I just responded to a one-month-old-comment of my own :-\

A few years ago I went to Tempe to visit a friend and every-time we ventured outside of Tempe I was confronted by Yakub’s most devilish creations.

Phoenix is a contradiction.

The desert is beautiful, but the people inhabiting that space are…

This city should not exist, it is a monument to man’s arrogance.

The success of the 9/11 attacks cannot be understated (see Jean Baudrillard’s The Spirit of Terrorism).

After a supposed victory over an ideological opponent (USSR), the US engaged in building the “rules based international order” and, after a frenzy of neoliberal export (Bosnia), began to show rot. The cultural angst of the late 90’s - unintentionally enunciated in Fukiyama’s “End of History” - reflected the hollow promise of the capitalist vision.

The 9/11 attacks forced the contradictions of this aimless and self-destructive impulse into overdrive and spawned an unfocused frenzy of jingoism which served to mask the profound disquiet festering at the core of the American psyche.

That ideological bankruptcy has forced into focus the fundamental inability of capitalism to build a resonant faith in structural stability and justice.

So I’m relying on more knowledgeable bears here, but this is basically a manifestation of unions without theory right?

Without state support unions will be assaulted by capitalistic mentalities and turn into gangs?

Laughing in hell eating pizza

Liberalism is in the spinal cord - this move excises liberalism.

Self immolation in the Imperial Core is an expression of profound helplessness, and speaks to the utter inability of the left to provide those people with a comprehensive ideological framework.

The U.S. State has done such an effective job of destroying revolutionary movements that those who could be drawn to a clear-headed Marxist perspective cannot find purchase; there are no revolutionary organizations that are not captured.

Blame Trotsky and the New Left I suppose (after you blame the State for the murder of the Black Panthers and the original BLM leaders).

TL;DR - Imperial Core collapse in slow motion

Dominant Butch Lesbians are the powerhouse of the polycule

Everything will be Arial Bold and you will LIKE IT

I watched Three Days of the Condor and now I believe Bush did 9/11 but all the NYT reporters are blaming Iraq?

The glossy cover and infographics are cool, but reading the articles makes you go “huh?”

Okay that’s the bingo

Stalin Head In Hands: Just send them to Siberia to work it out

More like Jack-deez-nutz-abin

That’s a good point, like they allowed some nerd-brained dudes read the cliffnotes of Marxism and then locked them in a room with a high grade printer and the 1968 Encyclopedia Britanniaca

Yeah! The vibe is so weird, I’ll be looking at an elegant graph demonstrating income inequality and the next page is an article like that

This isn’t applicable to your situation - which just sounds wack - but a good rule (which is super fact and situation dependent) when you have a friend group with greater disposable income is to be easy and open handed with money when you have it, even to people who can afford it more than you can. It shows that you aren’t a tightwad, and your friends will be more forgiving and open handed with you. It’s a really delicate balance though, and depends on your friends, but making sure your friends see you as generous but money deprived is better than them seeing you as a miser.

See Dickens for this trope in spades - the lovable guy who is too generous for his own good is virtuous while the Golden Dustman is wicked.

The imprecise grammar of the hack Fart also makes the point obscured; is she referring to “Arab Children” around the world? Across all borders? Because grammatically that’s how it reads.