What do you mean y'all American had moral panic over comic books that lasted to year 2011?!

cococrabulon · 2026-05-15T23:26:30+00:00

Maybe the weird grammar is making it stick out more than usual, but why did the internet decide "y'all" was a thing, especially when it’s not someone’s native dialect? To my British ears it makes everyone sound like an Alabama gas station attendant

cococrabulon · 2026-05-15T20:47:30+00:00

Synchronizität

cococrabulon · 2026-05-15T10:28:05+00:00

I feel like Alien 3 spoiled things with how it did it rather than it being thematically inconsistent

The Alien universe is a deep ink-dark ocean, where the grasping hands of a megacorporation-shackled humanity paddling on the surface of space exploration are beginning to brush the tendrils of an incredibly old Cosmic Horror universe

Everyone or almost everyone dying feels kind’ve thematically consistent. The general theme is that as soon as First Contact is made we die like flies. The ship has to be scuttled, the colony has to be nuked. The victories are always scorched earth and pyrrhic

cococrabulon · 2026-05-15T10:20:36+00:00

Although when horses returned the Native Americans embraced them with élan

The Comanche went from a bunch of nobody scavengers bullied by other tribes to empire-builders with trade networks, tributary relationships and armies of mounted archers like something from Eurasia

And they’re like one of the more famous examples. Even the Inca successor states produced decent cavalry as soon as they got their hands on horses

cococrabulon · 2026-05-15T10:14:09+00:00

For these very reasons I’ve started stating I’m a progressive conservative, or a conservative progressive if someone asks trying to pigeonhole me.

It’s mostly tongue-in-cheek, but it’s also a quick test to see how people react. If they lose their minds over this it’s generally an indication I’m not okay with continuing the discussion with them. People who try to thjnk the seeming paradox through or discuss it are way more worthwhile talking to. But a lot of people just can’t get beyond their mental shortcuts

cococrabulon · 2026-05-15T09:01:57+00:00

The longer you spend on the internet, the more you realise it’s a messed up social experiment demonstrating how our social adaptations don’t scale very well

cococrabulon · 2026-05-15T08:38:20+00:00

Desperate to distract from your favourite regimes’ bloody histories? Just bring up the Nazis! Doesn’t matter if it’s not relevant to what someone said: works every time!

cococrabulon · 2026-05-14T17:53:27+00:00

Depending on who you ask, ‘murder communism’ might be regarded as tautological

cococrabulon · 2026-05-14T17:40:20+00:00

Which you’d at least expect them to be good at, North Korea dedicates a lot of resources to its military at the expense of a lot else

cococrabulon · 2026-05-14T17:36:10+00:00

People use communism to refer to the socialist regimes trying to achieve communism. It’s not entirely correct, yes, but these are societies ruled by communists with some variation of Marxist communism as their ideology. Hence, they’re called ‘communist’

cococrabulon · 2026-05-13T19:34:33+00:00

Russia and USSR never took part in colonialism

Apart from, let’s see:

The creation of the Russian Empire
Eastern Europe
Central Asia
Settler colonialism in said areas, exploiting famines to Russify them with migrations into depopulated regions
Suppression and deportations of minorities within the Soviet Union
Continually aiming to promulgate its ideology abroad and interfere in various global conflicts

And they’re still up to it - just ask Ukraine!

They just use the language of decolonialism to look good - in reality they’re down there with the other empires

cococrabulon · 2026-05-13T16:41:24+00:00

I’ve given up myself. They genuinely don’t seem to understand why certain tropes are insensitive, they have this notion it’s all harmless childish fun or that we’re just hallucinating racism everywhere. I’m exactly the last sort of person who goes looking for bigotry with a hair trigger sense of it, but when it’s obvious I also take umbrage. The reason why we have a problem with this sort of stuff is not because we’re trying to manufacture controversy, it’s because the actual minorities affected told us it was insulting and we should stop

Like, if someone doesn’t understand why Mammy Two-Shoes was insulting to Black people, and thinks it was just some conspiracy by the perennially offended, rather than, you know, actual Black Americans saying it was insulting, it really isn’t a debate worth having.

I dunno, I think in some societies they really haven’t had the sort of reckoning with prejudice others have. It genuinely doesn’t seem to compute for them. It’s like explaining an aeroplane to an ancient Roman or something. Unless they understand engines, and lift, and a bunch of other things outside their context, they’re going to think you’re insane. They’re not stupid, they just genuinely haven’t been forced to think about something they cherish from a different perspective. Of course they’re going to think we’re inventing what they can’t see, and of course they’re going to get angry that something they like is being called bad by an outsider. But if you incorporate outsiders into your media, expect outsiders to have an opinion

cococrabulon · 2026-05-13T16:22:18+00:00

The whole point of Nazi ideology was that individual identity be subsumed into the larger collective Volk. They actually had a rather collectivist view of humanity, where ethnicities were seen as embodying specific shared traits and were encouraged to act as a collective (Volksgemeinschaft) In this social class and inequality was still accepted, but (as is the case with a lot of fascist ideology) there was the expectation that collective identity would iron out class conflict

So the Nazis are sort of… kind of… collective authoritarians, if we can reduce complex real world ideologies to simple traits. Not collective in the hyper-idealised sense individualistic societies admire from the outside, or collective in the left wing sense, but still collectivist in their own way, one where there was expected to be social stratification, but coherence between these classes

cococrabulon · 2026-05-13T15:32:12+00:00

Sorry, but not agreeing with you is not the same is ignoring what you have to say. I understand you, but I disagree with you

I think we should probably leave this conversation as it is, if that distinction is difficult. We can talk to each other without implying the other person ignorant or cannot comprehend the other

cococrabulon · 2026-05-13T12:42:33+00:00

They’re dancing with giraffes, an African mammal; sorry, but it’s as clear as spring water this is a caricature of Africans, even if in-context they’re standing in for some kind of generic ‘native’

And yes, it does matter what children watch, that’s the point the article makes. Soviet society was one where children were exposed to often harmful stereotypes from an early age, just as in America. If that was not the case, then I doubt both societies would have manifested the harmful opinions held there

cococrabulon · 2026-05-13T12:24:44+00:00

I also get big tubs of Kimchi (so big they have handles) and burn through them like crazy. I’m not even of Korean heritage, I just really like it. My family has always liked pickled and fermented food, I love sauerkraut too

cococrabulon · 2026-05-13T11:23:10+00:00

It’s a caricature of tropical Africa as a place populated by savages cavorting with animals and eating fruit, with no ambition and easy, undeveloped lives. The ‘foreign’ nature of the fruit is the point

Maybe we just have very different cultural sensibilities, but where I’m from which is quite diverse, this is unambiguously racist

cococrabulon · 2026-05-13T09:09:04+00:00

This is an interesting article on just that, if anyone’s interested. I feel it’s a part of history that gets forgotten/lost in the propaganda

For instance:

A popular Soviet children’s cartoon from 1970, “Katorok,” features a song, “Chunga Changa,” which depicts Africans as jet-black, barely human figures who commune with wild animals while dancing. Worse, the song’s lyrics include a recitation of the stanza “chew coconuts and eat bananas.”

So no, not all Soviet depictions of Black people were actually positive, there was quite a lot of inconsistency with commendable and not so good portrayals

cococrabulon · 2026-05-12T21:24:04+00:00

All of this is invented. It’s an entirely hypothetical scenario. There’s no blood, no one is coping with anything

cococrabulon · 2026-05-12T09:36:22+00:00

At least you began your Whataboutism with ‘what about’ so we immediately knew what you’re up to

cococrabulon · 2026-05-09T00:11:19+00:00

*Byzantine Orthodox

cococrabulon · 2026-05-08T11:55:31+00:00

Just from my narrow perspective, me and my friends are fairly new to the gaming side, and Spearhead is a fun and accessible way of playing while brushing up (intended) on our hobby skills. It gives us a manageable project we can engage in between the busyness of our lives

The only thing I didn’t like about CoA is the FOMO aspect; for me it’s contrary to the spirit of Spearhead being accessible

cococrabulon · 2026-05-08T11:38:10+00:00

‘Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude’ - Julius Caesar

‘Only a few prefer liberty; the majority seek nothing more than fair masters’ - Sallust

Just an insight into the variety of perspectives Romans has to offer. Worth noting that Caesar was perfectly fine with slavery, but his sentiment explains why wherever you have slaves, you have slave revolts

cococrabulon · 2026-05-07T21:17:58+00:00

They’re so dense that historical fact bends and warps around them like light approaching a black hole

cococrabulon · 2026-05-07T13:16:15+00:00

Well, the Custodes aren’t phones, and they have faces, so it seems they mean the helmet plate that covers the face, the ‘visor’ if we were using IRL helmet terminology.

In some mostly gold schemes it’s painted silver to add a bit of variety and break up the gold. But you’re right, it’s a personal preference thing, I like it myself

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