Happy Harpy

Whenever I accuse Western scholars of being “racist,” they always become defensive, insisting that they are merely criticising “systems” and “governments,” as though racism ends with crude prejudice against the intrinsic traits of other peoples. This is not how racism functions in the 21st century. Even historically, racism was fundamentally about the maintenance of structures of hierarchy. While it was once more fashionable to attribute deceitfulness, cowardice, and other supposedly inherent defects to “Asiatic races,” contemporary discourses of “democracy” and “authoritarianism” have become à la mode instead: a narrower, more elegant means of maintaining normative hierarchies and portraying other civilisations as defective and in need of domination, sorry, “democratisation.”

we've never seen socialism existing on its own terms. every socialist project has existed under a constant state of siege by the capitalist world, which is determined to overthrow it. when you scoff that the state has never withered away in any Marxist-Leninist country, you're really scoffing that global capitalism hasn't been defeated yet, because that's what forces socialist projects to maintain their state. you might as well be scoffing at people for not floating while gravity still exists

"this country is spending too much on their military. so we (larger more powerful nation which has been antagonizing them for decades) will invade them- and crush them easily!" okay well from the sound of it they actually should have been spending more on their military.

Thragg in that last episode.

I mean I think a part of the ‘scary background’ bit is the thing where the individual in question is staring directly at the viewer from a foggy pond in a dense forest. And also the literal burning halo

sounds like a normal Friday night. if a sister wants to go on a walk in the evening who am i to stop her. if she has a burning halo that’s the will of god.

God bless Hamas and Hezbollah this Eid. The genocidal parasite will be stomped underneath their feet. Glory to the resistance