astrasone.bsky.social
kpop fan (snsd, twice, viviz, aespa, xg, nmixx)
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A lesson I’d like more political leaders to internalize is that failures of democracy are what lead to social disorder.
If your constituents don’t see you fighting for them they look for other ways to fight back and you might not like them.
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I will say the track order on ruby had some confusing choices, feels like the energy level hits a brick wall right after like jennie
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like jennie alone sold me that I'd like ruby more than alter ego, but the collab tracks were also up there. generally already thought the pre releases were good too, my top track was still extraL in the end. 7/10 album for me
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in retrospect, it's so american to say you're gonna do a thing, try it, it goes terribly, then instead of backing out just try to do as little of it as you can while still saying you're doing it
at some point they'll stop it altogether and say mission accomplished lmao
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Capital is disciplining politicians - it's just that 'capital' now means 'seven or eight completely insane men and their toadies'
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unlike this and other male narcissist TV characters of the 2000s, he doesn't even perform masculinity in a way traditionally perceived as cool. this isn't to excuse those character's behaviour but to point out that walter reflects insecurity on his proponents' apologia in a whole other way
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look at him in his button-up, undershirt and windbreaker. respectfully to squares (me), he's a square. his stupid hat basically evokes a 2000s nerd thinking a fedora makes him cool
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idk man I think it like depends pretty complex structures of power actually
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if anything, tweeting this much is more like beaming ionizing radiation straight into your brain, slowly turning it into soup
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if anything close to a optimal diet actually existed, it would probably be something like lean boring protein and a very wide variety of unadulterated veg and legumes. but nobody wants to eat that. nothing wrong with a little debaucherous excess, let's just not pretend it's saving the world
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a friend was just telling me demjointz is on this track just yesterday! my expectations are high
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cultural differences just seems like an in-vogue way (re: "woke westerners") to say they're mad that the passage of time didn't exonerate her on this one. as you said, she lied because she knew it was wrong in the moment. and she knew that in 2004! we were way worse about this stuff a generation ago
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do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out”
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identifying which party's ideal politics is furthest from my own is an exercise that is only worth 1) bonding over a shared enemy 2) knowing who not to bother with. nothing wrong with the former, but it doesn't advance my political interests. it's just a social group signifier
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and yes, this does mean *fighting* the dems. dem lawmakers are not stumbling in the dark, waiting to start fighting for you when they find out the gop was actually bad all along. they are and have been doing this entirely on purpose
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if you're left leaning or progressive or whatever and you're in the US, you very likely don't have that. however, if you're going to have some faith that that can change, which party are you going to try to budge? probably not the gop
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"doing politics" would mean having some kind of power or influence over the decision making process. our countries are representative democracies. this means that in order for you to be able to wield influence for your interests, you would need to have a representative that shares your interests
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core superfan tantrums becoming actually effective at driving policy has been such a disaster for fandom in general