the basic explanation is that we've seen "liberal" states do much worse, for a much longer time, and get 1% of the pushback so a lot of us went back, read his work and the political history that produced him, and realized he was alright we do not care for liberal notions when evaluating a communist

Also, what's the odds on a Contrapoints "why I left the Left" video coming this year? Because she seems to be burning bridges with extra gusto right now.

I wish we could destroy America too

I was messing around with this before, but now I want to actually commit 1.05b is a whole different game than I'm used to, and I expect it will be fun figuring out what works - I'm trying to avoid reading guides for the time being starting out with the Amazon, with no build in mind!

kinda fascinating to watch this "discussion" among a group of absolute losers they are so mad that Hasan Piker won't let them have a centrist Democrat candidate without a fight

maybe I will consider an alt account where I post a selection of Garfield Dailies, I used to read a lot of those as as a kid they were reprinted as 48-page B&W magazines in my country

It's still wild to me that there's no complete collection of Bushmiller's Nancy to be found anywhere Peanuts has one, so why not this!

explanation from the developer of Cactus, fearedbliss: (codeberg.org/fearedbliss/...)

Diablo II under Blizzard North (2000-2005) www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.p...

I noticed before that the situation with Diablo wikis is atrocious, but wow, this really sucks. There's several just hosted on fandom(dot)com, which pretty much guarantees a crappy user experience. And the one that isn't seems exclusively focused on D3 and later. D1-2 deserve far better treatment.

I'm a bit crushed that Wikipedia has bent the knee and changed the page from "Twitter" to "X (social network)"

Leninism is the worst form of government – except for all the other ones. (saw this in some communist's bio on Xitter, banger tbh)

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

oh is it Will Stancil

Can we all agree that USA as a whole has permanently lost the right to criticize anyone's form of Christianity? They've got a president who is pretending to be Jesus, it's hard to imagine anything more heretical than that. I'm also revoking their Protestantism card, as a treat.

I don't know why I'm still compelled to achieve 100% completion in GTA III, I keep coming back to it I guess it's because I never forgave the game for making it basically impossible to beat Paramedic at a certain point, which blocked me from doing everything I'll get my revenge!

Honestly a very nice website, I'm very non-surprised that a trans person made this

unironically a beautiful and effective way to keep grifters out. if you get filtered by an anime catgirl popping up for 2 seconds because it's too cringe and gay for you was your heart really in the systems programming?

now that's how you do left-populism gotta throw some respect

running GTA III on Linux with the re3 port good stuff, the gameplay is basically identical as far as I can tell, but it adds a few nice features like a world map you can open from the menu, and free camera movement while you're driving cars (the latter can be toggled)

I want to see the new stage of Flat Theory, the contradictions are pushing it forward

Ezra Klein is backtracking so hard lmaoooo We're about to see a bunch of these dudes switch to critiquing israel, and they'll have sophisticated academic reasons to explain why they didn't see it before

when I think about it, GTA III/VC/SA are the only games I know where downgrading to version 1.0 is crucial, and every update is problematic

Guess im forbidden now

I was momentarily struck after hearing this track in a TV documentary, then I remembered it must be public domain lmao

Anyway, that's my vent for today lol. Next posts will be about videogames...

Hungary is a solid example of this - queer people are deliriously happy about electing a right-wing asshole, because he's not as bad as the previous right-wing asshole. They campaigned and protested massively to get this result, and deserve a large part of the credit. That's a victory in this game.

Liberals are always "confused" by queer Marxist-Leninists. Like that's the main reaction I see all the time, complete befuddlement. My only conclusion is that they honestly think queer rights can only coexist with western liberal democracy on a basis of imperialism, anything else doesn't compute.

Code Geass is the only anime I've seen that continually shits on reformist good-intentioned libs and I'll always appreciate it for that

bluesky is back

powerful Slytherin Energy from these students

Yale Debating society (or whatever it's called) is so fucking weird man

polisci brain means you have to pretend every western aligned power is a rational actor even when they’re behaving like rabid dogs

why are you PoliSci "scholars" always the most lobotomized liberals in the world

The one good thing from having a grandfather who was a lifelong Hitlerite and former Luftwaffe soldier, is that I always bring him up when someone is giving me their anti-communist family sob story. It's an invincible retort. "My family suffered under communism" - okay, depends on the reason innit

To quote James Rolfe: What in the holy mother of ass is this fuckness??!!

It is endlessly fascinating how obsessed so many academics and liberal thought leaders are with the famine in the USSR in the early 1930s. These same people never mention the famines caused by their countries which impact the global south-

I wish Kyle Kulinski didn't post so much AI slop on his account cuz I think his YouTube commentary is pretty decent

Check out this show if you have any interest in the Ottoman Wars of Central/Eastern Europe, it's quite good

that's some Lelouch-ass tactics, I love it (I'm watching the TV show "Rise of the Raven" about Janoš Hunyadi and I was checking if this actually happened)

It's basically protectionism for Microsoft, Apple, and Google. Their operating systems *really* want you to use an online account. How this is even remotely workable in an enterprise estate is beyond me.

would like to have a wee little word with all the people who said everyone was overreacting to the california OS age signal legislation

The absolute state of some video games websites 😵‍💫

There are millions of people on this Earth who genuinely, honestly believe that the United States of America is the only country that should have nuclear weapons. I won't grant them the benefit of ignorance, they wholeheartedly believe it and pronounce it to the world. It's good to reflect on that.