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And why the hell can't we ever start a season on a Friday night? THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE GAME, MANG!
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Blizz needs to lower the number of seasons they do per year, down to three, or even two. They need more time between releases so they can really work this stuff out, because you can tell they're struggling to conceptualize even the basic gameplay loops, let alone add substantive new systems.
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I mean challenge is fine but first WTF do I care if interweb Billy looks up an OP build & trivializes the content? GOOD FOR THEM! I build my little man they build theirs. It's fine. Also, this is an arcade game with cerebral elements. What is the point of repeated grinds if you never feel powerful?
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Speculation (gambling with money) and market contrivances that seem to create money out of thin air (but actually just transfer wealth derived from labor from the bottom to the top) destabilize economies and societies. It should be abolished. Wealth = utility which is derived from labor + resources.
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Second, companies don't even make thing --> get profit now. Companies use labor to fill a market niche to the minimum extent possible simply to accumulate capital. They don't provide goods and services so much as they launder labor into capital gains. Hence mass-enshitification and disposable labor.
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This is exacerbated by the fact that, in what are seen as integral industries (resources, communication, finance, drugs, defense etc.) government is building quasi-state agency relationships with corporations, effectively making them a de facto part of the state. A banana republic with shareholders.
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They keep throwing out the word socialist like it's a bad thing lol
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What's that? Just bought a new DLC and that shit don't work? well, see the reason why is we worked all our devs like donkeys for six weeks crunch to push that sucker out the door and then laid 3/4 of them off as soon as it was done so it'll be a while before is fix but then we crunch again so...
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Also, cash shop uses digital carnival tokens so you have to pay lump sums of money that exceed what you actually wanted to buy so effectively all the prices in the cash shop are actually the minimum purchasable carnival token bloc. All sales are final. Here's a link to our stable of streamers.
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It's a mythical beast, tho... like the third volume of Peripheral š¤£
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Supposedly, some distant day, there's a fourth volume coming out. Looking forward to it.
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& states are, at their core, oppression machines to supplement local control of the extraction machine of capitalism. Lately, elites are unifying across national boundaries, controlling the construct as a whole but don't expect them to give up sovereignty voluntarily. Their law's just that. Theirs.
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So you have an order wherein if one can cloak one's self and one's actions tightly enough in the colors of the state, one is effectively untouchable. Without sovereignty, you wouldn't have national militaries or spy agencies. 'Cause murder, theft, & lying are against the law pretty much everywhere.
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When nationalism replaced sperm-donor-ocracy they transferred that concept over to nation states. International law was doomed from that moment forward, because in-built is the idea that participants in the system are not subjects to it, they exist above it... Just like domestic politicians.
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I mean they kind of get around to this in in the piece, but what ultimately sabotages international law is sovereignty, which was a concept specifically designed to let rich people do whatever they want, hurt whoever they want, take whatever they want.
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Like, it really doesn't matter how history remembers you or if you set a good example for people 200 years from now or if some dictator gets arrested as an old man and does a few years in liberalism's international gulag. That doesn't protect people or save lives. It's performance art.
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People either care about others or they don't. The only thing that creates safety is a significant number of people who care about other people, who are willing to use the big stick to make sure the bad people behave. You don't have that, you don't have peace or human rights or any of the rest.
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And just like everything else that's based on building abstract systems with greedy, cruel human beings it's doomed to failure as anything but an ideal because all it takes is one disingenuous person to break the whole thing. Just like all legal theory.
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It's basically a neighborhood watch for rich people who rule nations. They can call the cops on you, but if they misbehave it's fine. Just like everything else, it serves privilege and the right to extract and steal things from weaker people. You can wish it was something else, but it's not.
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International law is like domestic law. It is made by rich, favored, privileged people, and for them. It exists to sustain what is essentially a feudal system that hasn't changed much in practical economic terms since agriculture became a thing. He with big stick make law u obey unless bigger stick.
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So, if you're an info fountain and I unfollow, it's not because I think ill of you. It's just too much. If I see it, I feel obliged to think about it. If I think about it, I'm left with irreconcilable tension because, as things stand, there's no fixing this. For every one saved power eats ten more.
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That's the real crime of our rulers, I think. Precious few moments in our lives stolen away by artificial but willfully created misery. But shockingly, there's no law against it, no court to prosecute it, and no prison that can contain their destructive appetites. They just chew through generations.
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One lives in perpetual tension between seeing and knowing the awful, and being powerless to really do anything about it. That tension eats the soul and the body. It's like drowning in a sea of horrors. We weren't meant to live like this for decades. It's monstrous.
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Like, it's not that I don't take stuff seriously. Not really. Quite the opposite. But that's the problem. Because I've lived long enough to see a lot of horror and to see how ultimately pointless efforts against it are. Shit just keeps getting worse the longer I live.
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hahahaš¤£hahHAHAHAHhahahahahah looooooooool
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I see you continuously posting this to try and raise awareness and I mean, good on you, but buddy they all really like this arrangement. There are no nations, now. Only classes. And the top looks out for its own, across the world. When climate change ramps up you'll see millions in camps.
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As you can see, the police exist to murder poor people and to see that poor people do not complain about being murdered.
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The threads of fate are woven in strange and unpredictable ways here in clown dimension
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ONLY YOU CAN STOP THE MACHINES, JOHN. WE ARE COUNTING ON U.