khwarezm.bsky.social
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To be clear, he really didn't. He was the kind of guy who called himself a realistic climate activist purely to punch left and claim that other climate activists were scaremongering. His lies and exaggerations quickly became well known back then, by the late 2000s. He's only ever been a liar
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The only thing you have to offer is essentially bragging about people dying and outright genocide being conducted because you fucking losers forced this to be a choice between the genocide party and the... genocide party. The only people the Democrats should blame for losing are themselves.
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You motherfuckers supported this for more than a year, and you have the gall to say "we warned you"?
Democrat party diehards are some of the most malignant people in politics.
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That's not what I said, I said you wouldn't detach a films scene from the context of the actual movie. In contrast you essentially have to do this for something like Uncharted when the dissonance between gameplay, tone and story is too much to bear
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You're very upset or else you wouldn't be here, you can read any of my other responses here and give something halfway concrete to what I've said instead of dumb insults. Or not
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Why are you upset about this
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Uncharted is the worst thing to bring up because it's an endless cavalcade of violence with that being the overwhelming player interaction, without it "meant" to be abstract. You can't just act like that's not core to game and creates a bizarre disconnect with how Drake is presented
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This is a bad comparison because a lot of the games we are talking explicitly are trying to be "realistic", a turn based combat game is self consciously embracing the artifice and not concerned with that
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People getting upset about ludonarrative dissonance in 2025 is just down to the fact that they can't really handle basic critique that would be applied to any other medium, its the same shit as it was for years where gamers wanted it to be called an art form but didn't want it to be treated as art
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Facile response, games love to ape and pretend to be movies, the commentator was specifically talking about Uncharted which is infamous for this. You can't have it both ways where it suddenly doesn't count in the actual gameplay the player engages in made to look as much like a movie as possible
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That doesn't change anything, nobody would look at the movie scene and say something like "you aren't meant to take it literally in the movies context!"
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I think you guys tend to vastly overestimate how much impact old reviews have on things.
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That's the point I'm getting at, the US isn't really there to "defend Greenland", its there to defend the US by keeping track of potential missile launches that go over the arctic circle, its ridiculous that people pretend they are there out of largesse for others, if Denmark is providing largesse
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Why does the us have troops in greenland
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Unless the institution is the ICC, interestingly.
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Carl you fucking moron, I'm tired of this bullshit rationalization where you dumbasses have to consistently ignore the fact that Ukraine was not in NATO, and wasn't close to joining! All of you fucking idiots were laughing at the prospect that they'd invade in jan 2022!
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Fucking idiot, Jihadi movements were present across North Africa long before this, Christ, its like you people have completely forgotten about the Algerian civil war or the ongoing insurgency in the Maghreb since the early 2000s:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurge...
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In the 90s the US enforced a no-fly zone over Iraqi Kurdistan that helped halt Saddam's genocide of the Kurds. Do you think it would have been better for him to continue, as part of, uh, anti-imperialist solidarity?
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Is ISIS currently running Syria? Since Assad collapsed I assume they are the only option, right?
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"No U"
Scions of the American anti-imperialist left.
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Wait what was that?
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Pics or it didn't happen
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Blocked, what a loser, can't back up his claims against the slightest pushback and throws a tantrum
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Have much relation to the stabilising hand of world empire you seem to love, even though that didn't really exist at the height of American power? Like China has already held Xinjiang and Tibet for decades and Israel ethnically cleansed and oppressed Palestinians for decades too
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I'm going to be blunt, whatever China is doing, either to the Uyghurs or Tibetans, is completely outclassed in every way possible by US diplomatic and military support for Israeli genocide in Palestine. None of the atrocities mentioned really have much to do with the bad effects of multipolarity...
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"Google it" is a very embarrassing thing to say when I'm asking you, someone who presents themselves as a reliable source for public history, to back up their own claims. It's on you to do this since these are quite large claims
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I don't think it would have, and I think its fundamentally flawed to think that wars happen or don't happen primarily as a result of how many superpowers there are.
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This is highly misleading, he's talking about hyperpowerdom but the end of WW2 didn't see a sole American world order, the Soviet Union was a competing force. And yet despite that, the worst war since the end of WW2 was the second Congo war, at the absolute height of American sole dominance.
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Like China actually is the second power on earth, but its not really partaking in any wars themselves and the extent of their support is basically just maintaining trade relations with Russia, meanwhile America is doggedly funding an outright genocide in Gaza, is that an effect of multipolarity?
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Like its a big claim, at the least I'd want to see if there's something approaching objective evidence about rises or decreases in violence, and importantly that this directly relates to American dominance compared to the rest of the world.
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Was there a dip in genocides and civil wars? Was there reduced Imperial aggression from the sole superpower compared to previously despite the war on terror? Are the wars unravelling the eastern block outweighed by less proxy wars taking place in other parts of the world?
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Youre kind of missing the point, you're saying or at least heavily implying that things were worse before the era of sole American hyperpower and that the end of that will lead to chaos, but what specifically makes you think this was actually the case when you compare roughly 1970-1990 to 1990-2010?
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What specifically makes you say that when you consider the events of late cold war compared to the height of American dominance when we had things like the Chechen wars, genocides in Congo, Sudan and Rwanda and the ultimate manifestation of superpower complacency with the war on Terror?
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I don't really see why you make a big distinction between Jesse Singal and anyone else considering you already repost people like Will Stancil.
But I'll bite, what specifically is your issue
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Bluntly, Russia is not doing the same to the Ukrainians and I think the equivalence between a war between two states who can't get a real advantage over each other and a straightforward genocide to be grotesque. Its like comparing the WW1 Western Front to the German genocide of the Herero and Nama
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Its probably because essentially the same argument that can be used to say it doesn't need an easy mode still applies, difficulty can be tweaked by how the player uses the mechanics (IE, SL1 runs).