first week of December rush

• a guy sexually harassed me at work and I laughed it off but the boss had him banned from the entire mall premises

• he’s kicked people out permanently for yelling at me and coworkers

• i have a driving lesson in the middle of a shift next week and he’s coming in on his day off to cover it for me

• he buys us coffee from the local cafe every morning bc “how the fuck could we survive customers without it”

like thanks for making retail slightly less shitty bro

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Stargate SG-1 is amazing and nuts at the same time

Basic setup of the episode:

“We think we’ve found a ZPM!”

What follows:

Only in Stargate SG-1, folks!

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Coal companies set up machine guns at mine entrances. There are over a dozen massacres companies did on workers and their families. At the Battle of Blair Mountain, WWI veterans, miners and company stooges fought each other in open conflict with WWI trenches, rifles, and air support until the national guard showed up. The event was set off by the company abusing the miners, who were defending themselves from being murdered, and the company blamed them when the feds showed up. That's how far companies will go to prevent us from unionizing, and that's exactly how much they hate workers.

And that's how scared they are of us.

Europeans: “I don’t understand you Americans, if your working conditions, wages, and social safety net are so bad, why do you not simply unionize or strike?”

Americans: