Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]

oh I’ve been there before. Anti-getting-hit-with-a-car-bricks aren’t even the weirdest part about the place. They got so many seagulls over there they have professional falconers who have trained hawks to scare off the seagulls. Absolutely bizarre to see IRL

losing half of my income to imagine a version of myself with the other half of my income? I can do that for free. what on earth is supposed to be the upside here? one that’s so great I’m losing half of my money?

Clerk: “Um, sir, that doesn’t look like a banana. Are you sure you entered the right code?”

• The jig is up. Run

• Apologize profusely

• [Rhetoric: Heroic 15] Convince the clerk you don’t know what fruits are

EVEN 58%

+1 You look terribly frazzled

This is a Red Check. It can not be retried

Rhetoric: [Heroic: Success] “Is this not a banana?” You say in the most genuine tone you can muster

Savior Faire: You may have been caught, but you managed to feign enough innocence to get trouble off your back

The clerk gives a dumbfounded expression

Clerk: “Uhm, no sir, that is an avocado, not a banana”

Half-Light: She is too terrified of your empty skull to properly correct you on this

I learned that “capitalism” is an economic system, not a system of government.

Consider for 3 seconds that what you “learned” about the world is a product of the system that produced it

Capitalism is a system of government, and in capitalist countries, they teach their citizens that capitalism is at at odds with the state and not working in conjunction with it