Me when my anti-It*lianism is found to be foundational to Marxism the whole time

MFW I have no face

Does she get all the assistance and summons in the world? Because she really liked Pikmin 2 (not 1, 3 or 4) so I could conceive of it given that there is a group motivated to make this whole thing work

You’re telling me you saw a bi furry named Kate?

That one looks plausible. It’s totally China and Israel teaming up against the UK and the USSR. I could have sworn DPRK was involved as well.

The taste is different depending on the sexuality. That’s how I know I’m straight

What was that one war where North Korea, China, USSR, America, and Israel are all on weird sides of the conflict?

That’s what it’ll be like when they advocate for more working hours because it’s gayer

An ER’s job is to make sure you’re not proximately dying. If you need an ambulance they’ll take you to an ER. They’re not the people with the tools if you suspect family history or lifestyle issues. Even an urgent care who can be a bit more involved are probably looking for some immediately diagnosable like COVID or MRSA.

A primary care provider is the person who’s going to listen to you, check your flexibility, mental health, blood panel, etc. For all the stuff you believe is wrong (because God knows someone making an inference about you is as rare as gold) they’ll refer you to a specialist. So if it turns out it’s scoliosis there’s (supposed to be) a spine doctor around to take a closer look

In my inner mind palace I’ve had a fierce debate about whether the universe has a wicked and violent sense of humor. The NEVER DOOM coalition has really taken the whole conversation over with the belief that there is no benefit to anything but irrational self belief. The universe is literally begging me to achieve my goals and is laying out a stage for me to shine brighter than I ever could have imagined actually

Doesn’t China have more dollars than they know what to do with? If deflation happens it’s literally the ending to my DnD novel where the magic weave experiences a financial collapse so an elven pantheon comes in to buy everything for pennies on the dollar.

It should be infinitely more preferable for the numbers to keep diluting. Deflation would be like all the stupid parts of MMT (no signal of what people want and value) with all of the stupid parts of a hard currency (twiddle your thumbs while they drink your milkshake).

You must give people more money and then keep raising prices or you lose. You must never let socialism take hold or you lose. You must monopolize middle eastern oil or you lose. China cannot ignore you or you lose.

And then Mamdani walks around ignoring Israeli events, balancing the budget, freezing rent, and giving people cheap things to do during the summer+him endorsing congresspeople is effectual? Fucking grim lmao

I just really want to assume that too much information is too freely available and too many actors are sympathetic to Iran for them to have been unsophisticated on the world stage. If they had 50 burner accounts they could have gone to twitter and been like “if we’re being honest, what should Iran do in this situation?” and baited an interaction from a 20th century history major who’d make a thread about how little you can trust America in negotiations.

I also think about how I see this idea floated around here that a US ground invasion is a very doomed proposition because of the geography, Iran’s competence, and the like. Violence still isn’t fun of preferable. If I feel really good about my martial arts training and some loser in boat shoes starts getting in my face for looking at his girl, I still don’t really want to throw him. Even if you’re killing Americans 50:1, America is still targeting schools and hospitals and I’d rather not lose dozens of soldiers if the pen will stop the war just as well. Which is to say 3 ought to be a society’s default mode of being. In that frame, a US oil crisis could arouse a ground invasion which would be cringe if it is possible to be prevented.

Which is to say I would respect them if their rationale is anything before they decide that butchering people is the answer to everything, as likely as it seems to be the answer to the mad dog and its mad dog attacking you

Me personally I wouldn’t have done that.

I don’t think you can ever stop people from commenting on the double standard. The reflex to point it out exists a priori in my head so there’s no need to judge its value. But appeal to nature is gonna always be a nasty little mindspace filled with people who love to use gotchas

Yeah, this was all fantasy book research. I don’t actually give a shit about healthcare or genocide or whatever. It was all in good fun.

In my mind calling out hair transplants and plastic surgery in the spirit of “this should be okay writ large” is good. Like if you’re against gender affirming care and you get gender affirming care it’s hypocritical and it’s always going to be called out by someone’s pattern seeking brain. The conclusion “therefore nobody should get that kind of care” begs the question for me.

Trans liberation is everybody’s liberation, right? The bravest amogus will be willing to go “actually, you’re right. I’m no longer against trans GAC because I now empathize with their anxiety”

Did they fool anyone? Why would Iran have ever listened to a word they say? If they got fooled they should hire me. I could scry into the psyche of the trillion dollar army and help them avoid such foolishness in the future

You know I’m always down to stop doing drug prohibition because it doesn’t work.

But the idea that America if failing because the troops don’t have enough test is so fucking funny. Like they need to speed up the “strong men create good times” cycle and they break the cycle by making male hormones abundant. Like they’ll have a trans man shatter the conception of trans people by being a war hero ala Mulan. Iran will crash an IKEA drone with a stick of dynamite into the troops and they’ll dust themselves off after the smoke clears like they’re in Dragonball.

I dream of a world where you don’t need to live up to the label of being straight. It’s the only sexuality that needs to be maintained, defended, and proven instead of just lived in comfortably. Kiss a trans woman and see how straight you feel.

I actually have a project lined up for my “triumphant return to shonen” where it’s the three layers like Tears of the Kingdom and the topic circles around an allegory for replacing oneself with an AI simulacrum. I like to give my antagonists POVs I’m sympathetic to, so it’ll deal with ideas like “who cares if it’s fake if it gives people hope and comfort?” and “well I never wanted to be here and my part in all of this was fucked up.” All the while they’re struggling with a magic system that strips them of their executive function+memories.

So by time his senpai dies whole, deliriously calm from the blood loss, being buried a beloved hero with honors is an enviable fate.

It mostly feels like the world has this fierce duty that it passionately upholds to be apathetic towards me.

I was daydreaming recently about how angry it makes me to not feel listened to. It relates to how, when I do jiu jitsu, people don’t have the luxury of ignoring me because plan A is to grab their lapel and toss them into the air before I fold their spine into a bow for the trouble. It makes me thankful that I’m already good at BJJ because it gives me a timeless, physical outlet to express myself when life isn’t going good. People have been wrestling since time immemorial after all.

Until the day I learn how to stop taking it personally through therapy, I get a reprieve from thinking about it and a place where I cannot be ignored, contained, or condescended to from behind a fancy title.