Coincidentally that’s exactly what they want to turn Gaza into as well. The oligarchs in the US and Russia both want places where they can live out their cyberpunk fantasies (raping trafficked sex slaves in the penthouse of their tax-free corporate office overlooking a shiny neon hell).
That may be the case, but no empire in the ancient world could possibly compare to the sheer scale of bastardry that takes place in the modern world. The US empire causes more suffering in a day than the Roman empire did in its entire history.
Pasolini, an atheist and communist, came close in the approach with ‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’, but the result is a rather romantic vision of the life of Jesus, perhaps dictated by both the chosen source material and Pasolini’s ‘nostalgia for belief’.
As a former Christian and current socialist, it makes sense for socialists/communists to have a romantic view of the life of Jesus. It’s the one part of my old beliefs that I can’t let go of, since it shaped the values that I have now. The values that Jesus preached are often the same values that lead people to socialism/communism.
Anyone eating that much THC has been working their way up to that for a long time.
Unless you’re a centrist, then nobody’s a Nazi and how dare you call anyone that, even if they did sieg heil and parrot Nazi talking points.
Uncharacteristically self-aware of you to post this in the shitpost community.
They’re not less racist, their racism and bigotry is just more non-specific / less focused. Except when it comes to transphobia; that seems to be one of their primary cultural exports.
It’s a bad argument anyway, since street-blocking protest crowds almost always part to allow an ambulance through. If an ambulance is stopped, it’s usually the cops blocking it.
Surely someone’s had the idea of doing the re-encoding client-side before uploading. That seems to me the obvious solution, especially since online creators already generally have beefy hardware for video editing.
There was a time when China outpaced the US on LGBTQIA+ rights (China decriminalized being gay before the US and most other western nations did), but progress stalled and the US caught up and then overtook them with the legalization of gay marriage.
Agreed about Machado, but Maduro isn’t this populist champion of the working class he presents himself as. I’m about as convinced of Maduro’s commitment to socialism as I am of Trump’s commitment to “affordability.” He’s just another corrupt campist, willing to stoop to any means necessary to secure and consolidate his own power under the delusion that it’s the only way to resist US imperialism (while doing little to nothing to actually improve the living standards and autonomy of the working class).
I mean, the game ruthlessly mocks them in satirical fashion, but fascists have always had poor media literacy so they could still like it similarly to how conservatives thought the Colbert Report was serious.
The Trump administration literally sold merch at the front gate of one such camp in Florida. Old prisons are being reopened and new ones are being built to hold all the new ICE detainees, and they throw them all together in a cell with deportation papers in the middle of the room hoping they’ll give up and sign to be willingly deported. ICE now has massive deportation quotas that they’re being pushed to meet.
The above doesn’t even scrape the iceberg of everything that’s been happening. Your confident ignorance betrays your stupidity.
However, I think the capitalist class has made it clear that they would not allow an FDR to save them. They turned down that offer with Bernie and again letting Biden run for a second term.
They’re just not desperate enough yet. They will cave when they begin to feel they are under personal threat.
The new wave of DSA-aligned progressives are running on an FDR inspired “Green New Deal.” If they get enough victories in next year’s primaries there could be a realignment of the DNC towards FDR style policies, so there very well could be an FDR type running in the 2028 presidential election with the support of the Democratic party. The wealthy donors who control the DNC would be forced to appease the base
It’s likely to be a very chaotic affair given Trump’s unwillingness to abdicate power. Unfortunately the only way I see trump leaving office peacefully is if his own party turns on him and votes along with Democrats to impeach him before the next election. Failing that we’ll get Jan 6 two: electric boogaloo and we get to find out if they worked out the kinks.
Bastards can sometimes be attractive, unfortunately.
The placebo rage bait effect works even on those who are aware that it’s placebo rage bait.
Because if Batman is around, there’s probably a camera too.
Andor is good precisely because it’s nothing like most other Star Wars media, so there’s a lot of people who enjoy it that aren’t part of the Star Wars fandom.
Humans are part of nature too, and we have our animal instincts same as any other animal. Only thing that differs is our capacity to self-reflect and exercise agency over our place in the ecosystem. What matters is that we have respect for life and don’t take it for granted. I agree that factory farms, hunting for sport or luxury goods like furs, etc. is wrong, but I don’t see a problem with a small farm raising some animals as long as they’re treated with respect and given a comfortable life. All animals - including us - are dependent on others for survival.