alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer] @ alcoholicorn @hexbear.net

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The DM is about to punish that player for not using insight on rocks.

The tried and true strategy of "go to war with every adversary at once"

They've already associated Iran, North Korea, and China with this, how long until we uncover incontrovertible evidence that Venezuela, Russia, and Cuba were part of the attack too?

Nuclear is not displaced by wind and solar, it's displaced by fossil fuels. Nobody's arguing that we should stop building solar or wind to start 20 year long nuclear constructions (though china has it down to 5).

The continued existence of German lignite mining and their expansion of gas are due to turning off nuclear plants before the end of their lifespan.

Don't forget turning off all their nuclear plants to become reliant on brown coal and russian (now american) gas.

Still waiting on a clip.

Not saying the MSNBC pundits would push back on someone saying that, but even in 2003, the lib media was smart enough not to say the quiet part out loud (except for Ann Coulter and the like)

The idea that something that affects society can be nonpolitical is just your bias towards the status quo.

Everything was always political, and the status quo has always depended on hordes of lumpen trained to identify with their own oppressors over their own interests.

Before there were networks of right-wing radio and websites distributing right-wing talking points, they just used TV, newspapers, mailing lists, posters, etc. The effect was still 100 million Americans cheering when the national guard shot students protesting against the state sending their friends to die while participating in atrocities in Vietnam.

Even gardening is political; the notion that you should only plant grass and ornamental plants, mow your lawn once a week, and any deviation was a flaw was popularized and enforced by William Levitt to keep people from having too much time to read and become communists.

Similar sentiments spring up after the civil war regarding edible gardening and use of fruiting trees in urban planning, for fear that black people will live off foraging instead of working.

skeuomorphism

The only time the chunkiness of grafting visual clutter and UI elements from a machine that was designed with mechanical constraints and older use cases/capabilities makes sense is if users will not have time to learn the UI and already learned another UI.

Using knobs you have to turn with the mouse with a wooden background instead of volume slider+number field because that's what was on some piece of audio equipment from the 1900s just makes the software awful to use. It has no place in specialist audio software the user is expected to spend hours using.

The US created south korea out of thin air at the end of WWII, literally just drawing a line on a map.

Then they both held elections. The south's election was rigged by the US, who used their sway at the UN (the USSR was boycotting at the time and PRC still hadn't been accepted) to get South Korea's puppet state recognized as the gov't of all Korea, including the parts that didn't even have the US's sham elections. As preparation to invade the north, the US purged any non-compliant elements from the gov't (going so far as to put compradors who'd worked for Japan during occupation in high ranking positions) and carried out massacres of elements likely to side with communists (such as rural villages that lead communal lifestyles).

The north saw America was coming for them and the longer they waited, the worse position they'd be in.

I always liked the Nostromo's design.

China stopped selling pandas in like the 90s and now only rents them out. Seizing national property like that would create a pretty significant incident.

If it were Cuba or Iran or Venezuala, sure they could, they steal their ships all the time. But not for China.

1. That was over half a century ago. The state and media apparatus are different now. A local jail isn't going to run out of capacity, now they just call in buses from nearby prisons. The msm ignores, distorts, or outright lies about you when they don't like your objective.
2. The civil disobedience was a tiny part of the whole action. Same with Rosa Parks, the organizers looked into these people's backgrounds so the media would have difficulty portraying it negatively and communicated with aligned newspapers beforehand to ensure enough favorable coverage so they'd have the first word.
3. These actions weren't done in isolation. The point of peaceful protest is to create a credible threat and offer a more peaceful alternative. The civil rights act wasn't passed because the oppressor just had a change of heart, it was passed after every city burned for a week after MLK's assassination when politicians saw people who looked just like them getting beaten to death in the streets.

Civil disobedience is rarely a productive tool. Unless you already know how the media will cover you (if they will at all), you're just getting yourself and potential comrades fucked over by the legal system.

Don't do the pigs job for them.

I don't think it has a meaningful effect. Libs call themselves socialists all the time. For every case you're able to argue for socialism and not have people's brains shut down, you get 10 "those tankies aren't real socialists! Socialism is when you

Well yeah, of course I'd trust the experts in genocide over countries that have no experience.

And then it unlocks itself when the kia kids come by!

See, that's because your car was still too nice.

Once your engine has sheered off 90% of the flywheel's teeth and it takes an average of 7 tries to start, anyone's gonna assume it doesn't start.

What you'd go around stabbing people with severe weight/hair loss?

How much do you think hotels pay for mattresses? Probably a lot less than you.

A dam wrecking a valley is a best case scenario. Worst case is thousands dead.

The worst case scenario for a nuclear station is a few dozen dead.

coal ruins the planet.

Also runs the air and water, coal residue is dumped in rivers.