made this before i came up with a punchline and wound up too afraid of it to actually come up with one. rip
is this even funny i dont think its funny im not putting it in the tags
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A wrinkle to that “lmao the irish didn’t invent anything for 300 years after the invention of whiskey” post is this: we don’t think of distilled spirits this way now, but they were an early way capital controlled labor, with the equipment and expertise necessary to make potable spirits being mostly the province of at first monasteries, then prosperous landlords.
In an American context the introduction of spirits was absolutely devastating - they represented a cheap-to-produce (hence profitable to sell), shelf-stable alcohol delivery mechanism that cultural norms simply didn’t exist to grapple with. Like most nations here had alcoholic beverages of whatever sort, but they were weak, short-lived ones similar to beer, and the resources necessary to produce them meant that they were consumed moderately or, if in excess, usually at special occasions. In the 18th century British empire, distilled spirits were considered a scourge both in an indigenous context and in the context of the British working poor. (See Beer Street and Gin Lane.)
And then you look into the history of whiskey distillation in Ireland… and the first people given legal license to produce and distribute whiskey on an industrial scale were English mercenaries-turned-landlords. Old Bushmills was established by an English soldier of fortune!
In short, even at the time, the idea that cheap spirits would be bad for the general life-quality of the working poor was mainstream in the imperial core, but that malevolence was seen as positive when imposed on imperial subjects - the Irish, native Americans, trade partners in Africa and Asia. This represents an early form of the narco-imperialism that matured by the time of the Opium Wars and is present in the war on drugs pushed globally by America today
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hey there
ME: hey man. are you free saturday? it’d be good to hang out
MY FRIEND (SUPER MARIO BROS HAMMER BROTHER): no can do buddy. I’m gonna be busy throwing hammers at Mario
ME: damn, that sucks. i got sunday open too
MY FRIEND: Sorry, can’t do it. Got throwing hammers at Mario that day too
ME: hmm. Is there a day you don’t spend throwing hammers at Mario
MY FRIEND, HEFTING HAMMER: Mario? Where? I’m gonna smash his fucking skull in
Planetes is so fucking good - up until episode 11, it’s just light-hearted workplace fluff, and awe about the grandeur of space. Then in punches you in the emotional gut and shifts the tone entirely, to harsh political commentary about the way that exploitation of the global south is the basis that new technologies are slotted into - that regardless of the technologies themselves, the relationship stays the same - and on the validity of armed terrorism as a response.
miss writing like this, should go back to it sometime