i just really like girls

He took a pay cut. I’m not doing all of that. Ima just pay my people well and give top notch benefits.

He sold stock, houses, and changed his spending and as a result, his employees were overall happier and the way they worked improved. They all bought more shit and had more kids and did all the consumption people want for us while also enjoying their work and their boss enough to band together and buy him a fucking Tesla as a thank you.

And you know what he realized after taking his pay cut? He didn’t need the champagne or the girls or the “lifestyle” of being a billionaire. He feels fulfilled in his work and with the people he’s surrounded himself with and he feels that he’s made a step in the right direction that other businessmen and billionaires should follow.

Bro: “Oh me too! I can’t believe a girl is into history like I am. Who’s your favorite Roman emperor?”

… because in a time of ‘liberation parades’ where soldiers marched in uniforms, the quilted skirt (each unique but harmonious in how they appeared together) formed a kind of ‘uniform’ that groups of women could wear in liberation parades, identifying the role of the woman as the hidden hero of the war. Fifth, the skirts expressed a positive view of the future, the reusing of materials expressing the conviction that the war torn country could be rebuild from it’s broken materials. ‘We are not there, but we’ll get there’ was the most common slogan embroidered on the skirt. Recycling, appreciating women’s labor and finding unity in diversity were seen as the key ingredients for this future.

Here’s what the quilted skirts looked like by the way:

Like, yeah I’m sure the tactical choices they had available to them had nothing to do with the degree of pre combat training, command organization, and communicability of war doctrine. And it’s not like those things are inherently rooted in degree of literacy, education, job specialization, bureaucratic management of food, with the political priorities of those in power and how that was related to the existence of professional militaries.

Sure those horse archers and heavy calvary had huge impacts on individual battles, but do you have any idea what went into enabling societies to field them on the battlefield? What it takes to maintain a professional force of mounted soldiery? The sheer quantity of bureaucracy, widespread literacy, top-down dictation of land-usage, the cultural values and incentives, the food network? And yeah sure you can tell me how important the charge of the Winged Hussars was but do you know deeply important horse pulled wagons were in enabling that many Ottoman soldiers to move more than a few days from their home territory for any length of time? How horsepower supply lines not only enabled distant long-term sieges, but critically enabled the Muslim Ottomans to function in foreign lands without fatal levels of pillaging to the locals, which allowed for the recruitment of oppressed Protestants which rocked the shape of Christianity in Europe?

Sure tell me about how massive this army was, but do you even know how it got that big? The careful road management, the precise cartography, the census data, the transition to regular coinage tax structures rather than grain levies that enabled armies that large to exist? Does that interest you?

Mike Bloomberg is a racist, paternalistic, Islamophobic, oligarch. And that’s without mentioning that Bloomberg has even more sexual harassment allegations against him than Trump does.

Don’t anybody dare @ me or tell me to “vote blue no matter who,” not when this billionaire racist isn’t even a Democrat. As a BLACK man, I shouldn’t have to pick between the racist Republican who wants to use the police to racially profile me, or the other racist Republican who also wants to use the police to racially profile me. That’s not even a false choice - it’s no choice at all.

My Bloomberg story isn’t nearly as horrific as those in the tweets above. My relatives living under Bloomberg’s racist regime simply instructed me to stay out of NYC if I didn’t want to risk being arrested and harassed and possibly inserted into the criminal justice system. And I listened to them. Because Bloomberg had successfully turned NYC into a giant sundown town. And I didn’t want to risk a criminal record for the crime of walking while black.

Mike Bloomberg is an authoritarian who wants use big government to crack down on poor people and black people, but wants less taxes on the wealthy, and deregulation for billionaires. It is not hyperbole to say that Bloomberg is an existential threat to democracy.