Ildsaye

Could have had four years of Gorebin' time

I really dig how their ships look like city-sized goth industrial nightclubs on the insides. But yeah, they do seem like a red scare capitalist projection. The Borg, when written well, are freakishly resilient in the same creepy way as capitalism, absorbing and assimilating whatever resistance they encounter, making everyone into a part of the machine. Later adding the Queen and introducing more and more wacky contradictions to the ways the Borg worked, just made them seem to have moved into later-stage capitalism.

A fitting mirror image for the Federation, which achieved communism without ever leaving the comfort zone of the liberal writers.

"Dad, can I inherit the textile mill?"
"So you can advance the interests of the capitalist class?"
"Yeeees"
Actually keeps Karl Marx alive like a boss

It sounds like "rely" and "others" are important qualifiers - there isn't necessarily a denial of domestic exploitation here. All it's saying is that China is avoiding neoliberal-style deindustrialization.

Huh, we don't have any Kim Yo-Jong emotes? Isn't she the author of this and many other excellent dunks on the US?

Beyond a certain thickness, gloves are self-defeating. If they're going to be too chunky for dexterity, or to slip easily in and out of your pockets, you may as well have mittens instead; mittens chunky enough to be as warm as your pockets.

We could have lived deliciously

Perhaps the turtles are hiding their power and biding their time. Those shells could be hiding Hamas bases with WMD by now for all we know

Stitch some quartz crystals to the sides of N95s, add a drop of essential oil, and market the masks as protection from negative energy and airborne vaccines. Rewrite the instructions to be a magic ritual that requires full coverage of the mouth and nose to complete the seal against evil

You ain't done nothin if you ain't been called tan-kie