As a non-USian viewing all this from the outside, I’d say blaming the people at the bottom for what the largest gaslighting machine in the history of human civilization has managed to achieve is absolutely masochistic.

Your anti-democratic political establishment is to blame for this.

I have never understood why people anticipate game realeases - I mean, people have learned how the AAA game industry works by now, right?

Yeah… tons of bribe money will do that to the governments of weak nations - it’s almost like Cuba had the correct idea.

Last time I checked, big foreign corporations are still looting and pillaging all over Africa as if independence never happened… I wonder why?

edit: This includes Shell, a Dutch corporation, btw.

When was this nationalist hokum ever in date? Nationality has always been a piss-poor substitute for actual cultural identities… that’s the whole reason classical liberal nation states had to be forced onto people through state brutality.

What about confronting it’s colonial present? Last time I checked, the colonialist world order that underpins the wealth of the Global North hasn’t ended.

Maintaining a settler-colonialist state in the face of people who aren’t just armed with spears takes a lot of money, I guess.

They don’t bat an eyelid when you accuse Israel of being an Apartheid-state - it’s like water flowing off a duck’s back. Call Israel a kapo state, however, and they lose their shit. That they can’t ignore.

basically the UN is a forum for dialogue and we need the big players to be part of it.

Allowing the five biggest arms manufacturers on the planet to decide “security” issues is no different than allowing the five biggest drug cartels in the world to decide “health” issues.

FR though, jokes aside 90% of atheists I see on the internet are just reactionaries

I’d say 90% is still being generous.

I have zero sympathy for anyone that bought anything connected to Phony Stark. Zilch.

You knew what you were buying into - you live with it.

A way to rapidly exit a game a la The Binding Of Isaac: Afterbirth. It has saved that game from being rage-deleted off my machine plenty of times.

I recently came back to Lemmy from reddit to escape the batshit pro-Israel censorship happening on there right now and I have to say that the quality of the content and discussion has just gone up.

I’m delusional for telling that ancient texts should “respected studied and understood”

Study and understand them as much as you want… but if you are trying to whitesplain away western-backed settler-colonialism by using these ancient texts as a prop you are either delusional or a propagandist.

Sadly there’s a whole bunch of people that take those texts just real fuckin serious

Not really… they just pretend to to justify their power and privilege. You’ll find just as many narratives in the old testament that subverts the ones the settler-colonialists are using - for instance, the (supposed) ill treatment of the Hebrews by the Egyptian Pharoah isn’t half as terrible as what Israel is subjecting Palestinians to.

I gave the most recent example

Do you have another one? As demonstrated, your previous claim is a pretty dodgy one.

So… just more western-backed genocidal settler-colonialism.

The west is supporting the country being invaded

Oh, sure… but not enough to actually score a decisive victory over Russia, eh? You know… that thing the Chechens managed back in the 90s without the most gigantic military logistical machine in the history of civilization sitting right next to it’s western border?

Yeah… I don’t think that’s the flex you think it is, Clyde.

What did old Malcolm X say about the media again? Something about the media’s purpose being to make you hate the oppressed and love the oppressor?

moon landing

You mean that thing the US only did because of a nationalist pissing contest?

banning CFCs

Who were the first to use them in our appliances, pray tell?

German purity law

Hmmm… okay - I’ll give you this one (I sure as hell hope you’re referring to the beer laws).