Most liberals have never had their beliefs tested - really tested - because the entire dominant power structure is built to insulate them from meaningful critique. It's why their denunciations of communism are either incredibly ignorant of basic facts or outright word salad.
literal fucking cockroaches isn't a real issue because they don't have minds?
This is the same unprovable assertion carnists make about every non-human animal.
I would think a purple worm would want people to be more compassionate to bugs
Alternate history flash fiction idea: Fidel Castro throws the opening pitch of the United Soviets of America's 1966 World Series
Salami tactics in action
Didn't Dinesh D'Souza make an argument to this effect, that America deserved 9/11 for being too effeminate and cosmopolitan?
Real talk, I love seeing these sort of weird syncretisms of different cultures. Stuff like how the Fire Emblem series is classical European fantasy as interpreted through the lens of a game developer in Japan, a country whose early exposure to such works was largely Dungeons and Dragons.
It's just such a damn shame that the current imperialist world order largely turns such fusions into relations of appropriation and imposition. I can only hope I live to see the day the neocolonial order falls and cultures can interact on more equitable terms.
Literal Shadowrun character
