children playing in the distance: "marco!" "polo!" "marco!" "polo!" me (not to the children): "ITS KUBLAI KHAN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR"

a lot of media or theoretical posting about media seems to implicitly rely on the concept that there is a sort of evil which will strongly tend to align against other sorts of evil the audience finds distasteful, or on tumblr especially against systems of power or like marginalization of particular demographics, and will never disproportionately benefit from or be tolerated or enabled by etc. each other, and like... i don't think this is real. there's not really any such thing as evil which is virtuous or evil which hunts the powerful or whatever

its funny how much racists like to pretend implicitly that "mud" is a fundamentally different and more "primitive" construction material than "adobe"

a good chunk of the posts this site makes complaining about some alleged outsized kindness for dogs (or sometimes nonhuman animals broadly) is about something pretty interchangeable with how people might view young children or infants, and just like children or infants, the attitude is not one of actual kindness in practice, is tainted by power, etc., but people who recognize this do not really notice that the same thing is happening with dogs, and they seem to be bothered by the dog thing in ways v different than the children thing. and like, in comparison children are *mostly* not nearly as subject to constant systematic culls, medical experimentation, etc.

i genuinely dont have any kind of political point here but its still really funny when the bryan johnson blood transfusion rejuvenation thing has internet leftists talking about capitalists being vampires meanwhile the idea was originally experimented with by a literal bolshevik revolutionary