Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]

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  • Folks, the bourgeois, they’re no good, everyone is saying it. All these workers, very handsome workers, they come up to me and they say–Comrade Trump, there is a specter haunting Europe–and they’re right, you know, they’re right. These bourgeois, they are very nasty people, very nasty, very rude–very unfair to the workers. They’re stealing our surplus value, and no one is doing anything about it! The proletariat comes up to me everyday, they do, they say–Comrade Trump, will you lead the revolution? And I turn to them and I say–Look, the instruments of capitalism will be used to bring about its destruction, believe me, trust me on this one, have to trust me here. The means of production, Obama–folks, he never wanted to seize them. Well guess what? I’m seizing them. Landlords? They’re done for, folks, no more, no more. Everyone would tell me, they would, they’d say–Comrade Trump, you won’t be the vanguard of the revolution–it’s true, they’d say that to me! They would! And they would laugh! The media laughed. The democrats laughed. Guess whose laughing now?

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  • Jefferson definitely had this problem worst of them but it was pretty common among these guys. Washington had weird ‘luck’ and most of his extended family died leaving him with a ton of money and property but the slave-owning class had a hard on for having Stuff instead of cash so they were always kind of broke and taking out loans when they wanted to buy something



  • In the audio commentary of the pilot episode (it’s been 10,000 years so might be a different episode) Whedon talks about the war being space US Civil War and Mal is inspired by the confederate soldiers who went west after the war because the inner planets = manufacturing power and center of government like the north, and outer planets = agrarians who are having their ‘rights’ trampled like the south. Obviously it’s a prime time show from 2001 written entirely by white people so there’s no discussion of slavery, the closest it gets is one episode does feature an outer planet guy who ‘owns’ people via their debts to him