i really love that the central thesis of Boom is essentially โdo you know what i hate? organised religion as a cover for institutional violence! the military industrial complex! the evil banality of structural capitalism! anyway, do you know what i think should have the power to dismantle all of that, in at least one little corner of the universe? The love of a father whose last action, wounded and afraid in an unending war zone, was to make sure his little girl had brushed her teeth.โ
Can I just say that I love that the Doctor actually shed tears while standing on that land mine? Like yes, that's incredibly stressful, and for once, the Doctor showed how scared he was. And that's so rare.
"where did the 15th Doctor GO when he broke the fairy circle!!!1!" he was LITERALLY in barbieland fighting for men's rights. that took precedence over ruby's nuclear war mommy issues thing. sorry.
does anyone else need to watch a seonghwa Lego live whenever you're building Lego so it feels like you're on a little Lego date with seonghwa or do I just need therapy
By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.
Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.