The bridge crossing level and using the crossbow to crucify combine soldiers were about the best parts of the game as I remember it.

If it is chronic those flowers and cards dry up quick. Also the medical care and attention beyond hucking out pills. Which brings us to panel 2…

There should be an Australian guy who is still just hating on China in the 2nd panel anyway.

I think it is more that Americans are so used to extractive austerity and warfunding/fighting that we’ve completely forgot that economies can build civil society.

I wouldn’t use the word ‘delusion’ then. Delusions are predicated on defying incontrovertible proof of falsehood.

They are a defense mechanism. The desire to be deluded is a fear response. Knowing you’re dealing with fear is one thing, but I think this has to be treated more like addiction intervention than some kind of puppet mastery.

Right, and this is Lemmy. I am not sure this is exactly the facebook browsing demographic.

people who have a vision, even if delusional, for a better America.

Knowing the perspective of american liberals is perfectly fine and normal, but that’s not a call to cater to delusion. Delusional visions are not helping.

Probably in this context: the ruling class.

The lack of class awareness here in the comic being why the use of cultural hegemony is lost.

There are multiple victims of war pictured here and the comic doesn’t seem to notice or care why that is. It celebrates it even, as empathy, which is such a crushing example of how warped perspectives can become.

They’re scooping up all the data for AI. They rebranded Office to just being AI.

Yeah, nevermind that whole ‘Under No Pretext’ thing!

While saying:

Rome is the basis for our western civilization’s laws and customs!

What distro is represented by the Tux of the Deep there? Just lurking beneath the waves?

That sign has a Z and letters with accent mark over it.

So I think this a picture of communism?

I dunno though, Italy didn’t even form as a kingdom until the 1860s, so an entire culture formed as an afterthought seems perfectly Italian.

I used a coffee maker for 10 years and to replace it my in-laws got me a nice espresso machine. They’re into coffee. I am not.

See, I’d always make a pot of black coffee and pour it into some instant hot cocoa instead of cream and sugar.

When I do the same with fancy espresso shots now I feel like I am directly assaulting Italia.

I guess I meant more along the lines of: “An ear of corn can be husked by hand and boiled.” Individual processing is far more accessible and feasible compared the threshing, hulling, and winnowing processes of wheat.

Corn (Maize) is a selected grass. (Teosinte) Wheat is also a grass (Emmer) which hasn’t been nearly as modified.

The american indigenous people cultivated and developed corn over 10,000 some years. An ear of corn can be boiled and eaten. Wheat? Not so much.

Our old fridge still works but the icemaker and water dispenser broke and then started to spray outside and leak inside if connected.

But we kept it and put it in the garage and keep beverages in it. Man does it feel opulent to have a garage drink fridge.

Kind of like when I became able to afford paper towels. Pure wealth and extravagance.

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Civ… 4?

You’re absolutely correct, however:

Violence is justified on occasion.

This cannot be disentangled from a natural derivative: ‘Tyranny is justified on occasion.’ Just what the occasion is that justifies it is much harder to pin down. Traffic laws can be a form of tyranny, for example.

Importantly, this should not be confused with despotism. The statement ‘Despotism is justified on occasion’ is distinct, and uh, less defensible. Every time there’s even the semblance of a benevolent dictator a religion ends up spawning that plagues humanity for centuries with a fixation on the dictator instead of the benevolence.

So to bring it back, if the wolf wasn’t already blowing down and eating the pigs using straw and wood, he’d have his justification, instead of the convenience of one.