act with wisdom, but act

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

asked the skyrim bandits why they were living in a cave and they explained the war effort has buried the economy so they can't find work and lost their homes. I use my shout to blast them across the cave and find a preeeetty nice sword among their belongings

It’s 2026. The bear flag is 31 years old. The leather flag turned 37 last month. If you’re including the toothpaste, ace, aro, and intersex flags that have been around for about a decade and a half at most but not the leather or bear flags, I can only assume it’s a deliberate statement of your beliefs about which body types and behaviors should be visible and which should be invisible.

If I see just the rainbow or progress flag, or if I see just the rainbow/progress flag and trans flag, I don’t take that as “this person or organization hates fat gay guys and the kinksters who have been marching at the front of our parades longer than I’ve been alive,” I take it as “Yeah this person or organization is phoning it in with the two flags by which the broadest swaths of the community feel included.” If an individual or an organization has a dozen flags and the bear and leather flags are absent, that seems like a deliberate statement of exclusion instead of a low-effort way to cover all the bases.

literally doing the whole "I wish femininity was as impossible for me as it is for you!"

"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉