Shyfer @ Shyfer @ttrpg.network

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I probably would've thought the same if a friend didn't regale us with the descriptive introduction to the torture scene.

American trail mix

A protest is not the same as a coup. A coup is a coordinated attack to replace one regime with another, a sudden, violent overthrow of political leadership by a relatively small group of people. The business plot, Jan 6, Brooks Brothers Riot, were all about that.

Even if it turns violent, a protest is not the same as a coup. A protest is basically where you try to affect change or public opinion through large public demonstrations. It's trying to appeal the public or leadership to listen to you. Meanwhile, a coup doesn't really need the public. You're forcefully attacking the levers of power or the process to change leadership itself (ex: stopping elections, disrupting people counting votes, stopping electors from voting or swearing in, etc.). Meanwhile, even if some hooligans burn a police car during a BLM protest, that doesn't suddenly turn the protest into a coup.

Occupy was mostly peaceful anyway. The whole joke at the time was that it was a bunch of dirty hippies doing drum circle in the park and in front of finance buildings, like that they were peaceful to the point of not being effective, just annoying. That and their demands weren't clear. There was no criticism of them because violence that I remember at all.

Basically every war we did during the Cold War was about "sharing" the greatness of capitalism over communism, too. We're still pretending our embargo against Cuba is just for the same dumb reason.

The what? Lol

I think that's a big reason I'm so pro-privacy. I'm sure if the US weren't a couple steps ahead of you guys towards fascism, I'd prioritize other things, too. Hopefully you all can stop the march towards the right of your government before it gets worse.

Anonymity is important for various reasons. You can't predict everything bad a government will try to do to stifle freedom that a person may want to avoid. Off the top of my head, I could see someone trying to pay for an abortion or something like that in a southern state where it's illegal, for health reasons to save their own life.

I thought that it was a pretty good, obvious joke. People are too sensitive or here sometimes.

I feel called out hard. Must. Resist. Saying. Lol.

Dammit

Zionist and Jewish are not the same thing, they're not even euphemism like (((globalist))). There are Jewish people protesting against Zionism, and Christian people fighting hard for it. It's not the same thing and no leftist thinks it is. Every now and then some Nazi tries to conflate them, and leftists do need to see it and shut it down, but that's a different issue.

The US government is controlled by the same interests and lobbbyists that control the government, so it's similar although not the same thing. Just because their interests align at this moment because the billionaires don't want competition and the government has a hard-on for Israel doesn't mean their right.

And for the record, I don't even use Tik Tok, and I personally think social media and shortform content is bad for young brains and probably causing a lot of ADHD and impairing my ability to read. But I find this whole bill very fake and performative and probably done for the wrong reasons. It's weird that we finally got an international perspective unfiltered by US media companies that bow to AIPAC and of course it's getting banned.

That summary and game trailer is beautiful and hilarious lol. It totally brings me back to Starship Troopers. I want to play it even more now lol.

The Starship video in general is so cool. And I love the stabilizing effect in this one, it really does help.

Omg this sounds amazing actually. I kind of want to play it now lol.

Just curious, as someone who hasn't looked up much about it, does Helldivers 2 have the satirical themes as Starship Troopers, too? Or is it just about fighting bugs in space?

I wish that was true where I live, then I wouldn't be the only one. That supposed to be the whole idea of it, too.

What did he do to embarrass himself in front of you?

Ooh I'm excited to try this. Going to do this next time I want a slight snack.

So you guys did this lol.

Like the person who brings the rain by washing their car.

Definitely sounds worth it then. Well, if it's as a big a jump as the PS4 to PS4 Pro.