Ah yes, we are the “Beverly Hills Marxists”, and not the literal US government funded, Hollywood liberal ideology, that they are espousing. Certainly, we are the ones occupying the Beverly Hills, condescending to the masses on high, and not the actual liberals who literally control what major media projects get funding and stories get told to the masses.
I mean the fact that AAA developers are still scared to release anything under a new franchise despite the overwhelming success of indie franchises is basically saying “Look we know our games suck and we keep trying to make things too complicated instead of using tried and true mechanics and updating our art style and depth of story, but like you hated Starfield (because it was essentially unplayable on release and had an extremely shallow storyline), so we are justified to be scared of new things. Nostalgia is all we have.”
Well, I can’t make sense of where profit comes from without admitting it comes primarily from the exploitation of workers, so it must be horribly complex, because otherwise that would be too simple and someone else would have figured it out a long time ago.
I mean, I do and I then explain why, as a s Social Democrat politician, she will only performatively criticize the establishment, much like a progressive politician, which people in purple states absolutely understand.
Maybe this person should hang out with ‘normies’ sometime. It’s pretty easy to get them to hate on any kind of politician, left right or ‘center’.
No no don’t you understand? He’s so smart because he has hyperfixations, but is able to channel them in a healthy way that isn’t just uncritically repeating the last ‘fact’ he read about and never questioning where that information and definition comes from.
And since he is rewarded well for it, the system can’t be that bad, right? Right?
Nurgle isn’t about disease itself, but more of the very concept of a perversion of the neverending cycle of life, the idea of rot and decay without passing, disease without end. By embracing the rot, they conquer death itself, but in perverting it, they reject the cycle and change that comes with it, which is why they are naturally opposed to Tzeetch.
The really into the weeds fascists like to differentiate between ‘Fascism’ (what Mussolini did) and ‘National Socialism’ which is what the nazis did. However, even those that are splitting these kinds of hairs recognize that communism is not ‘National Socialism’.
Moreover, they get really confused by the state’s ability to choose to appropriate land and businesses, then conveniently choose to forget that the entirety of America was founded on the appropriation of land from Native Americans.
It’s sad when Burger King has better play places on average lol.
This is extremely reactionary thinking. China does a thing, therefore it is in crisis!
How is this anything like Bonapartism? Bonaparte was a military general who used the chaos of revolution to consolidate power under a completely reformed army (that he wasn’t responsible for) to solidify his own authority, which came out of the absence and deferment of leadership from the unpopular central government, who had, in typical liberal fashion, purged themselves (violently this time around) of the ability to actually do anything.
This is literally the exact opposite thing. The central civilian government is using its currently extremely popular position to purge the military of its elderly members and allow new blood up through the ranks. It is not healthy for 70 year olds who have never actually fought a real war since Vietnam (where they lost btw) to be in charge of a military that is increasingly becoming the second most technologically advanced military in the world, even surpassing the U.S. in some technical capabilities. This is not a sign of crisis. This is a sign of the strength of the civilian government to be able to audit the military and bring it under control.
The idea that Xi hasn’t cemented himself in the legacy of Chinese government with his massive anti-corruption pushes and green energy initiatives is completely out of touch with the reality within China and Chinese culture.
Unless some new young general comes in and begins to centralize power around himself through military conquest, these comparisons are silly and historically illiterate.
Still on the ‘Jeffrey Epstein definitely committed suicide.’ bit lol
It’s honestly incredibly satisfying to know that we still have it after years of not being on r/chapotraphouse. Chapo-posting remains the only real, viable, way to engage with these insufferable morons.
The CDC primarily measured average COVID cases through waste contamination tests, not hospitals testing and reporting numbers. If you cut the funding for those tests to the CDC then yeah, they aren’t going to do the sewage tests to measure the rates. No such thing has happened for the NYPD.
Crime rates usually come from the incident reports filed directly by police officers. In a healthy policing scenario, most of these incident reports are created from someone calling or notifying the police about something going on, not from them just stumbling onto something.
If anything may this indicate that police were purposely instigating and escalating incidents, depending on what the percentages of “community instigated incidents” are. It could also just mean that it is fucking cold outside and people just aren’t doing shit at all. These numbers don’t really mean anything without a hell of a lot of extra context.
However, the statistical relationship between an increase in policing and a decrease in crime has always been tenuous, at best.
Lol no, that one was riffing off the dome, but it doesn’t surprise me if it is in the zeitgeist.
Xi’s microwave gun, can fire in bursts, if he shoots yah, it’s gonna hurt.
As funny as that is, I would prefer it if they just literally do not know how to run the ship.
Ah yes, the ‘risks’ of property ownership, which is why housing is a hoarded asset in capitalist countries. You’d think if it was so ‘risky’ you wouldn’t see capitalists buy up entire swaths of housing stock, but what do I know?
Yeah ‘in his later years’, and not always and constantly. He didn’t even actually write the section about media manipulation.
I wish I could get paid to say completely obvious shit.
I actually like that. If they are so keen on algorithms, make an algorithm to determine what kind of expropriation they face.