yata @ yata @sh.itjust.works

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I don't think the reason for the setting of the movie was to be taken very serious. It could have been much more realistic in its scenario, but then people would have criticised it for being too "on the nose" or similar, like they did with Don't look up.

That is the typical internet response whenever that movie is brought up in this context. But that response fails to take into consideration that they only did that after not having done that for hundreds of years until the point where the movie begins.

Not a good example, since that shows the happy ending where powerful countries are finally finishing off the fascist regime after years of war and millions of lives lost. That is the amount of effort and determination it took to rid Germany of its fascists.

No such prospects for the American fascist regime. On the contrary the most powerful countries in the world will happily support it, because it undermines Western dominance.

Don't be ridiculous. Musk is part of the oligarchs controlling Trump.

Almost as if some rich foreign power has spent decades and billions of rubles to fertilise the ground for them.

Don't underestimate the lots and lots of Russia money involved.

Not to forget the fact that a lot of trips were planned and bought and paid for before Trump had even won.

Unsure who you are referring to.

You are a presidential term too late. In this term he doesn't have to distract anybody, because he knows he can do whatever he wants without any repercussions. He doesn't do distractions anymore.

Every time a court rules against the Trump administration it becomes a "is this the one where he enacts his coup?"-moment. Probably isn't there yet, he needs to install a few more crucial stooges in various posts, but he is definitely getting there. Making his oligarch backers profit billions from his tariff scheme certainly was a good way for him to secure their backing for whatever he has planned.

Definitely affectation. I suspect the strong German accent is as well. His vocabulary is too good for it.

Lots of Americans especially.

He has been insane his entire life. He just is at a point now where it gets to unfold much more freely than it ever has, because he has been crowned de facto king of everything.

It is possible to play singleplayer. In fact I would suspect most Stellaris players are playing it as single player.

You haven't got a single clue about what you are talking about.

It was about incels spouting misogyny and all other imaginable forms of bigotry. It served as yet another fascism pipeline for a lot of kids.

Not on the US corporate curated internet. It hurts the feelings of advertisers.

You are confusing a lot of pol science terms, as well as using some which aren't part of pol science at all.

All modern democracies are representative democracies, as in voters votes for representatives to represent them. Switzerland has elements of direct democracy, but on a foundation of representative democracy as well. Constitutional, presidential and liberal democracy are not an actual meaningful terms in political science.

Technically the US is a representative democracy, but I am pretty sure OPs is asking about the practice of the thing. And the practice is very different from the written word about how it was supposed to be, especially this recent presidential term.

Very much depending on the topic. For specialised niche subjects, which are usually the ones students choose for final papers, literature can be very scarce, and 1994 would be fairly recent. For my specialised field the main study (which is still being cited frequently) is from 1870.

Im still not convinced that crypto is worth it. I

That's because it isn't. In fact it is a completely destructive concept, which utilises a shitload of energy which could have been better applied elsewhere, and only facilitates scams and other crimes.