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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Brought to you by the same people who brought you the "spider network"!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Usually I agree with that but this is such an obvious example of blazen antisemitism that it is newsworthy. I'm sorry but this is on the same level as Henry Ford and Lindberg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Couldn't they just allow immigration? I get that most people don't want to move to China anymore but it would probably help. I also know they won't but would immigration work in a vacuum?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yup, one of the most fascinating videos I've ever seen was on the subject- fertility rates did go up, but all the kids ended up getting raised by orphanages that abused the shit out of them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Graf is probably better than ever now, shame it's not as long lasting was in Rome. Hopefully some of the best artists pick up sculpting so people in the future might have a little taste.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I thought that when I read it too, but I asked my folks and they were big scifi fans at the time, and it's unironic.
wikipedia also says its unironic, for what its worth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Criticism_of_militarism
If you read Heinlein's wikipedia page it also checks out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#Views

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

"Starship Troopers" the book is blatantly fascist, Heinlein became a fascist in his later years.
"Starship Troopers" the movie IS a parody of fascism, Verhoeven literally based the Starship Trooper's symbols on Nazi iconography.
"Although some contemporary critics and audiences considered Starship Troopers to be an endorsement of fascism, Verhoeven said, "whenever you see something that you think is fascist, you should know that the filmmakers agree with your opinion."

Also Sargon is just a fascist puppet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (29 children)

Tankies: China is a world power!! It drives so many world events!!
Tankies: Nooo how dare China get in the press (good, bad, and neutral).

They feel like any China coverage is inherently imperialist, even when its "China breaks fusion record", that is meddling in China's internal affairs to them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've been an MMO gamer for a VERY long time and I would say the whaling thing is a perfect analogy. I often pre-order expansions to MMOs like WoW and FFXIV but I have never bought cosmetics other than two race changes for FF, which would make me a "dolphin".

I noticed in WoW and FFXIV that if someone has one mount you can only get from the cash shop, they are VERY likely to have bought TONS of other cosmetics from the cash shop. If they don't have any cash shop mounts, they won't have any cosmetics from it either. It seems like most people are either "all in" or nothing, people like me are very rare.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They'd just hit the ice wall, idiot. And if they made it through that they would hit the ocean of the second flat world beyond our own. If they got through that they would hit either the scorched wastes, the frozen wastes, the abyssal ocean, or the walls of asgard..
Seriously, do you even do your own research?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Yup, this is why the last two Diablo games have been always online, no one is going to spend $25 on a skin macrotransaction when nobody else can even seen it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You're probably right, they probably bought the .ml domain to refer to marxism-leninism .

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