um. no? it's their regional monopolies

that shit makes me question the value of this platform. my Ukrainian friends don't take shit like that kindly, and i love them too much not to also be like, "hey. fuck off"

"oh, so we stopped being weird and y'all still made anti planet governments in charge? okay. then we're going back to being weird and violent. fuck you"

the thing is… geopolitics are just highschool cliques expanded out. if you had a bad time in highschool (hint, everyone did, even the popular kids) congrats, you understand how the world works. that's all it ever has ever actually been. our most poorly adjusted people become in charge of countries and enact what's been done to them to everyone else out of a sense of being wronged even if they were rich and popular in school because their daddy never loved them

this is what the "the victims can be who de-escalate first" crowd are actually advocating. they may not realize it but their words mean the victim should just lay down and get genocided

we will continue to call your game an action rguelike, sir. you don't get to add a twist to a genre and then be who's the genre

they perceive things as better because right wing propaganda pumps people full of negative emotions so they'll vote right, and now that the election is over, they don't need to be made to feel scared all the time

stop trying to justify your gangbang. just go have the gangbang. we'll all be proud of you either way

but we can't even look into it because we've established a political environment in which russian collusion is considered poor taste, rather than bad

yes. all the time.

reagan gutted our education system, then bush ii broke it, then trump set it on fire.

expect us to get even dumber

"currently"

they always have been. what's changed is our awareness. and the ruling class doesn't like that awareness. so they've tuned the algoithms to break it, bought twitter, pumped the internet with rage from russian troll farms, astroturfed everything with ai slop, and broke web search and our ability to find anything.

the worst part is, it seems to be working. gen z had more access to truth than any generation before, but instead they only got propaganda. they got prageru kids, they got a youtube altgorithm that "randomly" pushed nazi shit, they got social media platforms that disencentivize engaging on issues

bunch of americans, too. about 75mil, at least

the true danger of targeted advertising has manifested itself…

sittin' over there too like "my god. this shit was so easy. these mfs just let us do it"

getting 2/3 of anyone to agree on anything is hard enough when you're not dealing with 40 million people, all of whom have direct consequences of the outcome of the decision. you're gonna have a few deluded souls who've allowed themselves to think russia (lowercase intentional) is their ally, but you're also going to have people who think the best thing to do is ceasefire now and find a better path in the future. i'd estimate there's around one perpective on this war per ukrainian citizen, and so "should we retain our boundaries when this is over" is just one way of getting a cross sectional view of those perspectives

now imagine being a heavy duty vim user and your coworker ssh's into a machine, opens up vim, and eventually closes it by writing all their changes and then backgrounding the process, and then rebooting the machine

everyone suffers in a global system of torture. even the beneficiaries

i don't think it's positive. i think it's horrible. we're assisting in mass torture. but i don't have a better synonym to insert there. i'm open to a better word because words matter

it's astounding the number of people who don't understand the scope of our terrifying military power. any amount of killing worldwide can be made worse. it's extremely easy to imagine if you bother to try. but a stunning number of young people seemingly don't know how bad things can be. and i've said this a few times, but all the people i'm out in the streets protesting these awful things with are people who voted. where the fuck are these people whose morals wouldn't allow themselves to vote for a candidate supporting genocide? why aren't they helping us, the people fighting against this? is it that their morals only exist when it's convenient for them, when it doesn't endanger their comfort?

could it possibly be they're more complicit in genocide than they think but refuse to examine the truth of their actions?