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yeah, forgot about him. was just saying this wasn’t the best example of the real phenomenon of americans using english accents for romanians or russians or finns bc 5/8 of the characters with significant screen time were actually just english and one was a swede.

i think lily-rose depp is the only american in the cast, but yeah it wasn’t great

i was against federation from the beginning and remain locals only. i only see non-locals if non bears come to our local places and unfortunately it’s usually to shit the place up. grad is ok

yeah I stream of consciousnessed that but essentially where the greater political sophistication of the italian blocs during the years of lead required the actual physical manifestation of the strategy of tension in the form consistent low-level violence, the american political landscape requires significantly less effort. the state has already successfully neutralized any nascent organization with any promise. now, a constant conflict between largely incoherent parties is waged across media, and any left-wing attempt to point to the material reality of things is easily dismissed either as fantasy or conspiracy respectively by the predominant “sides” of the captured discourse.

considering “it’s chinese” is liberal for “it’s bad”, yeah I would say so

They’re not really trying to because a lot of that comes from in-house and isn’t seen as a threat to the state. Something like ivermectin disinfo isn’t perceived as a threat to the state but too many Luigi memes are. “Protecting US citizens” is not a priority. US censorship regimes on social media however, absolutely do exist but they take the form or cooperation of the business with the state to deprioritize certain content.

exactly this, a lot of the crystal mom ivermectin flat earth secret chinese training grounds shit juxtaposed with conspiracy theorist as pejorative encourages an ideological years of lead dynamic that contributes to the political incoherence of the average disinterested american which is very much to the benefit of the military-industrial complex. as you said, the only perceived threats in this mind melting discourse are those which accurately point to capital as complicit in the average person’s lack of well-being

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it’s not great but it’s the best i got on short notice

everyone knows that’s a myth

100% agree, all very good points and wrt Europe/USA that is definitely a very interesting perspective on the interplay and I think it has legs

to be fair it’s not like that’s an unpopular opinion in the “the garden”

yes? though i’m additionally saying that the rest of the imperial bloc is often also playing at absolution from responsibility in working against systems from which they also benefit, which put charitably is disingenuous. western europe isn’t solely ‘envious’, they actively benefit from imperialism -right now-, as do the other anglo settler colonies besides the US.

even being an empoc and trans hostage of this hellstate i can’t really fault the global south for feeling this way and wouldn’t care to argue about it. that said i am absolutely discounting it when it comes from eurolibs in the imperial bloc (this includes canada and au/nz) and self-flagellating americans, that shit is goofy as hell.

one of my favorite fun facts is that kansas is in fact flatter than a pancake mathematically speaking

“Whats the difference? The speed of technological advancement isn’t nearly as important as short term quarterly gains.” - Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine [S4E7].

at this point they’re more lead than man

yeah i think a lot of us had that friend who got a little extra in competitive stuff but was cool otherwise, that’s how he always seemed to me in the blue/red games

appreciate this, idk what’s happening on this internet website lately

a lot of us have to deal with a shit 9-5 job and haven’t “emptied our heads of politics”. Do what you want but don’t think many of us working crushing jobs in sectors like service or hospitality aren’t acutely aware of how much it sucks and how much of our labor’s surplus value is being stolen. Do what you want but don’t think you’re uniquely harmed by drudge work in a way that others are not.

correct. nobody has to contact the feds, as a bit or otherwise. I really don’t care whether it’s “low risk” or not, there’s no real reason to do it and nothing to be gained, as the response from them shows.

with regards to the “encouragement” thread, people here are always posting under a thousand layers of irony, but talking to or inquiring with the feds for any reason is generally a bad idea, and i don’t really care about how minor or fruitless it seems to some. it costs you absolutely nothing to not contact the feds.