When your one account got nuked years ago and its permanently suspended and rate limited 😍😍😍😍

Sdgflk I read that part out loud for no reason at a band camp once and nobody was interested. I was a weird kid

Lmao me with Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (makes sense ig it’s just a guys whole childhood)

Only merciful way to handle it (in singleplayer) is putting the game in super slow motion IMO. Like GTA V for instance

It’s freaky how easily this can apply to other fields as well. Take psychology for example - think tanks and other media donors churn out articles like “What’s driving the ‘No Hope Effect?’” or “The Science of Who’da’thunk-ology” to mystify basic cause-and-effect phenomena like paranoia, social alienation etc. Always written so solipsisticly and “quirkily”, offshoot of those early hipster-era bathroom readers like The Book of Awesome, like it’s written by a clueless parent trying to explain out-of-their-league concepts to a toddler. The whole OP comment’s also spot on for politics, economics, hell even modern military/police tactics (at least for the US). Look how robotic and consequently jumpy they get with that training.

The business and political giants who fund this stuff love to try and re-label a concept to sell it back to the public, as if it were brand new, so they can guide the overall public dialogue. It’s social engineering 101.

Idc this is funny

Alberta, and definitely traces of it in the Maritimes

Sounds like your parents died young of heart conditions

Are you laughing because you understand something we don’t, or just because you think it’ll make us go away?

Epically logicked, my good sir

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You learned to talk like us and that’s the full extent of it. We’re not “homies” lol - my first and only impression of you is a shady internet chameleon who tries to trick people into ancient recycled neoliberal beliefs but from a “new perspective” we’ve also heard before. I can tell what you might look/sound like in person, sure, but you give us no reasons to get along

“Do they really believe this?”

“Well uhh they should”

Why would you defend a guy who ordered deaths alongside Lenin then immediately left and cozied up to 1920s American fascism to make books about “The Betrayed Revolution” because he didnt get his share?

Trotsky was a socialist. After his defection, he did next to nothing to advance socialism, only to passively denounce the closest thing the world had then to a Socialist Order. And he did this by going to their enemies, objectively the least socialist-tolerant bloc on Earth. Archetypal example of a self-centered “leftist” who folds inward and exclusively talks about their own life/‘persecution’ after one falling-out with the organized left. Look at Trotskyists nowadays and tell me they aren’t walking parodies who talk like Broadway characters. It says a lot abt how off-kilter you have to be to throw yourself behind Trotsky’s weirdo ‘cause’

EDIT: To be clear, while I havent seen much of his work, I respect parts of his legacy. I’m sure there’s a lot of insight in his writing - reading criticism from a seasoned former Bolshevik is interesting, and the perspective is useful for making sense of the wider movement. I also understand he was under a lot of personal pressure at the time he fled the USSR. Despite any merit Stalin showed in WW2 or the Union’s massive industrialization effort, it must’ve seemed unfair to many party members that he was chosen to succeed Lenin (not sure of specifics on that event). I’d even say his assassination wasn’t necessary, and the graphic details aren’t something I take pride in. However, at the end of the day Trotsky’s decision to defect was a net negative for socialism in the early 20th century. He should’ve tried to be a different kind of conscientious objector, not a voice of anti-Soviet dissent.

Could you show this meme to any of your friends or family and succesfully explain a) why it’s funny and b) who it’s for ?

“No Lives Matter” type beat

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