Stop trying to make Republican-lite happen. Its appealing to exactly nobody.

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Also, we’re kind of already there, the main difference seems to be that we’re not sacrificing nobles en-mass (yet).

The wiki article makes it sound like a custom born of perceived resource scarcity where they would send some people away so the rest could have more.

USA has been allowed to roleplay as world police using other people’s borrowed money to supplement oil revenue to pay for their army.

China’s push toward electrification & USA’s recent self-goals undermine the world order that USA has been perched on top of since WWII.

If the rest of the world collectively decides they’ve had enough of USA’s bullshit, they can just choose to stop lending money for nonsense like a dozen aircraft carriers full of F-35’s.

Among the consequences of living in such a world, is the various regional hegemonies would need to arm themselves to police their own backyards. Pakistan and India. Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran. Russia and EU. If they all got a cut of the global military production that today arms USA, would they use it against each other?

That’s a funny way of asking people to uninstall Epic’s game launcher & boycott their games.

Yeah, allowing ICE funding to be discussed separately was a tactical error. It gives up too much leverage and weakens their negotiating position.

Yeah. Solid oxygen crystals with naked protons tunneling through it.

The old guard of human operated propaganda farms feel threatened by having their playing field leveled. They’re scared that non-capitalists may now have the means to have their voices heard over the cacophonous noise of the billionaire owned media and government sponsored troll farms.

Why does The Empire still exist? Its a relic of the bargain struck between Akatosh and mortals . . . a deal broken by Akatosh when he killed Martin Septim during The Oblivion Crisis. Emperor Uriel Septim VII was the last one to rule through divine right. By the time Alduin returns, the Empire has become a purely secular failed state that can’t guard its own borders.

If the Thalmor weren’t trying to blow up the world, the Empire would probably have crumbled under the weigh of its own corruption and irrelevance.

. . . in their time and place, but the universe is ever changing.

“America First” . . . gives healthcare to people who are not American while US citizens go without.

I found Fallout: London hard to get into.

Enemies have too much health and there’s not enough ammo to chew through it all. Which would be fine if melee was viable, but its not because the player’s damage output and health total is too far behind the enemies.

I was disappointed to find that Red Dead Redemption 2 is just a linear series of cutscenes without any real player agency - more graphic novel than game. I thought it was going to be Skyrim with guns when I bought it. Its the last game I’ll buy without demoing/pirating first.

They really need to start building nuclear armed submarines.

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The text doesn’t matter if its not enforced, so no, not at the moment. Changing the text won’t help though if the people we elect to enforce the rules continue to do crime instead.

Aww, he shouldn’t be that hard on himself.

I’m using old.lemmy.world & Firefox.

Clicking on the title just opens a bigger picture than the one visible in the preview.

This is the URL that the title links to: https://fedia.io/media/bf/74/bf740f1fa0ab32bd7046f21371cf3c2c25827190a8031768aa58039fd766d42f.jpg

Note the “.jpg”

You’ve linked to a picture of a motocycle, not the article that the image was presumably from.

I’ve literally never heard any real person say that. AFAIK, that noise is 100% coming from propaganda organs.