new season of Survivor on TV, time for my parents to become absolutely insufferable about it

It's deliberate.

there's a whole genre of person on here whose reaction to any post that is critical of liberalism is basically this like their mind can't even comprehend that one could point to, describe and critique liberal politics from a radical perspective youtu.be/zc-6EScylY0

They literally used plays by Cato to boost Troop morale. Washington viewed himself as Cincinnatus. The architecture of Washington is modeled after Rome. If you're going to be a prick, maybe do your research first.

“the nyt has to publish opinions they disagree with that promote policy that explicitly sucks, idiot! all newspapers do, moron! thats literally the only job newspapers have! to publish stuff that sucks and nothing else! stupid!” well then I guess all newspapers should burn.

btw. if anyone needs a reminder, this guy the western world is cheering on thinks a Muslim convinced Hitler to do the holocaust

man premade classes suck in Daggerfall, I don't think I can do it

still one of my favorite images

I managed to miss watching this until today, so I had no idea it's actually a campy sci-fi comedy Quite a silly movie, but alien costumes, miniatures and practical effects before the age of omnipresent CGI are precious and worth appreciating on their own

everyone i dont like is a russian troll - the NAFOid guide to political discussion

that's simply not true, sorry

always resort to some classy racism when you have nothing to say 😉

this is a weirdly compelling video essay about a song enjoyed it also, it's impressive how the design of Caramella Girls got consistently worse after each iteration

being sort-of viral on this website is increasingly funny to me

Kept thinking about the resolution people would be using Windows at in 1995 and found this CGW graphics card benchmark from Dec 1994! Interesting how they write about using a Flight Simulator 5.0 demo + a special driver to be able to see the framerate. And how most cards can't do 640x400 @30fps lol

LMAO that's spot on

YouTube sidebar: original Caramelldansen animation from 17 years ago me: finally some good fucking food

cleanfollow-bsky.pages.dev alright I resorted to this in order to clean up my follow list seems safe, but probably best to change your password after using it

two things I want Bluesky to fix: 1) not disabling mod lists whose author is deleted/blocked/blocking you 2) not unfollowing people who blocked you just discovered this second one and it's kind of amazingly bad

Btw. if you feel called out by things I say about liberals, I'd honestly invite you to examine why you even feel compelled to defend this political position. Are you deeply convinced by classics of liberal-democratic theory that it's the optimal way to organize a society? Why? I rarely encounter---

Soilent was incapable of an actual conversation so they blocked me - disappointed but not surprised.

going public with my theory that you can roughly predict someone's political worldview by asking them how they feel about the decline of Rome

in the average liberal worldview, a country that ritually crucified 10k civilians from every other country yearly, but internally they had pretty decent social policy, would be amazing and a shining example of democracy

you have to be really fucking dumb to call NK the worst regime in the world, frankly

wow. this is the first time I'm hearing this, so can't confirm, but apparently self-consciousness is in and for itself, when, and by the fact that, it is in and for itself for another self-consciousness; that is, it is only as something recognized. huge if true

woosh distant flashback from the past

Khamenei was also the outspoken opponent of having nuclear weapons, he called them a deadly sin. With him murdered, they will have hardliners in charge with no reason not to build nuclear weapons.

Sunday always has to kinda suck, that's how you know capitalism rules supreme

that feel when people start quoting The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and you can only think of the ridiculous (but genius) porn parody that completely overshadows it in your mind

Old Godzilla was fucking around Tokyo City like a big playground...

the more I think about this movie, the more I feel like it's basically an Evangelical Rapture theme cloaked in a sci-fi garb I have no idea if this is intentional but it's just as deeply cynical as something like Left Behind, only with weird mysterious aliens rapturing the true believers

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damn this is a wacky ass movie I expected some silly stuff but not exactly a biblical apocalypse worthy of Nicolas Cage I suppose

(quoting this from discord because it's a decent explanation) he is very plain about the method he is using - it is a dialectical method, taken from Hegel however, you don't need to be a PhD philosopher to understand it, the entire point of the dialectic is that it conceptually unfolds its object

Marx's theory is exactly as relevant as the day he wrote it, because it explains the inner logic of capital (its object) using a dialectical method. It can be expanded in the details, sure, but saying that he would need a "new theory" fundamentally misses what he accomplished in his work. Annoying.

exactly, nuclear disarmament was a radical position that the US has actively fought against it was most powerfully represented by the Communist International and later socialist states

Frustrating how passive most Americans are about their country being the world's biggest threat. War to them is purely a moral issue, they know no US city will suffer retaliation from Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, etc... And if it ever happens, it will be 9/11 again - they'll likely go 200% fascist

In any case, crazy thought, maybe Iran should have some nuclear missiles as a deterrent? Not very complicated thinking there, either nobody has nuclear missiles or everyone is gonna want some. Israel has made it very clear they're going to keep theirs and consider using them an open possibility

USA, 1990 : iran is two weeks away from a nuclear missile USA, 2000 : iran is two weeks away from a nuclear missile USA, 2010 : iran is two weeks away from a nuclear missile USA, 2025 : iran is two weeks away from a nuclear missile USA, 2026 : iran is two weeks away from a nu

i do this too

I'm surprised Kobo is offering this for free lol, I thought the free ebooks were all slop www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...

watched Terminator 3 today I've always been pretty clueless about this series but I remember the many TV reruns of the first two films at least never saw this one though, it's decent I guess? the enemy being an AI system makes it feel like it came out recently which kinda works

I should play the X-Wing / TIE Fighter series

I think it's most likely this species, I've had one enter my room before looks very fierce in this photo haha

just saw a little lizard walking on my window pane, I'll try to take a photo 🤩

It is crucial to understand that socialism gained *enormous* global prestige with the success of the anti-colonial revolutions.

anti-dialectical leftists in shambles