That doesn't give us the right to invade another country. Do you know how many dictators the US put into power over the last several decades? We are not the world police, we are the evil empire.

Always have been.

I GOT REJECTED BEFORE I GOT MY JOB!!! NEVER GIVE UP NEVER SURRENDER!!!

oooooooh you wanna work at the library so bad oooooooooh

This is gonna be very, very interesting 😏

but reading the article after having read your critique has me feeling like there’s a missed connection happening here.
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AS a countercultural movement, especially among BIPOC communities? Absolutely, that’s a very fair criticism, and one that is especially pressing given her (and my) white privilege. I could be way off base here though, so please let me know what I’ve missed,
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consciously or not, excluding trans women who are not wealthy, attractive, and (more often than not) white. She is not herself trying to whitewash the term, she is observing the fact that it is already happening in mainstream society. Could she have gone into more of the history of Dolldom
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Sorry if I’m missing something, but I think you and Thorn are getting at the same thing, just from different angles. She acknowledges, at multiple points, the explicitly BIPOC history of Dolldom. What she is critiquing is the way it is being recuperated by Neoliberalism in a way that is,
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Unless I grievously misremember, I believe the first time I heard this song was when it was used as the credits for one of the AMV Hell videos from the late 2000s. AMV Hell 3 I think? I remember that number 4 used Welcome to the Black Parade for its credits.

The problem is that the former will always become the latter over time. The US used to have stronger state control over capital, so the capital class dumped money into propaganda to slowly, over the course of decades, shift political power back into their hands. The same is happening in Europe today

It now goes to the House, where they just need a simple majority which Rs have, assuming none of their people turn coat. Then it's back to the Senate, then to the President. So the shut-down's not completely dead, but pretty fuckin dead unfortunately. No healthcare for us plebs 😔

Damn, Onion out here hittin me where I live 😔