No idea

Nah you gotta do what’s best for you two, I’m just trying to get a read of where people are. I don’t plan on ever owning a house, so my concern’s more with getting my paycheck garnished.

Critical support to Tennessean used car salesmen with brains so fried by Qanon they’re stumbling backwards into opposing Bill Gates geo-engineering bullshit

Suddenly flashing back to that one dialogue where a human woman is desperately trying to get her mixed human/asari daughter out of a warzone and the galactic beuracrat she’s speaking to initially won’t do anything until the woman gives an emotional Sorkin speech that changes the beuracrat’s mind.

If this is a case of “person realizes something everyone already knew” please let me know.

Very interesting. Are there any works you’d recommend that talk more about this? Besides the one @Wertheimer recommended, that is.

Didn’t Hellenistic era Greeks have their own internal ethnic chauvanism going on though? Like Ionians didn’t like Dorians who didn’t like Magnetes or whatever?

I jotted down a line after finishing the game and its DLC that I was pretty proud of:

“Two species came to this star system to find God. One could not bear His truths. The other, He smote.”

The problems of 2014, of 1992, of 1979, of 1968, of 1963, of 1955…

A good handful of mostly Black, leftist organizers have “mysteriously” died since Ferguson way back in 2014. Same as it ever was.

This 10-year-old girl already owns 2 companies is a tax patsy for her rich parents and could retire become a run-of-the-mill failchild at 15 as a multimillionaire

I also get weirded out by the opposite reaction, where stories of getting in brawls with meth heads and dealing with family members being busted for drug possession are treated with a strange fascination.

I’ve only seen this reaction a few times, mostly vicariously. Like one time me and a couple friends were laughing about the times when dates had turned into drug deals, and the then-partner of one my friends insisted we tell them “more crazy stories.” Flattering, in a way, but also :what-the-hell:

That’s right you goddamn quakers. I was just talking on the phone to my family in a language THAT ISN’T ENGLISH. :sicko-blur:

Maybe, but they’re the demand side of the equation. They don’t like to associate with the supply side.

The anarchist-to-ML pipeline is real, and as someone who went through it, I’ll say that anti-structure Reaction is also real. A lot of anarchists (at least in my experience) are young and full of piss and vinegar and distrustful of any kind of hierarchy that could constrain their individual actions. It’s a form of liberalism that many outgrow and many don’t.

Then there’s the fact that in the U.S. at least, anarchism is far more tolerated by the state than is any kind of organized ML movement. Other comments have already addressed this, but it bears repeating: when you spend your whole life immersed in anti-communist propaganada, it’s easy to take at face value that ML governments / orgs are “just as bad” as the capitalists.

Who are the settlers in Palestine? The poor and dispossessed from Israel and from around the world.

Is this really the case though? I know there are some Israeli Haredi groups (with members living below the poverty line) that sponsor settlers, but I’ve also known some perfectly comfortable Americans that move out near Bethlehem.

Some of the settlements have pretty comfortable conditions even by U.S. standards, and even as nearby Palestinian neighborhoods still have to ration daily water.