Unfortunately comrade, the real existential consequences of materialism (and the reality that it isn't meritocratic but simply the web of networks and connections you are born in and must exercise agency in) is something ppl can't generally cope with.

So they believe they've earned their position even though the deciding factor is often who they know.

This doesn't necessarily mean they are unqualified (though sometimes it is) but that they did not truly ever 'earn' it.

If only had leaned even harder into "you didn't build that", it would have been better.

I've been seeing a therapist the past 6 months. Got a lot of stuff in my past I'm trying to work through.

I think that as long as you recognize therapy is there to help you cope with the hellworld we live in I think it's valuable. It's also good for just understanding yourself and your own relationships better (I've been working through some shit with my family).

It isn't a cure all though. I think recognizing what it's for and why you're in it is important.

However, I am probably going to cut back to once a month pretty soon. Was starting with two a month because a lot of crazy shit happened right after I started therapy so like, shit was busy.

This is Dragon's Crown erasure and I will not stand for it.

Even if the design is , it could be argued it is to men and women (the dwarf has like a 12 pack).

You forgot the truest one for us all:

Reach heaven through violence.

Kill six billion demons.

It's pretty good.

BTW, for the new readers:

Below most pages there's going to be text -- you should read it. It has additional lore and some of the maxims that are meme-able and fun.

There's also alt-text for each comic -- not all of them are lore-based (sometimes it's the artist just memeing) but it's important for the full KSBD experience.

everyone wants to be empire but forgets everything in empire gives the viewer a sense of closure and longing, even as there are plot threads left unresolved, the story of empire is resolved.

So when I was younger, I saw matrix reloaded and had my mind blown, so excited for revolutions because of the cliffhanger.

Then the third movie didn't deliver.

And I realized that ending on cliffhangers like that not only so rarely pays off (infinity war might have been the only one recently), it often colors your feelings/opinions of the incompleteb(but otherwise fun movie)

You can't say reloaded is a great movie because it defers so much resolution, but there's so much cool stuff (the car chase is a 11/10, the fight in the chateau is sick, lots of cool shit throughout).

Hey comrades, this one's for you.

I'm not sleeping yet though

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dcnd55tLCv8

Lost my shit at that part

BEING A MINORITY DOESN'T MAKE YOU A DECENT PERSON OR MAKE YOU MAGICALLY UNDERSTAND SOCIAL JUSTICE. LOG OFF AND READ A BOOK!

More neurodivergent queer CIA ghouls does not a liberated society make.

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Awoo has already noted some important refutations, but I want to unpack something here.

Landlords and Bourgeoisie are class identities. Importantly, these are not the result of things outside of your control (i.e. ethnic origin, nation, etc.) but instead determined by actions in the world. While one can't say that one is subhuman because of where they are from, isn't being a landlord (and thus extracting rent from people for shelter) a behavior? A series of actions and choices? And can't we characterize a behavior or action as evil/immoral? Basically, when I say "landlords are evil and deserve to die or surrender their assets to the collective" what I'm describing is a particular set of actions. It's not different from having an opinion on if murderers deserve capital punishment.

Btw, I believe in rehabilitative punishment. However, if we're going to talk about people who deserve to die, I think capitalists and landlords are up there. A person who kills someone else -- either due to mental illness or a crime of passion -- is far less damaging to our social fabric than people who, through institutions, contribute to the death of our world and the immiseration of many. For instance, how many unhoused people have gone hungry/died because of the executives at Starbucks who decide that food thrown out should be covered in coffee grounds to be inedible? We don't have the numbers, but shouldn't we call this behavior subhuman/evil? I think you're missing the distinction between saying the executive who designed that policy deserves the gulag -- a specific inhuman action that deserves a specific response -- and calling all insert ethnicity/nationality here subhuman.