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adulthood is like dog training but you are both the dog and the trainer and also it doesn’t work and is bad

Hot take but the nonsensical portrayal of the third world being entirely made of absolute destitution is an important propaganda element that keeps workers in the first world (Particularly the USA) complacent with a lifestyle that will literally kill them. 

This rice farmer survives on $2 a year! Think about how much they must be suffering! Now get back to your third job stocking shelves so you can pay the $1,500 rent for your studio apartment and eat your 25¢ ramen packet like a good little wage-slave. 

The question that we should be working to inject into such conversations is not “my god how can those people survive on so little” but rather “why does our own survival require so MUCH?”

This is another wonderful addition to my post. As someone who is mixed race I would not have thought about that aspect. (In the sense that I’ve grown up with a great deal of multicultural exposure.) 

ursula k le guin was right

christopher marlowe wrote plays 400 years ago and they went on to give me massive brain rot

Things I had never considered about Alderaan’s destruction until this very moment: this Things I was not prepared to start bawling over at midnight: also this, holy shit

The fact that we never get to see Leia truly grieve, even in the comic mini series they did for her (which was honestly kind of awful) shows that they never intended to make her real. Luke gets to grieve more fo Obi Wan than Leia does for her whole planet.