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Okay, but seriously, why the actual fuck did he say "Praise be to Allah"?
FUCK ICE!!!
I just want to do a bit of a followup to my post-election post from over a year ago now that we've seen what a year under Trump 2 has been like. Though, the real reason I am making this is that there is reporting that the DOJ is investigating anyone online who criticizes ICE, and I just don't want to be left out. This will be long and rambly, but I have a lot of things I think are important to get out.
Firstly, I was wrong about how ineffective Trump 2 would be. I thought it would be like Trump 1: with a lot of infighting between loyalists and neocons that would lead to nothing getting done. I kinda thought the neocons of the party would be too entrenched to be left out entirely. I was wrong. This admin is composed of 100% loyalists. Even if some have true interests that don't reflect MAGA, they can't act otherwise. This fact makes it easy and fast for something to happen if Trump (or whoever last had his ear) wants it. No more stonewalling from within. Does Rubio/Trump want to depose Maduro to cut off oil to the real prize, Cuba? Does Miller/Trump want to send thousands of troops and Nazi thugs to terrorize and punish a liberal city? Trump just orders it and it happens. Though, I am glad that they are having issues with the logistics/infrastructure side of things like I thought would happen last year. They can run a haphazard campaign to terrorize a city, but they can't do the next step which is actually detain and deport hundreds of thousands to millions of migrants and protestors. They don't have the men, time or money. Don't let your guard down though.
Speaking of terrorizing liberal cities, the resistance of the MN people during Operation Metro Surge was phenomenal and really gives me hope for our ability to get through this fascist takeover. Through decentralized organizing alone, neighbors were able to keep the ICE thugs at bay with Signal chat coordination, constant harassment, and just a general sense of solidarity with their community. There are many interviews with people who were active on the ground during the ICE operation, and it really paints a picture that the people were in control, and ICE were bumbling around the whole time. Not to say they weren't doing real harm to the community, but with how they operated and how the MN people coordinated, this withdrawal was the only practical outcome. I am optimistic that even invoking the Insurrection Act would not have turned this in the administration's favor. Yes it would have allowed even more harm to come to the community, but they would still lose, and they would have lost public favor even more with that. That's why they had to cut their losses and leave (or so they claim).
I think now, they are trying to rethink their strategy. They certainly aren't done in MN, but the reduction in scale is real. I think they'll come up with a new strategy that they think might be more protester-proof or find a new city that will react differently to ICE. For example, I think they're zeroing into Springfield, OH. This was the "city" at the heart of the Haitians eating pets hoax, and Trump has already revoked special asylum protections for the Haitians (court ruling pending). With only 60k people, they won't have the same ability to resist an operation with the same scale as Metro Surge. It wouldn't be practical to do that everywhere with a 60k population, but I think the goal is more of a "win" for the Trump admin than actually getting deportation numbers up.
If they tried Metro Surge in the other likely targets like LA, Chicago, and Philadelphia, I think things would end up the same as MN. It's possible that they think those cities will react more violently, and so they are betting on riot-like behavior to be shown on TV to make the general public stop supporting the protests, but I actually doubt that will convince many after the MN shitshow.
BTW, the insane incompetence and buffoonery that we see every day out of this admin is just a unique combination of having a mostly free press, but an administration that acts like an authoritarian one. I really mean this: All authoritarian regimes would look this insane, incompetent, and ridiculous if they had a press as free as ours.
So what do we do about this? My advise is literally the same as last time. Look out for your community, especially the marginalized in it. Be peaceful, but don' t let yourself and your community get pushed around by the arbitrary whims of modern SA patrols. Get involved in organizing in your community. Find groups that give aid to those targeted by ICE, and support local candidates that won't beat around the bush when it comes to abolishing ICE and dismantling the DHS as a whole (returning FEMA and the USSS to their original places).
Here's what to look out for in the future. Follow the MN example, but one thing that helped make the resistance to Metro Surge work was the internet. And this shouldn't be surprising. Every other authoritarian regime turns off the internet at the slightest sign of real resistance. That would be unthinkable here, and if the government were stupid enough to actually try it, that would signal the true start of the administration's downfall. Our tech/AI-based economy wouldn't live more than a day or 2 without the internet. It would quickly turn into Nepal's revolution last year.
Let me address the Democratic Party real quick. I *despise* the party. I hate Republicans like I hate hurricanes. There is nothing I can do to change their course, and I can only hope to do things that will mitigate the damage they constantly try to inflict. But DNC really make my blood boil. The Democrats are supposed to be our main tool to push back against the MAGA hurricane. But the truth is that the Democrats in power *don't want to*. They don't want to resist Trump. They just want to entrench their capital interests more without the bad PR. They can't call for the abolishment of ICE because so much of our agriculture industry relies on keeping undocumented migrant workers in exploitative conditions by using deportation as a threat. They can't call for the abolishment of ICE because their capital class base are the main beneficiaries of law enforcement in the country, so any threat to law enforcement in general is a threat to capital's hold on power. They can't call for the abolishment of ICE because the DNC sees the next midterms as a shoe-in, and they know they will win even if they do nothing. And finally, these Dems don't want to abolish ICE because they don't mind living under MAGA fascists. Their portfolios are still going up, so who cares if some poor brown guys gets deported to a torture dungeon? Their constituents care of course, but if that mattered, the Dem establishment would not have run such a contemptible campaign against Mamdani, even though HE WAS THE DEM NOMINEE. The DNC will not save us, and they proved that in MN when a neutered and weak Walz constantly waffled while those on the ground actually did shit.
This is why we MUST be done with supporting dems like Schumer or Newsom. Newsom must not become the Dem nominee for president, and I would encourage all forms of wicked electioneering to make sure he doesn't win. Here's why the upcoming midterms are vital (assuming Trump doesn't try to interfere via martial law or something). Mamdani's win should be the template. We must support candidates in primaries that actually have a vision of how to improve our communities and know how to fight against fascism. No more feckless Weimar Dems who only answer to consultants and donors. No matter how small they are, we must find those progressive/socialist candidates, and make sure they become famous in your community. Primary every establishment fuck that has let us down at every moment. And this time, we must control the narrative.
Last year, I was a bit quick to be definitive about whether the Gaza genocide boycott vote made a difference. I don't think we can ever definitively say for sure whether the boycott caused Trump 2, but it at least made a difference in Michigan. There were other tangible factors that could make an otherwise Democrat voter sit out. But the point here is that the issue from that conversation was framed as Gaza protesters prioritizing some random lives in the desert over our needs at home to resist fascism. That us leftists were too radical and couldn't accept someone imperfect over literal fascism, and so we all have to suffer because of the leftists. THAT'S BULLSHIT! Why does the party get the right to hold that over its constituents when all big polls showed this to be a losing issue for the party. The part should follow the will of its voters, but the Dems in power thinks its their job to shape the will of the voters to match the party. Schumer literally said that one of his main roles is to keep the party pro-Israel. FUCK THIS! The ineffective neo-liberal malaise is what created the conditions for MAGA! Why isn't the narrative framing that an out-of-touch party is using the threat of fascism to force its "unruly" constituents to fall in line with the elite consensus (making any excuse to not reign in Israel even a little bit)?
Why is it "the left's" fault for Trump when the DNC decided to on immigration from the right? Why is it "the left's" fault for Trump when the DNC have backtracked on every minute reform they promised us on healthcare over the last decade? Why is it "the left's" fault that Democratic Party is at a historically low approval? It's not the left. It's the Dems that refuse to cater to their voters. They are completely bought and controlled by the capital class, and that class wants shit like techno-feudalism. Those currently leading the Dems won't change, so that's why we must change them out ourselves. Vote out the establishment, and we might finally be able to rescue the country,
There's a lot of terrible aspects about the US bombing, invasion, occupation, and decapitation of Venezuela. Maduro was not a good leader who deserved to be in power, but neither are most of the world leaders. Trump's (and Rubio's) imperial takeover here are destabilizing and illegal. A lot has been said about the situation already that I don't need to harp on about it, but I did realize one funny thing about the statement Marco Rubio gave to justify this. He said that we carried out a "law enforcement operation" on a "fugitive of American Justice" duly "indicted" in the Southern District of New York. It really fucks up what "jurisdiction" means. If Maduro, a man who has never set foot in the USA, can be charged and arrested for "crimes" he committed in a different sovereign state, then there is no limit to our "jurisdiction." And yes, he was "arrested". The people who captured him wore DEA patches. Our cops no longer operate just within our borders. The 14th amendment states "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." If our jurisdiction includes THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD, then our constitution demands that everyone in the whole world is an American citizen. Congratulations world on your new citizenship!
We know where things are heading, and the "moderate" Dems refuse to believe it. Instead, Schumer obeys his donors' calls and clings onto his beloved filibuster to "keep fighting" despite every indication that *this* was the fight, and we were winning.
Yes, let the Republicans kill the filibuster. Make *them* own the consequences. But no, he wants to hold onto what little power he thinks it gives him. He thought "the outcome is we give in but keep the filibuster, or they kill the filibuster and we still lose."
No! They lose if they kill the ACA by killing the filibuster. We lose if we throw a hissy fit about it for 7 weeks, and then cave. And I'm sure the donors for these corporate Dem shills are making frantic calls. "You're retiring, right? I'm not sure we can still guarantee that board position if you don't end this *now*!"
Here's the main point. They're too bought and too selfish. We need a more accurate label for these traitors that speaks to the moment we are in. Weimar Democrats.
We're heading quickly into fascism again, and it's the same feckless, corporatist Weimar Libshits that are doing NOTHING to stop it.
I've seen many comments from centrist "libs" asking why the left is angrier at Schumer and the 8 Dem traitors over the 52 Republicans that voted yes. Firstly, I do hate the Republicans more, but they also aren't at all beholden to the wants of some rowdy libs/leftists. But Dems can (rarely) be pushed by what is supposed to be their own base. I thought the pressure would be too much, especially after the Mamdani victory. But they insist on making the same mistakes the liberals made in the 1920s-1930s in Germany. Schumer has been nicer to the Fascists across the isle than his left flank. He thinks it's still the 1990s. That's why we're mad!
If more people start talking casually about being at the precipice of Fascism, maybe we can get some of these Weimar Dems to crack. Otherwise, I guess we just wait around and support each other until the jackboots are at our doors. (I know the Trump admin is already Fascist and have jackboots terrorizing blue cities, but they haven't reached dictatorial control yet. We still have a chance to resist)
If Schumer wants to use the Holocaust so much to launder his Zionism, maybe he should actually learn the history that he's exploiting and look in the mirror (but as a liberal with power rather than a Jew)
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Who else up thinking about bjj black belt craig jones saying You can give anyone steroids. Despite our best efforts we are yet to give anyone autism.
woke up and immediately checked the news to make sure they hadn't caught him
"But he was a husband and father!"
It feels like this is one of the biggest ways the MSM, libs, and neocons try to condemn the CEO shooting, and it says a lot about their view on human worth.
Like, if he didn't have a wife and kids, then is it okay to kill him? Well actually, they do seem to think that. Just look at the whole case surrounding the murder of Jordan Neely. He was homeless, and having a mental health crisis on a NYC subway that prompted an ex-marine to chokehold him to death. And look at who all is defending the murderer. Weirdly, it's many of the same people who condemn the CEO murder. It seem that if you do a "bad thing" and you have no family or capital worth in society, the system will just shrug at your murder. But if you are at the top of the hierarchy, hold immense capital, and hold a traditional familial role that society largely imposes, then your murder is a horrendous crime, even if your actions directly result in thousands of deaths.
To be clear, I don't think we should be praising murder no matter who it is. I am very consistent in this matter. I do not support the death penalty when the state does it, and I don't support it when a vigilante does it. I believe sentient human life is worth the same regardless of your class or actions. But we should also look at how people are using the reasonable condemnation of violence to protect a system that most of the public has been justifiably livid about.
Will I encourage more of vigilantes to kill CEOs? No. Will I act like the problem is the vigilantes and whine about how this represents a degradation of our civil society? HELL NO! In fact, the broad support for the CEO killer has actually encouraged my view of our fellow countrymen, even if they allowed Trump to get into office again. It shows that people CAN recognize the real problems, and that we can hopefully use this energy to push for real progress in stead of the fearmongering against minorities that Trump used to seize power.
We don't know the motive yet, but it's real rich seeing liberals decry the "violence" against the UHC CEO, but don't consider the company's choices that directly lead to thousands of deaths through denied coverage as "violence".
I don't like "violence" either, but when you make it impossible for the capital class to be held accountable for their violence on society, you make violence against them inevitable. I'm just surprised it took so long for this to happen.
Something about our healthcare system needs to change or things are going to get a lot messier, and I unfortuantely don't think killing CEOs is going to make them change heart. Rather, they'd probably double down and sick the FBI on the "terrorists" doing the assassinations.
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The most frustrating point I've heard the past few days is that we need to abandon "woke" politics and shift to the right because that's what drove people to Trump. I have 2 things to say about that.
1. No, "wokeness" is not why Harris lost. (see my previous rant for more)
2. WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?! WE SHOULDN'T FIGHT FOR TRANS RIGTHS BECAUSE IT'S UNPOPULAR?!?! FUCK THAT NOISE! THE FALURE IS NOT ON TRANS PEOPLE! IT'S NOT ON ACTIVISTS! IT'S ON YOU (the campaign and pundit class) TO ADVOCATE WELL ENOUGH! IF PEOPLE THINK RIGHTS SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY, YOU HAVEN'T COMMUNICATED WELL ENOUGH! YOU HAVEN'T DISPELLED FEARS AND LIES WELL ENOUGH. I DON'T CARE IF YOU SAY YOU SUPPORT TRANS RIGHTS, BECAUSE IF YOU SAY WE NEED TO ABANDON THEM TO BRING IN BIGOTS, THAT MEANS YOU NEVER FUCKING CARED IN THE FIRST PLACE! YOU FUCKING CONVINCE THE BIGOTS, NOT CATER TO THEM! WOULD YOU FUCKING SAY WE SHOULDN'T FIGHT FOR BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE 50s BECAUSE IT WAS ELECTORALLY UNPOPULAR? (it was). NO! HUMAN RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. THERE'S NO COMPROMISING. IF YOU THINK RIGHTS CAN BE SACRIFICED, YOU ARE IN A DEEPLY PRIVILEGED PLACE WHERE YOU LIKE THE AESTHETIC OF SOCIAL LIBERALISM, BUT YOU'LL DROP IT IN THE END IF IT FEELS LIKE IT WON'T KEEP YOU ON THE WINNING SIDE!
2024 US Election Post-mortem
I need to get my thoughts out about the election. I'll split it into a few main parts. (This will be long) 1. Why did Kamala lose/Trump win?
There's 2 main reasons for the result.
1. The biggest thing isn't that Trump gained a lot (he did somewhat), but that Kamala lost hugely. Kamala ran an "strong" but status-quo style center-lib campaign. This was not the right move to capture the electorate in today's America. It hasn't been since 2012. People at every part of the political spectrum have expressed disdain with the way establishment Democrats have run things. People want change! They have since 2008. Obama convinced everyone that he represented change. Hillary lost in 2016 because they didn't get that change after 8 years, and wanted something new no matter what. Biden did a good job in 2020 of being somewhat of a change candidate, but it was really COVID that allowed him to win. I do think Trump would've won in 2020 if it weren't for the pandemic. Kamala had momentum at first because she literally was "change." Biden was hugely unpopular, and people didn't like the return to liberal status quo, even if he did do more than even Obama to bring (domestic) left-wing policies to the forefront imo. Kamala represented hope at first that we could get away from the Biden that everyone hated, and bring in a whole new kind of politics and movement that would take us out of the neoliberal malaise that was the again Biden. What happened in stead was the establishment decided that there was a contingent of Americans that were allergic to left-wing politics, and they need to be captured.
THIS IS THE MAIN POINT OF FAILURE FOR BOTH HILLARY AND KAMALA. I do not believe there is a (large) population that is inherently right-wing, and another that is centrist, and another that is left-wing. I do think there are some that you could never convince one way or another, but it's just impossible that so many people could vote for Obama, and then turn around for Trump if people had some sort of weird internal political compass that they adhered to regardless of policy. No, Trump (and the right more broadly) MADE his base. This is the other reason Trump won.
2. Trump did make some gains, though I believe the right campaign from Harris could've overcome that. I think the Trump gains are more indicative of what Harris lacked. Kamala tried to adjust her campaign to match an electorate. Trump didn't give a fuck. He said what he wanted, and people liked that. They don't care about decorum. They don't care about "unity". They want someone they think will "fight" for them. People saw Kamala bringing in the Cheneys and just saw another neolib that would flake on any conviction to grab a vote. People don't want a policy. People want a candidate with conviction. Trump was also adept at playing on people's fears and insecurities. He MADE them into Trump supporters by playing on those fears. Harris did not try to make Harris supporters by playing on fears (at least enough). She was best with the abortion stuff, but that wasn't the issue that exit polls showed people care about. The top issue was the economy. Yes, "the economy" is objectively doing better if you look at the stats, but people don't feel like it because prices are still high despite the buying power of the dollar recovering (inflation was reduced!). People felt that because corporations kept prices at pre-inflation reduction levels. Harris briefly flirted with price capping, which would be the exact sort of populist policy that directly addresses people's fears/insecurities and breaks from the status quo that could excite a mythical "Harris base" that maybe existed for 2 weeks.
It's the same with immigration. Trump created a "big lie" about the border being in crisis, and played on the truly hurting average middle-American's insecurities. You have a population that is hurting for corporate consolidation destroying small local business, that has been devastated by opioids, and is seeing the towns and culture they grew up with decay and seemingly leave them behind. Are Trump's policies going to uplift them? Hell no! Does he talk to specifically them all and directly address their insecurities though? Absolutely. In stead of addressing these people (these are the ones on the red arrow map that's been going around), she accepted the lie about immigrants and rejected making any radical policy change from the system that threw middle America under the bus.
I should say I am literally living in a small rural city in a deep-red state, so I know what they're saying. These people aren't necessarily bigots. Some are, but I think most think they aren't. I think anyone can be prone to getting caught up in a hate movement if the right buttons are pressed, and Trump deftly presses those buttons. What needed to happen was pressing the right buttons to address their insecurities and fears that doesn't rely on hate and scapegoating. This is what I think Bernie Sanders does well in general polls, but there's too much movement within the Dems to preserve the liberal status quo. That needs to change or, the Dems die. LIBERALISM IS DEAD. We address the fears that made people Trump voters, or democracy dies! Here are 2.5 other smaller reasons: 3. Sexism, Racism, and Religiosity. I will not deny that these do play a part in certain parts of the electorate. However, I don't think they're insurmountable hurdles in a general election. I think Obama's campaign is proof of this. But we shouldn't deny that there are a significant portion that wouldn't vote for Kamala for purely bigotry reasons. Hell, I know some personally. But I do think it is a mistake to blame these for our failures. WE LEARN NOTHING OTHERWISE! 4. Believe it or not, but there's just a lot of people out there that just don't care or avoid politics all together. These people aren't bad or deficient, but they just don't include thinking about politics constantly as a part of their lives. They think about the election for a few days, and then get on with their lives for 4 years and tune out everything. Generally, these people are privileged, though there's also some that have been so hurt by our system and policies, that they tune out in pure nihilism about it all. These people vote on vibes, they vote based on what those they care about support, and many just sit out the whole thing. Voter apathy is definitely a thing, and it hurst especially the left imo. I do believe the majority of people would loath Trump's policies if they actually knew what they entailed, so this apathy only takes away from the left. 5. Kamala did NOT lose due to the Gaza protest. She might have lost a bit of support by not being an empathetic foil to Trump's "glass the whole strip" rhetoric, but I don't think it made a significant difference. And I'm gonna be real with y'all; Tumblr is mostly full of it if they think they can accomplish anything with a protest vote for Gaza. I learned this in 2016. That action won't do anything, and it's too risky when a literal fascist is on the other side of the ballot. Yes, I hate that Kamala did not oppose the current Biden policy of letting genocide happen, but Jill Stein/no vote can't pressure these people in the establishment without hurting their campaign financing. The votes are in, and 3rd party votes would not have saved Kamala.
2. What happens now? What is a 2nd Trump admin like?Maybe this is a bit of copium, but I do think that Trump will still be overall very incompetent and unable to enact the worst of his policies. Terrible things will still happen (and I'll get to that later), but I think some of the catastrophizing is a bit overblown. Let's take the mass deportation policy for example. This would be a horrible campaign on the level of the worst historical genocides. He would need to create an ICE apparatus so large that it would rival the fucking gestapo. Just think of all the agents and infrastructure that would need to be developed to round up ~20million people and transport them to the border and detention facilities. There's no practical way to deport that many people. The logical end point is concentration camps. Yes, we have them already to an extent (I mean the euphemistically named "immigrant detention facilities"), but we don't have anything that could handle "mass deportation." Building the facilities, hiring the agents, buying the buses and trains, and executing the warrants all takes a lot of time and money. None of this goes unnoticed, and it won't go without resistance today. Congress still controls the purse, despite what the supreme court says about Trump's immunity to do whatever he wants. SCOTUS said he can't be prosecuted for committing a crime, not that he can break a constitutional rule. The margins are too thin in the new congress, and I genuinely do not think that he has the political tact to navigate around how much resistance he'll get. My main evidence for this is the border wall. He had all the support he needed within congress and his base to try to "build that wall." The GOP even controlled both branches of congress, and shutdown the government multiple times to try to get his way. They had a majority in the house his first 2 years. It meant nothing! He got a regressive tax cut passed, and that's about it. I know there's a lot of bullshit he can pull to push terrible things through, and he'll have ghoulish cronies that will be the actual brains behind things, but honestly, they're dumb as shit too. They're too evil for their own good. They will eat themselves alive through infighting and liberal resistance before they can start a genocidal campaign on American soil. That's not to say there will be some horrible things. Here's what I do think he'll be able to do: - Ban abortion nationwide either through the Comstock Act or SCOTUS. - Completely fuck up half of our federal institutions that keep us informed and safe (ie. dismantling or gutting of Dept. of Education, EPA, FTC, NSA, HHS, and more). - Allow for more religious integration into our public institutions like schools - Essentially turn our government into an oligarchy (or more of one than it already is) - Reverse gay marriage rights (overturning obergefell) and restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ in the public sector overall. - Exacerbate the Gaza genocide - Let Putin have his way with Ukraine - Royally fuck up the economy with Tariffs - Probably get us into some kind of overseas war - If he survives to the end of his term, I do think that our democracy will be incredibly fucked. Like, I think they'll be able to push through so many bullshit rules that we won't be able to come back unless an actual leftist populist makes huge rounds.
Overall, it's gonna suck, especially if you're LGBT in a red state. I think he'll also continue targeting undocumented migrants, but I doubt he'll be able to put together the infrastructure to genocide them. Yes, Hitler and his regime were incompetent too, but it was really the enabling act post-Reichstag fire that allowed for him to start pushing the policies that would become the holocaust. It was only at that point that he had no more resistance, and could order whatever he wants. We're definite not there yet with Trump.
3. What do we (the left) do now?Honestly, just stay vigilant, be active within your community, make connections (even with Trump voters), and don't give in to the despair. Once you're hopeless, it will only make it easier for them to keep winning. We fight against the fascists until the bitter end. The only endpoint of fascism is self destruction. I am a leftist, but I am not a revolutionary. I think armed action rarely leads to good outcomes, and history shows that. However, if we get a Reichstag fire moment or an enabling act moment, that's not the point to lose hope. If people start turning their neighbors into the gestapo-fied ICE, that's not the point to hide. These represent the time where politics should be abandoned, and an actual violent fight for freedom and liberty should begin. I pray we never come to that point. Hopefully, these next four years will look like a continuation of 2016-2020. We'll have a slow degrading of our rights, but if too many of those we all care about are hurt, we can come together and help to reverse it. I know things are super polarized and we all have our own little bubbles in society, but there comes a breaking point where too many people are hurt, and even the biggest MAGA head will have someone they deeply care about that is very hurt by Trump. This is my hope, though it unfortunately relies on things getting worse first before becoming better.
It is a common error that many faiths believe the souls of the dead depart this plane of existence for some mythical heaven or hell. In fact, the souls of the dead go to UDFj-39546284, a high-redshift Lyman break galaxy in the constellation Fornax, about 32.7 billion light years away. When asked why the dead from across the universe should all be converging on this one faint galaxy, NASA astrophysicists said “it’s like an eel thing,” and refused to elaborate further.
IM FULLY LOSING IT FALIN LEARNS ABOUT THEIR MONSTER EATING ADVENTURES AND IMMEDIATELY IS LIKE "so what about fish-people? :3" AND LAIOS JUST "no the party didnt let me :<"
this right after they feed her red dragon meat whilst she is still unaware that her new body is.. made of dragon meat.... and laios is like "eh its probably fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
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