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Marx would hate Balatro, it's a game that exists purely in abstractions and glosses over the social relations of value and political power, turning all of them into an idealist cycle of consumption and waste to produce score, the notion of which is tied to chips and mult which are also abstract and do not reflect any material reality or social relation.

But he would definitely play it in 17 hour sessions and forget to eat.

Meanwhile, I think NL wouldn't last in a discussion with Marx or Hegel. He would accuse them of acting in bad faith when he himself failed to engage with the spirit of their arguments and only confronted their externalities and presentation. He'd tell them to touch grass and would probably accuse Marx of trying to farm +2s and "based," meanwhile he'd treat Hegel like we treat that tweet that said "in a Petersonian sense..."

Does ChatGPT hang out in the news mega? This is extremely good.

Something about having direct access to the levers of power nerfs you by 40% basedness.

It really is. I also am friends with someone whose aunt was murdered by an ex, which was absolutely horrifying and traumatic. It's not a good place for women honestly.

CW abuse

There was a pretty bad case in my high school, happened to a friend of a friend. She broke up with a guy who had anger issues and was just generally crappy. Rich dude, extremely spoiled and wasn't used to being told no. He stalked her and would harass her by rolling up to her house at any time of the day, he'd scream at her in school, etc. The year after they broke up she had to get the school to place him in a separate group for her safety. But the guy had a family connection to the school administration (private school) and he managed to get that measure overturned and had one more year to harass her.

Toward the end of that year he got into a huge fight with her in the women's bathroom. Gave her a black eye and broke a stall. He still was not expelled. My school had expelled two boys for getting into a brief fight the year prior, but this human garbage beating his ex in the lady's room and breaking a stall got him a slap on the wrist. Extremely rotten school.

I think she did eventually get a restraining order on him around the time she went to uni, they went to the same local uni so she was still in a bit of a bad situation.

Cuba? Not sure if the exiles that did Bay of Pigs were ever freed from jail. TBH I don't recall what episode the rule comes from, but all the TrueAnon rules come from when they talk about some specific event in history so I'm sure there's some examples.

Yeah is there some kind of trap card thing in Chinese law where as soon as a court recognizes that two women had a relationship it immediately makes gay marriage legal?

Benevolent authoritarianism is already the promise of liberal representative democracy. IMO the true problem is that people are alienated from politics after decades of neoliberalism being the leftmost position. If people didn't feel like the entire institution of democracy was useless, I'm sure you wouldn't see that level of detachment. Hell, just compare to Cuba where democracy is much more direct and people have much more input: it directly leads to a vastly larger portion of the population participating to protect their interests and their communities' interests. Because they see their own civil participation in politics as an extension of their country's revolutionary project. In America, the national political project is so transparently aligned with the interests of industrialists and billionaires that the best they can offer people is a negative promise, that we won't do what the other scary guy is gonna do.

It's pretty exploitative but certainly better than "passport bros." I wouldn't judge a lonely guy for choosing to do this over the apps though, as a last resort.

E: maybe exploitative isn't the right word. But I would rather not use this method where the person you find is less likely to love you for who you are, instead they're likely to prefer you to the other options that were immediately available. It's only exploitative if you're a wealthy guy who goes to a poor area to do this and take advantage of desperate women.

Gunther I love you baby but you can't be posting like this