Deeply underestated how the underlying rhetoric of the international anticolonial conversation - from Jamaica to the Philippines - in the 1930s and 40s is "listen we're gonna get the bastards here, but my god we cannot let the fascists win either"

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This gets particularly annoying when you're talking about being forced to pirate things and you get told to go borrow it from the library instead. WHAT LIBRARY? IN MANILA PHILIPPINES?

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it's such a specific case of the all too common "America bad" brain blinding them to the things their country succeeds at more than anyone else, assuming it's just universal

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The way Americans talk about public libraries sometimes feels like they forget a lot that having such a significant and and widespread public library system is a specifically American thing that isn't nearly as much of a thing even in much of Europe let alone the rest of the world

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Today I'm going to be sitting in the back of a virtual f-4e phantom alternating between navigating and being spun like a tumble drier

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