Ancient Roman slavery is fascinating because it's so, so bad, but also utterly blasé in execution. You're talking about an unqualified meat grinder and they basically didn't think it was a big deal at all. It was very nearly pet logic.
If you really liked a slave they might sleep at the foot of your bed. Aww, they're allowed on the furniture! Martial talking about going on a walk, alone, only to offhandedly mention the slaves that were with him. Words for pet child slaves that didn't "do" anything, companions.
Slaves for any and all purposes, from the state-owned slaves in quarries to slaves to read aloud to you at bedtime, or take messages for you when you were out of the house (while they were chained to your door outside).
The elephant in the room is a lot of the "social policy" of Project 2025 is actually outlining a sexual fetish. I mean that literally. The "perfect Christian world" they're imagining is the material to which they sexually masturbate but it's disconnected from reality.
It's like that "proposal" for a little ranch for pregnant single moms to lovingly rear their towheaded little white children. It's not a proposal any more than "big titty furry island fox babes for all" is a proposal.
They are basically fixated on a view of the world that is as asinine and imaginary as isekai anime, except the actions that would result in them finally realizing this is true would have immense negative implications for the welfare of other people along the way.
DoorDash has, for many people, become a substitute for frozen meals, despite being less convenient and radically more expensive. And a lot of frozen meals taste fine, plenty of chain restaurants are actually serving that.
You can get a Stouffer's whatever or a Marie Callender thingy and it's still like $4 and you can heat it up literally whenever.
This Marie Callender pot pie is a delicious dinner and $3.48 is a totally reasonable price for something that requires no more work than filling out the DoorDash thingy.
sometimes capitalism is not what is holding you back from the successful life you deem yourself entitled to; sometimes, it is that you are an unambiguous sociopath
in a socialist community, you will have a worse time, not a better one, because social capital will be more important, not less, and you will be lucky to make second-chair turd wrangler
(because you are, and I mean this extremely sincerely, fucked in the head in a real way)
starting to think pelosi just did it for the thrill of watching all of china wail and convulse at her proximity
like you're old, you've done a lot of things. but then you're like a ha ha, one last one for the road, i'll make china attempt to do donuts with its two shitty ass aircraft carriers in the *judge doom* EAST SEAAAAA
imagine being able to make a country of over a billion people quake and start shitting out league of legends cutscenes made out of hastily edited jet fighter footage
For those of you who are smart enough for your curated internet experience to deny you a window into this, a pretty big chunk of teens and even college-aged kids have gotten weiiiirdly and viciously puritanical. And it's not the really hyper-christian ones it's the other ones.
Like, "you aren't allowed to consume media starring someone under 18 even if it has no sexual or sensual content, or else you're a pedophile" weird.
One of the wilder conclusions they drew a while back was that it was sexually predatory to masturbate to the idea of someone without their permission, so you had to ask first. I'm going to give you a minute to process how that'd go.