If you’re a leftist doing it you’re a debate bro. If you’re a liberal doing it you’re a debatebro.

“I murdered a million people and sent the world in to decades of chaos and war” W Bush.

Biden’s trying to outdo him.

Ahh well I think that’s an outlier? Not sure really i have heard only people talk about how shockingly solid it is for early access.

When they find scum like Tate they think they found the bible, not because they understand the ideology, but just because he’s contrarian and is talking about things relevant to teenage boys.

It’s important to understand that these boys are genuinely looking for an instruction manual too. They want to know how to be “alpha”, they want to know how to get girls, and they want to know how to be the genius like some protag from their favourite anime. They’re looking for instruction manuals and they find these people who promise to be them. It’s exactly how pua took off in the first place and this entire sphere of online influence began with that.

Looks like it’s a base called Al-Tanf in Syria actually.

And this makes me think those rumours that US troops are about to be pulled out of Syria entirely might be true @[email protected]

Usher in the strongmen.

Is Keith Sturmer or Dishy Rishi the strong man?

Yeah it’s insidious. Really incredibly unhealthy for the employees and causes massive burnout in the first 1 or 2 years. The thing is that the employees that then survive this shit are usually the most indoctrinated so they’re easiest to control and build toxic corporate work cultures around.

Is this like the american version of rishi sunak having absolutely no idea how to use a contactless card machine when he tried to do a photo op at a petrol station?

I can see how these blow up. It’s a moment that shows how utterly separated their lives are from the average working class person.

In case anyone has any libs in their lives that are pro-palestine but still pro-ukraine they might be turned if reminded of this:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/zelenskyy-wants-ukraine-to-be-a-big-israel-heres-a-road-map/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/19/president-zelenskyy-one-israel-is-enough

I think revisiting what a “Big Israel” in Europe means is useful right now, in the context of everyone learning what Israel actually means in the Middle East, as a base for the projection of US power and control on the region.

This does not only include combatting Russia, but also includes controlling the various European states and the EU.

Europe is a theatre of operations to the US, just like every other theatre of operations. European countries have not realised that they do not hold a special status compared to other countries in the world in the eyes of US dominance, they are targets of the same control and operations as any other. Ukraine is intended to be to Europe what Israel is to the Middle East.

1. Yes. The runways can be hit.

2. It’s surprisingly hard to hit actual planes on the runways. You need realtime information on specific location of the players and extremely accurate long range missiles. It’s accessible to Russia, it’s less accessible to powers in this region. They’re more likely to just repeatedly bomb runways.

3. US will give them access to other bases and aircraft carrier use. Not to mention air to air refuelling.

These kinds of sports things sound good but eliminating competition isn’t going to work. People enjoy competition. People seek out and create competition for themselves, it’s interesting, it’s fun, it’s a game.

I am not saying that non-competition type stuff won’t work either, but you need both. Or you’re just handing over all the people that like competition to the far right.

Guess where young boys 10-15 go to get role models that are fighters because they’re scared the other kids will beat them up? They look up sports and find the top fighters.

I actually like the point about making it a collective thing, sort of a movement, a self body improvement left thing. That’s good, but it doesn’t need to also toss out individual rolemodels entirely either.

If black people had made those cartoons originally it would just be black people doing something that’s ok among black people. For example it’s not particularly uncommon for black people to call black shoplifters a bunch of animals or apes or whatever. They’re not doing it racially they’re using it because they’re just calling them animals. Same shit I do about football hooligans wrecking the town.

It completely changes context when it’s white people saying it.

I agree that there is a pipeline to the far right there and we should be trying to divert it but you cant just do what the fascists do without getting what the fascists get. (more little fascists)

I disagree. Muhammad Ali is my goto for this. He’s exactly what Andrew Tate is but leftist instead, and the result is that he pipelined people leftwards, or at the very least functioned as a buffer against them being funnelled rightwards, which would be a significant improvement over the current situation we have.

If these boys had heard “capitalism is the problem” more often they wouldn’t think that getting buff and burying their emotions was the way to fix their material conditions.

They literally hear this like multiple times a fucking week now. The problem is that they’re not hearing it from anyone they consider to be “cool” or that fits the role models that they seek. These boys are impressionable little insecure idiots that are seeking out the top fighters because they’re scared of being beat up by the other kids and the top flirters because they’re scared of being out-flirted by the other kids and the top “thinkers” because a section of them think being the brainy one gets you girls when in reality it’s some sort of weirdo edgy chuuni thing.

I think you’re looking too old here. You’re looking at incels in their early twenties when these boys are being influenced by the far right before they’re 15.

Having no left answer to masculinity means handing over teen boys to the far right, and effectively kneecapping your primary demographic for what becomes the fighting age of revolutionaries.

It’s utopian behaviour.

The left absolutely needs to present something that is attractive to young males interested in the topics that usually end up filling the “masculinity” niche: Fighters, how to get girls, how to be brainier than other people. Andrew Tate is attractive to them for being a top fighter, he crosses over with mra and pua shit that segues boys into the right through the getting girls segment, and Jordan Peterson type stuff fills the last one.

The left has absolutely no answer to this because it’s being utopian over the topic. It wants perfection but you simply can’t do that with this topic. There needs to be a transition. We need healthy role models that fill the role of masculinity to compete with the far right and then we can eliminate it once they’re defeated, otherwise it’s just handing hordes of these boys over to them with no effective opposition.

In videogame companies one of the tactics I saw employers use is to put the offices in the middle of fucking nowhere then have people move to the tiny ass out of the way location in buttfuck nowhere to work. This forces them into a state of 24/7 work because they often share housing with other employees and have literally nothing else to do in the area except socialise with one another. Having them living with each other also creates social pressures on them all about leaving and potentially fucking over housemates with debts or bills they can’t afford.

The outcome of this is that it functionally makes their entire lives revolve around work.

Your creative juices just don’t work without being in a soulless corporate environment. You don’t understand, a 2x2 cubicle in an open plan office with motivational cats on the wall and a passive aggressive note on the fridge is the optimal setting for creativity.

Today’s democrats are officially not just to the right of Reagan. They are to the right of Trump 4 years ago.

A vote for Biden today is a vote for maga four years ago.

What about that American footballer dude that took the knee? Sorry I don’t know his name.

EDIT: Kaepernick that’s the one.

I genuinely can’t tell whether this is clever marketing or not. Playing up the “smol indie ragtag devs that have no idea what we’re doing” seems a little too likely to me. Something feels wrong if you know what I mean.

The game is extremely well made for an early access game release. It has fewer issues than Baldurs Gate 3 at commercial release and that was a famously pretty good and well polished commercial release.

What I mean is that I think they’re full of shit. Professionals put out things with far more bugs and farrrrr more jank than this all the time.

I think the whole “we have no idea what we’re doing” thing is marketing. Cashing in on the hate of major studios releasing buggy shit all the time by pretending that even complete and total idiots can put out work that isn’t busted.

I have things set up like this. Censoring for the privacy of others really, not for myself.

Large main screen on the left is what I sit in front of, the other 2 are side screens for chat stuff on the L of my desk.

I should really get a background or something I think this is one of the defaults? I almost never look at the desktop though aside from the small bar I used for Rainmeter on the right screen, so I’ve never bothered.