CTHlurker

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[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Okay serious question, what the fuck is up with the names of things in Dune? Landsraad looks suspiciously like a Danish word for a house of parliament (though I think ours was specifically called Landsting rather than Landsraad) and the bad guys are apparently named Harkonen, which is also the name of every 4th guy in Finland, so like, was that writer on some weird mission against Scandinavia?

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Y'all, Danish State media was WILD in the first couple of days after he croaked. Like, referring to him as opposition leader / leader of the opposition, just showing clips unedited of his wife in Brussels and interviewing a bunch of fail-kids in academia who all have ph.ds in Putinology (I think they call it Russian Studies, but the main thing they all come out with are opinions on Putin sourced directly from the State Department, which is annoying because we aren't fucking Americans.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (3 children)

After reading through the list of liberal complaints about what a unique and scary thing a 2nd Trump term would be, in particular with regards to the Project 2025, I'm beginning to wonder why Libs don't ever make demands of their party. Like, if Trump plans on sacking a whole bunch of civil-servants because they are perceived as disloyal to him/the GOP, then you already know what the gameplan for the Right is going to be, so just begin making your own preparations. Begin making your own database of freaks whom the GOP has put into power for being loyal foot-soldiers to the party and the second you get back into any sort of room that with decisionmaking power, begin ruthlessly purging them. Not like Biden is even against the concept of a purge, judging by how his team of bat-shit Neocons are currently running Ukraine.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't the US also do a load of tech-transfers similar to Korea after their respective wars were over? Sure helps re-industrizaling when you just get given a whole load of cash along with blueprints for factories.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

True, China has also shown about zero initiative to any project that would involve dedollarization/debt cancellation at scale, which is another can of worms. Though I guess I understand why they would be hessitant about a debt jubilee, since it would make the Americans go nuts and probably do something stupid/posadist

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure, but isn't Argentina kind of already written off in that regard? As in, nobody really believed that they would be allowed to begin dedollarization when they're up to their eyeballs in Debt, and the only country that could conceivably save them is China, whom they keep antagonizing.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

So funny story, the Fasces was apparently used as the symbol of the Consul during the Roman republic, but became much more associated with the Empire, when the Empire reached the territorial heights. It became the symbol of Mussolini and his party because Mussolini liked to pretend that Italy was about to become a great power and conquer the rest of Europe like Rome did during antiqueity, and to that end he used the classical roman symbol of the Fasces, which was meant to denote strength through unity.

The main reason it's seen everywhere in the US, is because the US (up until like 2002) liked using Roman imperial iconography, until Bush made everyone a rabid jingoist that just put flags everywhere.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Zucc met his wife at Harvard, so I assume that she is about as blank of a person as he is, which would make for a very harminious relationship

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I genuinely don't think this would happen if all the Dems in power hadn't been so psychologically invested in the Ukraine Project and probably coerced Israel into supporting Ukraine. Israel was the country that both Russia and Ukraine trusted to mediate the conflict at first, and now that Israel has begun giving shit to Ukraine, Russia is responding.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I mean, the Democrats just lost a vote for a bill that basically did everything Miller has been working for for the past 15 years, so he doesn't really need to do anything. He helped move the Republicans to the right, and now the Democrats do as all good controlled oppositions do, and move further right with them.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Libertarians are annoying because their worldview is more childish than either liberalism and conservatism as well as being a sort of uniquely Burger-punk themed ideology. Like, today there are libertarians in my part of the world, but they all seem hopelessly burgerbrained and online-addicted, and nobody who isn't a shut-in cares for that belief system. Libertarianism's obsession with "government" also doesn't have as much purchase in Europe, where we only recently began to dismantle our welfare states, and a lot of people's experience with government is "thing that occassionally helps you" rather than what you find in the US.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, Netanyahu's post-war plan doesn't include Palestinians living in Gaza, so whether or not UNRWA exists at that point is kind of immaterial, given that it's almost entirely staffed by very same Palestinian people it serves.

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