[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

imagine being a liberal and having to accept that your personal voldemort cares more about Palestine than any leader you can choose from like even just being able to say that is more than so many western leaders

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 72 points 1 month ago

Any and all gaming projects, be they full game releases or some dudes personal mod, will be hounded by JAQing off about how communism is actually bad. There's a real smugness to it, too. Like, "whao guys I know you're having fun over here but we're all on the same page that stalin murdered my grandparents with a giant spoon, right??"

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 59 points 2 months ago

ouch boys, you forced police into solidarity with the workers

don't you know the police were your defense against the workers??

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Audiobookbay is a great site, and 80% of what I need is on there. Frustratingly, the 20% I'm missing is seemingly nowhere on the net.

Any comrades have an alternative I can look into? Or, hell, if anyone has the audio book for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Firestorm, I'd probably shit.

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 3 months ago

ahh yes, the regular posting snipers against a group way of crowd control and damage mitigation

as we all know, the line between 'protest' and 'more than protest' is extremely clearly defined. you would be silly to be concerned over the sights trained on you. just don't do anything more than protest, silly!

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

DE's 'insanely well crafted narrative system' and wonderful writing are to serve a point, to create impactful text/subtext through the mechanics that the developers were passionate about. This sort of backseat creativity irks the hell out of me because I promise you if the exact team that made DE set out to make some quirky witch cat game or something, it wouldn't have been nearly as good. Because the team were passionate about DE's subject matter and not passionate about quirky witch cat games.

The people passionate about cat witch games are making them and if they're not as good maybe that says something about the idea. You can't just take 'good concept' and combine it with 'idea i personally like' and get good art out of it.

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 3 months ago

Haha, when did 'not shooting dogs' fall into the woke spectrum of things

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml to c/film_tv_media@lemmygrad.ml

I really, really like For All Mankind. It's a good sci-fi show. It's not winning any awards for its depiction of the USSR, but it firmly puts the Russians in the antagonist seat, not necessarily the 'irredeemable evil' seat.

FAM getting a spin off entirely focused on the Soviet's perspective during its alternate history is not something I ever expected to see.

Considering that the latest season of FAM establishes the USSR outliving its real-life point of collapse, while retaining its communist values, I hope that this 'Star City' spin off is going to be an even more humanizing look at the Soviets.

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 101 points 4 months ago

I read that whole post giving him the benefit of the doubt before realizing the subreddit name

that is absolutely hilarious. why would you want to make cheating on your partner a part of your identity, enough that you must seek out other adulterers on reddit to discuss?

i hope he was married and his wife is due half of his shit

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 61 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Imagine typing all that out and feeling smart. Like, unironically saying, 'Are you implying that countries NEED to trade with USA to be successful?' in a post where you're being descriptive of world power dynamics. That is absolutely wild to me. Yes, dickhead, the international community needs to trade with each other to enjoy modern luxuries. Our entire way of life is built on international trade, if not ruthless exploitation from the imperial core. A poor capitalist country in a communist global community would struggle with resources just as much as any poor socialist country does today.

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I've never talked about anything that could even be considered close to Marxism with that side of the family. This MF has a sixth sense or something.

His previous book suggestion to me was 'How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization.'

I don't have any purpose to sharing this. I just thought it was funny.

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 104 points 5 months ago

W-what? Why? Seriously, what sort of message is this supposed to impart? The 'Seriously, we missed you' sign makes it seem like a corps genuinely trying to welcome everyone back in and rebuild an 'office culture'

But the other two are genuinely mean spirited? 'hey are you glad we get to tell you how to dress again?' and 'you enjoyed working with your pets i bet, fucking loser'

I would actually be boiling with rage. I'm never going back to the fuckin office, especially not now that it seems it's a possibility they're going to demean me lol

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 170 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't have any one political view I make my own and follow no one

how do you get to the age of being a grown, functional adult and still believe this

political education is down the shitter

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's stuff like this why I can never believe these fuckers are anti-war. They love war. They froth it. As long as the circumstances of the war are as easily explained as the plot of a Star Wars movie, they're all for it.

[-] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 56 points 1 year ago

Why are liberals so eager to excuse this sort of stuff because it's wartime? They would never accept it happening in their own country, even if they were at war. I guess because it's 'somewhere else' it doesn't matter to them.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml to c/film_tv_media@lemmygrad.ml

For All Mankind is an AppleTV original that shows an alternate history retelling of the space race. In this AU, the Soviets land on the moon first, which extends the space race into a decades-long conflict.

The show currently covers about 30 years of alternate history showing the US and the Soviets establish a moon base, new propulsion systems, and eventually landing on Mars.

This show is really good. It's excellent hard sci-fi. It really sticks out to me, though, for its depiction of the Soviets.

See, in this universe, the Soviet Union doesn't collapse. At least not at the same time it collapsed in our own history. Instead, they stick around and consolidate significant power, winning victories they lost in our own timeline.

This means that by the 90s, communism has essentially rooted itself as a dominant ideology in most of the world.

Now, don't get me wrong: this show depicts the soviets as evil, with the KGB boogyman following every Russian character. But the show doesn't do a great job at depicting this. Instead, the Soviet Union ends up being an absolute economic powerhouse that consistently keeps up with the US at every turn, only starting to fall behind technologically for unclear reasons in the latest season. Hell, Mexico is communist in the FAM timeline.

I think this is telling. If you construct a universe where the Soviets 'don't lose,' they end up winning. Half of the world is communist and it's gotten to the point where it seems internally inconsistent that the US is managing to keep up.

I just wanted to post about one of my favorite TV shows. Anyone else watch FAM?

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