DanicaTheRebel

joined 3 years ago
 

I had my brother play Deus Ex: Human Revolution and I remembered how much wacky fun I had.

America in 2027 is depicted a crumbling dystopia (basically what America will actually be in 3 years minus some fancy tech) where Musk types like Sarif are "creating" wealth by further segregating deindustrialized cities like Detroit.

There is literally a mission where you infiltrate a FEMA concentration camp in a deindustrialized region of Detroit that was built to house dissidents. And a literal fedposting tries to hire you to orchestrate a gang war to prevent people from finding out.

I find China's depiction in the game the most fascinating because China in HR is basically what the West fantasized China would become in the future. A neoliberal western vassal with a weak "Communist" party. There are Blackwater style PMCs in the game operating to protect Western sweatshops in China and brutalize the populace. Luckily, I had Jensen take them all out. fedposting xi-gun

Also, Israel apparently got wiped out so maybe the Cyberpunk dystopia is kind of based. zionist-despair

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NGL, watching insufferable radlibs and BlueMAGA types eat their own shit is pretty enjoyable. data-laughing

This is what you get you you rally behind the decrepit husk in charge of a decaying genocidal empire.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

BLUEMAGA is in shambles right now.

data-laughing

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can someone explain the whole Dasha/Red Scare pod thing? Last I recall was her doing the Sailor Socialism thing back in 2018 (feels like a lifetime ago now). Then hearing something about her becoming a tradcath a couple years later.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (35 children)

Serious question, but why aren't we doing the crab-party for Ebrahim Raisi? Sure he was against the west and the Iranian revolution was preferable to the western puppet king. But he was deeply right wing and murdered communists during the Revolution.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Also, I find it funny how he completely absolves America's role in all of this. This piece is written as if us Russians are all Asiatic hordes that want to destroy the West because they have shiny new technology that our Slavic brainpans are to primitive to create.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Kotkin is one of the very few liberal historians who doesn't completely regurgitate batshit insane takes about the Soviet Union from the Cold War era (For instance he acknowledges that Lenin's testament was a hoax).

However, his takes on politics are so utterly naïve that one might think he's some kind of Harvard MBA failson rather than an actual historian. I remember during a conversation a couple of years ago where he basically states that America will win the new Cold War because they have the capability of "self correction" that China does not. Because choosing between two demented racists in an election is apparently "self correction". This article is more of the same. The Russia-Chinese vassal theory is literally believed by no one and is ludicrous when you consider that America literally controls Europe's foreign policy. Everything else sounds like it came from redditors in early 2022.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

I'm not religious at all. But seeing decaying husks like Lindsey Graham and his ilk go to Ukraine and demand that 18 year old's be drafted and sent to die in the trenches for the Empire's proxy wars genuinely makes me want to believe in some kind of Biblical eternal torment.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You would think that after 2 years, someone at the Institute for Strategic Cope would wizen up and realize that making comical claims about Russia's casualties will eventually stop being effective. If Ukraine really only took 31,000 casualties, they wouldn't need to mobilize 400,000 more people for the meat grinder. If Russia took the comical level of casualties that they say they did, then would would see every Russian male kidnapped on video to be sent for war. At this point I can't tell if they are all failsons who fall for their own propaganda or if they are trying to convince dumbass liberals to clap like seals for Biden.

 

Guasanos coping that their genocidal puppet no longer exists.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Question, but how could Hitler to turn east towards the USSR if Poland is in the way? Unless they expected the Poles and Nazis to collaborate? or did they believe he wouldn't invade France and do the USSR next? Is there any evidence of this?

 

Thinking about replaying Mass Effect again, is it better to save or let the council die? Which choice is best for advancing the cause of the galactic working class?

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Left of Bernie is far too generous. I've seen Trumpsters and even other liberals called tankies by internet libs for not supporting nuking Russia. More like left of Reagan, Thatcher, and Himmler.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone have any updates on Ukraine shooting down 2 Russian spy planes over Azov? I've seen claims that the Russian military acknowledged it, but I can't seem to find anything recent.

[–] DanicaTheRebel@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I find it funny how just a couple of years ago I was terrified of Ron DeSantis because he had the potential to be an actually competent fascist president, but then he blows up his own political career by going against cheeto-man Like he could have just waited until 2028 to run against AOC or gruesome Newsom and have a decent shot at nomination.

 

I don't really know much about the political and economic situation. For instance, why is their inflation so high?

 

I'm curious what you guys think about what changes would occur in the USSR and the world.

 

Prior to the conflict, I wasn't a fan of liberals. But at least they were better than conservatives because they didn't want to glass the Middle East, protested against the Iraq war, made fun of right wing bullshit on Fox News, and didn't want to gun down Muslims or Hispanics. Or so I thought.

Liberals have gone full :frothingfash: and are literally regurgitating 1930s Nazi talking points about the Slavs. As I Russian speaker, I stopped going on most subreddits now due to the obscene racism. I've seen shit ranging from "Aktually, Ruzzians are not white or European" to "Lets break Russia up and commit mass ethnic cleansing". It's not even just Russians, I've seen a massive surge in racist posts about Chinese and Indian people since the war started.

Liberals are literally swallowing the most inane nonsense from Ukraine like "Russian orcs shocked at seeing toilets for the first time". And lets not forget the "Russian brainpan too smol to launch nukes so lets nuke them ourselves" posts all over :reddit-logo:

Anyone who even remotely suggests that we shouldn't arm and send 16 year old Ukrainians to be blown up in human wave attacks is called a Kremlin agent.

Amazingly, many right-wingers like Peterson or Candace Owens have better takes on the situation than liberals do. Does anyone have an explanation for this?

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