I haven’t fully finished it yet but I’m also losing it over this. I knew the Sino-Soviet split was a disaster but I didn’t know how deeply China worked with the US as a result. I guess I understand now why they were able to convince the US to tie their economies so deeply together
Vietnam stays winning
Is this actually from 1993 or is it one of those forums that measures all dates as September of that year - the eternal September
If memory serves it’s actually at least partially driven by humans wanting to eat it
Genuinely might be my favorite scene in the movie. One conversation and it lays out everything so perfectly and precisely while never leaving the metaphor of the Matrix. Especially the comment about these people being the very people they are trying to save - but until they are, they can’t see through the system. It’s how I feel every time someone tells me I’m being hyperbolic about capitalism or idealistic about socialism.
I yearn for the days of ordering from a local Chinese place that was definitely a front, you could get a bag of wantons literally the size of your head for $5
headstrong, I’ll suck you off, headstrong, I’ll suck off anyone
I believe that’s only in the animated version, in the comic he just fails to save him. The comic gets weird as hell tho, beyond just the typical complete misunderstanding of communism, capitalism, really anything about material reality or human nature.
Don’t worry it’s not the silly letter quote - I know that would be devastating to lose
We have both - seeing this one (or maybe a variation on it) this morning was what prompted me to actually go find the source, I was curious. Is there anywhere to see a list of taglines?
Oh shit I’m sorry, I didn’t realize. I’ll put it in an archive link
Thankfully the silly letter quote is real, if we lost that one I would be inconsolable
I mean tbh I also wondered that but I saw it enough times I just kind of assumed even he got pissed off enough to say that once
I don’t know anything about SDL but we literally have that quote as a site tagline and I see it here all the time, I went to go find the origin and found this. Apologies if I posted a bad source, truly don’t know anything about them
Previously I’d always said Buttigieg but a Newsom/Buttigieg ticket would not surprise me at all either, I am just assuming the rat will still be involved. AOC will be an even more controlled opposition than Bernie was, she’ll spend the primary talking about how the frontrunner doesn’t go far enough then she’ll get in line and endorse around February 2028.
You definitely don’t have to hand it to him but I will grant that him just replying to that with himself through the same AI is extremely funny
I had a whole half baked diatribe typed out about getting my first real job and having to confront the fact that reality was not what I was taught, that theorizing about “minimalist” forms of government didn’t put food on the table, that even before that there were cracks because of how I felt about healthcare, etc., but I deleted it all because I think it can all be said much simpler.
I grew up.
A really good essay imo, Abigail continues to not miss.
One thing I wonder about is how something like Cuba’s new family law would play into some of these issues. If your chosen family can be your legal family, maybe that actually helps mitigate some of the exploitation of it. I’m sure there’s Cuban scholars who have already written things about that I am just woefully ignorant of, but it just seemed to click together nicely for me
I think someone’s original comment was actually making a joke about the gold the Swiss laundered for the Nazis - they were saying that Switzerland is bad