#fuck capitalism to death

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[sashayed]

i'm finally reading moby dick and there's a lot i didn't know about it such as that the first several dozen chapters are very funny! to me ol Call Me Ishmael has a kind of "what if bertie wooster were 1. american 2. competent" narrative vibe, although admittedly i am what one professor once called an "idiosyncratic" reader, meaning u should not trust anything i say. anyway the book i THOUGHT "moby dick" was going to be doesn't start until captain ahab finally stumps upstairs in chapter 36 and then boy does it ever, because he has I Am In A Tragedy disease and it is contagious and now everyone who was normal two pages ago is monologuing ominously in the dead of night. did you guys know herman melville is a very good writer? have you heard about this? he really knows that if you encounter someone who has you doing soliloquies you should Leave. if you encounter that person while you are on a boat in the middle of the 19th century ocean you are fucked for sure. poor starbuck is out here like "i really would prefer to be in a story about doing my Fucking Job"

[long-sleeved-sandwich]

man, fuck joe biden

(not in a republican way but in an anarcho-communist, i’m barely surviving and waiting until tomorrow because it’s pay day to buy bread meanwhile biden wants to send money that could help the american people survive to fucking israel to bomb hospitals)

[nando161mando]

[jjadmanii]

i love that the hunger games is getting the appreciation it deserves but boi some of these takes are truly making me question ppl’s media literacy because ???

[sausage-rolll]

I always find it particularly funny when people say that Ranni is just manipulating the player and that she’s using them as a means to a much more nefarious secret end, because if you actually pay attention to the game and character then one thing becomes abundantly clear.

Ranni literally cannot lie to save her life.

No seriously, she’s a cunning mastermind but she is a fucking terrible liar. When a random tarnished comes looking for her and accuses her of the assassination of Godwyn, she just goes “yeah? And what of it?” as if she’s not admitting to being the one behind the biggest act of heresy in known history. That's not something you should just say to people, least of all a tarnished!

You get her alone with you and within seconds she’s rambling about her plan, her past, her family, her friends that she adores with all of her heart, how you’re actually a lot like them, nevermind forget that last part please-

Sorry to burst the bubble of all the nihilist theorists out there that really want age of stars to secretly be a bad ending but if Ranni was planning anything nefarious with her godhood then I’m willing to bet that she wouldn’t be able to keep quiet about it until the end of her questline.

[uglygreenjacket]

Being forced to work on the days your favorite shows come out is the cruelest form of capitalism.

[transfem-zen-in]

Probably none of you people that talk about weed, cocaine, and other drugs actually know about where they come from and are made

People in latin america are tortured and forced into working for cartels to produce and transport all of their shit to you little happy jolly good time with friends, children die in poverty, teenagers abandon their mediocre education to become dealers or join the same cartels that control the city where they live because there's literally nothing else they can do, women are abused and trafficked to please these people, even little girls no older than your little sisters or cousins

The exploitation of the "third world"/global south is not just about legal resources and products, capitalism covers the "black market" and the criminal underworld's economy wich is why i consider the most immoral and disgusting socioeconomic model, millions have died so you can get your stupid fucking plant and yap about world peace as a privileged fucking hippie piece of shit

The cartels don't run the countries and get military level equipment just like that out of nowhere, the countries aren't poor just because, everything has a reason and an origin, remember this

[iamfuckingsorry]

"Do you know where we are going next?" I asked ART.

Y'know what, I think maybe I don't need any more Murderbot books. I think maybe ending things here is fucking perfect and as much as I love Wells's writing I'm genuinely not sure it can get better for me.

Like, so much of the books are about MB learning how to be a person, about becoming okay with being a complete individual with everything it entails. The first thing it does once it's actually allowed to decide on its own is it runs away from it all (admittedly to go on a mission to confirm some things about its past, because it genuinely just wants to be *good*). It shoves all its emotions away as much as it's able to. Then shit happens, and it makes its first friends, makes decisions based on these friendships, goes through a lot of emotionally intense situations...

And we get to this point here. MB having zero doubts about going with ART says a lot about its relationship with ART, but it also says a lot about its relationship with its humans - it knows that wherever it goes, when it comes back, the humans will still be there. Its humans actively acknowledge its struggles with being a now-free SecUnit and MB is willing to entertain the discussions to an extent and share information about its deeply personal experiences. Hell, System Collapse ends with MB admitting it might be somewhat broken, but that's okay as long as it can keep doing its job, and agreeing to basically do counselling - this is the guy what would rewatch its favourite TV show again and again in order to avoid acknowledging it even had Emotions a couple books back.

Reading this, I know that MB will be okay. It has hopes and goals and genuinely believes in itself and it has an amazing support system that its willing to lean on for the first time in its life. I'm convinced it'll go on to do great things with ART. And that's really the only thing I need to know.

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Michael Sheen playing Aziraphale as cockhungry as possible VS the Good Omens fandom and Neil Gaiman and the Lord himself screaming for Aziraphale to be asexual

[crippled-peeper]

how FUCKING dare they ask taxpayers to pay for their search & rescue mission for their stupid fucking death trap jigsaw submarine when I have been getting calls every single day for YEARS from FUCKING AMBULANCE DEBTORS

WELFARE FOR BILLIONAIRES BUT NOT DISABLED PEOPLE? NO. FUCK YOU. PAY FOR YOUR OWN DEATH LIKE THE REST OF US FUCKING PEASANTS

ALSO PAY BACK THE WORKING CLASS THE TAXES AND PPP LOANS AND WAGES YOU STOLE TO FURNISH YOUR DISGUSTINGLY LUXURIOUS, MEANINGLESS, EXPLOITATIVE LIVES

[nando161mando]

"The killing, um the death, of a Palestinian man..."

A BBC correspondent goes to great lengths to avoid reporting that Israel killed 78 y/o US citizen Omar As'ad.

[socialjusticeangel]

a lot of thievery from grocery stores has been documented lately, however at the same time grocery store profits are at an all time high.

nobody is talking about how these two are connected, why are people stealing from stores? something that could get them in jail, get them fired, potentially lose friends/their partner if they have one, keep them from getting jobs in the future just so they can eat, so their families can eat?!

people are stealing because it costs so much to get a meal these days, on top of living expenses. its becoming the only option, the only thing they can do besides starve. its literally the only option unless they wanna fucking die??? get sick??

its insane how basic necessities, not just food but water shelter medication ect is so expensive that most people cant afford it.

this is an actual nightmare if something doesnt happen soon i think society is gonna be like permanently fucked

[guiltyidealist]

It should be a criminal offense if an insurance company is responsible for a delay in a policyholder's necessary health care.

Withholding prescribed treatments, even for just a day, can be anywhere from inconvenient to catastrophic for the victim. Medical providers may not withhold necessary treatment from any patient on any grounds, as it is their duty to provide it-- it should be justly illegal for any "middle man" to interfere with a medical provider's legal and ethical obligation to treat a patient.

Severity of the charge and its legal consequences should depend upon the scope of the offense (length of delay) and its consequences to the victim (impact on the person).

The testimonies of the victim, the pharmacy, and the medical provider who prescribed the treatment should be key considerations for the determination. Additional important testimony should come from the victim's other medical providers, housemates, family, educators/mentors, colleagues/coworkers, or employers.

The charge should become criminal record for the company. The company (perhaps the agent's office) should be fined per day delayed.

Some taxation can be applied; just to pay off the folks who do the filing, advocacy, testimony, processing. A hefty majority of the fine should be compensation owed to the victim.

If delays became a criminal charge on companies' records, then companies would have a strong motive to terminate agents who aren't performing with punctuality. It would become their best financial interest to invest only in timely agents who would, in turn, gain a best interest to invest only in timely subordinates.

I posit that insurance delays would wane significantly, resulting in more timely delivery of treatments to policyholders, and many people's qualities of life would improve drastically for it.

[uglygreenjacket]

You know a lot of countries rag on the US for being car dependent, but I think they miss the bigger picture. We don’t just use our cars to navigate vast cities that were purposefully designed to make us car dependent. We also use them to cry in a quiet space when we’re being mistreated by our employers and can’t afford therapy.

[kaelyx-zac01]

If I'm still hoping Hannibal will get S4 renewal, then you bet your ass I won't give up on my little gay pirate show. I'll write about this show and hope to death for its renewal even if it kills me.