So you are another thoughtless NPC.

Playing in the arcade made me realise the role of luck no matter how much I try, which influenced my worldview. I’ve never really felt bitter about life as a result.

Then as I grew older, I learned that arcades are rigged to make you spend more money to buy more tokens and keep playing but keep losing and the cycle repeats. It’s when you become adult you realise that life is rigged. And like with the arcade where you hit the machine or shake it to get your money back out of frustration, you have to shake the rigged system that we are in as well.

Are you a communist?

Are you in the EU or from the global south?

I don’t make fun of gen alpha for 67, but we have to admit that the meme is a random nonsense. Nyan cat, rage comics and vine clips do have a point which makes them funny, but shouting 67 while doing so without any purpose simply because it’s a meme is inherently pointless. Let the kids have fun with 67 but it is just so random.

To be fair, the EU is the only democratic alternative since they have enough size, strength and influence to not just resist outside influence, but also to project influence. Latin America is too disunited and the African Union is not at that stage yet to be as influential as the EU. For Asian countries, they are too insular and tribalistic to form their own regional bloc that is strong enough to resist outside influence.

Latin America is the unsung hero IMO. They have a “pink tide” since their leaders are mostly moderate leftists. There are exceptions of course such as El Salvador and Argentina (although to my knowledge, Javier Milei is nowhere near in trying to curtail civil liberties and human rights). Latin America had been off US’ radar since the Cold War and they can use that time to build closer relationships amongst each other by strengthening MERCOSUR and military ties.

There is Africa. Again, while there are exceptions, by and large many African nations are doing their best to uphold democratic values. The West African bloc, ECOWAS, had been great in the past ten years to oust African leaders who don’t want to step down. When Brexit happened, the African Union allowed freedom of movement among AU citizens at the same time. I can see AU becoming more united, although it will take more time than we would hope for.

India will become authoritarian I would say in the next couple of generations. The neoliberal policies and flirting with fascism by Modi have sown the seed for full blown far right movement in decades to come as far as I can tell.

For the Far East, they are too insular and have their own stupid, age old inter-racism against each to be more united, and the fragmented geography of Far East Asian countries, that is not China, makes cultural exchange and understanding difficult to create kinship necessary for a more political union. But I think they may stay democratic for the foreseeable future (now, Japan has a little surge of far right, but they are not a threat in the immediate future). Unless there is Asian NATO, the Far Eastern democracies won’t hold against the threat of China. Although again, Asians are too insular and geographically fragmented for closer cooperation.

You just offended my entire gender.

But yes, that’s true and it’s bad that about half are fucking idiots.

Yeah the post screams “your dictatorship is bad so we’ll stick with our dictator.”

Love this! I will keep this in mind next time someone dismiss concerns and say things could be worse.

The EU has fined X.

It’s so fucking funny yet nonsensical and pathetic. I have always seen this accusation of “racism” when criticising CCP. CCP trolls have taken a page from Israeli government’s successful co-opting of “antisemitism”. Although CCP’s attempt to weaponise “racism” falls flat when you point out that the criticism is railed on pissing off South East Asia and Taiwan by trying to claim an entire body of ocean and wanting to annex a democratic society. So nothing is racist here. The “racism” angle is founded on weak grounds. Maybe this works on Chinese domestic audience? Russian trolls are cleverer with their psychological subversive tactics.

I wasn’t ready for this level of quantum level analysis of Jurassic Park.

I’M JUST HERE FOR THE DINOSAURS!!

That’s an interesting spin I have ever seen of whitewashing crimes of communist regimes. You’re definitely a tankie.

Doesn’t matter if your eyes are ripped, if you have no game.

I just go for the easy ones. I don’t bother with getting 100% achievements that needs to get the harder ones.

I never cheat online multiplayer. I like to be challenged and cheating ruins it.

I hate that modding is considered cheating by some games when all I want is quality of life improvement. Divinity 2 does this by disabling achievements if you installed any mods but thankfully there is another mod that re-enables achievements.

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I should add, those who defend China and USSR as if they can’t do anything wrong are DEFINITELY tankies.

Not so much as ragebait but unpopular opinion. I think most Lemmy users are highly paid middle class, tech workers who are out of touch with the genuine grievances and feelings of the working class, whose previous manufacturing jobs were outsourced and left with no alternative. They are then left to compete with just as poor immigrants for artificially-induced resource scarcity. And then Lemmings call them ignorant redneck hillbillies without listening to their lived experience. Sure, many former manufacturing blue collar workers could re-skill, but it is easier said than done, since most people find it hard to re-adjust and prefer to stick with their trade.

Now that there is huge lay off of tech workers the past year in preference to cheap immigrant labour, and cost-free AI, many Lemmy users are starting to realise and feel the experience of working class who had been left by globalisation.

I am increasingly becoming socialist. At some point we will all need UBI.