A truly contemptuous people, those despicable Dutch
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I worked one shift at a warehouse that had some day labor available, guy I was working with was fresh out of Venezuela. Had my current political views, didn't want to prod him too much but wanted to learn from a Venezuelan what Venezuela is like. Of course, he spoke fluent English and told me how his parents had paid for an English teacher for him. He said he hated Maduro and the only way to stop him was to kill him. I asked how he was still in power, he said he stayed in power by paying off the poor.
I got it then, and that flows into my understanding that the people I interact with in anyway who are from socialist countries necessarily speak English, and therfore are almost certainly from the middle class or higher. Which is helpful when remembering how "survivors" testimonies of those counties should be read. They are likely not from the working class or poor, and that WILL color their narratives and of course the ones we hear promoted in the west.
Anyway, he and his dad, who was also fighting brain cancer, were struggling finding work. This was a couple years ago, who knows how things have gone but here we see what capitalist america has to offer
Interesting! 
Children of Men is happening
When he started shaving his teats, I said aloud "what is he doing!" But then it all came together.
There's that episode of Hey Arnold where a Vietnamese character recounts his daughter I think getting on the last helicopter out of Saigon
"I'm gonna make this penis disappear"
Um, what's that, tankie? I'll have you know I'm filing for a permit to march in 2029 RIGHT NOW.
Do you have any book recs about the rise of financing by way of the Sforzas?
They've stated it will come out by the end of this year
That's what I'm thinking. Skyblivion is going with concept art for things left out or things stated in the lore that the original ignored, like making the city of Leyawiin an actual port city that ships can actually pass through and expanding dungeons that are copy-pasted in vanilla. The things you get without the profit motive and with passion instead.
Star Wars sequels suck