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dope and dialectic

@notallmensheviks / notallmensheviks.tumblr.com

my name is max and i eat and sleep and yell at things 29, they/them, nyc. more about me

so bc ive gotten a bunch of new followers recently and i’ve been slacking i decided to compile some of the better answers i’ve written to inquisitive asks i’ve gotten in the past, organized under a few topics. if any of the links don’t work, please let me know. if you have any questions about anything i’ve written please send me an ask, but i can’t guarantee answers; i’m lazy and have a huge backlog. i’ve also bolded a couple i’m especially proud of, but that’s very much a personal judgment not a mandate. enjoy!

Please help Monis and his family

I know you see a lot of fundraisers on your dash, and I don't have a magic wand to wave to ask for your help. I know there are so many other families that need help, but Monis https://www.tumblr.com/monis2family/ and his family really need yours right now.Monis and his family have been through so much over the past year: the destruction of their home, the loss of innumerable treasured possessions, constant relocations throughout the Gaza Strip, the ever-present risk of death in a bombing, and constant extortion by the merchants.

Monis is struggling with cancer, and needs medicine that costs $100 every three days. To make things worse, their family is hungry, and needs money for flour. I don't need to tell you how expensive Gaza is right now, and the money you've raised for them already is barely able to keep them going. Any amount you give will help get them the medicine, food, and shelter they need.

Even $10 could help keep a Gazan family warm, safe, and fed during this cruel winter. Every little bit counts. Please, share this post and donate if you can.

monis and his family desperately need your help to evacuate their current location. please donate if you can.

Anonymous asked:

Is the recent stock market drop anything to truly worry about?

depends on if trump actually goes through with these tariffs

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has anyone ever died from gooning

When my old gooning buddy Jake was going thru the hardest sesh of his life he was going mad and shit because he was clogged as fuck and he started deastroying shit since he couldnt get that sweet release he was trying to get for days i shit u not our sesh lasted 5 days straight and it wasnt until he took the 6th tina puff on the final day when the devil inside him awakened and i could see it in his eyes it was time for me to put him down old yellar style so that was when i knocked him out with my megaton blast punch to knock him out and then i brought him to my drive way to run him over til he was gone for good sorry buddy but its the way to have to be

I remember meeting a guy at a bar a year or so ago who told me he worked at the international consortium that does the porn parodies of all the top-grossing film releases. He said that the whole Barbenheimer situation presented his combine with some spectacular highs and lows. Because he said that with Barbie, right, the thing about Barbie is that there's already kind of a three-way ideatic, structural parallel between the curated artificiality of Barbie as a children's toy, the curated artificiality of Barbie as a mass market film, and the curated artificiality of pornography as a genre. Add on top of that that Barbie as a film is already feeling this tension, right where it's trying to be about a character graduating from the platonic sexlessness of a children's franchise to the functional-and-frank sexuality of being a living human woman, but it's also being bogged down in the "Everyone-is-beautiful-no-one-is-horny" aesthetic restrictions of any contemporary big-budget mass-market film so the two states end up looking pretty similar, he said. I mean the film itself is very aware of that tension, right, with that joke about how "casting Margot Robbie is the wrong move if you want to make that point," all that jazz. So, all that in mind, Barbie-themed pornography, he said, is in a weird way actually kind of complementary to the extant project, gesturing at unaddressed tensions and ideas, a dark mirror, the shadow self it wants to deny but can't, there's a lot of room to play in the space. He used the adjective "Lynchian" a couple of times, he seemed super stoked, he was talking with his hands. Oppenheimer, on the other hand. Oppenheimer he said presented a problem. Because obviously you can eroticize the detonation of an atomic bomb, we're all probably three mutuals removed from someone on this site who does exactly that, but obviously that's a niche market, and moreover it's a market that has a ton of overlap with high-minded thinkers who treat the historical use of atomic weapons against Japan with the level of gravity that atrocity demands. So they were stuck. They were really stuck. He told me that they'd been pulling their hair out for months trying to square the circle and all they had to show for it was a big whiteboard with the phrase "Grope-nheimer" written on it

not to sound bitter but it's a testament to social media that the original post got 15k notes and like seventeen people are going to see my addition

Do you know how badly you have to fuck up for this to happen

hey guys you know that if you actually read articles you can sometimes read things that problematize headlines like the claim that the above social media post in question was:

an assertion Seoul called "somewhat exaggerated", while Tokyo said there was no such discussion. [...] When asked about the report, a spokesperson for South Korea's trade ministry said "the suggestion that there was a joint response to U.S. tariffs appears to have been somewhat exaggerated," and referred to the text of the countries' joint statement. [emphases mine]

okay so there was a statement. what does the statement say? the full joint statement is here, and frankly it's boring as fuck. it's a complete nothingburger. some bureaucratic adjustments, scheduling confirmations, and a bunch of empty platitudes. do a CTRL-F for tariff, i dare you. this is, to say the least, a storm in a teacup.

also, this wasn't some emergency meeting. this was a regular consultative meeting of an organization called the trilaterial cooperation secretariat, which has been facilitating relations between rok china and japan for over a decade now. it even has a mascot.

now of course as everyone knows the actual important discussions don't happen in official meetings and certainly don't get discussed in official statements; they happen at cocktail mixers and hotel bars when people get liquored up enough to say what they really mean. this is true of every conference ever. unfortunately none of us have any idea what those discussions were, unless there are senior employees of the relevant ministries on tumblr.

i know it's really tempting to just reblog whatever poorly sourced tweet you see especially when it confirms what you want to believe, but we can do better.

Anonymous asked:

Are the Kingdom Come games worth playing?

never played them although it seems they pass the historical accuracy smell test; i remember them admitting in one of their dev diaries that of course universal decimal coinage didn't exist at the time, but representing historical coinage would be such a nightmare they skipped it. that is of course the correct attitude to have.

anyways followers sound off.

i found a guy on fragrantica who only ever logs on to complain in his reviews about how liberal cucks are ruining hobbies for real men, like perfume collecting

lol you never know indeed

nothing beats this one though

Please help Monis and his family

I know you see a lot of fundraisers on your dash, and I don't have a magic wand to wave to ask for your help. I know there are so many other families that need help, but Monis https://www.tumblr.com/monis2family/ and his family really need yours right now.Monis and his family have been through so much over the past year: the destruction of their home, the loss of innumerable treasured possessions, constant relocations throughout the Gaza Strip, the ever-present risk of death in a bombing, and constant extortion by the merchants.

Monis is struggling with cancer, and needs medicine that costs $100 every three days. To make things worse, their family is hungry, and needs money for flour. I don't need to tell you how expensive Gaza is right now, and the money you've raised for them already is barely able to keep them going. Any amount you give will help get them the medicine, food, and shelter they need.

Even $10 could help keep a Gazan family warm, safe, and fed during this cruel winter. Every little bit counts. Please, share this post and donate if you can.

monis and his family desperately need your help to evacuate their current location. please donate if you can.

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