un jour je serai de retour près de toi

seeing people's takes on US soft power (both domestic and international) is driving me kinda insane I mean neurodivergent like. I thought we were all of the understanding that these types of accomodations - social programs, welfare, etc - are basically hush money doled out by the capitalist class when it's prosperous enough to afford it. the idea that the US became a world power because it established social programs and public education and such; rather than the opposite, that it was able to establish these things because it became a world power; is such a patently obvious reversal of history. the US became a world power through war - it engaged in harsh empire-building before the first world war, managed to establish itself on the world stage by providing loans and reconstruction after the war, and then repeated its trick in the second world war to propel itself into world hegemony. it was because of this success, this massive destruction of fixed capital and inter-imperialist competition, that is was able to comfort its subjects and drive them away from communism. now that this success is wearing off, and the composition of capital is becoming increasingly more fixed and less profitable, it is reverting to the rough hand, just as e.g. Germany was forced to when its economy was devastated in the interwar period. the sustained and consistent reversal of reality here, when it comes to the fact that the US is in a decline, is weakening, and the bourgeoisie is responding, is incredibly strange; and I can only account it to a large number of people (usamericans principally) who don't have the theoretical basis to handle situations unlike the last century of US dominance

starting a new workout system in which every time a celebrity with perfect arms shows up on my dashboard and i want kill them i do twenty push-ups

one full set of abs every time a joong thirst trap shows up i might actually get fit again this way

screamed very loud at first's intro in moonlight chicken if i had known there was infidelity in this story i might have put this higher up the list even before getting em-pilled

oh it's not infidelity it's DIVORCE and i do love divorce