Lovecraft was basically translating his alienation with capitalism into short stories. Unfortunately, being a reactionary for most his life, he punched down instead of up, and his fears were pointed at minorities and women and air conditioners instead of the pervasive system itself.
bort_simp_son
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"If you can do something beneficial, do it."
My god, truly a genius, if every General read Sun Tzu there'd be no war because they'd realize all battles have already been determined in advanced.
(Yeah I don't get it either)
“Think about the heritage the flag represents, not the hatred you say it represents”
That heritage being a slaving nation run by and for slave-owning slave-raping slavers? Or did they mean grits and banjo music?
slowly radicalizing me and I don't like it
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Can't wait for all my leftist friends that I managed to convince electoralism works rubberband back into tankies bc moderates are massive bitches
:sicko-beaming:
this is literally half my friend group rn and I'm running out of counters
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"Could you imagine the online socialist resposne if China and the US's roles were reversed with respect to COVID?"
(hexbear.net)
China:
Total Cases: 94,472
Deaths: 4,636
7-Day Average for New Cases Last Week: 113
USA:
Total Cases: 37.3 Million
Death: 624,000
7-Day Average for New Cases Last Week: 140,000
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin is the only fantasy story I've read that handles this trope correctly.
(Being written by a woman of color probably helps a lot).