[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 80 points 4 months ago

Democrats get elected after the most important election of our lives, with the mandate to end populist fascism and bring back the Obama years. Then they spend 3 years fucking up, then calling anyone who notices a dumb hick russian bot. Now it's a few months out and it's time for the most important election again.

It's how we always slide to the right. They never do shit, just hop from one gaff to another with a smug attitude.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 84 points 4 months ago

So I was reading Anne Frank's Diary the other day. I couldn't help but notice that it seemed she lived under the Soviet Union or Maoist China.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 80 points 5 months ago

I will eat the toe meat off a cow that was fed chicken shit its whole life but I draw the line at cells in a sterile environment.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 79 points 6 months ago

This is totally different from Trump. Trump wanted Republicans to ban TikTok. Biden wants bipartisan support in banning TikTok. Two very different things.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 81 points 7 months ago

Since US prices are so high, they were salivating at a Chinese housing crisis. That way they could enter the Chinese market and buy up properties for cheap. But since the government is going to buy up the cheap homes, they can't enter the market. So now comes the propaganda tantrum about how there's no way this will work, it's evil, it's authoritarian.

Problem is that shit only works on Americans. Appealing to Chinese people's sens of individualistic English property rights doesn't really work.

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When you're not driving it, you can wear it like a mech. It all happens on X.

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Protestantism.jpg (hexbear.net)
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Yet the CIA can't even make an effective heart attack gun. What is all that money for? You could have just made lemonade.

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Sorry Gosling. Trump kino is on the menu.

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They're so proudly ignorant. Every policy board, every think tank, every council is full of people who do intellectual vibes but despise having to actually learn things or think about stuff. They're completely obsessed with misinformation and being the smartest person in the room but have no tolerance for knowledge or curiosity.

Don't ever let them get away with saying the common person is too stupid to understand the real world. They are epistemological vandals. They replace actual knowledge with markets and consider learning to be an exercise in marketing.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago

The AI said "All Lives Matter" and this was a huge problem for people who have been saying "All Lives Matter" for the past three years.

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[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 84 points 10 months ago

What if, and just hear me out, we boost Trump's visibility in the media to remind voters that this an election between him and Joe? Once they see that they'll just vote for Joe. There's no way they would vote in Trump! Someone like that being president?! No way. Joe would win handedly.

Also Joe needs to avoid Wisconsin.

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Empire in Decline (hexbear.net)
submitted 11 months ago by betelgeuse@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

Imagine spending years playing San Andreas. GTA IV hasn't been announced. Your mind races with the possibilities of a new game. You imagine they're going to do a whole country instead of a few cities. You think of all the mini games, all the weapons, and customization. It is the first "next gen" GTA after all.

Then you have been playing IV for years. GTA V hasn't been announced. Once again your mind races with possibilities. There is no end to the amount of detail it will have, there is nothing you can't do, there is no limit to the map.

Now you've been playing V for years. Here we go again. But there really isn't anything to imagine. You know it's going to be just a bigger map. At least until it gets close to release, where the devs admit the map is the same size as V. They claim it's okay because there's more things to do. But all that means is more things to collect, more so-so mini games.

You've played RDR2 so you know how much detail it could have. You know they'll simulate everything. So there can't be any real surprises. You'll see more wildlife. Your car windows will fog up. Your character will swat mosquitos.

You know the graphics can be just a little better, not like moving from PS2 to PS3. More reflections, slightly better lighting, a little more detail in the textures.

Now you realize you're on the plateau. There are no more great heights to surmount.There is only lateral movement from here on out. GTA VI can only be as good as V, with marginal gains in every category, but not exceptional gains in any. You'll drive from Point A to B. You'll shoot the gangs. You'll escort the cars. Everything you have already done.

There is a running theme in culture right now and it's that large, long-standing franchises are starting to eat shit. They can no longer push the needle. GTA will join them.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 80 points 11 months ago

I know you all joke but if Trump is elected it will be a disaster. He will continue to support the genocide of Palestinians but he will say different things about it. Well, he won't say completely different things. Just the wording of the same things really. He won't say for Israel to be careful about committing war crimes while still supporting them. He'll still support them but he'll also say they should be doing the same genocide that they're doing now. And then what will we lose as a nation? We will lose our way.

Also Trump is too inept to build the border wall. Biden must be allowed to continue building Trump's wall, not because of racism, but because terrorists and crime is hurting our national security.

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Thank you Brandon (hexbear.net)

While leftists were busy praising dead babies Joe Brandon was on the phone, making calls, getting water turned back on.

Thank you Joe for doing all that you do, totally unappreciated by childish leftists.

Here are some other great things Brandon has done:

  • Solved childhood hunger

  • Did not build a wall

  • Was more progressive than FDR

  • Canceled more student debt than any other President in 200 years.

  • Was tough on China

  • Arrested the Mango Mussolini

  • Saved Ukraine

  • Defeated Communist Putin

  • Expanded Obamacare and gave healthcare to millions of people

  • Had the first African American Asian Vice President

  • Record employment of the African Americans

  • Been the craziest white boy you ever seen

  • Overcame stutter

  • Dead Son

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 79 points 11 months ago

Jesus was black.

God is a woman.

Karl Marx was Chinese.

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Barrack Obama was the first actual Black president. And he was after Bill Clinton but before Joe Biden. I know it can get confusing with so many other presidents that are black because a novelist said so. But Obama was the first actual Black one, not Clinton, although he is said to be the first.

Just to be clear. Let me be clear, even.

https://archive.ph/ZofKj

And before you think this is just some well-meaning but misplaced intro to a good article about increased diversity in DC, please know that Biden is the third black president because he has more black people working under him than ever. He also has made sure black people have less unemployment than ever.

I remember some racist president making that same point about his term but I can't remember who it was...

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 81 points 1 year ago

Why yes, poor people in another country should die so I can sound like a smart wargame strategist on my forums.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 81 points 1 year ago

"I have seen homeless who buy bottled water on SNAP only to dump and resell the bottles so they could get cash for their addictions"

  1. You didn't see that, you saw a viral video of a black person dumping out water in a parkinglot and everyone told you it was an EBT scam. Just because you see it shared on the internet does not mean it's common.

  2. Maybe the solution is to help their addictions rather than just throw them cash they can only use to buy ramen and bottled water. You don't nuke or means test a helpful program just because you fail to address another issue.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago

You would know socialism doesn't work if you spent more time working under capitalism smuglord

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