Sociology should be a mandatory course for all STEM students. The amount of people that think we just need “technology” to solve all our problems is frankly scary. Take basically any problem we face today and the root cause is always societal. You could create some magical new technology that creates 100% free and clean electricity with no cost to operate it or to distribute it, and the capitalists will still find a way to monopolize and monetize it. You could make a miracle machine that builds houses out of thin air at no cost and we’d still have a housing crisis. You can completely automate the production of absolutely everything and people will still have to spend 90% of their life working for pennies to survive. Every time we’ve developed some new technology that’s meant to make our lives better the capitalists just used it to further consolidate their power. Advancement in technology without appropriate societal changes don’t make things better. You can go back to 100AD and give Romans all the modern weapons and medicine and fertilizer and shit, and the Roman empire will still fall, because they’ll just continue killing each other in constant civil wars and resulting famines and plagues, except now they’ll do it with F16s.
text: The supreme court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in 3 U.S. states.
image: protestors holding signs, megaphones, and fists in the air
Remember kids: The protest, regardless how violent and destructive it may be, even if it’s an outright riot, was always deemed as peaceful alternative, the alternative that won’t get you in jail. The moment it does? There is no reason to not reach for the very thing it was an alternative for:
nothing more embarassing than when you develop personal beef with a piece of media thats entirely petty. like sorry no i cant talk about that show it. bit me.
Scar was one of the survivors of the Ishval Massacre and has since sought revenge against the army. Scar’s nickname comes from the large X-shaped scar on his forehead and sports a conspicuous and intricate alchemical tattoo on his right arm, which originally belonged to his older brother, and is the weapon he uses as a means of assassinating Federal Alchemists.
One of the roots of the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime’s problems is the Ishval conflict. The Ishval, who were a minority in the country of Amestris, were completely massacred by the military. Apparently this conflict was inspired by the Ainu people, an indigenous ethnic group from Hokkaido, Japan.
Not without reason, manga artist Hiromu Arakawa, also from Hokkaido, raised this issue in his work. The Ainu are often considered the Jōmon people or indigenous Japanese people of the Jōmon period. However, with the Meiji Restoration in 1899, Japanese people began migrating to Hokkaido and forced the Ainu to assimilate with the Japanese.
Nowadays, as said in another video, the Ainu are recognized as the original people of Japan.
the “came back wrong” trope except like… they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like “oh no… what have i done…. shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!” and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like “oh shes soooo weird” but shes just normal
