I think it’s good to highlight that the amount of money the US is spending to conduct a genocide in Palestine could instead easily be used to house every homeless person in america or socialize healthcare or cancel student debt, because this helps demonstrate to people how little the US government gives a shit about you, but even if the US cancelled its billions of dollars in aid to Israel right now and diverted all that money into creating a massive welfare state for every american, it would still be a horrifically evil imperial country. the mountain of wealth it rests on top of was produced by the process of settler colonialism and genocide and slavery - the US is a big reason why “the global south” exists as a geopolitical category at all - and hoarding these resources domestically would not suddenly make it a just state. I think it’s important when making these arguments that our ultimate conclusion isn’t that the US should just become a western european welfare state while leaving the current system of imperial inequality enact. that is not the road that will lead to a decolonized Palestine because decolonialism is not merely the absence of imperial aid, it is the destruction of the system that allows a country to extract, hoard, and then spend billions of dollars on missiles and tanks and guns to conduct genocide in the first place
Team of scientists attempting to create the MALE SHAWTY perish after a fire breaks out in their laboratory, setting off a 1 kiloton explosion
Mewtwo
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ho-oh keeps his shit ass gerbil children (entei, raikou, suicune) in line, unlike lugia, who can’t control his fucking nightmare spawn, moltres, articuno, and zapdos
Compare that to Arceus who had to banish one of their spawn into it’s own damn pocket dimension that doesn’t comply with the physics of the world Arceus created.
new dad tier system
good tier/ho-oh: lets you have your space, gave you structure and life skills so that you could be a successful adult
mid tier/lugia: means well but no one was given any emotional skills and thus no one understands conflict resolution
shit tier/arceus: locks you out of the house for embarrassing them in public
Bad tier/Regigigas: locks you up in your room with an annoying puzzle lock and no food, then leaves the country and falls asleep where no one can find him.
i think regigigas is somehow below shit tier
authoritative tier/rayquaza: lets you do you for the most part. but heaven help you if you start shit, especially if you and your sibling start squabbling
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I like how in ORAS you can ride Latios/Latias bareback with literally no safety precautions (you even mega evolve it while on its back in midair for chrissake), but in Sun/Moon you have: a helmet, a special riding outfit, a saddle, and a harness when all you’re doing is riding a Tarous around
Alola cares about your safety. Hoenn will gladly watch a kid die.
Hoenn sent a kid into space in a scuba suit
Don’t forget the fact that said kid was riding on the back of an ancient mega evolved dragon god while doing so.
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i went into a gamestop from another reality today
What happened?
so, i only went in to get the shiny silvally code. should’ve taken like a minute or two at most but i was in there for upwards of ten. it was deeply unsettling right off the bat when i walked in because it was quiet. like really quiet. the tv that plays the gaming news and the speaker that plays the ads weren’t running. the cashier says hello and i get in line to wait. it is dead silent. nobody in the store is making any noise except for the cashier, who is typing. she’s helping a little boy sell 12 PS4 games. the boys mom is walking back and forth behind him sipping her gas station brand cup of coffee. literally just walking back and forth from one end of the store to the other. all the while the entire store is silent, the kid is silent, the mom is silent… all 5 of the other full grown adults in this store are silent. and i’m the only one in line behind this kid, these other adults throughout the store are like standing in one space just staring and being quiet. they weren’t browsing, they weren’t talking. nobody was making any noise. i wasn’t making any noise. i was standing there thinking about how eerily silent it was in this gamestop and wondering what the hell was going on - hyper aware of every move i made because i didn’t want to make a noise and break the silence. this carried on for literally 10 minutes before another cashier came in through the front door and loudly exclaimed “i can’t leave you alone for five minutes.” he called me to the counter and asked me what i needed help with. it was like immediately the ambient noises of gamestop all returned at once and i stepped forward to get my code.
my favorite part of this is the implication that not only was the first cashier somehow responsible for the eerie silence to begin with but also that this has certainly happened before
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