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Lake Eater
@lakeeater
"master of equivocation"
"vibes based foolishness"
"trying to categorize smoke and vapors"
unemployed allergist
Joined August 2019
spending $6 feels so good and spending $19.99 feels so evilused bookstores feel so good and new bookstores feel so evil- sometimes the green sauce is spicier than the red, despite being the color of medicine or soothing jungle foliage. there's no way to adequately account for this
- ICE detention camps are now inches away from establishing full-blown gas chambers. HDQ Neutral is less lethal than Zyklon B but they're spraying it EVERY 15 MINUTES. news.yahoo.com/immigrant-deta…
- the cliche about "the best way to really understand the US is to drive across it" is true but the lessons are almost entirely negative
- in high school the most talented artist i knew would come into figure drawing class and do excellent, deeply moving renderings of the model early in class and then spend the rest of class drawing anime women attached to elaborate milking machines, to the teacher's awed dismay
- they should invent a type of moving that doesn't make you reflect on the passing-away of all things
- Ronald Reagan addressing the people of Nicaragua, June 1981
- every single day, every single day for the past 5 months, a new headline describing another crime so obscene, sadistic, and piggish—and yet also so petty, blind, hollow—that it once again alters my whole picture of the world permanentlyHaaretz has published (in Hebrew, not English) an incomprehensibly vile article in the style of a lifestyle cooking feature, about Israel's soldiers finding and cooking with ingredients in the kitchens of Gazans who had to flee their homes and are now starving.
- this specific sentiment is the spiritual core of modernity, capitalist civilization, whatever you want to call it. this is what it all adds up to, this is the type of souls it createsAre you fucking serious?
- said it before, will say it again: if you showed the most paranoid doomer 80s black-helicopter conspiracy guy footage of how protesters are handled in the US in the 2020s he would still be shocked
- many common social situations become easy to understand when grasped in light of this distinction
- sometimes i pause and think about how the background hum of my entire life, like the rest of my generation, has been nonstop news images of grey rubble and grieving strangers screaming in languages i don't know while all the reasonable people explain "that's just how it is there"
