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There's no possibility of that without the fall of capitalism.

tHERE ARE MEMES IN THOSE HIEROGLYPHICS

I think its pretty fucked up she's recording calls to a rape helpline tbh

[ID: pictures of a red clay sculpture of two horse heads embracing. Sculpture shows their heads up till their shoulders and the start of their back. They are resting their heads on the back of the other. Both have their eyes closed. Each picture shows a different angle. End ID]

I learned in my political science class that all major famines in the 20th century and onward have been caused by oppressive groups or political situations restricting access to food, NOT natural causes like crop failure

This is literally the point that Indian economist Amartya Sen made that won him the Nobel prize in economics. As a child, he survived one of the several Bengal famines that were organised by the British colonisers in India. He developed his theory on famines, which is that they were more about distribution of food rather than production or availability of it

I think it’s interesting we don’t call the Dust Bowl a famine. That is probably down to the whole American exceptionalism thing. We’re not allowed to talk about how this country uses hunger as a cudgel to beat us.

FDR was anti-communist, don't fall for it.

i'd rather slit my own throat with a scissor

The chart on the right is not the in-universe chronological order, what is wrong with you?

i really love that instead of making the message of the episode be 'excess worry gets in the way of enjoying life so even when there is reason to be cautious you should make sure you're not overdoing it 😇', they went with 'no yeah you SHOULD be worried. you should be MORE worried actually paranoid isn't enough'. we're fast approaching death note levels of mind games here and it's great.