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stonks pol 

I appreciate how much this is REALLY tearing the mask off Rich Fuckers, who are now more or less forced to either Put Up With This or admit that they want The Poors to shut up and pay them.
and we've how effective it can be to tear the masks off those with power. The clearer the evil is, the easier it will be for folks far less aware than I to Get It.

Damn, the fat vulture rich are full mask off today.
WAAAAH HOW DARE THE POORS TAKE BACK THEIR MONEYS VIA STONKS! ONLY WE ARE SUPPOSED TO PROFIT FROM STONKS!

But if they get tax payer bailouts for this shit fuckery heads better fucking roll.

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Watching a bunch of Hedge Funds get fucked for over-leveraging shorts and some redditors catching them in a squeeze soothes my soul.

systemic racism thought debris 

You probably have an unexamined, or at least underexamined, belief that there exists a correlation between a person’s appearance and their life experience and skills so strong that you can and should make predictions from it.

In one sense, it seems reasonable to conclude that the tall white man in a suit and the short, obese Black woman in a T-shirt have different lives. But in another, it’s a window for very pervasive racial bias - among every other form of bias you can fuel with visual observation (age bias, body-intactness bias, economic class bias...). Your brain isn’t good at ignoring information right in front of it when it’s learning patterns (false beliefs about learning patterns and getting better results as you learn are exactly why slot machines are addictive), so no matter how racist you think you aren’t, you almost certainly have racist beliefs when you make assumptions about people from their appearance.

To a limited extent, people choose how they want to present themselves from their attire choices. But the choices available, and the way they look on their body, are out of their control. Noticing what people want to say about themselves is important; doing so without reifying implicit racist beliefs is also important and also profoundly difficult.

re: musing about dragon appreciation 

@Oneironott This is a very common thread

"Get me the manager! I demand to know why I am in Hell!" the soul shouted.
The fallen angel sighed. "We rebelled against God."
"That's no reason to punish me!"
"You do not understand. You were not sent here to be punished by us. You were sent here as punishment to us."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

There ought to be more draconic librarians.

Knowledge is power, after all.

@mawr This is pretty much always the case in our home games. Institutionalized, hard coded "badness" is racist as fuck.

Also very glad Paizo moved way from the term "race" in PF2 to Ancestry. Makes a lot more sense with how the game handles it and is waaaay less creepy.

hot take, the positioning of Dungeons and Dragons as the "default" tabletop roleplaying system/modality is immensely limiting to the hobby.

Hot take: Orcs and Kobolds can be and frequently are friends of Humans, Elves, Dorfs and the like

D&D is just racist

uspol, cynical, protests, death 

Statistically speaking, a violent right-wing insurrectionist actively attacking the Capitol is exactly as likely to get shot by police as they are to fatally taze themselves in the balls.

mh ~, society musings 

Radical Honesty would be easier in some ways and ruinous in more. Sometimes I wish I was courageous enough to do it; often I am glad I am wise enough not to. I *wish* it was a good, safe, appropriate, and not-harmful strategy though.

what if you were a dragon

that's it that's the post

(if you are already a dragon congrats! no action is needed. please help yourself to complimentary refreshments and hors d'oeuvres)

Kobolds raiding a strip club to try steal some shinies, only to end up stealing the show and being given MORE shinies by going up on stage themselves.

This piece by @/Hexacult_Beast on :birdsite: is so wonderful...

"Tiny dragons need kobolds too"

To fly is to be free.
To read the winds is to feel the pulse of the planet. To outrun a storm, to ride the roar of a hurricane, to flow and let all flow through you, is to live.
We left, we dragons. When humans became too much of a nuisance we left.
The winds are better on Venus.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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