Decoysharktopus [he/him]

:shinji-impact:

Vonnegut might fit the bill, his stuff is pretty easy to read. Cat's Cradle is the standard rec and it's great but my personal favorite by him is Mother Night

Also pro skub guy is a sucker punching piece of shit. Anti skub gang rise up

:unlimited-power:

I'm not familiar with Mongolia's political economy, anyone know why it's the only free country in Asia besides the more well known US clients? Seems odd to me at first blush

IIRC our public school system was modeled after the Prussian one designed to create an obedient workforce that knows just enough to be useful to the state, it's not so much been coopted as adapted to the times

Which isn't to say the concept of public schooling is bad, just that, like most of its institutions, America's version is rotten to the core and needs to be scrapped and rebuilt

:jesus-christ:

The word almost is doing a hell of a lot of work in that last paragraph. Which one's the exception, Richard? The one whose effects never ended? That one?

:rat-salute:

"Rap band" always gets me

I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.

:wtf-am-i-reading:

:same-picture:

Yeah if The Devil is a Part Timer can get a sequel ten years later I guess there's room for hope

I've watched through Monthly Girls ' Nozaki-kun entirely too many times. Still trying to manifest a season 2 through pure willpower

There's that Gate show. A portal to a fantasy world opens up and the JSDF colonizes it and it's portrayed as cool and good and theres the 900 year old child waifu shit and everything. The whole thing is a rabidly reactionary commercial for the JSDF it's kind of amazing in a horrible way

Public speaking delenda est

You have entered power drive

Iirc he also went there with his friend who just so happens to have a position with USAID. If he's not an intelligence asset he's the most suspicious innocent person in history

I guess a hyphen can technically make settler-colonialism one word