Isn’t this dunk tank material?

I don’t know why any of you engaged with them on that thread further than Awoo did. Obviously, that person is a liberal in a crisis cult of Biden brought on by denial that our political and social institutions have produced and unveiled a morally and intellectually bankrupt and contemptuous elite that is now brazenly displaying their depravity and indecency for all of the country - and the world - to see.

The naked, brazen, and true face of empire that is impossible to hide from is expressed in Biden as it was in Trump has liberals screaming to be let back into Plato’s cave.

Denialism’s embrace of liberals is rooted in the Democratic party’s post 2016 strategy of becoming infallible and uncompromising to explain Trump’s victory, Hilary’s defeat, and revulsion as to how Trump could have defeated Hilary.

The correct response to this is mockery in the moment, and then block + ignore. Not always in that order

Dawntrail!

Loving Viper & Picto. Didn’t really progress the MSQ so much as its boring me to tears but I love the scenery and music :D

True, but students doing an apprenticeship/training is a bit more rare than just receiving a general secondary education.

I suspect that’s what it used to be, and that’s how boomers came of age under or how Gen X recall their parents career trajectory.

Calling 15-18 year olds “NEET” is a wild one.

I think it’s okay to take a gap year after high school, and take breaks from employment, education, and training now and then.

Just don’t do it for too long or you’ll turn into

peanut butter and gummy bears on my pizza

I think they also harassed Steve Blum for some of his performances. Lena Heady too for her portrayal of Cersei, and Jack Gleeson for his portrayal of Joffrey.

isnt there a scientific study that says people get worse at video games after 25 years old?

The way that the bourgeoisie arrested and seized control from aristocracy and monarchy, (e.g, England) making the latter into the symbol of the state and central authority and undermining the former’s dominance in shaping the future of the country, yes.

I think the Erebonian empire’s situation can be compared to Meiji era Japan, where an oligarchy emerged to bring Japan away from isolationist feudalism to imperialist bourgeois democracy, modernization, and industrialization.

Idk, the Bismarck analogue guy (Osbourne?) was supposed to be a representation of the emergent bourgeoisie taking control from and over the aristocracy. The emperor was basically a puppet of his - not even given voiced lines - and the state had begun to be fully centralized. The peasantry and proletariat at that time weren’t as class conscious, politically coherent, or as organized as the bourgeoisie were.

The game’s politics seem to be consistent with how history played out.

Netflix used to have historical fiction stories about Turkey called Etrugl. I quite liked it.

Started watching House of the Dragon. I quite like it. Certainly more coherent and suspenseful than GoT was past season 3.

The point is trite, since it’s been echoed since the 90s and 00s, and is and was much of Gen X’s cultural expression: The choice presented by @peppersky of being a suburbanite robbed of humor and youth, or a manchild, is a form of colonization of the mind via capitalism. Our unique selves buried under consumption of content and fulfilling social roles and goals determined by the capitalist system. (Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with either of these choices, but living like this also turns life into a purgatory of repetition and variation. It deprives life of color and purpose that become filled by junk ideology.)

Instead, we should be aspiring to be self-actualized adults with our own individuality and aspiration for life beyond checking milestones or consuming media.

For me, the show isn’t fun to watch. I liked Jensen Ackles though

I kind of noticed that westerners treat the oppressed as non existent entities, or ghosts.

The inside joke on the banned subreddit was that Citations Needed provided more insightful coverage and analysis of the world as it was to nascent and literate people discovering leftist critique of the world. The joke was about what Citations Needed was not. It was not exciting, irreverent, mockery of politics and media but coherent and thorough assessment and dissection of media, politics, power, and the history of bullshit.

Hunter Robinette Biden, son of the current President of the United States of America, Joseph Belden.

USAF Veteran. OIF/OEF

https://x.com/AHelikitty/status/1799888273466065391

hmm