debdiscourse, 2 months ago to random

#alien #spaceship #distressed #human #abduction #request #cartoonist_unknown

davidaugust, 5 months ago to Fashion

I’m not sure how feasible it would be to make this dress, but I think it could be beautiful. 👗

#dress #fashion #color #distressed #style #model #GoldenHour

pluralistic, 7 months ago to random

If end-stage capitalism has a motto, it's this: "Stop hitting yourself." The great failure of "voting with your wallet" is that you're casting ballots in a one party system (The Capitalism Party), and the people with the thickest wallets get the most votes.

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pluralistic, 11 months ago to random

The tacit social contract between the #WSJ and its readers is this: the editorial page is for ideology, and the news section is for reality. Money talks and bullshit walks - and reality's well-known anticapitalist bias means that hewing too closely to ideology will make you broke, and thus unable to push your ideology.

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