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Capitalists have somehow got it in their minds that capitalism is human nature, even though it's literally the system most removed from it

Whenever something new happens, people use it for vaguely pornographic tomfoolery before anything else and I don't know how to fee about it

art is everywhere

Shows up at your house in a hazmat suit with a flamethrower

Doctor calls you with your bloodwork results and just says “I’m really mad at you” and then hangs up

This is literally the obedience training that molds us into capitalism. And capitalists think it's human nature

There's this interesting phenomenon where when you're a child, or some other vulnerable minority dependent on a job for shelter, you are actually under duress almost constantly. You can't say "I don't want to work today," you cannot say "I don't want to do the dishes, actually," you cannot choose not to participate. In a lot of cases, the punishment is explicit. Your parents might yell at you. Your boss might fire you. But in other cases, it's implicit. The mood will sour. You lose leeway. People get mad at you. And that creates a really shitty environment where you're constantly being coerced to do things!

And here's the kicker; you're not allowed to acknowledge that. You cannot acknowledge that you are being coerced, you cannot acknowledge that your free will is not being respected, because that's punished too. Your boss insists that you act excited. Your parents punish you for acting surly. You are forced to fake enthusiastic consent, constantly. It's a fucking nightmare. Your hand is being forced, you do not have the option to say "no," and if you ever, for a second, try to acknowledge that, everyone acts like you're the aggressor.

"Men in dresses are seen as bad, but women in pants aren't!"

is not the statement that "men can't be feminine but women can be masculine in society" that you think it is.

Let me introduce: women with facial hair. Full beards. Mustaches. Bald women. Bodybuilder women. Women with visible body hair. These aren't "more acceptable" than men in dresses.

Pants don't have a gendered association anymore, while dresses do. There is something to be said for that, but it certainly ISN'T "masculine women are acceptable now."

That was intentional, right?

when my mutuals call me by my name I start wagging my tail at 120mpreg

Republicans: "We propose a Good Things Act, that adds a spoonful of liquid diarrhea into every pizza"

Democrats: "We oppose"

Republicans: "See? Democrats oppose good things!"

My cooking gas ran out. It's the middle of the night, and I can't get another canister. I'm a tea addict. And I haven't taken out the trash for a few days, so I have a lot. The solution is obvious. I'm pretty sure this ends in -core, but I don't know what it starts with

Would he really be penniless though, or just "regular person rich"?

Abolish Tesla.

Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic