Exactly. You can’t shame the shameless.

I want to believe…

People across the internet (including those on Tumblr) love complaining about Tumblr and talking about how it’s dead but it’s the only social media (if you can call it that) that I actually enjoy anymore other than the grad of course. Been there for like 14 years now and it’s still my preferred place to get memes, art, and discourse. I feel like half of all the popular memes of the past 10 years come from Tumblr.

They don’t try and shove ragebait down your throat nearly as much as twitter or facebook either.

You just have to make sure you follow the right people and be prepared to block a shit ton of zionists. But there are tons of cool socialists on there.

Shoutout to @read-marx-and-lenin, they always know their shit and put lib anons in their place.

when are we going to surrender this ahistorical, illogical fantasy of the Democrats coming to save the day

Agreed. The only real questions I have are when and what shape that will take.

AFAIK he already has been stripped of royal titles which is why the UK media apparently just refers to him as “Andrew”? In any case he and all the others facing consequences are scapegoats and mostly non-Americans. The powers that be seem content to let guys like him sizzle in the pan to create the impression of justice being served. This is all speculation on my part though. How funny would it be if the US just exported all of the consequences for all this to other oligarchs in the bloc and that’s what actually causes a permanent fracture in alliances lol

When you’re aware of the crime that you planned and are about to commit, that’s called premeditation.

What is it with fascists and their beloved doggos

did you know that they actually have to scale the statue up sometimes in movies? The makers of Cloverfield initially depicted Liberty’s head at actual size when it rolls through the streets but test audiences didn’t even recognize it because of how small it is IRL. So they made it way bigger. And in X-Men it’s big enough to have a whole fight on top of the head with room to spare lol

Lincoln only ever really gave a shit about preserving muh union. On the election trail for his first run he thought that could be done by “limiting” slavery and making it “die a natural death” (while deporting enslaved people to a special state in Africa).
After he was elected and the south panicked and started the war, he decided that freeing enslaved people and making some structural changes was necessary for the long-term survival of the American political project.

the worst part is when they accuse you of splitting hairs or playing semantic games or something when you’re literally just trying to clearly define terms as they are scientifically. I think the hardest one is trying to explain how imperialism isn’t just when a big country picks on a little country.

Anna’s Archive has a reader you can use. Never tested it before tho so YMMV

Are you fr cuz that would explain a lot lol. The ui looked so refined in 5 & 6 by comparison

I’m a massive Civ fan and have been for half my life at this point and I was totally flabbergasted at how awful 7 turned out.

I didn’t expect it to be some kind of historical materialism simulator because 6 definitely felt like more of a (liberal) history-themed board game and I loved it for that, but holy hell what a disaster. I refunded the complete edition after like 4 hours and am really glad I did. I feel like every time I learn something new about the game it’s some horrible design choice like removing canals, or making economic victories dependent on railroads (???), or getting rid of the policy system, or getting rid of city states… the list goes on and on. For every good idea they had, like replacing barbarians with Independent Peoples, there’s like 4 dealbreakers.

Making your whole civ reset when the age changes is straight up braindead and feels like both a terrible misinterpretation of how and why crises unfold throughout history and also a band-aid solution to prevent anybody from getting “left behind”. At that point why not just have every civ win the game? It’s just so obvious that they made a game for smarmy streamers like Sips to “break” so they can slap it on their youtube channel and get 10 kajillion updoots and thereby get tons of free marketing.

And the UI my GOD. Hands down the ugliest UI in any civ game or any other 4X game I’ve played from the last 15 years. Sins of a Solar Empire looked better. Civ 5 looked better. It fr looks like an indie game made by a single person (and even then that’s no excuse because games like Stardew exist).

I could go on and on but you get the picture; Firaxis decided to rip off a lesser title like Humankind while also trying and failing to re-invent the wheel. 7 looks worse and plays worse than Revolutions and that was a nintendo DS game that cost a fraction of what I paid for 7.

There’s way more to do now than at launch but I accept the critique that it’s a spreadsheet sim lol every year I get back into it for like a week before ragequitting when the bourgeoisie stomp me to death for the tiny incremental concessions I give to my proles

Victoria 3 is kinda close, I guess. I find it frustrating though.

They will when it happens to them personally. But even then they’ll probably just sit around expecting some democrat to come save them.

the glasses are sooo cringe lol you just know some focus group told him it’ll make him look manly and not like a try-hard perv

i bought one of these a month ago and it’s totally changed the game

moving beyond your parents reach will give you a whole new outlook on life, take it from me