Yeah. I worded that wrong for sure.
The policy of American intervention began in South America going as far back as the early 1900s, followed by the middle east after WW1 and Asia-Pacific after WW2.
"Ramp up" was the wrong choice of words, for sure. "Emboldened" to not try to hide it anymore would be more accurate.
My apologies. Thanks for clarifying.
I'm not going to go into too much detail, as I don't really have the time for an in depth explanation. But suffice it to say from a sociological perspective, organized religion formed along with more complex societies because complex societies need more rules to manage a higher population that came about because of agriculture and the rise of city states.
it's not a coincidence that hunter-gatherers worshipped fertility goddesses and totemic gods, and that actual "organized" pantheons came into being alongside the concept of "nations".
Organized religion was a tool that was invented to exert control and prevent chaos when societies were in their infancy and still figuring out how to live together and share resources. (ie. who are we and who are "others". Who gets to share our wealth and who doesn't, etc... etc...)
We don't need it anymore, and yet it sticks around causing all kinds of trouble.
There has to be more than one superpower. Humanity is too immature to behave itself without the threat of mutually assured destruction.
Most of the bullshit American hegemony really started to ramp up after the fall of the USSR when the US found itself unchecked. It could basically go in and fuck up whatever country they felt like. At least during the cold war, they had to consider the possibility of a power equal to their own countering them. Without a check and balance on the world stage, the U.S. has proven itself repeatedly to be without a doubt, the villain of the story.
Are you by chance the Sudetenland?
Depends on how you're defining "obscure" and "retro".
If by "retro" you mean SNES, Genesis, NES etc... the game I was super into for a time was Xevious. A pretty simple top-down space shooter/bomber that for some reason I remember getting absolutely obsessed with completing. It wasn't even a particularly good game. It was repetitive, and when you DID reach the end it just started all over again. But for some reason I played the absolute shit out of it.
If you move "retro" up to the PS1 era, my favourite seemingly forgotten games of all time are the Colony Wars series (Colony Wars, Colony Wars: Vengeance, Colony Wars: Red Sun) Great story lines and a super fun conceit where in the second game, you're playing as the now-defeated enemy of the first game, rebuilding after their loss.
The fastest way to make me not download a particular piece of software is to invite me to join their discord to discuss questions and tech support.
It's the literal definition of clinical depression.
simplest answer ever.
No. No. And no.
Like it didn’t occur to her that those “crazy taxes” would also cover someone else’s maternity process
It occurs to them fine. They don't care. American attitude is "fuck you, I've got mine."
hmmm....I wonder what percentage of the Canadian Population is Albertan and Saskatchewanian...
I live in a province of traitors.
I hate Doug Ford at the best of times, but I have to admit, he's kind of effective in terms of being a loud-mouthed asshole to clap back at their loud-mouthed asshole.
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