floor ice cream gives you health!

take everything I say with a hint of garlic, ginger, spring onions and a dash of soy sauce

fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning

on nights when the veil is thin u can read rpf on jstor

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

Well you can't deliberately speak in a way nobody else does and also stay anonymous you know. Can't eat your cake and have it too.

Mowing through an entire box of pocky feeling like a pencil sharpener being fed whole pencils by a 3rd grader

What are some good beginner wants for someone just starting to get into desire?

"Zines" (shortened from the word 'magazine') were a form of american doujinshi, popularized among anarchists, trotskyites, artists, and other liberal reactionary groups,

This is an amazing piece of art I will never be in a room with. My sensory issues would demand it be destroyed.

yeah okay ill reblog that

Why is there no man arching his back with his butt in the air emoji

I'm sorry but the notion that soft power develops After hard power as some sort of Optional soft-hand in dealing with matters of empire is completely and totally ahistorical. In every single empire in history its soft power has always grown alongside its hard power, and soft power accomplishes what hard power alone cannot. Sacrificing soft power dominance is simply giving up on a great deal of power, it is not any kind of "return" to anything, it's just part of the process of collapse.

Indeed, it is in the case of a declining imperial power like the US that soft power becomes More important, not less, because as the empire's capacity to execute its affairs of state through coercive means decreases (and it is in fact decreasing) leaning cultural influence, international reputation, and long-standing perceptions of legitimacy are usually crucial in softening the descent from empire-hood (look at the postwar UK for example)

In fact, an imperial ruling class increasingly ignorant of the strength and influence of their newfound peer-competitors making the decision, drunk on fantasies of superiority purveyed to them by the national ideology, that they don't need legitimacy or a positive image and can somehow get all of the material goods through financial and military coercion, is Exactly part of the process that I refer to as "the decline of empires".