Han Solo was a Tankie

I see someone has found the LinkedIn joke accounts

wasted

Putting on the “They Live” glasses

deliberately paid out to those complicit in the imperial occupation

The thing about Anarchy is that, for many people, the cashless society where you own nothing and are fully removed from the machine of industry is already here. Its just called “poverty”.

The problem is that this kind of poverty isn’t equally distributed. You’ve still got this large, heavily armed occupying force that preserves money, capital, and the painful prodding of induced productivity for everyone else.

“Everyone and everything will end in my lifetime. I’ll be here to see it all crumble just before I am incinerated in the blast.”

is another popular escapist fantasy.

No one wants to believe they’ll just have to hobble through a slow and painful decline.

Deep rectal itch

I counter with Bigby’s Vibrating Finger

My company recently acquired another firm that tried to outsource the entire IT department and proceeded to shit itself to death.

Go ahead cowards. Replace me with a computer. I will become more powerful than you could ever imagine.

Nowadays they are maybe one tier above fast food workers.

:-/

Having worked both jobs, I could point to a few differences

Stop threatening me with a good time

Appropriate, given the context

Access to it is 100% a free speech issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_safety_on_Roblox

I grew up in the 80s, when we had these huge high profile congressional debates over everything from Mortal Kombat to Twisted Sister. It still stuns me to see modern game platforms become everything the hysterical Satanic Panic folks warned us about. But now that it really is a hothouse for scamming, grooming, and extremism, nobody seems to fucking care.

Nobody should be letting their kids play Roblox. This is probably the best thing the Russian Parliament has done since Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell it.

The way you don’t ever seem to do anything with Zack, it feels like that mystery is the real C plot.

But it’s already a very dense game with a ton of little side quests and surprises. I’m having a great time.

Wonder if they’ll ever try to do a reinvention like this for six, eight, or nine?

I’m enjoying the Remake because they’re laying out why it’s the B plot and giving Sephiroth more of a build up than just “oops I murdered your favorite character”

Wilson and Reagan left office before the dementia really took hold

Wilson had intended to seek a third term in 1920, but was fully incapacitated and bedridden by October of 1919

Multiple Reagan staffers confirm he was fully in the thrall of dementia by his final year.

Wilson and Reagan would suggest otherwise

But Trump was showing early signs of dementia during his first term.

That’s what was reported. But, again, none of this reporting is reliable. It’s all just court gossip.

The difference here is evidence.

It’s credulity. Liberals are more receptive to “conservatives in decline” than they are when it is reported of their own politicians.

That’s why Feinstein got to die in office without facing any kind of serious challenger. And why Schumer will benefit from the same.

Which politicians, exactly?

Trump, back during his first term (the rumors about him being on death’s door with COVID were rampant). Biden, for nearly his entire term in office. Hillary was going to die in the middle of her 2016 run. I remember people insisting Vladimir Putin was on his way out any day now all the way back in 2005 - there’s even a wikipedia article about how many times his death was misreported. And there’s an endless parade of rumors about Kim Jung Un keeling over, Ayatollah Khomanie being terminally ill, ffs “Castro is dying, get in the boats!” was a thing people said about Fidel from his mid-fifties until he handed over office to his brother Raul in 2008.

Pretty much anyone the US government / media doesn’t like gets a scattershot “dude could die any day now” headline from time to time. And the more reactionary the source, the more credulous the allegations.

Get on Kalshi and place your bets.

But all this naked speculation about how Trump is on death’s door has been going on since he was running for President the first time way back in 2015.

Lemmy Users are just a subset of Reddit Users who couldn’t stop picking up aggro from the mods

I don’t know why they can’t single-handedly win a war against a country 10x their size using only our obsolete overpriced leftovers

I mean, ask Afghanistan, Vietnam, or Korea.

But also ask why these wars popped off to begin with and why they dragged on long after any foreign country had a material interest in continuing the fight.

Also maybe look into the UON and question why the Canadian Parliament was applauding an elderly SS Officer who described WW2 as the best years of his life.

Tons of profit in war mongering.