i recently learned the new york democratic party machine was largely behind the pogrom against black residents of NYC during the civil war popularly known as ‘draft riots’.

It’s mostly due to the sino soviet split, doing business with China and not attacking them was an orientation that (successfully) undermined the socialist bloc

i’m going to do a fresh skyrim install and it’s slightly tempting to do a premade modlist but like…

whatever fresh experiences that could yield, it’s not really like playing a ‘new game’, when you play an actual new game there’s an onboarding with the features, mods are not designed this way. you can’t just jump into a 100 mods you havent read the documentation for and understand how it works? and 90% of the time these things are not explained in game. because why would it be when the intended experience is someone familiar with the game installing a change to it?

this one is so deeply strange to me, like they made it up it’s not a real existing cultural appropriation so why would people so uncomfortable with chinese people choose for that to be the thing? they could’ve chosen other languages plausibly white or adjacent that’d still indicate the cosmopolitan space culture

popcorn maker is seconded

huh apparently andor and han are supposed to be the same age idk, def share your hope none of the characters turn out to be secret jedis

meh jedi should be fairly well known to his generation, he was born before the empire killed them.

Treatle is like Wordle but you identify the treat based on selected reddit reviews of it

every ambassador to the US is probably scrambling to order valuable gifts to personally bestow before these meetings

of course it can but only if a contractor comes by in a cybertruck and charges you 80k for it

for fucking real. the only worthwhile ones are low-quality documentary level just on topics more traditional documentaries haven’t covered.

if you put in less effort than that you must demand less time–or perish

hate to say it but Trump is not beating the great khan allegations, all nations of the world must bring him tribute

the canadian toilet paper lobby has controlled every major political and media figure since 1900 in the west, to ensure the steady consumption of their product. where do these massive profits go? nobody knows, but some suspect the canadians are building a weapon underground in north sasketchewan

the US contains the worst and best tasting tap water in the world

its even better than that, the content in the 60 dollar version is literally fucking horse armor again

i didn’t say police = fascism i critiqued using nonstate paramilitaries as a definitional point of fascism. a recurring point of ICE using unmarked personnel is to grant carte blanche to nonstate actors–what a comfort it will be to be black bagged by a neonazi with the reassurance it isnt fascism since a three-letter agency did it first

Trump gets MAGA fuckers out to events in droves, they lack traditional organization (to the extent hijacked republican organization lacks a mass character) but they have significant social media support, which seems to make up for it. we can’t use 1920s definitions for social relevancy in a world where legit communist parties have less in-person participation than they had back then.

the devotion to the idea the paras must come from out of the state is myopic. a) fascist movements are not democratic so there is no great difference between things being under ‘party’ rule and the direction of a head of state. b) fascist paras were incorporated into the state when they take power c) not all fascists followed this exact model.

re: c) it is within your right to deny Franco was a fascist but i’m not going to take anybody like that seriously. nobody but hitler and mussoloni were fascist is a useless analysis

who gives a shit about that i need to see my minotaur dad

/uj i dont think they couldve touched that, dipshits would’ve whined so much about it. they’re literally complaining about having a couple extra voices in a game everyone was joking had an insufficient amount of. because of the way they decided to do it, rebalancing and bugfixing can almost be copy-pasted from the original

by what definition does Trump lack a mass movement? by what definition does the political use of militarized police not qualify for having a paramilitary? the administrative details of which department governs the goons is not what makes fascism.

its so fun when riffing off a word accidentally gets you to the actual etymology