Opiate of the Masses

[area12]

I've had to change phones and was unable to sign into this account on my new phone so my new account is @area21

[warmheartworm]

[vamptits]

if grug honest grug a bit of a faggot.

[vamptits]

grug picking a different kind of fruit if you catch grug meaning. hunting a different type of bear.

[dunmeshistash]

Incomplete/imperfect knowledge in Dungeon Meshi is so good isn't it?

The exposition I usually see in made up worlds tend to the side of being perfect explanations (or at least they eventually get explained to the audience) but in dungeon meshi we get a lot of speculation from in world imperfect understanding of the people living in it, it's so good.

The bad understanding that gets corrected later on it's like "Oh I see why they thought that" but some isn't even given a good answer at all.

Some examples is of course the living armors people assumed were moved by magic but were a monster. But there's also less obvious things, like the understanding about ancient magic, dungeons, the basilisk "which one is the main body", differences between humans and demi-humans etc

Even characters that know more than other characters still have blank spaces in their understanding they fill with misconceptions. Like the canaries not fully understanding the demon even tho they think they do.

This is one of the great parts about the ending 10/10

so what happens now that the world was changed? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[dragongirlbunny]

maybe this time picking at Textures on my skin will lead to being silky smooth

[dragongirlbunny]

bleeding

[moonlightsdreaming]

「 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 」

[lesserknownwaifus]

this gothic girls appear on a tattoo pack, illustrated by richard tate

[tamamita]

[tamamita]

[tamamita]

this is it, Luigi

[tamamita]

[setzeri]

Guy's Okami-poster in Final Fight Streetwise.

[collapsedsquid]

Maybe the Socialism Party wants to select candidates at its annual convention after a rich and edifying political debate. Too bad, that’s illegal. The state doesn’t care for these smoke-filled room candidate selection processes, it got rid of them back in the Progressive Era. Candidates will be selected inside a state-sponsored ballot box by individual voters. Maybe the Socialism Party wants to select candidates on a statewide basis–deciding strategically which districts to run candidates in, strategically targeting resources to those races, and ensuring ideological unity across the slate. Too bad, that’s illegal. The state thinks local voters should have a voice in who runs locally. Candidates will be selected by party members in whatever district they want to run in. If the six party members in some random rural county want to run one of themselves for mayor, the rest of the party will just have to live with it. Maybe the Socialism Party wants to make sure that only dues-paying party members can vote in elections; they don’t want random people who joined because they heard about the Socialism Party on Twitter determining endorsements, and they especially don’t want some grifter stealing the party’s ballot line by persuading all his friends to join and vote in the primary. Too bad, that’s illegal. The Socialism Party is welcome to collect dues and require political education courses to its heart’s content, but the state says it can’t set up arbitrary barriers so that only insiders get to vote in primaries. The state says that the only thing you need to do to vote in the Socialism Party primary is check the appropriate box on a voter registration form. And so on and so forth, for trivial matters and major ones. Do members of the Socialism Party want to pick candidates through RCV? Too bad, that’s illegal  (except for the few places where it is mandatory). Do members of the Socialism Party want to strip SP elected officials of party membership if they support a war or genocide? Too bad, the state says those elected officials will still be eligible to run and vote in SP primaries. At this point we in the Socialism Party are really in a bad way. We created a party specifically so that we could escape corruption by the liberals and impose party discipline and so forth, but instead we’ve created a system where any state rep candidate who can get a couple dozen people to check a box on a form in any district in the state can run as an official candidate of the Socialism Party and we can’t do a thing about it.

[tanadrin]

I also liked this bit:

The two major US political parties are perhaps best viewed not as civil society organizations but as features of the US electoral system; in this interpretation, the US effectively has a two-stage “runoff” electoral system like the French presidential election system, where anyone can run in the first round and the top two vote-getters then run head to head. But unlike in France, the first stage of this runoff is organized on roughly ideological lines, where candidates who choose to label themselves as vaguely left-of-center run in a separate first-round election from candidates who choose to label themselves as vaguely right-of-center.  In this analysis, becoming a “member” of a major party means no more than deciding which first-round election to vote in. The parties aren’t so much civil society organizations that have their major internal decisions shaped by electoral law, as features of the electoral law that for historical reasons are named after formerly significant institutions in civil society.

[demonius-darkblade]

[kcggggg]

The Stranger and the Chicken

https://greatures.com/comic/084/

[milksockets]

'damp sand hollowed out soft red stone ground into powder round each hole' isle of wight, 1987 in a collaboration with nature - andy goldsworthy (1990)

[doubleca5t]

have you followed anything regarding the film emilia perez?

[fairuzfan]

Not to be a bitter angry arab but do you remember how Harris sent bill Clinton to talk about "Judea and samara" and how israelis deserve to kill Palestinians and lebanese in dearborn and no one in the democratic party thought that was a stupid move. Clinton is one of the most hated president's when it comes to Palestine related things btw. So it made absolutely no sense. In case you wanna degrade Dearborn Muslims for not being inclined to vote for the party that very obviously does not respect them.

[relatablepicturesofhands]

#945 chapter 109, page 8, panel 1

[saiykik]

Emo Tifa