Dont even worry about it

i would kill for some kimchi right now [remembers that murder is wrong] i would commit insurance fraud for some kimchi right now

[Remembers that the costs of insurance fraud are distributed amongst the consumers of insurance] i would pay greater than market price for some kimchi right now [remembers i shouldn't advertise that fact] i would pay market price for some kimchi right now.

If the US was really 50 countries in a trench coat, then there'd probably be substantive linguistic variety

im gonna make it big someday just you watch

*goes back to jerkin it*

I'm worried that getting flustered about pretty women on stream is hurting my tough girl reputation.

I really need to do more studying and write an essay on how Americanism is a genuine folk religion which reveres capital and the vague concept of “the free market” as a god of providence to be pleased in order to lead a prosperous life, also that the founding fathers are prophetic, perhaps even messianic figures who basically gave birth to this god through the revolutionary war, and that the vast majority of conservative Christians in America revere capital more than the god they claim to serve in an ironic sort of golden calf situation.

Like, there are actual studies on this stuff. Look up “American civil religion” if you’re struggling for search terms. Or “American founder worship.”

also worth noting the vatican lists americanism as a specific official heresy. so even beyond the mountains of scholarship on the religion of americanism from various religious & secular perspectives, the roman catholic church itself officially recognises it as a religious heresy in the general region of idolatry that can be used in official church courts as grounds for excommunication. and it’s a religious view that’s drilled into americans so aggressively that to them it seems perfectly natural, whereas to most of the rest of the world ‘america’ seems more like a terrifying mind control cult than a country. this has led to large swathes of american catholics being members of a different religion than that of all the worlds other catholic populations and is a big part of how they became the closest thing to a pan-catholic in-joke, a global laughing stock if you will

Bioshock Infinite wasn’t ideal but making this subtext into text was probably one of the better things it did. Real interesting vibe, and they didn’t have to work hard to get there.

Under no circumstances is catholocism, or the pope, “based”