Authoritarianism will never die, there will always be people wanting to be dictator.

Violence is needed to hack back the sprouting fronds of fascism wherever it arises, but it will never stop arising, and Normandy wasn’t won with a strongly worded letter.

I am serious enough that I have punched nazis before and look forward to a time when I can punch nazis again.

Violence is necessary for a functioning society to address those that reject the social contract that are not amenable to rationale.

Some people are more dangerous alive than the disruption their death would have caused.

I appreciate and understand that you are a strict pacifist, and that you feel it is a worthwhile life to follow, and I agree with you.

The problem is, in order for most of the populace to be pacifists, there still needs to be agents of violence to remove the disruptors who wish to co-opt or destroy our society that are not amenable to words.

Your ideology cannot exist in the real word as it will be consumed by other ideologies that do not eschew violence.

I have played Dwarf Fortress and I consider myself quite good, pulled off a bunch of tricky megaproject engineering tasks and mastered hydraulics and lava flows.

Most people consider Dwarf Fortress a very hard game. I consider it a moderately hard game.

Noita is a

FUCKING

hard game

And I say that as a person with likely more than 20k hours in game.

I bought it, played it for 2 hours, got tired of dying to invisible poisoned zones and uninstalled.

I WANT to like the game but it is really stupidly buggy and claustrophobic

I’ve got 1k+ hours in both Fallout 4 and Skyrim, bought them both on opening day.

Haven’t finished either of their main quests, for Fallout I just really didn’t care at all about Shaun.

Hermaevs’ youtube channel has a no-hit RL1 boss run where she shows Morgott’s safe spacing and timing, got me through and now I’m trying to RL1 Radahn and I’m stuck there lol

I don’t know if it still works but abusing the physics engine to make kinetic ship obliterating shotguns added an easy extra hundred hours to my gameplay.

Tactics on how to spot propaganda

shared stories of propaganda sources exposed

Little know practices of the putinbots for study purposes

there’s a fucktonne of stuff that’s better than 35 renditions of ‘no shit sherlok’.

This is actually incorrect and European nobility showed the template.

Do you know who served in the houses of the truly powerful? The children of the slightly less powerful. For example, the Groom of the Stool, charged with wiping the king’s ass amongst other toiletry things, was a position hotly contested by noble families of all levels.

Once they wipe out the poverty class, their servants will be what remains of the middle class, who will be desperate to maintain their lifestyle.

It isn’t spoken of out loud but among the ultra wealthy, having an all white staff is considered a mark of social status. And once those disenfranchised middle class families bend the knee, their uncertain future is resolved and we have reinvented feudalism.

It’s where we’re heading.

They don’t care, they got to bust down a door and shout at people, that’s all that matters to the pigs.

But then they won’t get to jump into their exciting Swat carriers and get dressed up as real special ops bois nearly as often

I came here to get the fuck away from reddit yo…

Can we get a little deeper of a discussion as our top comment please? We used to be better than this…

Most upvoted top 2/3rds of the thread are all repeats of the same ‘yeah no shit’.

The remaining 1/3 is actual discussion…

Latex is not plastic, it comes from trees and your body doesn’t care.

Otherwise you really screwed up chewing all that bubble gum as a kid (which contains latex).

A lot of lemmiers (lemmings? Lemmists?) have only meme contact with condoms.

To be fair, it’s a ridiculously inert polymer

lol it’s not but with how much is EVERYWHERE the little you get from the food is less than what the packaging of the food already put in it.

Not actually true, you just won’t reach your target temperature evenly and it may discolor certain preparations.

The reason you remove air is to make better heat contact, you don’t need a vacuum unless you are cooking things that oxidize stupidly easily.

What the fuck has become of our society?

Mass media manipulation, constant class war, a legacy of ultrapatriotism, and crippled education has turned us into a nation of people arrogant in their own ignorance and fed up with how shit the world is today.

Mass media keeps us all at each other’s throats, stirring up hate and violence for views, and those media owners are almost all old conservative white men who will gladly court fascism for lower taxes.

What we perceive as food safety net failures is just another active weapon in the class war.

Everyone will wring their hands and say ‘What can we do it’s the economy!’ when it is rich people actively trying to erase who they consider as undesirable.