neekromancer.bsky.social
Grumpy middle-aged nerd
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It would be funnier if we didn't all have to suffer the consequences.
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In other news today: Sky blue, Water Wet, broken clock right twice in one day. More shocking headlines at 11.
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Maybe the tools to "regulate capitalism" can be found within socialism? Americans in the 30s and 40s seemed to think so. social safety nets, labor unions, Medicaid. All of these came out of socialist thinking. Maybe there's more there to mine? Socialism and communism aren't the same thing.
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The game awards are starting to suffer from the disease all award industries have. It's easier to get nominated if you don't offend anyone but real revolutions in art *require* that someone be offended. Therefore awards tend to be more about tepid popularity than true inspiration.
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Hell yes. This is real talk that can get through to the working class.
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Nobody is perfect but I try. I'm sorry you've been through so much because of intolerant people. I hope we can all find a better future.
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Yeah. Social media does make that easy. But the people responding to @matthuber.bsky.social in the original post aren't just fascist goons looking to own the libs. I think it's brave and necessary to resist the temptation to just block people that are trying to disagree using crass jokes.
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In years past, I have spent most of my time on Facebook and Reddit. I've been careful not to overly prune my friends/groups and have tried to use what privilege I have (as a cis male of color) to call out bad behavior as much as possible. It hasn't been easy, but there have been some successes.
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Engaging with people who are sending death threats is certainly challenging. Not everyone is Gandhi. But I'm going to take a leap of logic here and suggest that not everyone that has an argument against Marxism is a literal knife-wielding Nazi.
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That is certainly understandable. But refusing to engage at all and insulting them instead is counter-productive
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Don't start now. Engaging with your enemies is the path to making them understand. Shutting them down only entrenches them and validates them.
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It doesn't have to be. They way we do things now certainly doesn't work. Just ask the single parent working 3 jobs to survive. Do you have a better idea? We're all ears.
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Yes, that will certainly change things. What we need is more isolation, not less.
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Perhaps calling the victims of psychological abuse idiots and monsters doesn't help them break the cycle of abuse. Maybe just blocking accounts wholesale isn't the way to educate workers? Interesting.
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Unfortunately social stigmas are a real thing. Words like socialism and Marxism will elicit a strong reaction from most Americans. Going in and just talking about the capitalist mode of production will be met with, at best, empty stares. At worst, you'll get threats of violence.
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Talking about Marxism after this last election is a little like trying to change a tire with the hub caps still on. It's not that I don't think Marxism is the solution, it's that the American population still has a few steps of understanding before we can start talking about the means of production.
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I had that one!
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I mean... she is technically correct. This level of racism, misogyny, and intolerance was pretty much the theme for the founding "fathers"
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Maybe living in the past is a bad goal. Why not make something even better?
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Was organizing really the issue here? Didn't Harris spend 1.5 billion dollars on an extremely well organized and well advertised campaign and lost anyway? Maybe some finger pointing and factional squabbles might help Democrats figure out what to stand for instead of what to stand against.
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Not sure why. This dude loves writing about bad people getting away with war and sex crimes.
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Two of my favorite things! Skeet and Director's Commentary. I'm in.
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The dolphins tell me "So long, and thanks for all the fish"
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Game recognizes game.
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Definitely UbiSoft's 2001 Pool of Radiance remake has the biggest gap between expectations and delivery of any game I have ever played. That game was such a disaster and borderline unplayable at launch. I have been suspicious of Ubisoft ever since.
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This was me in Dragon Age Inquisition. Every god dang time.