Its gotten to a point where I'm not sure what the most existentially horrifying outcome of the election even is at this point.
Ericthescruffy
joined 5 years ago
Genuinely Jaw dropping. I just went and watched the video because I couldn't believe it, but its just as bad as its implied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2-fJw4SBg, about 4 mins in if you want to hear it for yourself.
I was already prepared to vote green but I'm stunned how little they're even trying to make me have cold feet about it. I don't fucking understand it...why don't they just fucking lie like they do about everything else?!??
I feel like my kiddo is a solid barometer for what will hit the pop culture.
His take on the Minecraft movie is he doesn't like the way they screwed up the scale, the crafting, and the weird animation/live action hybrid....but he's still super excited for it.
I think it will be a decent hit, turn a profit...then completely evaporate and leave no lasting cultural impact.
Sometimes it feels like the American economy, the tech sector at least certainly, is basically just a series of pyramid schemes that are all sort of loosely connected and propping each other up.
Punished Venom Sinwar moment....
Fifty points to anyone who can find a picture of a president sporting a beard after 1893.
Do pre-presidency photos count? There's that infamous picture of Bill and Hillary from the 1970s looking like a pair of nerds.
"Hearts are in the right place" is code for "won't challenge the supremacy of money and corporate power in America". He's giving away the game because its basically an admission that either candidates agenda won't fundamentally change the status quo and so either one winning is acceptable.
For real. Also: I was promised tons of cool dangerous unregulated tech to go along with it! Can't get a machine gun rocket launcher arm prosthetic but at least you can purchase a the license to a jpeg of one with dumb little speaker which is spying on you to sell your data. Shit blows.
I remember when I first heard this dialogue on release I thought it was pseudo intellectual psychobabble.
...it makes more and more sense year after year and it scares me.
So I'm a dumb engineering guy who has a tentative grasp on geopolitics and Israel at best but, There was a magazine cover I saw a while back that showed a bunch of dominoes with the flags of Various countries with Israel at the forefront. The headline and the cover were pretty blanat in saying: If Israel falls the rest of the west will fall from the domino effect.
That imagery is obviously hyperbolic but I think to a larger extent than we sometimes appreciate; a lot of very powerful people genuinely believe that. I think they view Israel as being basically a requirement for any future with western hegemony, and since a world without that hegemony is completely untenable to them we're basically all in on the project now. Either the dream of greater Israel happens or we have to start managing and facing the decline.
"....first as a tragedy...then as a farce..."
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