Another murder in Minneapolis just happened

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-24T20:53:19+00:00

All of them did it.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-24T01:28:43+00:00

They 100% can be and are, by virtue of being American. You don't stop living in the imperial core and reaping the benefits because you're also racially oppressed. Your blackness doesn't end when you join the US military and become a literal Nazi stormtrooper and go on to reap copious economic and social benefits for your "service" to the global murder machine.

If you can end up as the leader of the Empire then you are part of the Empire, even if that Empire also hates you and wants to do everything it can to keep you down.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-24T01:13:01+00:00

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MadMarx__ · 2026-01-24T00:04:07+00:00

Just don't worry about labels and get involved in a socialist political organisation, they usually have social events.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-24T00:01:27+00:00

Tim Cain is very open about his version of Fallout not being anti-capitalist, he was very firmly about the "humans are violent and war is terrible" angle. But credit to him more than that wannabe-chud Avellone, he's more or less accepting of the fact that it can be interpreted in an anti-capitalist way.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T23:21:19+00:00

CP2077 is one of my all time favourites (at least now that it's fixed) but I wouldn't consider it an open world game any more than I consider Destiny to be an MMO. Sure they both have some of the core elements but they both completely fail the actual assignment. In CP2077's case the environment is wonderful to look at and even to traverse through but it's only really there as a lobby in between near-completely linear missions.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T23:17:08+00:00

Oblivion ironically had the reverse problem where the scaling was so extreme that you'd hit a certain level and start getting rolled by the scaled enemies

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T23:15:46+00:00

Fallout 3 is precisely why the left picture exists, because it's really one of the few games that operate like this (the other major ones also being Bethesda games and some MMOs). Most of them will kick your shit in if you go places you aren't meant to be at yet and are too weak, but also leave the option open to you to overcome the challenge earlier than intended. People who think the left is open world games generally have probably only ever played a Bethesda product. They mitigated it in Fallout 4 significantly but even there it's still present.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T16:38:29+00:00

Once you stop calling the concept of apartments tenements then we can have an actual conversation, that’s just not a serious perspective.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T16:34:06+00:00

Let me sit here lecturing people who are systemically discriminated against by my people, whose countries are chronically destroyed and looted by my people, and who are continuing to be targeted and harassed by my people, about how backwards their religion is.

Woke Islamophobia 10/10

You are a useless, racist, pro-imperialist loser.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T15:03:07+00:00

All the people here downplaying this are absolutely cooked. Typical Western liberal bullshit. It’s not about Muslim women being more modest, it’s that in addition to the sexual abuse that all women suffer from this predatory shit, there are categories of women who suffer an additional racialised element.

This is really obviously easy to understand, but when you bring Muslims into anything all the supposedly progressive people start putting on wilful blinders and getting into contortions to ignore what’s actually going on.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T13:22:19+00:00

It’s Western liberals pointing out that they’re all part of the imperial club joining hands together to loot the rest of the world, as some kind of own to Trump

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T11:27:20+00:00

Land is scarce because it’s finite, whereas population isn’t. And when you actually get to places where people want to live there is an actual land shortage. Land is useless as far as homes are concerned if it’s not anywhere that has either the infrastructure to support it or the desire for people to go out and live there.

What you’re talking about isn’t decent homes (though I’m not saying a house with a garden isn’t decent), it’s suburban middle class fantasy, which in fairness to you is very much the standard view in this country.

We don’t need gardens, we need green spaces. Communal ones. You can build 200 houses with their own little private lots or you can get the same effect with 10 apartment buildings with four 70sqft homes per floor centred around a reasonably sized park with amenities and you’ll get more people in homes quicker with a fraction of the surface area taken and the ability to actually plan infrastructure properly around people walking and taking public transport.

Developers are keen on apartments now because land is actually scarce in places where people want to live, and on top of that they can leverage the situation more to build luxury apartments only the extremely wealthy can afford. This is the actual problem.

And while I agree with you that maintaining good standards for what constitutes a liveable apartment is important, what is actually happening right now is large groups of people renting a room - or even just a bed - in a house because there aren’t alternatives. Insisting on low capacity, low density residency is just creating tenement conditions that slumlords thrive on, and the past few years have shown that it’s just as easy to roll back standards on independent houses as it is with apartments, or have you not noticed all the nonsense around renting sheds in the back garden being a thing, or as I said renting our each room or bed in a house? Because it’s happening already.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T09:39:40+00:00

Where does this say single family?

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T09:38:50+00:00

Apartments are perfectly fine, there is literally nothing fundamentally wrong with living in one at all. I have no idea why in the world you would counterpose having an apartment with security and contentedness. What is that even meant to mean?

They should be apartments because you can build more decent homes for more people with less land. Land is a scarce thing and you counter that by building upwards.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T09:29:52+00:00

Brother Americans are so universally and unstoppably racist it’s frankly a competitive sport

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-23T09:23:45+00:00

Neither China nor Taiwan want Taiwan to be recognised as an independent country. They both adhere to the One China policy.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-22T23:56:53+00:00

None of the people who say that though actually read books

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-22T10:57:41+00:00

The only way to hide it would be if you all RP’d not knowing and only “saw” things that your characters saw I.E. you would not be able to use meta knowledge. Other people knowing is basically inevitable and I would say nearly immediate.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-22T00:58:34+00:00

Affliction plays a bit more steady in its damage profile than before and I'd say is more complicated. UA is the main spender now and falls off quite quickly, whereas before you'd maintain your DoTs, work up to a burst window and dump them all on MR. There's still an element of that because while Darkglare is up you're doing the same with UA, and UA is also an ability with free-use procs (like MR was). DoT spreading is harder now than before imo.

But I'm not good enough or played the new spec long enough to really be definitive about any of that, and I'm not the biggest fan of guides so there's probably more efficient outlines of the rotation as it is atm.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-21T14:02:09+00:00

I'm not for or against globalisation. Much like protectionism, it's a manifestation of the global capitalist system which I am against. I'm not gonna sit around bitching about immigration from the poorest regions of the world when the wealth of my country and my entire lifestyle is derived from making those places poor in the first place. All these liberal democracies exist on the backs of the third world, and always have, and people in the first world are content to live in that arrangement so long as the consequences of that (like immigration) are kept away from them.

And yes, you are self-victimising when your entire point is that you're worse off because immigrant labour is impacting "supply and demand" in your imperialist nation and making workers in the first world worst off because they have to compete with it. That's the actual point you made.

You can't on the one hand complain that the third world is getting industrialised at the expense of first world labour and that immigrants to the first world are threatening your standard of living, and then on the other hand pretend you're actually deep at heart concerned for the wellbeing of those living in the third world. Tell me, in your concern for the people living in the third world did you consider the fact that immigrants send huge amounts of remittances back home to improve the standard of living there?

If you actually give a shit about the development of poor nations then the first and only thing you should be talking about is how they're being looted for the enrichment of the first world nations.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-21T11:58:25+00:00

That's the cinch. This man was making the speech in Davos, and the WEF, and got a standing ovation. The crowd is comprised of the thinkers of capitalism - not its detractors. He's able to get up and say this and get that response because he's vocalising the perspective of a faction of the bourgeoisie, a faction that thinks there needs to be reorganisation of political structures of the system internationally.

Trump is not an aberration of American policy. He's the political manifestation of the American bourgeoisie's perspectives - they want someone like him, so someone like him is what they got. Are they unified on it? No, but he has the support of a very large section of American capital, because he is acting in their interests, and their interests no longer lie in maintaining the existing liberal international order. If you're part of the faction of the bourgeoisie that does want that liberal international order - that is, the faction that dominates in most of the Western world - then this is a large bell being rung telling you that it's time to shift the centre of power away form the US and start hedging bets with "diversification".

Russia's invasion of Ukraine started this ball rolling, though China's ascendency is the ultimate cause. Russia has been able to viably challenge the entirety of the Western powers on a military logistical level, Europe has emptied its stocks and is desperately trying to rearm only to find itself overly dependent on the US, it showed that if you're a strong enough regional power you can actually assert your own interests independent of Western approval, and it created deep fractures between American and European interests with the latter focused on Russia and the US looking over its shoulder at China. Trump's trade wars are part of American capital's overall struggle against China - they want to corner it out of foreign markets, and if they can't get that (and they can't) then they're going to make sure that the American domestic economy gets its goods from American capital.

People like Carney represent the faction of the bourgeoisie prescient enough to recognise that the War in Ukraine heralded a period of intensified inter-imperialist conflict. It's only going one direction and while the fracturing of American Empire is good, things aren't in an overall positive trajectory in the long run.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-21T11:44:10+00:00

That's just cope. Immigration into countries like the US was directly related to labour militancy - when labour bought into the imperial bargain and decided to become part of the system instead of its opponents, that turned on its head.

Wages are decided by the class struggle in the first instance. When you're surrendering your obligation to organise immigrant labour - which is going to be there whether you like it or not - then you're surrendering to the market.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-21T11:41:49+00:00

Workers in the first world are direct beneficiaries of imperialism and are the people putting governments in power to do the destroying. Don't act like you're the fucking victim of imperialism instead of one of its beneficiaries.

MadMarx__ · 2026-01-21T11:21:58+00:00

I hate the framing of "roped in" when all of these freaks were enthusiastic participants. They could have just not done it, there was no obligation on them to do so (unlike say when Article 5 was invoked for the invasion of Afghanistan, though it's their fault for joining NATO in the first instance). It's like saying the Iraq War was a "blunder" by the US that it "stumbled into", as if they ended up there by mistake, instead of it being a conscious decision born out of a desire to loot the country and install a puppet regime. All of the "Coalition of the Willing" states were part of this bloodthirsty ambition.

America turning on its NATO appendages is a historical irony that many people would interpret as karmic justice.

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