Commit to the bit. The bit is eternal.

Smith has to be one. He’s literally the father of capitalism, and viewed it as revolutionary against the existing feudal order.

The fact that the European empires later weaponized it as colonial enforcement and industrialization came along shortly afterwards to finish off what he viewed as a way for guildsman to control their own destinies is a tragedy beyond his control.

Exactly. These peoples’ opinions are incoherent because they’re the product of a system designed to pump out incoherent, idealist workers. Do something to improve these peoples’ material conditions, show them there’s an alternative to what they’ve been stewing in for their entire lives, and a not-insignificant chunk of them will be in your Das Kapital reading group by the end of the year.

The Dems primarily ran on a “Bush is mismanaging the wars” line rather than an antiwar one. There was never a credible movement within the DNC to end Iraq or Afghanistan.

I am once again reminding people that the US also has a 240V electric grid, it just comes in from the street split into two 120V mains.

Edit: Our plugs are fucking terrible though. Literal goddamn deathtraps.

TC69 pulling the legendary bottle of E out of the hot couch like the sword from the stone.

I know it’s popular to defend TLJ because the main detractors against it are all racist chuds who hate it for the stupidest reasons, but it’s still a terrible movie. The plot goes nowhere, the world building is an affront to basic human sanity, and every character in the movie had a clause in their contract to grab hold of The Idiot Ball the second they came on screen and never let go of it lest any of them use their brains for long enough to negate the gigantic plot holes and stupid decisions permeating every scene. It had some great ideas that would have been fresh and exciting if they were executed better and weren’t in the second movie of a trilogy that was never intended to have those themes (you can’t really pull the “heroes can come from anywhere and be nobodies” theme when your entire trilogy is nostalgia bait glazing all the legendary figures from the OG trilogy in every other scene).

If you put a gun to my head and made me pick a best film out of that trilogy I’d unfortunately say TFA, with the caveat that it’s just a significantly worse version of A New Hope that hadn’t completely squandered its cast yet.

They have the same exacting standards for comedy that they do food.

He is a finn, what do you expect from him?

Continued use of the swastika in his military and a stubborn refusal to acknowledge how many Soviets the Finns starved to death in Leningrad while working with the Third Reich, presumably.

Fuck this meme is so good

This may legitimately be one of the most damaging moments in western hegemony moving forward. The one area where BRICS and other non-westerm blocs have not made major strides to dissociate from the west is Linux; even North Korea uses its own Linux distro domestically. A large part of the reason for that is that it’s traditionally been seen as such a stable and generally apolitical kernel that the usual worries about spyware in your firmware isn’t as big of a concern, so China and Russia don’t have major concerns about leveraging the kernel for their domestic industries. Hell, Russian programmers have been massive players in open source development traditionally.

This is fire across the bow for Russia, and you can be sure some bureaucrat in Beijing is taking notes right now.

Even for Western propaganda this is the mother of all nothingburgers. China performed routine wargames in its own territorial waters and sailed a carrier group within 100 miles of its own mainland, and somehow this is worth an article on.

At least they’re not claiming the CPC violated Taiwan’s airspace by flying over their own landmass again.

My guy, if you don’t want to learn malloc just learn Rust instead of making every basic function of 99% of electronics take literal seconds.

The proletariat

I generally lean towards classes with more mechanical complexity, so generally casters/status effect types. The gameplay loop needs to sate my ADHD, so if all I’m doing is smacking something with a sword by left clicking I’m quickly going to get bored and drop it.

*reactions to revolutions that threaten the entire current global order right in the backyard of the major empires not included

If you’re facing a one-front war, you have justification for your defense. If you’re facing a two-front war, either you started some shit or you got tag-teamed by your neighbors, so a toss up whether or not you deserved it.

If you’re facing a seven-front war, it is totally and unequivocally your fault. There has never been a country minding its own business that gets dogpiled to that degree in the modern era.

What exactly is the point of peacekeepers if the second an invading force starts shelling the area they just fuck off? The UN didn’t issue you those rifles for show.

I foresee some of these kicking off a struggle session by accident, but fuck it, we ball.

The actual mechanisms of the Cuban blockade are that any ship/shipping company that trades with Cuba is banned from American ports for the next 6 months. If BRICS is openly inviting Cuba in, that means that a meaningful chunk of the economic bloc’s logistics companies feel comfortable effectively never dealing with the US, which has massive implications for global trade going forward.