I mean, we're only looking at about 300 megadeaths. That's not so bad, really. :strangelove-wow:
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As footage of Japanese civilians with their skin peeling off played on the screen, the audience of Americans was laughing hysterically as if they were watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers.
:scared:
That's pretty cool. Critical support for draftees who immediately surrendered to the Vietnamese when they met them.
Now I'm imagining a show called Workplace Nightmares, where the hosts are a couple IWW representatives.
I can see where you're coming from, but the skill system in particular being designed the way it is is a perfect match for the game's themes. Just like with white skill checks, Harry's life is the story of someone failing horribly but coming back to try again.
But there's a fast travel system in the game that just straight up doesn't work and it would be better if it did.
The worst part is that while De-Stalinization did do some nice things like relax the political situation and abolish the gulags, they completely neglected to fix the problems that Stalin himself had identified in one of his last books, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR! Instead of getting proper postwar economic reforms in the 50s and 60s, the Soviet economy essentially remained unchanged until Gorbachev's reforms, and we all know how that ended up.
De-Stalinization undertaken by Khruschev was basically the starting point for everything going wrong. Not that mistakes weren't made prior to this, or that the SU wasn't able to accomplish great things after it, but the trend line across Soviet history where Marxism becomes less important as a guiding ideology and the people and the party leaders' desires begin to diverge from each other starts descending there. As Xi Jinpeng puts it:
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces? An important reason is that in the ideological domain, competition is fierce! To completely repudiate the historical experience of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate Stalin was to wreck chaos in Soviet ideology and engage in historical nihilism. It caused Party organizations at all levels to have barely any function whatsoever. It robbed the Party of its leadership of the military. In the end the CPSU—as great a Party as it was—scattered like a flock of frightened beasts! The Soviet Union—as great a country as it was—shattered into a dozen pieces. This is a lesson from the past!
You could alternately see it as an Elon Musk-type figure selling the town of Springfield a gadgetbahn when they could have solved their problem with a regular bus or train for half the price and double the reliability.
...but the average viewer probably interpreted it as being anti public transit.
Some spicy left unity quotes in this video.
"Certainly! If we anarchists could achieve the revolution on our own, or if the socialists could on their own, we could enjoy the luxury of each acting independently and of perhaps quarreling. But the revolution will be made by all the proletariat, all the people, whereas the socialists and anarchists are a numerical minority, though they appear to enjoy the sympathy of the people as a whole. For us to be divided even where there are grounds for unity, would mean dividing the workers, or rather, cooling off their sympathies, as well as making them less likely to follow the socialistic line common to both socialists and anarchists and which is at the heart of the revolution. It is up to the revolutionaries, especially the anarchists and socialists, to see to this by not exaggerating the differences and paying attention above all to the realities and objectives which can unite us and assist us to draw the greatest possible revolutionary advantage from the situation."
-Errico Malatesta
While little has changed of my opinion on :funny-clown-hammer: (NSFW), I can say that this video has made me more excited to read the book Luna has been translating.
About half of my YouTube subscribes are guys who talk about medieval weapons and armor and stuff, and I have no doubt that most of them have horrible politics.
Diet soda. I drink a lot of it which I know isn't healthy, but I figure that since I don't really have any of the classic vices that I'm probably fine overall.
Oh yeah total agreement. The other planets are a bit slow, but Peragus is an actual slog.
all alien theories are pretty :so-true: brained, IMO. Until we have a better picture of how common life is or isn't, and how long it typically lasts or doesn't before being wiped out by cosmic phenomena, any answer to Fermi's Paradox is just people projecting their vibe onto the question. Star Trek is an optimistic answer, Dark Forest a pessimistic one, etc.