#imperial core

[thoughtportal]

#twitter #tweet #tweets #imperialism #imperial core #aaron bushnell

[butchgtow]

Finance and math-minded, anti-authoritarian, upper class and upper middle class (capable of more hastily breaking the classist glass ceiling), USAmerican women must pursue entry into U.S. Federal Reserve roles. The capability of USAmerican women and family units including girls to financially organize to leave the United States is likely to soon be materially, via indirect policy and "many decisions on individual case basis" of the Reserve, challenged. It is already, currently, fully legal for the Reserve to do so with complete confidentiality.

Gen Z and A USAmerican women from upper middle class to upper class backgrounds entering university, study finance and related subjects. Compete to and join your most prestigious financial student organizations, available internships and co-ops. Participate in data-oriented and finance-oriented hackathons.

Control of the U.S. dollar is already weaponized against you by the Reserve and by creditors. With alt-right (across wealth classes) flooding pollwork up to public offices, the public sector will be weaponized more strongly against you than it has been in decades.

Seizing of the Reserve by women must occur as rapidly as possible.

#radical feminists please touch #radical feminists please interact #radical feminist safe #radical feminist community #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists do touch #finance studyblr #finance studyspo #direct action #imperial core #reproductive control #sex industry #reproductive industry #special interest: global Northwestern finance sector dirt and impacts thereof

[hussyknee]

Over and over I am reminded that institutionalized academia is a pillar of white supremacy. Expertise built on the exclusion of the colonized and disabled for the purpose of propagating colonial, eugenicist structures and rationalizations. Decolonial academia has become just an excuse to study us like bugs under a microscope and speak over us, rather than treat us as experts of our own reality and oppressions.

#academia #i think white people should shut the fuck up forever at this point #seriously we have heard the iterations of racism and ableism already. you really have nothing whatsoever to add to the conversation #white supremacy #gatekeeping #global south #racism #anti blackness #ableism #formal education #colonialism #colonization #western imperialism #imperial core #decolonization #decolonial studies #post-colonial studies #scholarship #white privilege #white people #white academia #knee of huss

[slicedblackolives]

in the grand scheme of things it is a very small point and probably down to survey methodology and sampling error but i still cannot get over that the majority of republicans want a ceasefire in gaza. these are, statistically, people who voted from trump. they're probably white and over 30 and evangelical and remember 9/11 and the subsequent propganda. and they have a political belief that is considered by western institutions radical leftist enough to invite parliamentary censure, deportation, and the loss of university housing. 56% of registered republicans.

#israel #palestine #imperial core #and EIGHTY PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS!

[dougielombax]

Imperial core?!

What the fuck does that mean?!

What are we living in? Fucking Star Wars?

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #vent post #words #semantics #imperial core #what

[eskildit]

i think a lot about hot sauce and jeannemary. two young girls so ready to kill and to die. a comparison made all the worse when you recall that hot sauce lost all her family to the cohort, that she can specifically recall fourth style necromancy (using corpses as bombs). a fourteen and thirteen year old that could easily have been on opposite sides of the same front line. 

#the locked tomb #the loss of childhood! senseless violence! #opposite ends of the propaganda machine #eskildit posts tlt #all of nona the ninth #how am i supposed to tag hot sauce #jeannemary chatur #ok to rb #edit: okay im actually gonna use these tags to ramble a lil #in many ways i feel alecto the ninth is gonna be the hardest book to actually pull off #first for the obvious reason that its an ending and endings are always hard #but second because nona the ninth was by far the most political book of the series #books 1 and 2 following harrow and gideon mean we're following characters on the outskirts of the empire #gideon is individually oppressed by the ninth and even harrow is considered a black sheep outsider of the nine houses #but they are still WITHIN the houses gideon has dreams of the cohort harrow has dreams of of revitalizing her house #nona was our actual introduction to the real consequences of the empire that characters like judith like jeannemary like corona herself #have their livelihoods and status entirely built on the imperial violence we see first hand on new rho #anyway i say all of this to say it means coming back to these characters might be kinda tricky! #the cost of the empire is no longer abstract its extremely palpable! #how does one return to our core cast we've know for multiple books now that we understand that #idk. interested to see where we go!

[chimaerakitten]

Reading the Scholomance trilogy for the first time fresh off a Temeraire reread really feels like Naomi Novik grabbing you by the shoulders and saying, “I hope you were taking notes during those nine books about the horrors of imperialism because I've got a new angle and we're taking it from the top.”

#temeraire #the scholomance #Temeraire is a very slow build into the Imperialism Bad thread #takes multiple books to get there #scholomance starts with WHATS UP I'M EL AND I'M IN A NIGHTMARE SCHOOL WHERE EVERYONE WANTS TO JOIN THE IMPERIAL CORE

[psychotrenny]

When Liberals describe a piece of media dealing with contemporary war or politics as being "Morally Ambiguous" they mean nearly always mean that it questions the specific decisions of those in power, not the basic ideological assumptions that their power rests upon. Like it's always "Was it a good idea to invade this tyrannical terrorist shithole in order to spread freedom and democracy?" or "Is it okay to torture evil terrorists shitheads to save people from their oppression", never questioning whether the US actually are protecting the innocent and spreading prosperity or if their enemies really are straightforwardly sadistic oppressors. It may question whether the US is acting like a good guy, but it always affirms that the US inherently is good or at least has the greatest capacity to be. Even in Liberal media where the doesn't come off looking the best, they still make sure to present their enemies as even worse. Not to mention the way that any atrocities the US does commit are presented as either mistakes, malicious perversions of the system (probably orchestrated by enemy infiltrators anyway) or tragic but necessary evils. Meanwhile the atrocities committed by their foes are the proof of their innate evil and strong necessity of stopping them; this is the basis of that whole discussion around whether terrible means should be adopted to achieve the noble end of defeating these villains.

And like a story apparently "isn't making a political statement" when it doesn't give a clear answer on these terms, but the terms themselves are never up for discussion. Like I heard someone call Call of Duty: Modern Warfare "apolitical" because it neither justifies nor condemns stuff like those SAS soldiers torturing Arabs and killing sleeping or unarmed Russians (leaving it for the player to decide oooooooooh sooooo deep), as though its choice of antagonists and decision to present them as unambiguously evil isn't a statement in of itself. And like its choice to give Soviet imagery to the Russian Ultranationlists is apparently just a silly oversight (like ooooh real Ultranationalists hate those Soviet lefties hahaha) that says nothing at all about the creator's view of international politics and anti-US ideologies.

As far as your average Liberal is concerned, media contains political statements are when a character turns directly to the camera and says "This thing is good/bad". Anything else is deep stuff that makes you think and lets you come to your own conclusions. Just play the game, don't worry about who set the rules

#of course the US isn't the only nation to get this treatment but as the current Capitalist-Imperialist hegemon it receives it the most #and by a large margin too #even media from other Imperial Core nations will often cover the USA in such a manner #Stella Speaks

[jacksoldsideblog]

fight club only works in the 90s because if the narrator and tyler durden existed in the era of amazon and constant surveillance they would've committed much larger crimes much faster with the desperation of a man who knows its all hopeless

#fight club #i wonder how the narrator would feel about the rising prices of swedish furniture #oh tyler #deliver me from the tasteless fruits of the imperial core

[thoughtportal]

Murphy – a song for aaron bushnell Aaron Bushnell 2/25/98 -2/25/24

#tiktok #Aaron Bushnell #protest #war crimes #music #imperialism #imperial core

[butchgtow]

one of the most effective means of ending the digitization of socioeconomic systems of discrimination in the U.S. would have been to boycott Citigroup and its subsidiaries + Citadel LLC and its subsidiaries.

#employment discrimination #direct action #ai #big data #data analytics #gild #microeconomics #studyblr #studyspo #imperial core

[txttletale]

If a genocide is being committed and I am the president of a large military power to the extent where it is feasible for me to just... stop that genocide if only temporarily via military means should I do it? How should these type of extreme situations be handled in general ? Sincerely asking for your opinion txt . Much thanks

this is an understandable question but it is also fundamentally malformed--built upon unspoken premises that are incorrect. imperialist nations, with the power and resources to conduct large-scale global military interventions, are specific structures that are built in specific ways. much like any other organization, they are self-filtering. you cannot become the president of the united states of america if you genuinely believe that the purpose of the united states military is anything other than to enrich the usamerican bourgeoisie (or, in sanitized language, 'protect usamerican interests').

similarly, just like any tools, militaries are not neutral and all-purpose. the usamerican military has over centuries been built as a resource-extraction and violence apparatus. saying 'the imperial powers should use their militaries to enforce peace and safety for oppressed peoples' is like saying 'i'm going to cook my soup with this gun' -- it can't do that. it is not an apparatus capable of doing that and to become one it would have to be transformed to an unrecognizable degree.

so the answer to your question is: this is a pure thought experiment. military power cannot be (to paraphrase a lenin quote i love so very much) taken alone, but rather must be 'taken together' when considering to what applications it 'can' or 'should' be used. this question is much like saying 'if i have a missile launcher, should i use it to cook food for the hungry?' where giving any answer at all surrenders to the absurdity of the question.

#ask #importantangeldefendor #the 'shouldn't we do something instinct' is a trap--as a citizen of the imperial core you must never give into it

[comradekatara]

chan and ruon-jian are such good characters because they’re literally just these privileged teenagers living in the imperial core, summering in their beach houses, sheltered from the realities of the atrocities being committed by their own fathers. they know that their fathers are a big deal due to their military rank, but they are disturbed and off-put by even the most distant allusion to the realities of the war because they can only imagine the war in abstract terms of prestige and glory. they are two dimensional caricatures of the popular jock archetype—a white, suburban, american construction. they are completely hollow characters, lacking any substance beyond what they materially represent to azula and zuko. and isn’t that just so apt?

#[jason from us voice] it’s us #<- by which he means the american bourgeoisie. if you somehow haven’t seen the movie #NEVER FORGET THAT ATLA IS A BUSH ERA TEXT #chan and ruon jian #live in the CHZ. azula and zuko are too close to the imperial core & so they get burned #while the working class in the fire nation & the rest of the world are too far away #but they’re just the right distance from the ‘core’/star so they’re in that sweet spot #forgive me for the extremely nerdy analogy #(oh also CHZ = circumstellar habitable zone. lol)

[baeddling]

People on tumblr hate the idea that just bc someone is oppressed in one way doesn't mean they are incapable of holding other privileges

#inspired by current events #(massive blocklist of trans women who are being called anti-black for pointing out that being in the us gives u privileges that cant be had- #in the periphery) #and almost all of these people are from outside the imperial core

[pissvortex]

i am sorry to tell you that no third world revolutionaries struggling to get out from under the foot of colonialism/imperialism have ever had the luxury of “ensuring their safety” and neither will we. this is liberal mind poison. the people in power would sooner kill everyone on earth than hand over the reins. the sooner you realize that real change is not safe to fight for the sooner you can stop wasting your time trying to overthrow capitalism with a change.org petition.

#this is of course assuming that revolution will happen in the imperial core which. lol at this point

[afrohinata]

rei says happy holidays!

#black edit #edits #blasian edit #anime edit #rei hino #sailor mars #she also says death to the imperial core!