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Captainant

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  1. So you're saying the US in WWII was motivated by ultra-nationalism and authoritarianism? While it was fighting authoritarian nationalist nations? Is this like when you accused me of being an "antifa fascist"? Because you're just throwing shit against the wall lol Specifically in the story if you REALLY want to get into the novel: the Federation forbid ANY childbirth unless licensed, the Mormons went off and started their own colony so they could fuck and have a bunch of babies as Mormons are want to do, which kicked off the arachnid war because the humans stepped over the line. If the Federation weren't so totalitarian and authoritarian, it would allow everyone to have children - not just those that have done violence for the state. There's loads of examples that you could dive into to demonstrate the abundance of fascistic imagary in the film, and they don't all revolve around clothes.
  2. You're literally the only person talking about the clothes lol. Stop being ridiculous
  3. " If I tell the world that a right-wing, fascist way of doing things doesn't work, no one will listen to me. So I'm going to make a perfect fascist world: everyone is beautiful, everything is shiny, everything has big guns and fancy ships, but it's only good for killing f****** Bugs! " Michael Ironside, recounting Paul Verhovens explanation for the film's aestetic and tone
  4. Uhhhhhhhh, the humans in Starship Troopers are pretty explicitly fascist lol. The movie leaning so hard into it was a satirization of the book's love of authoritarianism and ultra-nationalism
  5. I can think of an African American that would love a cabinet position
  6. Bolverk had a good visual and explainer
  7. International Criminal Court files arrest warrants for Bibi and hama's military commander https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2exvx944o Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as Hamas's military commander. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected Israel’s challenges to the court’s jurisdiction and issued warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. A warrant was also issued for Mohammed Deif, although the Israeli military has said he was killed in an air strike in Gaza in July. The judges said there were “reasonable grounds” the three men bore "criminal responsibility" for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war between Israel and Hamas. Both Israel and Hamas have rejected the allegations.
  8. That's just more BUSINESS KILLING SOCIALIST REGULATIONS
  9. If a firms entire growth is attributed to Mark to Market fuckery, youuuu might just be an enron. Microstrategy also recently lost its accounting firm, who said “We are resigning due to information that has recently come to our attention which has led us to no longer be able to rely on management’s and the Audit Committee’s representations,” Mea culpa for that incorrect info, however I still feel strongly that if a companies growth is mainly from Mark to market, you should tread carefully
  10. Who do you think is delaying and denying care? Dude lives for that shit to keep profits up and their customers sick and desperate so they don't move to a new """provider"""
  11. The exuberance around the accounting rule change to count Bitcoin spot price increases as profit is weird, since that's explicitly counting unrealized profits as earnings. Seems like the sort of thing that got Enron in trouble and making bigger and bigger bets that left them ever more exposed to the downside
  12. You are aware of how both of Trump's impeachment trials went, right?
  13. Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag [/Clarkson]
  14. $1.06 in 1998 (when ResE2 came out) is $2.04 in 2024 dollars, and I've definitely bought gas at $2.10 this year
  15. You think that matters? If anything, it serves trumps purposes better to have charalatans in cabinet positions. It's an instant litmus test to see if whoever he's dealing with will kiss the ring and play ball. The more outrageous, the better.
  16. This is a complete misunderstanding of the AT protocol is and how BlueSky works. The idea is that you can take your entire identity, posting history, etc etc, and bring it with you to a new platform - while still communicating and interacting with everyone that you used to. A better way to think about it is that rather than using a locked in platform like AOL instant messenger (Twitter or Threads), this is an open protocol like email. The whole idea is that platforms don't have to host people, and that they aren't locked out of the conversation if they're off a platform. But in setting things up like this, Bluesky is incentivized to build a product that will keep users coming back to their platform, rather than a competitor or self-hosting. If you don't like BlueSky's moderation or algorithm, then you can simply roll your own and use that. Ed Zitron's "Better Offline" had a great episode that got a bit more into that ethos and idea.
  17. She's Vince's wife and a co-owner of the WWE
  18. It's their monopoly fee
  19. Hey man, do you want profit margins or not
  20. In fairness, the leopards are just looking at the menu and ordering. We don't get the first course until Jan 21
  21. If you haven't, check out Black Mesa whenever you wanna replay HL1. There's a big mod project for Blue Shift that im looking forward to
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