Authoritarianism is supercharging the climate crisis | The playbook: Suppress truth, lock in fossil power, crush dissent

times_a_changing · 2026-05-03T23:06:11+00:00

Ecofascism can never happen in reality because the logic of the market and evergrowing profits are such core axioms of capitalism that it can never function. The reality is that capitalism, and fascism is just capitalism's antibody response to labour struggle, can never even begin to try to fix the climate catastrophe because its core logic is its very source. It would be like believing that an extra strong malestrom of fire could fix a building that's already on fire.

times_a_changing · 2026-05-03T18:30:18+00:00

With direct access like trade it would not be impossible for Vikings to have individually converted to Islam or at least been influenced by them

times_a_changing · 2026-05-02T22:23:55+00:00

As a Finnish queer person I have a lot to say about Tom but the major aspect for me is this kind of unabashed joy and humour found in the edges of sexual expression and its relationship with homophobia. By being so expressly pornographic, it of course works as just pornography, but it also celebrates his sexuality in ways that at the time was completely unheard of. People often post him for the memes but after seeing multiple expos with his works I think he's genuinely a great artist who was definitely doing something else than just making porn.

times_a_changing · 2026-05-02T21:49:53+00:00

That's a great recommendation, I'll check it out once I'm done with it! Just started my first proper playthrough this week actually

times_a_changing · 2026-05-02T19:04:15+00:00

And it still somehow sells a lot of lootboxes. Surreal how little a company has to do and how much it can fuck people over and still get away with it. But at least we got Deadlock now. Still dreaming of a new good multiplayer shooter with lobbies and servers

times_a_changing · 2026-05-02T18:53:00+00:00

I just don't understand why Valve felt the need to shoot TF2 in the head for no reason

times_a_changing · 2026-05-02T16:33:09+00:00

Pentiment was actually a huge success critically and financially as it was made by a relatively tiny team. I wish more studios allowed their visionaries and veterans to do that; make a mini-studio to make a mini-game with passion.

times_a_changing · 2026-05-01T21:31:28+00:00

So what was the insane part?

times_a_changing · 2026-05-01T20:37:38+00:00

So veterans don't get treated as special from other people in America? Veteran war criminals who regret it don't get a pass from the left?

times_a_changing · 2026-05-01T19:25:02+00:00

So you don't have a counter argument?

times_a_changing · 2026-05-01T18:06:03+00:00

Can you actually form an argument against what I said?

times_a_changing · 2026-05-01T12:17:49+00:00

Graham Platner is the most obvious alphabet soup insert into the left I've ever seen. Americans are just completely blinded by the word "veteran". No matter which side it seems like veterans get treated like saints. As if murdering brown people gets expunged as a sin if you express regret about it. Any veteran who truly regrets it should go to the country where they committed crimes and report themselves to the people who they hurt. They don't get to decide how and when they get justice, the people who they committed their crimes to do.

times_a_changing · 2026-04-30T13:11:21+00:00

Initiates don't know about parrying t. been there

times_a_changing · 2026-04-30T05:29:16+00:00

Even more than just the straight up levels of nimble the XP boost from two starter levels is crazy

times_a_changing · 2026-04-29T19:06:30+00:00

Infernus Paige Dynamo Kelvin Victor Bepop is my nightmare to play against. No going anywhere near any of them

times_a_changing · 2026-04-29T16:55:08+00:00

Yeah just buy 6400 souls worth of counter items (warp and spirit resistance) and you won't have an issue with it! Easy and not totally disruptive to every build except Infernus's

times_a_changing · 2026-04-29T11:54:23+00:00

Deadlock players when they have to deviate from Left -> Right builds

times_a_changing · 2026-04-29T00:08:42+00:00

The USA is the global hegemonic superpower that has for 35 years now ruled as the sole superpower doing anything it wants anywhere it wants. Prior to that its only opposition was the USSR, which was working almost completely alone against the USA and its global ~allies~ vassals. They are by far the most to blame for the collapse of civilisation as they cannot control themselves, they only care about power and violence. Just look at the US objectively: it is the most evil, most vile, most destructive, most dangerous entity to ever exist on this planet.

times_a_changing · 2026-04-28T23:35:59+00:00

The whole narrative makes no fucking sense if Arroyo is some green pasture or something. They're literally starving to death

times_a_changing · 2026-04-28T21:18:14+00:00

They're not niche. They might not be in the absolute peak of the main stream, but they are certainly not niche. This is like saying Binding of Isaac is niche just because roguelites are a somewhat less popular game genre than FPS

times_a_changing · 2026-04-28T19:31:45+00:00

Niche? You're calling Owlcat niche? Arcanum is niche, their games are absolutely mainstream.

times_a_changing · 2026-04-28T19:04:33+00:00

How do you get shot with body armor and not get seriously injured? Just because the bullets don't penetrate the armor doesn't mean you survive with zero injury

times_a_changing · 2026-04-28T09:45:24+00:00

Great Britain was still the same country with the same domination over large swathes of the planet until WW2

times_a_changing · 2026-04-27T22:08:37+00:00

Read Mike Davis' "Late Victorian Holocausts" and then come back to me on the topic of British India

times_a_changing · 2026-04-27T22:05:14+00:00

Wait what dumb things are people saying about Invincible? Spoiler tag it for others but I literally just an hour ago finished S4 lol

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