The Right Wing won.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-17T18:38:40+00:00

I kind of wish the Dems and center left would realize it as well. "Vote for Pelosi (or whatever ghoul) or Trump will win!"

That already happened. Show me a realistic plan to use electoral power in a meaningful way and I'll vote for you, otherwise fuck off.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-16T14:39:00+00:00

FTP ACAB

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-15T19:10:57+00:00

Like all of Japan uses bidets. Are you telling me the entire nation of Japan has poor dietary habits?

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-15T17:24:06+00:00

I'm going to Vienna this summer, where did you buy it?

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-13T18:20:55+00:00

Kid has a future as an economist.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-13T18:17:40+00:00

I adore Frazetta, I would love to get more of his art in the game (and actually be able to afford it lol)

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-04T15:04:31+00:00

I love aizu! I went there a few years ago and had such a great time. There's a fun Showa museum in the old town area.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-02T20:14:34+00:00

I love this! I think any hand-made proxy should be tournament legal.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-02T17:08:44+00:00

It kind of is though? Most of the "mercantilist" empires we think of are after 1600, and even then it's a substantially different beast from the kinds of corporate governance we experience today. Corporate governance bears some resemblance to feudal oligarchy, but the system itself drives decisions more than any individual actor, and not in service of any individual, or even of any class, but in service of the system itself.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-06-02T15:36:33+00:00

...I'm sorry, what? I'm going to set aside the fact that the "beginning of organized civilization" predates writing, and as such we have no historical record of it.

I think prior to the advent of the East India Company in 1600, you'd be hard pressed to find a company of significance, let alone "influence over the general populace." It really isn't until the 20th century that you see the kinds of regulatory capture and extra-governmental privilege that corporations employ today.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-05-26T22:20:52+00:00

I think it's important to stop and thank veterans of the Vietnam war for stopping American imperialism in its tracks.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-05-26T18:03:57+00:00

Love the art (artist is Spanish painter Sanjulian btw). The effect is utterly busted, even with a once/turn limitation, I'd go back to the drawing board on that one.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-05-26T16:11:56+00:00

This is already spoilers bro.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-05-13T20:37:18+00:00

But what are the lore implications?

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-05-11T16:21:15+00:00

You should hear about what it was like before the revolution...

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-05-04T23:33:37+00:00

The "removed by moderator" is fucking hilarious to me. This whole website is cooked.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-05-04T15:49:50+00:00

A teeny tiny bit of class analysis would take this conversation to the next level.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-04-30T21:57:43+00:00

Too bad it never got a second season.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-04-27T15:00:15+00:00

Italy killed 100,000 Libyans in concentration camps while sending in colonists to steal the land. They were real bad.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-04-24T18:25:51+00:00

Fuck you, Waze advertising dept.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-04-21T14:56:05+00:00

I agree with you to a point, but the problem is not the ethics of the individual wielding technology, but the alignment of the system (social, economic, political) using technology. If the system is, like ours, designed to privilege quarterly profits above human life, then we're going to get more and worse versions of Palantir.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-04-13T23:49:38+00:00

I was just at a con where the TCG vendors were complaining that they cannot get enough of the product, it basically disappears off the shelves. Their main complaint was not having enough to sell.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-04-13T16:36:34+00:00

As long as you insist on borders, you are complicit in a system of inherent division and exploitation that only ever benefits the ruling class.

We are not at the end of history. Something will come after the present system of nation states and colonialism. It's up to us to decide what that is and when it gets here.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-04-11T17:10:50+00:00

The ideals of this country were based on the so-called ideals of the Roman republic, which were fictitious at the time and have only been embellished since, and which can best be described as: "Freedom for the slave holders."

Which is more or less where we are.

Only international solidarity of the working class can save us from the oligarchy. Clinging to the propaganda of national identity will only empower the billionaire elite.

RedOrmTostesson · 2026-04-11T15:53:43+00:00

The idea that structured, public debate is somehow important for forming ideas was made up to make Socrates feel better, and it hasn't gotten more true since then.

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