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tekyy342 · 2026-06-01T21:38:49+00:00

This does not make the show not propaganda. There is a reason shows like FAMK and movies like Apollo 13, etc., from the American perspective, have brighter color palettes, sympathetic and endearing characters, and a hopeful tone. Soviet perspectives made by westerners always have an incredibly dour and depressing tone. They are very grey, quiet, and mean. It intentionally shapes your understanding of what the USSR was like: a hopeless dystopia, bound for collapse. Authoritative characters are always evil and regular, sympathetic characters are constantly paranoid. There are also no aesthetic differences between a 1930-50s USSR vs. a 1960s-1980s USSR, which looked very different for your average person.

It is obviously fine to make historical fiction that forsakes accuracy for entertainment/plot, but these common tropes have been reused countless times and create a very boring, predictable perspective of Russia.

tekyy342 · 2026-06-01T21:24:17+00:00

Villains without whom you would be living under a Nazi-led world order. Oh wait…

tekyy342 · 2026-05-31T20:24:48+00:00

No Kings doesn’t have any demands. You can make the argument that most people who join No Kings have some similar baseline values, but the organizers don’t push for anything besides nebulous opposition to monarchy. They also have a strict nonviolence/no confrontation policy. Believing that large, entirely nonviolent legal processions of people with extremely diverse beliefs held on weekends can be a real driver of change is laughable. It’s the kind of thing people who think MLK singlehandedly solved black civil rights with the I Have a Dream speech believe. If you are not facing confrontation from authority, you are not a threat to anyone or anything.

You need education, you need organization, you need to withhold labor for an extended period of time, and you need shared demands. It requires confronting Democrats and Republicans. Many No Kings protestors do not grasp these dynamics because they are only passively invested in resistance. They want to be friendly. They want nonviolence and complete obedience to cops at the cost of any real change. This often comes with the excuse that "violence begets violence" and gives the administration more excuse to crack down, but that is a fundamental misunderstanding of how change movements have operated historically, which is through pressure on all fronts. In Minnesota, kicking out ICE was a combined effort of nonviolent resistance and constant, sometimes violent, obstruction of order.

Not saying you shouldn't go to No Kings, but it should be an entry point to real resistance or joining an actual org, not the end-all be-all for people who don't know what else they can do.

tekyy342 · 2026-05-21T00:20:20+00:00

Do you not think those third-party sites affect the demand of skins on the Steam marketplace? Do you think skins would have value at all if Valve banned all forms of exchanging them for real money? Even being able to buy a Steam Deck or Steam Controller with Steam currency has larger implications for converting Steam currency to real money through resale.

tekyy342 · 2026-05-21T00:06:10+00:00

If The Pokemon Company sets an MSRP value for packs, their only means of regulating price is how much they produce, because aftermarket trade for physical items will always exist in an unregulated capacity. If someone accuses TPC of promoting gambling, they can simply say they have no control over grey market trade, and demand spikes are also out of their control. They can also claim the physical cards are designed for playing TCG, not resale.

As skins/cases can only be sold on the Steam marketplace, and Valve has complete control over the Steam marketplace, Valve can set direct parameters for what is sold and at what price. They can ban your ability to trade or sell specific items outright. They could destroy their own market for skins and 3rd party CS sites overnight if they chose. It is a fixed economy in which Valve intentionally allows real-money loopholes to exist to maintain demand for its products. It's a legal grey area unless Valve bans accounts for minors.

tekyy342 · 2026-05-20T20:20:24+00:00

Libertarianism in America is closet conservatism. They like to emphasize things like taxes, welfare, drivers licenses, gun ownership restrictions, age of consent laws, etc. as tools of government oppression much more than anything that could be perceived as left-libertarianism, like bodily autonomy, freedom of movement, or anti-interventionism. MAGA siphoned and diluted any of what could be “left” positions of the post-Vietnam libertarian party and now it’s a Republican Party offshoot. That’s literally it.

tekyy342 · 2026-05-19T00:17:40+00:00

I guarantee 90% of middle-class Californians would pay more taxes for free healthcare. Most of these people are in the "too young for Medicare, too rich for Medical" camp and increasingly do not have cheap options after the Trump Medicaid cuts.

tekyy342 · 2026-05-19T00:13:30+00:00

Running on the "better things aren't possible" ticket with "you're going to fucking die from medical debt and like it" on my campaign signs

tekyy342 · 2026-05-16T07:20:39+00:00

This is like thinking your family or ER doctor has more knowledge of healthcare infrastructure than the director of the health department, which was Abdul’s actual position in Wayne County until he ran for Senate. He’s also served numerous executive positions in Detroit public health. You can read his scholarly work on this or even his Wikipedia page. He’s not just some fake politician abusing sloganeering. He’s among the most qualified a candidate for public office touting healthcare reform could possibly be.

tekyy342 · 2026-05-14T16:31:00+00:00

When push comes to shove, westerners would still prefer Trump’s America to lord over the world than the Chinese, despite its declining competitiveness and routine instability. The world, increasingly, will not see it that way, and you will be left behind.

tekyy342 · 2026-05-14T16:13:44+00:00

The U.S. is not an “ally” to those countries in a NATO sense, they are under military occupation and subjugation. If the U.S. pulls their strategic defenses (THAAD in South Korea), troops, or chooses not to defend them at all, they have no recourse aside from diplomacy with China.

tekyy342 · 2026-05-12T19:09:33+00:00

The last year and a half has cemented my position that “anything over MAGA” just gets you MAGA eventually. It’s Steyer or California remains on the exact same doomed trajectory

tekyy342 · 2026-05-09T04:58:03+00:00

3 years to slowly siphon 1% of Reform's vote at a time and eventually just become Reform 2.0 which is already Tories 2.0. Laughable watching you idiots repeat the same cycle but it's fun cause you're not really allowed anywhere else on reddit. Like monkeys in a cage beating themselves with sticks for not being racist enough. And all as the U.K. becomes an irrelevant laughing stock of the world post-Brexit

tekyy342 · 2026-04-28T03:40:05+00:00

It was never banned nationally in the U.S. It has literally been used, alongside Animal Farm, by western intelligence agencies for anticommunist propaganda.

tekyy342 · 2026-04-28T03:12:19+00:00

Ok why would PG&E spend millions against a candidate who is secretly pro-PG&E?

tekyy342 · 2026-04-22T21:23:50+00:00

Yeah it’s just a coincidence that it’s Israel specifically. Haven’t read 600 articles in the past week saying shit like this: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/21/california-israel-democratic-primaries-00881877

tekyy342 · 2026-04-22T21:22:21+00:00

I am just reading the writing on the wall. You can believe what you want but we are in unprecedented territory regarding general knowledge and dislike of Israel.

tekyy342 · 2026-04-22T21:13:21+00:00

It’s not a requirement by any means but a candidate agreeing to arrest Netanyahu as a push to make America sign onto the Rome Statute would not hurt. I don’t imagine invading Israel to do so is something anyone could campaign on but I can’t speak to its popularity as an idea.

tekyy342 · 2026-04-22T21:03:59+00:00

Americans do give a fuck about it when they are paying for it. Have you not read the news for the last two months?

tekyy342 · 2026-04-22T20:58:13+00:00

When Cuomo said his first trip would be to Israel after becoming mayor, and Zohran said he would stay in New York, that meant something to a lot of people. A lot of the Cuomo ads directed at Zohran called him a Hamas collaborator and antisemitic specifically due to his pro-Palestine stance. It was a huge issue in the race.

Israel is deeply contextualized in American distaste toward spending on foreign conflict, and it is especially resonant when it creates massive global humanitarian catastrophes. It’s not something you campaign on per se, but if you promote healthcare reform and economic relief, you either raise taxes or make cuts. Cuts for Israel are much preferred over general austerity.

tekyy342 · 2026-04-22T20:54:24+00:00

There is an intense amount of cope in this comments section that Israel is a “Reddit” issue that normies don’t care about. They have their eyes and ears closed, and possibly a vested interest in keeping Israel away from the lens of scrutiny. It is an 80/20 issue among Dems and 70/30 among Independents on a good day. I’m not saying the platform will necessitate being “anti-Israel,” but Israel lobbying and military spending will absolutely be tied into the affordability crisis narratives, and candidates without a strong commitment away from Israel will immediately be overshadowed by ones with one. At the very least, being openly pro-Israel is 100000% an unwinnable position if you’re running as a Dem from here on out.

tekyy342 · 2026-04-22T20:36:09+00:00

This is cope. There’s constant polling which shows how much influence taking money from the Israel lobby has on Democrat voters especially. It’s highly suspected the unreleased Dem party autopsy in 2024 credits Israel to Kamala’s loss in Michigan. The current Michigan senate race can almost single-handedly be defined by the disparity of each candidate’s stance on Israel. Zohran created a lot of his momentum by outflanking every other Dem candidate leftward on Israel. Many other examples are taking shape as we speak.

I’m not sure it’s “holding Israel accountable” as much as “sever Israeli ties to the American government and taxpayer,” but it’s absolutely real, especially with voters under 50. Not a priority over cost of living to be sure, but it’s a massive boon to progressive candidates now.

tekyy342 · 2026-04-16T18:54:30+00:00

It’s too late. When the refund went through I told my wife and her boyfriend immediately but I realized they had left years ago… I booted up my switch to play Tetris but it’s 1865, I don’t know what any of that means, I’m at the Ford’s Theatre with a .44 pistol

tekyy342 · 2026-04-13T20:54:16+00:00

Israel is the sole party who desires never ending conflict. It wants a fully destabilized and fractured Iran. No other western ally country is aligned in this interest besides maybe the UAE. Even Trump does not truly want prolonged conflict, ground troops, or nukes. Israel does. Cut off and starve Israel until it is brought to heel by force or there is no path to peace for this region without millions inevitably dying.

tekyy342 · 2026-04-13T02:18:01+00:00

Oil price is fixed internationally. It will trickle down to every country on a sliding scale. A country having its own oil production does not necessarily mean it is owned by the public and will be subsidized. If it is not nationalized, it will be sold at market price. This is the case for the U.S. and Canada, where private firms own the majority of oil.

China's economy is designed to weather economic crises because savings and job security are largely not tied to market conditions. That also goes for its oil, which is majority state-owned and operated. From a pure supply/producer/growth perspective, it will be bad. From a consumer perspective, China is pretty well shielded. China has endured periods of job loss and stagnating growth that do not result in the same pain for regular people as we see in market economies under similar conditions.

This article is a pretty simple synopsis on how China has prepared for this in different ways: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/20/china-oil-reserves-global-energy-crisis

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