spudnik [he/him, they/them]

“They’re messy!” boils my blood every time I hear it

Hell yeah 8⁷

If you liked it and want another Steinbeck banger set in the Great Depression you should check out In Dubious Battle. For some reason it gets left out when The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men are mentioned, but it is my favorite of the three. It’s about an apple pickers strike in California, and follows the communist organizers trying to lead it.

How they picture every college graduate

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksdeutsche

History rhyming etc etc

A lot of people from Star Trek TNG were involved in making it. Once I heard that, it clicked that this is basically a really good extended TNG episode where they don’t leave the ship

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Cutoff

I wrote a previous comment on this, but pretty much this exact same thing happened, and it caused the Donner Party. The real life guy was somehow even dumber than Zapp Branigan, and later helped establish the famous colony of ex-confederates in Brazil.

waters near Malta

Not that closer proximity would make this any more legitimate, but Malta is so fucking far away!

less safe for Jews than a settler-colonial project in a constant state of war, and it needs to become really bad for that to work out.

For instance, the former Soviet Union in the 1990s

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Gotcha covered

Yessss, that’s exactly how it was for me. It just popped into my head one time and now it’s stuck forever

Literally the only way that I can remember who the bad one is is that Hinkle rhymes with stinkle

Hey maybe this will finally clear up the giant backlog of ships at the port of LA that’s hasn’t gotten any better in years

The lack of any scrutiny on the timeline of these stories of abuse by ICE is driving me up the wall. Like every other one admits up top that it’s been going on since before the election and it’s never centered or really pointed out