Wheaties [she/her]

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Cake day: November 2nd, 2020

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  • I’ve only seen some of the movies, so forgive me if my understanding of the story is wrong.

    That being said, I think it’s a little harsh to call Xavier a sellout. He’s providing shelter and education to young people who’ve been kicked out of their homes, who probably wouldn’t survive for long on their own. The fact he’s managed to make it financially solvent should be seen as laudable. And… more than that, Magneto wouldn’t be able to cultivate members for his own movement without Xavier doing this! They’re really not diametric opposites, so much as mutually dependent.












  • Once is Never, Twice is Always

    The US is gonna keep riding the edge and backing down on tariffs with the rest of the world. But we’re fully committed to trade war with China. Maaaaaybe our deep-seeded fear & loathing of the Spanish language overrides the trend and we do actually implement tariffs on Mexico, though President Sheinbaum seems pretty adept at maneuvering around Trump.


  • the Casandra curse of Marxism evaporates upon the personal entanglement with any large financial body

    The market looks predictable at a spectator’s distance, like plotting the orbit of a celestial body. As soon as you actually go there, you realize there’s all this weather hidden behind those clean gravitational calculations.