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"Met an old man cook and talked about things hijacking our bodies, he saw the cook as a spider later and now just arrived at his new home." — Jul 12, 2026 01:32PM
"Met an old man cook and talked about things hijacking our bodies, he saw the cook as a spider later and now just arrived at his new home." — Jul 12, 2026 01:32PM
“Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. It is, in many ways, the most powerful form of free speech because it is aimed at those in power, or those whose ideas would spread hate. It is the canary in the coalmine, a cultural thermometer, and it always has to push, push, push the boundaries of society to see how much it’s grown.”
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“As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.10”
― Das Kapital
― Das Kapital
“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“Rare is the human spirit that remains buoyant in a holocaust.”
― 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
― 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
“It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.”
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