I liked it until the end of the Ezio trilogy, though Brotherhood and Revelations felt basically like extra-large DLCs on top of 2, in terms of how they fit in narratively.

But uhh, wtf is up with that bs gatekeeping? The series has obviously changed direction completely since killing off Desmond and undermining the point of its originally-planned story arc, but that doesn’t mean other people can’t like it for different reasons, if they want to.

Also Jenny Tightpants. I dunno what’s going on in this pic but I’m pretty sure it involves roleplay.

You’ve touched on the point Jason raises in literally the very next sentence after the quote I shared in the video that quote comes from.

Payment processors declared common carriers when?

My entire comment about Marxist-Leninist was literally about resistance to Imperialism

Yes, I know. My point is that that’s a load of bullshit, as demonstrated by the actual countries that claimed to inherit ML ideology.

[edit: To be clear: maybe one could argue that the USSR and China aren’t/weren’t “true communism”, and that true communism would be anti-imperial. My experience on Lemmy has been that people on the tanky instances tend to reject that argument, preferring to praise them as maybe imperfect but fundamentally very good. I hinted at this by referring to “actual existing communist states” in my previous comment, by way of analogy to the term ‘AES’ I know tankies like to use. But unless someone is willing to acknowledge explicitly that the USSR and China are just as bad when it comes to imperialism as many liberal western democracies, and put forward a claim that “true communism” wouldn’t do that (and therefore that the USSR and China have never been truly communist), their arguments are obviously a load of bunk.]

you are now pointing to pre capitalist Imperialism to try to make a false comparison in a completely different class structure

No, I’m pointing that imperialism exists in capitalism, communism, and even in fundamentally incomparable societies. That imperialism is effectively on an entire separate axis from communism-capitalism, if it can even be said to be on the same graph. I feel I’ve been very clear about this, and your continued refusal to understand it strikes me as trolling. Unless you can come to the table and discuss in an intelligent and civilised manner, I’m ending it here.

The site that prominently poisend many Google AI summaries

The site that made huge bank by selling API access to Google so Google could poison its own search results with shitty AI summaries.

Suburbia may be a good place to shelter toddlers, but as soon as a child is more than about 6 years old, being trapped in a mcmansion on the edge of town seriously inhibits their growth and independence. They might be able to walk to a friend’s house, if they’re lucky enough to live somewhere with a sidewalk, but they’re unlikely to be able to walk to school, or anywhere else for that matter. …

… And it’s more than just school, too. Kids have lots of sports and other activities, so [in better urbanist places] it’s very common to see children walking or cycling while dressed in football gear (not [American] football) or hockey gear (not [ice] hockey), because they travel to all these activities by themselves.

In the US and Canada you have the stereotype of the suburban ‘soccer mum’, the mother who spends all of her time shuttling her kids around from school to activities to playdates and back. Because until a kid is about 16 years old and has their own driver’s licence, they need to be driven around everywhere by their parents. And this is considered ‘normal’.

— Jason Slaughter, 2022

My surface reading of this is that it’s making fun of how Israel has killed thousands of Palestinian children as part of their genocide, and that they therefore hate kids, in contrast to the paedophiles who “love” them.

But in fact, Israel has provided a safe haven for paedophiles from America and other countries, protecting them from conviction. So Israel is doubly guilty.

thats not at all what my initial comment is talking about

Your first comment said “This is what communist do my friend.” Referring to Vietnam kicking out imperialists. That is the core of the discussion and that’s what I want to concentrate on here, rather than get bogged down in off-topic stuff, which is what I specifically avoided replying to above.

My take is that no, anti-imperialism is not core to what actual existing communists states have been. Instead, imperialism is a trait of power incentives and that any non-anarchical society (and I use anarchy here in the sense that actual anarchists mean it, as a type of non-Marxist socialism, not in the way the general public understands it) can potentially aspire to empire. There are communist countries that do it. There are capitalist countries that do it. There were empires as far back as the bronze age in societies that could not be described with either of those labels.

I found this solution worked for me in Australia. It involved clicking a link to add the bundle to my cart, and then another link to check out, rather than going through the normal process.

I found this solution worked for me in Australia. It involved clicking a link to add the bundle to my cart, and then another link to check out, rather than going through the normal process.

Ironically (or perhaps completely unironically) the bundle requires a very weird workaround to get it to work in Australia.

Anyway, I redeemed it and got all those games added to my account. I doubt I’ll ever even install any of them tbh, but I just felt like saying “screw you” to my compatriot.

Yeah that spoiled word is rather archaic in that meaning.

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First time I’ve done connections in ages. Was looking up

and that helped us notice that there was a whole category full of those.

The ordering of the other three categories after purple is utterly insane.

It’s phonetic with a strong accent

I’ve gone looking and unfortunately can’t find a proper name for it (like with the “cot/caught” merger or the “pin/pen” merger), but there does indeed seem to be attestations of a sort of “bail/bell merger” in parts of America, including Texas. Neat!

Ok, I can understand someone who’s not a good speller and not familiar with Italian or Spanish not knowing how to spell zucchini and jalapeno. And “tater” is a pretty accepted nickname for potatoes, and “mater” just fits with that pretty nicely.

But how the fuck do you misspell “bell pepper”? Coulda been funny if it did a porky-pig style thing where it tries to write capsicum a few times, crosses those out, and then just writes “bell pepper”.

Imperialism of today (and of recent vietnamese history) is the subjugation of a nation of people under capitalist exploitation and occupation.

If you define “imperialism” as something only capitalists can do, of course you’re going to find that imperialism is a capitalist evil.

If, instead, you use the actual accepted definition of imperialism, which is closer to “the subjugation of a nation of people under another people’s occupation” (i.e., regardless of the reason for the subjugation), then China is, and the USSR was, every bit as guilty of it as America today.

Because he didn’t? Judaism evolved out of older henotheistic Canaanite religion, which evolved out of even older polytheistic Canaanite religion. Which was influenced by contact with outsiders like Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Finland and Norway is such a weird pairing of countries to invite. Why not Sweden, Denmark, and the Baltics?

Technically the photo was allegedly from 2018, which would make her 42.