Most tacos around here are sold by yuppies.

Education and work opportunities. Most of higher education across the world is done in imperial languages because the WBG and IMF tend to hate when a vernacular is used. So college undergrad and graduate education can demand going abroad.

Further, the discourse surrounding the US as a “third world country” is quite problematic, reinforcing fallacies of progress and modernity as normative while also fear mongering that the civilized subject has become a degenerate barbarian, something that can only make sense for fascists and colonizers.

Stop making imperialists out to be bumbling fools. Are you Venezuelan? Why don’t you risk YOUR life, why don’t I risk MINE, and we both stop worrying about Latam? It’s always some other calf on the alter while we typetypetype online as if there are no stakes for us.

Why did you leave out the Yemeni death toll? Probably because Venezuelans have nothing to worry about, right?

Honestly it makes me so fucking depressed when I hear people saying something as fundamentally disconnected from reality, something so needless and unthinking, something so flavorless and insipid as even ironically implying Gates is one of the “better” ones, that “as a person” he may be fine and that no one is “defending him.”

I doubt imperialism is in decline.

He looks 18

I appreciate your apology but it is too little too late as usual.

Thanks for telling me. Usually my hiccup is that meaning is so palpable that it evaporates as soon as it’s needed. To me “thats/its good” would have no meaning at all because it could be used to say any of several different things or nothing. Especially if it was the answer to a question. It’s a non-answer without some way to ground what “good” means. I would simply pretend I understand.

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I get some of the fluff. I like protocols that can safely establish expectations. I just don’t like pleasantries that enforce affective compliance and ultimately stifles protocols or just throws off procedure. Or when my movements and expressions are being surveiled and over analyzed - not enough smiling, holding my body wrong, not enough certainty in how I feel, not enough expression, too “stubborn” to communicate. Everything about neuronormativity feels like a distraction to me, and vice versa my concerns seem irrelevant or unrecognizable to them.

It’s never been clear to me that neuronormaltive folk are always the perpetrators. I think NDs are also have very triggering behaviors that are difficult to reconcile, even if on a deeper level there is a kind of kinship that can be recognized.

I also find ND culture to be upsetting at times. Too many infantile “cute” “quirk” tropes. I’m not quirky, if anything I am serious as a heart attack most of the time. If I’m supposed to be quirky and I’m mostly just really serious then it doesn’t end super well.

Why would there be a consistent single meaning for such a simple statement

“Good morning! How are you?”

*Sound of a multi-car pile-up while looking at the ground

“Well let’s get to work then!”

I don’t give a shit about Zohran Mamdani.

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Class consciousness among entitled, imperial classes is exactly what breeds reaction and ultimately drives the danger of our present moment. Mamdani is not separate from MAGA.

The path is now open for more leftists

Every sheepdog inspires this insipid line