On the contrary, it exposed that the closest thing we have to this is just rich people trying to go back to feudalism before too many people catch on that aristocrats are merely authoritative parasites, and force them into their luxury bunkers

Oh, we’re allowed to talk about it outside of Israeli Signal, now?

They have to work so hard at just propping up their biases (on penalty of hell in many cases) that it’s hard to conceive of a world where other people aren’t also secretly doing that.

But guuuuuys, everybody’s supposed to lie and make less money and become slaves :( if you don’t do that, what’s this last 50 years of political gamesmanship and duplicity and propaganda been for??

This, they are literally anti intellectual

How quickly the goalposts move, very convenient

But yeah, I generally agree, I’m not the one that framed the discussion that way.

The only meaningful lines of division are along class groups, as the upper class continually consolidates wealth and decision-making power. It’s just that most rich people are also old.

You’re tone policing a shitposting sub but I’m the one who needs to chill okay sure

If the average age is above any millennial, they couldn’t be the majority group. It makes no sense to pin blame on a younger generation when the reins of power are being clung to by the elder generation across all imaginable contexts, not just game development.

The average age of a manager in gaming is 45 and the oldest millennial is 44 lol get mathed idiot

It’s like having a roommate who keeps insisting that you should get rid of the fridge, we could use it to buy more beer and there’s a mini fridge in his room anyway so what’s the problem

A rep from a Alaska introduced a bill that would attempt to make ranked choice voting illegal 🫠 just open tyranny

I’m so pleased to have brightened your day.

Yeah titanic like the ship

so happy for liberals on the internet to finally have their own thought terminating cliche in “tankies”, the jealousy for “woke” must have been overwhelming

insomuch as USAID was a tool for exerting soft power by lifting up global communities and spreading goodwill for America through humanitarian effort, I support what it was, I didn’t want to see it gutted. insomuch as China is exerting soft power by building infrastructure and investing in industry, it’d be nice to see the US exert a little soft power against us citizens from time to time.

In practice they have been pretty hands off as they develop the global south afaik.

They’re also only doing it for its resources, I think you could realistically assume, but it can’t be denied that their approach has brought much better results than America’s so far.

It’s weird that nobody even considers systemic change as a possibility anymore

I mean obviously we’ll need to hold another election before we can get somebody else in there and even see an opportunity, but if actual accountability were implemented that targets this, if citizens united would stop leaking billionaire influence into our groundwater, you COULD restore faith in America.

I guess the issue is, how possible is any kind of anti-oligarchism policy, when they hold the whole government? And once, IF, we get the chance, is there anyone with the competency to get it implemented? Or will we blow it like we have every time since the reconstruction?

What I hope happens is we oust him and do some serious work on our systems that prevents stuff like this.

Though the track record of our leaders is pretty depressing, maybe they’re starting to wake up now that we get to see Endgame Capitalism

All he has succeeded in doing is violently ripping the US away from its place at the center of the global hegemony.

Which is not great for those of us in the US, but honestly had to happen, the rest of the world clearly cannot depend on us. Our entire political system is built on honor systems and pinky promises, the rich can do whatever they please and never see accountability.

Right wingers consistently shoot and ram cars into peaceful protestors: I sleep

Random individuals destroy private property of random individuals: REAL SHIT

THIS is terrorism.

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