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  • People are hopping in to say this will be a nothingburger, but they’re forgetting something very important.

    Donald Trump is a giant, petulant, attention-obsessed baby. The whole President Musk thing has been needling him. Fascists are about as easy to bait into infighting as leftists, and we’ve placed a lot of bait. This provides Donald with an excellent moment to betray and cement his power over Elon.

    Obv the power dynamics aren’t fully known, maybe Elon is just an intermediary for Putin and Trump will have to just sit and take it, but I just cannot imagine Trump suffering in silence. Maybe this gets turned into an opening salvo.



  • Right but take what you just said to it’s logical conclusion. Why should only men have those responsibilities? All you’ve really done is create a different, nicer patriarchy, that still expects men to conform to specific gender roles and still expects women to conform to specific gender roles. Consider the inverse, all the people who physically can’t produce more than they require to survive, who need additional attention or care, through no fault of their own. Can those people not be men?

    You’ve described just a generally good person, and realistically you’ve described more women than you have men. The goal should be to get rid of the idea that certain responsibilities are reserved for certain genders completely.


  • You’re maybe in the vast minority of normies, but I think a lot of gamers have actually realized how lame Skyrim is. There’s certainly hours long rants on Youtube breaking down each little issue the game has, as well as examining it from the perspective of modern game design and as a failure of the Elder Scrolls brand, but beyond that; is anyone really holding up vanilla Skyrim as the pinnacle of gaming any more? Even Bethesda realized it needs mods to be enjoyable.




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    Yeah but utter destabilization isn’t the goal. A complete collapse of the current power structure would just allow corporate interests to assume direct control in the name of peacekeeping. The goal is to use my wishfish to get us toward an egalitarian society, not plunge us into chaos. Have to destroy the old ways while guiding to a new way.



  • I mean, 2 and 3 are also largely a deconstruction of 1. The Matrix is an incredibly well made movie with really stupid themes. 2 and 3 do an excellent job highlighting why stuff like “Neo is the Chosen One” is fundamentally bad storytelling, but there were a lot of audiences who loved The Matrix fully and completely. I can understand why those people were disappointed when 2 and 3 weren’t just more senseless violence in black trenchcoats, but ultimately the series wasn’t made for them.

    IIRC, 2 and 3 were meant to be one film, but it got split due to studio meddling. I wonder if there is a mega-cut adapting the whole trilogy into a single runtime.


  • Light Yagami could get pretty elaborate with what he required people to act out in a Death Note, but I’m not sure exactly how to destabilize our globalist economy with only one page. It likely starts with using the leader of a capitalist country to kill a large swath of it’s billionaire class at once, then forcing said leader to support the nationalization of healthcare, food production, transportation, mineral extraction, etc before trying to influence other capitalist nations to take the same path for the rest of their life before heart attack inevitably gets them. The problem is that I really think you only get to write this for one leader, due to the space requirements. I guess as long as the assumption that all the world’s ills stem from America it’s fine, but isn’t Murdoch currently operating out of Australia? Missing even a few key billionaires with the initial murder leaves a lot of powerful opposition.