If you visit any war museums in Vietnam they really drive home how terrifying the B-52 fascist death machines were and how important of a goal it was to stop them. MiG-21 pilot Vũ Xuân Thiều sacrificed his life to ram one of them with his plane. Unbelievably heroic.

That video is good but the "shithole country" color filter is as egregious as I've ever seen lmfao

The state of mass food serving here is so dire, we need to just straight up steal the idea of those temples that cook ENORMOUS pots of dal and stir it with a giant ladle:

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Probably way, way cheaper too.

I think this is a good post! People of color are often given the bill for accommodating white disabled people.

exploring the depths of western leftism by becoming an abused sidewalk newspaper merchant in 2026

it is so funny that the only attempted persecution of political elites in the west come from document mishandling

finally, we have been lacking un-elaborated internet comments about how philosophical a game is [characters & bosses named after philosophers]

What's funny is I think that often my ideas about this mostly come down to "how much do I want to deal with arguing with pedantic angry nerds who have tied their identity to corporate slop"

If you don't mind me asking, what was the hook that got you in?

RIP to a fallen US troop :(

this is one funny thing that dates The Dark Knight, the joker goes on some long cynical rant the thesis of which is americans only care about going to the mall

Marx's Capital Illustrated is decent, as at least it explains MCM vs. CMC pretty well.

like half of them are Deepak Chopra lol

Depends, it's a pretty common take that a lot of the US's infrastructural woes are due to not being able to build things effectively anymore, which is downstream of de-industrialization.

aka moving further up the value chain like US did when it de-industrialized, moving lower-value fundamental manufacturing to Vietnam

If you don’t believe me then I can ping somebody for you, because, quite honestly, I would be very surprised if you were in regular contact with any Jews.

I don’t personally believe the examples I gave. This is another reason the hypothetical-contradiction argument style is annoying, because you invite people to play in an imaginary world and then are horrified when they play in that imaginary world. We are talking about alternative explanations that a person you are making this argument to would find compelling. That being said, thank you for the in depth reply.

So the structure of your argument is argument by contradiction:

1. Imagine a world where Jewish people are the ruling class
2. In this imaginary world where Jewish people are the ruling class, education would feature their religious beliefs very prominently
3. Education in this world does not feature Jewish religious beliefs very prominently, therefore by contradiction we do not live in the imaginary world where Jewish people are the ruling class

My criticism is that the implication in step (2) is very weak. In this imaginary world there are many, many possible explanations for why education does not feature Jewish religious beliefs very prominently. It could be that the Jewish people who control the world are only ethnically Jewish and largely atheist, thus they care only whether their non-religious values are propagated. It could be that they view Jewish beliefs as hidden knowledge not fit to share with non-Jews. Fundamentally, arguing such a direct causality that you can derive a contradiction is hard to do in an alternate possible world.

Agree Jewish people are not a ruling class but this is poorly argued. In particular, the point about Judaism not being covered in education is easily explained by Judaism being an insular non-proselytizing religion, which in the antisemite’s conception is because they are a secretive society that keeps hidden world-shaping knowledge.

I think those labour seats can go lower. There is room to wipe out the party completely. Do it.

TNO is basically Half Life 3. It is an excellent and surprisingly tender-hearted game. The Old Blood is meh; it’s like meme Halloween DLC. The New Colossus is oddly different tonally from the first game in a way that is hard to describe, but just not as compelling for some reason.