I’m gonna sound basic, but dragons. Seems like almost all cultures have come up with their own ideas of dragons, from vile monsters to wise sages. Often with fantastical powers, like fire breathing and the like.

I especially like stories with dragons as villains, but working off some humanly inscrutable motivation, just intelligent, powerful beings seeing us as ants.

Also, dragon-adjacent creatures like wyverns, wyrms, drakes and others, there’s a lot of diversity in dragon folklore.

I learned how to deal with it in my family, thanks to the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism

My dialectical approach is to tell my father to shut the fuck up when he tries to talk shit about immigrants, trans people etc

I used to call this aesthetic “industrial sci fi” and Alien was the best example I knew of. The 70s and 80s were great for sci-fi in general.

sorry about the rice, but the meal looks bomb anyway!

Ours did too!

I’m conflicted bc I’m vegan too but I also love rats enjoying themselves (I take care of a mischief) and could see myself build cars for them lol

but yeah the experiment probably ended with the poor souls being killed off bc science still hasn’t found a way of keeping them alive I guess. I’m friends with a rescue group and it’s literally illegal for labs to give away animals after experiments, no matter if it’s non-invasive behavioural shit, they need to be killed. The group does some backroom deals to get the rodents out

death to SScientists I guess

also the rats in the thread pic look like one of ours, Jelly (and two previous, Soy and Peanut)

I once had a random dude in the elevator quote him to me. I didn’t know him, he just went ahead with some weird quote, I look at him weird and he’s like “that’s Solzhenitsyn” “uh… okay.”

I hope he cringes about being a weirdo to this day, bc I found it extremely silly in a bad way

Or we could get a Triangle of Sadness scenario where the crew takes over by being the only ones with survival skills, and bullies the rich libs into submission

Sadly it wasn’t on there, but thanks for the link, I found the origin of a different sample in a completely different song by a different artist that I’ve also been wondering about, so that was cool.

I am a newly appointed mod to a few comms (I sent the application after Carcosa posted this thread) and I half-heartedly agree with this. While I have enjoyed the old dunking, I do partially agree it fosters irony poisoning which is a hell of a drug, and the higher bar that c/counterpropaganda requires you to clear can help with more constructive/less misanthropic takes. I mean I will absolutely miss some of the wilder dunks, but I think it might lead to a somewhat healthier atmosphere in here

I live out in the countryside and sadly a lot of people here ride horses, and keep other animals for food. There are plenty of hunters here too. It makes me sad seeing them every time.

On a semi-serious note, can the US even fuck Palestine more than it has? Libs have constantly gone about how Trump will be even worse but like

weapons have been shipped under dems

Gaza is as good as completely obliterated

settlers are pushing into the West Bank

official number of the death toll hasn’t changed in months because there is nobody to update it, which is already a sign in of itself, but we’re probably at a few hundred thousand now

what can Trump even do to top it? It’s like stabbing a corpse, you can’t fuck the situation up more than the murderer already did

I might be talking out my ass actually, can’t find any actual numbers, just saw some statistics before that I can’t find anymore. I mean, not exactly a serious post either way lol

I knew a guy who spent 10 years in academia, then realized the pay is awful and became a software engineer. Now he’s a Musk fanboy with major brainworms, and his main hobby is “investment”

Stemlords, man.

oh shit is this the soulist guy’s gear?

Aww, thank you

as for the hair, that’s cool but I feel like I need to change it up

Oh, I’ve seen it too. Many shows back then had eco activism as a good thing, or at least oil execs as villains. I think even that weird “Motormice from Mars” show had an oil baron as the main antagonist.

And I don’t think it couldn’t happen now. Media, even when revolutionary on the surface, is barely driving real world engagement and can be easily defanged. We live in the revival era of anti-capitalist messaging in media (film and even video games), and yet it’s been fully consumed by capital. I hate Zizek and his clique, but Mark Fisher was spot on in Capitalist Realism.

Avatar, one of the biggest box office successes in the world, has a blatant anti-colonial message yet most people don’t apply it to the obvious parallells in the rral world. We just consume, feel good for a moment for agreeing with the obvious morally correct choice, then do fuck all about it. And execs know it.

sorry for the doomer note here

It’s the mirror image of the reactionary “this kind of activism only pushes people away”

I am all about kill your heroes etc, so I don’t follow her and only hear about her every few months, and while I am always positively surprised, she wouldn’t be the first to take a nose dive at a moment’s notice. At the same time, I don’t think she’s actually trying to sell out, her shit is extremely unsellable ever since she dropped the lib “school strike” and went in with more hardcore activism. I think she might be genuine, and I say that as somebody who thought she was just a preppy kid back during her strike years (she comes from a well-off family etc).

I live in sweden and the divide on Greta is hilarious. On one hand you have reactionaries who STILL put stickers like “fuck you greta!” on their shitty cars, on the other you have lib climate activists who seem downright scared of her more based activism and talk about her “having gone too far” in hushed voices. Only ppl I’ve met that like her now are either MLs or hardcore anarchists. Imagine if she would join a marxist org