isn’t this the show where the chinese tourists are like “all this land shouldn’t belong to one person” and the big macho guy is like “yeah, well, this is like america, bro”

is this loss?

back to germany

I’m guessing the “ethnic German” actually means they’re Americans with German great-great-great-great-grandparents

there is no broad left-wing party is the issue. the greens are lukewarm socialists/socdems, the NIP is socialist but small and regionalist, the worker’s party is just galloway being a careerist, all the communist parties have issues with racism/homophobia/transphobia/revisionism and no MP could survive the media while running as a communist anyway etc.
I may be biased as an anarchist but socialist independents seem to be the way to go for britain, given that every attempt at a socialist party invariably is usurped from within or sabotaged in the media - it’s harder for the MSM to sabotage hundreds of independent candidates rather than a single bloc, and voters tend to like independents for whatever reason - perhaps as an alternative to the westminster duopoly regardless of politics

it looks like it was originally posted on bilibili, so idk if there’s an option on the site to do that, or if it was edited in post or what

was just thinking about it the other day - it is very much a lib’s interpretation of radicalism/anarchism/revolution, in that it’s portrayed as being ultimately ineffective and driven by great men rather than a mass movement; and is focused on optics rather than actual praxis, e.g. hacking the banks and ‘deleting’ public debt rather than redistributing wealth, forcing the corporate exec to burn a big pile of money rather than put it to use etc.

the character creation is kinda superfluous at this point, you can spend loads of time naming them, making a coat of arms etc. but in my experience it never comes up anywhere, nor does your leader character. there’s no real plot or politics to speak of, it’s just a medieval city simulator. there are some policies you can enact but the only impact is just ‘raise taxes = people sad’ and the like. maybe in future more stuff will be added but at the moment it’s not got anything i would consider problematic
there are already mods to change things like character avatars so you could potentially just make whatever character portrait you like and put that in the game

has anyone else had the issue where livestock just doesn’t get bought for years on end? every playthrough I set a family at the livestock trader to buy like 50 sheep, and 3 years later they’ve bought 1, even if I had money to spare in all that time

literally black mirror

grand prix. big price

it’s all streaming services now, like they all had a meeting and said “let’s just collectively raise prices to optimum cockbag levels”, aka oligopoly

I hope you’re prepared for an unforgettable shitpost!

thinking of naming my child “Lmao” in homage to Lal

got a labour flyer through the letterbox today, turns out that among their candidate’s campaign promises are “stop the boats, end the hotel use for refugees and remove those with no legal right to be here”, which kinda just shows what they’re going for - daily mail readers
it’s been a while since i’ve been canvassed, but i wonder if i could restrain myself from revealing that far from ever being willing to support and vote for right-wingers, I want only to literally pull their heads off as a service to mankind and the world in general

I was thinking recently what it would be like if we replaced all aeroplanes with airships instead; like helium-filled zeppelins. If it meant saving the planet, surely everyone could tolerate a slower journey, after all, people used to spend days and weeks on ships travelling across the world.
The only real obstacle to this is the system’s incessant need to extract as much of everyone’s labour power as possible, not just over the course of a work day, but over their entire lives, meaning that any reduction in speed of travel, for instance, is intolerable, as it results in ‘wasted time’ that is not actively being spent on exploitation.

Scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 22, “Symbiosis”, in which Capt. Picard attempts to mediate a trade dispute between the Brekkians, (pictured) who possess large quantities of a valuable medicine called “spice”, and the Ornarans, who are in need of the drug to cure a plague.

Just happened to be reading about afforestation today; particularly the Great Green Walls of China and Africa.
Curiously, the wiki article on the Chinese one has a dedicated ‘criticism’ section, while the African one does not

In my own anecdotal experience, some people, consciously or otherwise, will continue to refer to trans people as ‘they’ after it’s been made apparent what their identity is.
It could be inferred that they’re uncomfortable with stating a trans person’s identified gender because they don’t ‘believe it’, which implies their usage of they/them is not simply being overly cautious or polite but because they don’t want to acknowledge said identity.
This would also apply to people using neopronouns too - refusing to use them essentially implies that you don’t believe in them and don’t acknowledge that person’s right to determine their own identity.

I was on citalopram/celexa for 3 months and felt no difference. they switched me to sertraline/zoloft which i’ve been on for 2 months and i still notice nothing - it’s like i’m not even taking anything

trogdor burninates the peasants; thus he is no comrade