DwigtRortugal [she/her]

tax bureau anywhere else: “here is your tax info, let us know if anything is wrong”

the irs: “we already know how much you paid us in taxes. but we’re not gonna tell you. guess how much you paid us in taxes and mail it in to us. if you get it wrong you go to jail :)”

that baby was no angle

of course, it was a very emotionally charged scene

this is what canadalibs and eurolibs have been dancing around asking for, though not for any of the actually bad things has done, but because tronald drumpf was mean to them on tweeters.

me too, it was great. didn’t have to answer a single phone or get yelled at by a single boomer treatlerite.

mr. met was the based_ball all along

And this asshole’s standard investor pitch will still work again tomorrow

attempting to conceive of an existence separate from amerikkkan hegemony:

now assign them to style classes: i see ‘soulless husk’, ‘virulent transphobe’, ‘cynical careerist’, and ‘grasping opportunist’ at a minimum, with several cross-class options as well.

russia is a paper tiger and their military is too weak to do anything and they’re getting obliterated in ukraine but also they’re going to sweep across the entire european continent and conquer everyone in the name of king emperor putler. where o where have i heard this line of reasoning before?

my old eve accounts with capitals on them are actually my retirement portfolio when you really think about it

Though I was still lacking French words to express all my thoughts, I smashed the allegations attacking Lenin and the Third International with no less vigour. My only argument was: “If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?”

appropriately from “the path which led me to leninism”. carry on, ms. rachel

well carney gave that speech where he acknowledged how canada is a direct beneficiary of western hegemony but now it’s bad because trump was mean to them but also his solution is to try to band together with the rest of the west to replace america in the aggregate. he’s practically mao.

you know when you say a word like 50 times and it stops sounding like a word anymore? that is what internet westerners have done to the word authoritarian within my mind palace

certainly economically it’s not great in the short term and probably not over the long term either if current trends continue but in their minds anyway they are playing the long game of betting on the continued existence of western hegemony and their privileged place in it because in their present frame of mind it’s the only option they have. the tenders of ‘the garden’ don’t see themselves collabing with venezuela and ghana to solve problems, they see themselves as dictating terms, and they don’t have the weight to do that without their violent idiot child and its pet rabid bulldog running rampant all over the place. it’s the same implicit threat that has always existed behind the ‘rules based order’, trump just takes the implicit and makes it explicit as a matter of course.

perhaps things would be different if they didn’t also rely on the same hegemonic ‘rules based international order’ for extraction of the global south’s resources, but for now they do. if anything, the west’s political classes are inwardly enthused at this fresh infusion of material for the load bearing pillar of their domestic politics, pointing at the us and saying ‘i’m sorry we can’t materially improve anything for you but at least we’re not like the americans!’

The Gayatollah, whatever happened there