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Workers protecting workers. I can dig it.

Enshittification on the super real is a very interesting thing to watch. One of the cardinal rules of the internet is NEVER again i say NEVER pay for something you used to get for free.

It's fascinating seeing these MEGACORPs no longer able to acquire new users and now, due to the eternal laws of capitalist compound growth of ~3% per year forever, are just trying new ways to get more money out of existing users. Their walled gardens are falling in on themselves and it's awesome. We see it with Facebook, YouTube, Instagram (which is also just Facebook), Twitter all of these platforms.

It's gonna be great to see Twitter drop a battle pass and cosmetics next quarter too.

We always got war money, be we still can't forgive student loans for a fraction of the cost.

I always thought it looked it a sci-fi rebel group flag.

Part of the reason why I think forming an actual existing left American political party of any shape or stripe is so difficult because of shit like this. For whatever reason the political powers that be can say "left groups are actually working for a cabal of Bisexual Netherworld Liches and will bring about the final sunset. This will usher in a new age of darkness.” and the media will signal boost this sort of stuff without question or correction. The consent manufacturers are really working overtime the last decade

An ironcald rule. Never deviate from that rule.

I still think that "chiptune" is the zenith of video game music. I love modern video game orchestration and I really dig a lot of the indie game soundtracks these days, but something about chiptune music feels uniquely video game-y.

There is such a clarity of their expression. I really impressive that it holds up so well, even at lower resolutions like 360p

I think a lot of is rooted in American idea of colonialism, "Manifest Destiny", general Ann Rand style brain poisoning.

They see indigenous people as sub-human who aren't using the land they occupy properly. As such they believe its their right to take it from them cause they aren't "doing it right". Its our right to take from those we see as lesser. We have been doing in Africa and South America and much of Asia for decades. The American people see pretty much every non-western European nation as barbarians in the rhetorical sense. Uncultured savages who need to be either need to be broken or buried.

If some other people have what we want and they don't look some dude from the state of Maine we feel totally okay using every T-800 we have in our vast armory. Also no amount of capital vacuumed up for working people or the blood of the youth is too much to get it.

I also don't think people understand that Israel is client state, I also don't think most people don't understand what client state even is. Ukraine is my go-to example. Every single coin and bullet we have was sent to them no questions asked, and we will do the same thing to Israel. We will give them War Machine power-suits to destroy residential buildings and parks indiscriminately.

I really don't think people understand foreign policy at all. Nor understand that America is an empire and doing empire shit is bad. Pretty much every comfortable in the US is a warhawk the moment they understand its brown people or "The Reds".

In general, it's pretty easy to see who is in the wrong in any political when a group of young men of any shade or stripe do something like this. I really hate the idea that the "Noble Settler" trope works so well on western people because so much of the west is a result of colonization occupied territory. Some client state backed by some larger capital "settling" a place where people already live.

If you made it black and white it'd look straight out of the American civil rights protest era.

It really does. I watched on a sci-fi night with the boyz and we were talking about how you "real-er" older movies felt because of the make-up and effect rather than CGI. The alien simple but grotesque design just feel so gross (in a good way) on screen in a way I don't think you can replicate with rushed and underpaid visual effects.

YEAH! Exactly!