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I'm going to make a guess.

As the founding fathers intended.

don't go in a space shuttle

As awesome as it was in concept, that thing was a safety nightmare from the very beginning. With every other manned spacecraft if something goes wrong during launch you can blast off and land the capsule safely in the ocean, but with the shuttle there were large portions of the ascent and descent profiles where, if something went wrong, you were going too fast to turn around but too slow to make it to space so you were just hosed.

This is what I meant.

Ugh the clip in that thread. Norm is blaming Angela Davis for the liberal establishment coopting her message and whitewashing it - like what the fuck else is she supposed to do, Norm? Advocate for a communist revolution which in America right now is every bit as far flung a possibility as prison abolition is? Immolate herself on the steps of the White House in protest? Stop punching left for fuck's sake and that goes for the article in the OP as well.

Authoritarianism is not doing what America tells you to.

It's truly a great bit and one that should be appropriated by a website that isn't reactionary.

Bandera is in the game already if Ukraine becomes independent and fascist (although if Nazi Germany conquers them they can put a different German fascist in charge). HOI4 just kinda pretends the Holocaust doesn't happen, which kinda whitewashes the fascists but also I don't want to know what the HOI4 community would do if the Holocaust was actually in the game.

abruptly abandoned its draconian “Zero Covid” policies

There were months of protests, followed by a government rollout of the new less strict rules in phases over the course of several more months. The New York Times needs to reread the definition of "abruptly" because I don't think they know what it means.

I liked this video. I've never heard the term "metamodernism" until now but the way he explained it makes sense. It's like people want to return to the escapism of older films but they can't quite let go and be totally sincere about it, which is why you get soy banter and shit. I've always preferred what this essay terms "modernist" films and I suspect a lot of other Marxists do too, as Marxism itself is a very modernist philosophy, even if we are also aware of the terrible lessons taught by many films of that type.

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You know, even when I was a kid I thought Magneto's plan in the first X-Men movie to turn everyone into mutants was fucking baller and they should have let him do it. Just 'cause that one guy turned into a water monster doesn't mean that would be the default - the X gene expresses way differently in everyone who has it.

An no, I don't think giving every human the X gene constitutes genocide, that's fucking stupid.

Shot by a rental cop in a fucking Walgreens. You could burn every Walgreens in this country to the fucking ground and it would still be less of a loss than a single person's life.