Zombiepirate @ Zombiepirate @lemmy.world

Proud anti-fascist & bird-person

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The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson is an alternate history about if a plague had wiped out 90% of the European population before the renaissance and how the would could have shaken out instead, focusing primarily on Arabic and Chinese culture.

It follows a small group of people who are reincarnating through the ages, all the way up to modern times. It's an amazing novel, and very approachable if you're even vaguely into history.

Thought you were gonna say fascist there at the end.

Glad to see I was right!

This exactly.

They don't see imposing a state of fundamentalist Christian supremacy as tyranny, because their ideology is one of Christian Nationalism (which in the US is inherently white nationalism).

They see the erosion of their relevance as the tyranny they're supposed to stand up to despite it mostly being driven by cultural changes instead of government mandates. This means that the militias are meant to commit violence against civilians; they know the cops will side with them in a scrum. They're more afraid of a lesbian with blue hair than a rogue sherrif depriving them of rights.

I've been meaning to watch it for a while now; I'll have to make that happen soon.

Ever seen The Frighteners? The CGI definitely does not hold up, but the plot and acting are top-notch. Combs plays a super creep in it that you love to hate.

Jeffrey Combs.

He's mostly a supporting actor, but he's a chameleon who always delivers.

Nice, a DL and everything!

I played this a lot.

Oh nice! I'll have to look that one up, I'd never even heard of it. Sounds awesome though.

But what about the freedom to lose one's life savings to an insurance company?

One of the most insidious parts of the Dobbs ruling is that they took away abortion by stripping our right to privacy.

It's natural to focus on the people it targets most: people who are pregnant. However, we lost a lot more than reproductive freedom when that reactionary decision came down.

They want to return the status quo of the 19th century in so many ways.

I'm colorblind and it looks like he's covered in buffalo sauce.

"MAGA influencer" is just another name for "professional antisocial gremlin."

And that goes all the way up to President Musk at the very top; it's pathetic how people look up to the lowest form of life on planet Earth.

Republicans voted for Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk to make the country worse off for the next generation.

They love giving education over to theocratic private schools, because they'd rather kids be stupid and compliant.

They'll privatize everything and sell off the country to billionaires to consolidate their power. Traitors, all of them.

I was hoping someone would bring this up!

I got to play with one at PAX. It was so much fun!

We're in a new era now where they've given Trump unprecedented power.

The past is past; we're living in a brave new world now. I never pretended they didn't rule against him. I'm saying that they won't in the future because it'll expose how powerless they are to enforce anything against him, and would also put a target on their own backs.

Yes, that was my point.

Let me know when it's in an official ruling or any other way that matters.

They know they'd better not disagree.

Well, there's no way anyone could have known that Trump would abuse that power.

Other than the past decade of him abusing every little bit of power he could, of course.

House of the Dead was an all-timer.

I also loved the Jurassic Park arcade game.

I'll throw out another one, too: force feedback joysticks were amazing for flight sims, but I'm not sure you can get a new one at a reasonable price (and I don't think the software side supports it either).