I’m gonna be dead honest with you. The reason you think that high bodycount means that you’re somehow fundamentally different as a person e.g. incapable of being a “housewife” is because you do not have a high bodycount yourself and its incomprehensible for you, when in reality it’s really just not that big a deal.

No one with a high bodycount thinks of themselves as having a high bodycount. At one time all those people had a low bodycount and they were the same people then as they were after they had a high bodycount.

At most they’re “sexually experienced”, in gamer terms they’re the people with 500 games in their steam library and to them the average person is kinda like the person who only plays F2P mobile gachas, so yeah they’ll have higher standards but they also probably know what’s good and what works.

None of this is inherently good or bad, it just is.

I hate nu-trek because beyond the obvious shitty writing, lack of an ensemble cast and true standalone episodes, extremely lame and cheap special effects and just the way it is made (legacy series fitting into a canon rather than actual new events i.e. ENT) - its just very apolitical, bland and not very woke at all. TNG, DS9, ENT - all had real hard hitting stuff to say, stuff thats more relevant now than ever, and is always timeless.

Disco has a nonbinary person just kinda be there, such enthralling commentary, wow! It’s almost a self-parody y’know. Picard has the romulan refugee thing be kinda swept under the rug in favour of the ME3 synthetics vs organics vs giant space octopus doohickey plot, and then the 2nd season invents a new alternate universe that doesn’t actually seem much different from the future picard itself portrays in the first season.

There will never he anything quite like ‘Far Beyond The Stars’ in Trek again, sadly. Nor will there be a ‘Who Mourns for Morn’ for that matter, now we mourn for trek.

That’s okay by me though, All Good Things and all that, and especially so because For All Mankind took up the actual woke space sci-fi mantle, unsurprisingly so since it’s made by Trek and Expanse alumni like RDM, Menosky, Okudas, Shankar etc.

And what exactly changed in the EU as a result? Can they now really resell games on Steam in the EU?

i mean its a bit of an improvement. If the US keeps sliding into authoritarianism and obviously sponsoring anti-european agitation we should probably stop feeding them money and data.

Mass asset sell-offs by these governments in the 80s to make boomers into petit bourgeoisie to flex on the soviets hasn’t exactly left them flush with cash or assets.

On top of that, the boomers now in charge hardly have the political will to even try to build anything in-house with existing free and/or open source software because they’re under the impression that privatization will work again because it did for them.

They can’t or don’t want to realize that the trick only works once and it inevitably creates an oligarchy that can and will outsizeably influence the country’s politics, which inevitably leads to some guy who is able to ride a grievance wave during elections right into office where he becomes president, gathers enough influence from the oligarchs to purge the disloyals and consolidate power, creating a fascist state - a union of corporate and government power against the people like what happened in Russia and whats slowly happening in the US.

They’re not the ones who create stuff that produces the waste though

And when you do get quite literally sick from it all, good luck finding care, you’re SoL most places for physical health, and for mental don’t even bother, all you’re gonna get is more stress trying to do the seemingly impossible task of getting an appointment, and when you are one day crippled and bedridden in hospital corridor, the RAC concrete will at last put you out of your misery.

Its a shame i really enjoyed the brainrot of seeing assorted yokels prattle on about how project hail mary is an evil woke movie that brainwashed them into being gay and also had too much dialogue and too much emotion and they skipped through everything that wasn’t a shot of the CG ships flying around

I dont “watch” news media, only read.

My sources, ranging from niche leftist opinion pieces to mainstream legacy media real journalism does not inform me of the specifics of the current situation going on in Iraq because i do not live in Iraq, not because there is anything wrong with the media in question, as you seem to imply.

And no, dont be deliberately obtuse, that is what you’re implying.

I’m well aware of many other attrocities of the US empire, but not this specific situation. You could just share what you know with some sources.

Imagining everyone around you as some clown that only consumes US state department propaganda must feel great for that big ego of yours, but it doesn’t help anyone.

Evidently they’re not “basic facts” because almost no one seems to know about them apart from you.

Yeah

I am aware of all those things, I’m sure most people are so I’ve no idea why you related it to that, but specifically I was not aware of the occupation of Iraq being a thing in 2026.

I did not have the slightest idea of that yeah, but why would that demonstrate any political leanings whatsoever? Per the upvote count it looks like a lot of people ITT were also not aware of this?

Why does the US have a “”“presence”“” in Iraq 20 years later?

the news you watch says your winning.

Dafuck? I know what’s happening in Iran, why are you implying I’m some kind of rightoid trump supporter? And why so combative?

I’m not a Trump supporter, I’m a communist lol. I’ve been lightly following the Iran war since the start and yeah obviously it’s a quagmire at best. My question was about a different country called Iraq though.

What I didn’t know is NATO still had a presence in Iraq? Why? The War on Terror was supposedly done two decades ago now. I know it took them longer to pull out than that but still?

Wait what’s happening in Iraq???

No, but the contrast in the press spin is observable in the west, where we are and where this article is. There’s no condemnation, it’s framed as more or less understandable.

Imagine if western countries did this for that comedy about North Korea from a decade ago (“The dictator”?) that Kim Jong Un took offense too? There’d be crazy outrage. But when it’s about kowtowing to Israel it’s all fine.

To be honest this one I am okay with.

I obviously think we should help if we can, but there are some very hard economic realities we are facing right now that even if we had a well-intentioned government (we don’t) would mean we should help ourselves before helping others, and oh boy do we need help. Decades of privatisation left our govt with the square root of fuck all. Our social service funding hasn’t kept up, our pensioner pops have exploded, shit is all fucked up. The country is looking rougher and rougher by the minute, homelessness is rampant, jobs are scarce, and most everything is unaffordable. Everybody is beholden to elderly landlords first in tax, then in rent, then they vote for the ones with the most vile, most racist beliefs.

K-pop stans are inti Jihad now?

Imagine transcending mortality to appear in some future commercial pushing some funko pop NFT pyramid scheme to produce shareholder value for people who claim net zero before they go jet setting to Epstein island because they bought a section of forest that was already there.

Well yes, authoritarian overreach is rarely a means unto itself, it is a method by which some goal is achieved, in this case it’s him being able to use power to rewrite reality to suit his projection. That’s even more fascistic though.