Liberals in general treat politics as prayer and ritual to a pantheon of polytheistic gods. You must perform the Biden voting sacrament or else the nefarious Putin will ruin this year’s grape harvest.

Reminds me of in 2020 I saw a post detailing Elizabeth Warren’s platforms and one of the bulletpoints was simply “Healthcare”

Normal person is old white man getting arrested for harassing a school board

Not normal is when gay person

Height of comedy. Also there’s gotta be something going on with right wing self-image, or maybe just who they’re trying to appeal to. I remember in 2016 the image they tried to project was hip, cool type of internet racist who knows memes. Now with this and the stupid Mr. Birchum show it’s like their self-image is instead very grumpy impotent old man.

Their ideal image is of a befuddled old man who doesn’t understand anything and annoys everyone. An old man who complains a lot but never accomplishes or changes anything, that’s who they see themselves as. Also this guy is like 65 years old with a teenage daughter in high school? Pardon?

Communism is when no iPhone

Wait, communism is when slightly less good iPhone

I’m an adult, near middle age. I bike everywhere. It’s nice.

I don’t have kids and never would, so I can’t talk realistically about what that would be like. But I sincerely doubt I’d have any issues maintaining my current standard of living if I had like 6 times my income, but also two kids. In fact, if I was given $250k per year I’d volunteer to raise someone else’s kids.

If the kids had disabilities or long term healthcare issues then yeah, that could be debilitating. I wouldn’t put my hypothetical kids into a private school unless I was worried for their safety.

You gotta understand that to me $250k per year sounds like infinite money per year. So I’m never gonna be able to logically proceds that. I’m way down in the pits of selling manual labor and I’m never going to have anything higher than what I make now. $250k sounds like a fantasy, made up amount of money that I can’t even fathom. If I woke up tomorrow with just $15,000 in my bank account I’d probably collapse and start crying.

You’re not doing better class analysis, you’re doing class reductionism

The elements that made New Vegas good were the team, the near infinite money they had, and how everyone seemed to enjoy the project. From interviews I’ve read with Josh Sawyer and Tess Treadwell, it seems like everything went as smooth as game production could have gone. They were never worried about deadlines or anything, despite the 18 month production time. They wanted to have more Legion territory, but otherwise the game is how they wanted it to be. So I don’t know how those elements would get replicated.

Pentiment is really good though. Outer Worlds is…ok. I guess we’ll see.

hang on, I know we’re supposed to have a popular mandate based on the whims of voters but before we do anything we have to consult the transphobe children’s author who lives in a castle

The internet at this point is so segmented and full of islands. YouTube channels can have 67 million subscribers and yet be completely unknown outside of its regular viewers. The uptick you’re seeing might be restricted to its own circle of viewers, maybe? Because I haven’t noticed anything like that. Internet popularity manifests as weird bubbles that don’t intersect.

But I could just be in a different bubble. I haven’t noticed an uptick nor do I even know who Cyraxx or kingcobra are.

Before people start saying anything positive, this entire exchange is the resolution of a diplomatic tennis match that the Zionist Entity and Ukkkkraine have been having for years. Isntreal was courting Russian diplomacy and oil since the 90s and the two have had somewhat substantial population exchanges. And since at this point a country can either choose good relations with Russia or Ukraine, Russia ended up with positive Zionist relations. Putin himself has had a pro-Zionist platform for decades now.

In 2014 Isntreal was one of the few western aligned countries to not condemn Russia’s annexation of Crimea, since they were still trying to get on Russia’s good side. The relationship has gotten even worse since the Donbas war. Isntreal sent some aid to Ukraine, probably the minimum amount required to also stay in western graces, but they haven’t sanctioned or embargoed Russian trade.

So this kind of thing was inevitable. It’s dialectical materialism playing out, and probably not some manifest sympathy for Palestinians on the part of Ukkkkraine.

Rich people are so stupid with money it’s no wonder why most of them get rich through their parents. They can’t fathom living normally, even though they may posture about it. They’re such brain poisoned little piggies with such a high standard for comfort.

Plus I suspect a lot of their lives are centered around ensuring they never interact with a homeless/poor person, which has to suck up a ton of their income. They need a fancy house in a white suburb, they need a huge vehicle, they need to stick their kids in a fancy private school so they won’t mingle with the poors. They can’t have wealthy without also building a social cocoon, even if they could have a much higher standard of life without such an incessant focus on the country club stuff.

I make less than a fifth of what these people make and I still take vacations overseas and have a comfy apartment. I can save money too every month. I barely own anything. The most expensive thing I own is a $900 bicycle. The most precious things I own are my cats. I eat rice and beans for half my meals and my TV is a CRT from 2002 connected to a Dreamcast and PS2. Like what the hell, why do you need a yacht

I get the crosses, barbed wire, and swastikas, but what are those brown symbols on Porky’s coat? Bear traps? Crocodile mouths?

I think Canada has just gotten weasely with their legal language to define consulates as police stations. Texas did the same thing by defining spying as “embassy record keeping while being Chinese.”

Liberals lack imagination to the point everything they don’t like is scary foreigners. MAGA/Putin/China/Venezuela are all the same thing to them.

There’s a person in that thread unironically praising the atom bombing of Japan as a liberal victory

Do they have no awareness or are they like happily evil

I had a Soviet watch for a while, but the winding mechanism got a little stripped or something and I couldn’t find a jeweler who knew how to repair it or even where to get replacement parts. So that’s something to keep in mind if you want a Soviet watch.

You’re going to find a lot of punk bands that would fit your preferences. Try checking out smaller punk bands on Bandcamp.

One of my favorites is G.L.O.S.S.

Their music was great although they’ve all moved on to other projects. Good anti-capitalist, anti-fascist punk rock made by trans women. Truly punk music in that they made only two albums that add up to less than 20 minutes, got contacted by a big record label, then decided to break up instead of compromising their own values.

I refuse to use any gaming guides that don’t have cool ASCII art at the top

The canteen item’s description in that game says it has a bunch of filters that turn water into Monster. I’ve always found that funny, like you stand in a river full of perfectly good water and your scifi thingie turns it into green bro-juice

One of these people has a Pulitzer