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It’s funny how American nationalists expect this hegemony to maintain itself while they simultaneously let corporations strip every last piece of copper out of the country’s walls.

It’s wanting to sell your cake to the highest bidder, and eat it too. Ya can’t. Ya sold it. It’s gone. And the buyer has no interest in selling it back, instead we’re all going on cake subscriptions for $17.99 a month.

Imagine still having to negotiate with private health insurance as a Mars colonist. Oh, Kaiser didn’t cover your kidney shrinkage medicine? Just fill out a form in our office on Earth to start a review process.

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I’m so in love with a version of this couple where Chloe isn’t a terrible friend to Max.

Dems: “Young people don’t vote anyway!”

(Record youth turnout for Trump)

Dems: “AH, well, nonetheless…”

The One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin.

It’s basically this:

If your goal is to prevent deaths, surrendering would have been the ideal yeah.

Zelenksy tried to surrender to prevent further deaths, and Boris Johnson refused to let that meeting happen because NATO isn’t finished using Ukranians as crash test dummies.

The creator of this comic is a self-described pro-sweatshop neoliberal, which explains the “woe is me, I’m too smart for my own good” delusions.

Where did we go wrong?

The bad guys won the Cold War.

This is like if the Confederacy retreated to Catalina Island, massacred everyone there, and continued calling itself the rightful government of the entire continent afterward.