#imperial benefit

[kneedeepincynade]

Hello everyone, and welcome to sov says shit again.

Through people I follow, i was unfortunately made aware that people don't understand what it means to have access to imperial benefits.

Let's say you tick all of the boxes neded for the US Government to hate you

Minority,both religious and etnich

Darker skintone

Outside of the gender binary

Non heterosexual

Disabled

And more

Now,your life is literally hell, and yet,you still have access to imperial benefits

For example,going in whatever grocery store you like and finding a cheap banana in the middle of winter.

This is because a country is being imperialised in the south of the world to produce your Banana all year round, damaging their local agriculture

Or again,your passport

An American passport is incredibly powerful and guarantees less burden from security

Imperial benefits are not some kind of original sin or whatever,they are a fact of life that one must recognise and understand that they won't exist in a better world. So yes,your banana may cost more,but some farmer down in the south of the world has finally sent his kids to school and his government has begun to improve the life of its citizens trough various reform the old imperial government would have never allowed.

Clear?

[cherry-bomb1985]

I keep thinking about Hell's words: "This is the only way it should have ended."

Should. Not could. *Should*.

Like V1 should have been mass produced, obliterated all the Earth Movers, and then the next machine should have come along to counter it in turn and continue the war. Like all that fighting and the cycle of violence should have been perpetuated.

Like Mankind should never have finally gotten their act together, and tried to continue on even in the absence of divinity and in the face of total climate collapse.

There's a notable difference between 'could' and 'should', and the fact that those words are spoken by the only one who would've been *extremely disappointed* by this outcome has me raising eyebrows.

[g1deonthefirst]

im just begging you people to understand that tlt is not only about imperialism but its specifically about christian european/usamerican imperialism. thats what the nine houses are set up as a parallel to and a consequence of. i dont understand how you can read the series and not get that.

[fvckw4d]

"other countries have poor people but worse, don't speak usamerican" fuck you actually. Shiver in my freezing ass cockroach infested poisoned water mold ladened lead paint flaking ass apartment with me. "At least you're not the REAL poor or getting bombed or whatever" repeat what you said back slowly and then jump into the poisioned river down my street. Starve with me. Bitch.

[freefalasteen]

Kalluzeb prompt

After the failed attempt at extracting Kallus, Zeb is pretty upset he chose to stay. He'd been hoping Kal would want to come to him, as crazy as that thought is. On top of his disappointment and confusion over his own feelings, now he has to deal with Ezra crushing on Kallus too.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Seeing the same people who perpetuated or sent vicious misogynistic hate to Hannah Schmitz, as well as disgusting racist abuse towards Yuki and Alex because of FUCKING CONSPIRACY THEORIES and those who just straight up ignored it, now up in arms regarding whatever the fuck is going on between the FIA and the wolffs is beginning to piss me off. Because now that it's not someone red bull affiliated involved, it's somehow now unacceptable.

[revindicatedbyhistory]

i think the discussion about whether marginalized people from the imperial core benefit from imperialism is kinda sophistic because like. all opressions require a group of compradors to help indoctrinate the rest, and those in the imperial core 100% benefit from imperialism. so its like does this portion of people benefit or do all of they

[anotherpapercut]

if you're curious about the state of welfare in the us rn I was denied for financial assistance bc my income is too low. so I have to pay full price if I want insurance bc.... I can't afford help???

[fatnutswizard]

I have yet to see a please vote for biden 2024 post that didn't read like a child plugging they're ears and yelling.

[lesbiansanemi]

Those posts that are like “Americans don’t know geography and are so stupid and self centered” that are then filled with Americans being like “WELL ACTUALLY ITS BECAUSE THEY DONT TEACH US IN SCHOOL THATS NOT OUR FAULT” make me roll my eyes because like. If you don’t know basic geography because, supposedly, you never ONCE had a class that taught it at all, you should probably get on that. If you can whine on tumblr you can learn where other countries are and a little bit about them

But also as a certified American, I distinctly remember in my freshman year world geography class (a REQUIREMENT class we needed to graduate) there were ppl who dead ass could not even identify the state we actively lived in let alone countries on another continent and also completely avoided actually learning these things so maybe Americans are just fucking stupid and self centered

[venomgaia]

what's good about a pilot falcon?

HI! The Pilot Falcon (older generations were sold in the US as the Namiki Falcon for whatever reason) is a japanese fountain pen manufactured by Pilot!

it's often referred to as the best modern flex pen, or the best gold nib for a beginner! Tldr for people who aren't pen nerds, a flex pen is a pen that...well, flexes! Most pens have some sort of "flex" to them that results in some sort of line variation, but flex pens can handle a relatively higher amount of pressure. Think like a G nib used in a lot of manga. Old pens were the MASTERS at this, and a good bit of that is due to the nibs being made of gold, which naturally has a "bounce" to it that modern steel nibs have a really hard time living up to. Most people wax poetic about Waterman or other vintages like that because of it. Even modern gold nibs can't really keep up with the gold nibs of yore, but the Falcon is considered to be one that can. I do think legally it's considered a "soft" nib, meaning it's not truly a flex pen but has a lot of flex qualities to it, but some terms that get used are used interchangably so. idk. True flex nibs aren't really a thing in fountain pens these days outside of Noodler's Ahab and Konrad (which are their own nightmare and a half tbh).

The Falcon prized amongst artists for it's very fine nib, which Japanese pen manufacturers like Pilot and Platinum are known for. A Japanese Fine is comparable to a Western (Kaweco, Lamy) Extra fine, and a lot of these pens come in an EF, F, and M. It gets alot of nice line variation despite being so small, and is really an all-around great pen, if legend is to be believed :] An alternative to buying the Pilot Falcon would be getting the Pilot 912 FA, which has something called the "Falcon Nib," not to be confused with the actual pen. They actually look pretty different. The FA nib (right) has these weird cuts on their side that help with flexing and allow it to mimic a full-flex nib, but again. According to legend, modern pens don't flex like vintage pens do, but it IS pretty close.

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I've never used either myself, but I'm pretty picky about my pens and so I don't know if I'd ever pay upwards of $200 unless I got familiar with the nib first tbh....The falcon's nib isn't offputting to me like many feel about it, but I'm particular about aesthetics and the feedback on paper and I can't tell if I like them just from looks alone lol. Right now, I don't have much experience with pilot nibs, but if i were to get a pilot pen, tbh I'm looking at the Pilot Elite/e95s in a fine or medium, or a vintage platinum pocket pen.

Anyways that's that and this is also that. *twirls so elegantly and then collapses onto the ground in slapstick fashion*

[stars-and-soda]

The audacity of colonizers is truly astounding. You've been cheated and not the Fang people whose ritual you stole it from?

[daeluin]

like in my lifetime (32 years) i saw the dollar-pesos argentinos exchange rate go from 1 to 1 in 2000 to 1 to 1000

that's a five digits devaluation. in less than 30 years..... like can you imagine what that does to any economy????

like can you even imagine what it's like living in this fucking graphic

[gnfkitten]

i genuinely can not fathom people who don’t care about what goes on in the world. i just don’t understand.

[saharathorn]

There’s a very strange type of antisemitism in many parts of Asia where people believe that Jews control all of the finance and media and government but see it as a positive thing and Jews as role models that everyone should strive to emulate.

[bretongirlwrites]

so in light of my upcoming masters degree i thought it would be fun to make a translator oc. but then i realised i'd have to think about how languages work in the whole damn empire. so maybe i won't. hum