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Speech stage (aka talking stage) it's a literal translation of the period before marriage (الخطبة) .This act is very known in north African countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Libia...etc
by Sam Eddine June 2, 2024
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the congress of this democracy seemingly cannot function without pork barrel politics. the congress doubles as a retirement home and mental asylum, or sometimes a massive sex offender registry.
this democracy will last only until a war breaks out, and will go back to a normal democratic system but fade slowly into late stage democracy once more.
common late stage democracies include but aren't limited to; the united states, the united kingdom, canada, and hungary.
the congress of this democracy seemingly cannot function without pork barrel politics. the congress doubles as a retirement home and mental asylum, or sometimes a massive sex offender registry.
this democracy will last only until a war breaks out, and will go back to a normal democratic system but fade slowly into late stage democracy once more.
common late stage democracies include but aren't limited to; the united states, the united kingdom, canada, and hungary.
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by lmSoFuckingTired March 25, 2025
Get the Alien Stage mug.The established, institutionalized set of beliefs that define mainstream understanding of contemporary capitalism—the often-unexamined assumptions about how the current economic system works and what's possible within it. Late-stage capitalist orthodoxy includes commitments that go beyond classical capitalism: that financialization is natural, that gig work is the future, that austerity is necessary, that debt is inevitable, that privatization is always efficient, that global supply chains are optimal, that technological disruption is progress, and that there is no alternative to the current configuration of capital. It naturalizes features of contemporary capitalism that are actually historically specific—making precarious work, financial dominance, and corporate power seem like simply "how things are." Late-stage capitalist orthodoxy functions to foreclose imagination of alternatives, treating the current moment as the end of history and any deviation as naive or dangerous.
Example: "He accepted gig work, stagnant wages, and crumbling public services as just 'the way things are'—not because he'd thought about alternatives, but because late-stage capitalist orthodoxy had made precarity seem like common sense. The orthodoxy's power is making contingency feel like necessity."
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