It’s harder to advocate for destroying things one possesses.

If we want to end Capitalism, not being invested in it is probably more helpful than not.

That said, I have met a fair few people that would fall under the label of “Leftist” that have had small businesses. Although not the hyper-radical left.

My arm hair is like a fish.

Dark on top, pale underneath, and while not as dense as my leg hair it is still very apparent.

I will admit to not noticing it as often in others, but I also don’t have a visual memory.

Is arm hair not really a thing for her?

But Purges are a right wing phenomena to attack society, they’d never be able to off a millionaire.
A day or two before Musky gets on his private jet and flies off to a third country, or a private island or somewhere while right wing hate groups kill off minorities, leftists, and political critics.

We acknowledge that the game is a work of fiction. Historical fiction, but fiction none-the-less.

If every fifth character is also black, I think there is a point that can be made about verisimilitude and taking liberties; but since we know he really existed and that there has been debate on what he did, having a work of fiction that portrays him as a samurai under Nobunga doesn’t seem unreasonable.

To compare, we know that Leonardo Di Vinci didn’t hand out guns to people or build functional flying machines - but we know he designed all sorts of stuff ahead of its time, so it kinda fits in a fictional story with him in.

But only one of those seems to draw huge amounts of complaints online… And it’s actually the less historically accurate one.

I don’t think their lives are either, DragonFucker.

But Harris wasn’t going to make them safer or even stop things getting worse. Ask them if they felt safer in 2023 or in 2018.

Your anger is better focused at Trump and Co in particular, and the US government in general than regular random people on the street.

As for me, I wish I had a plan. I’d just assumed Harris was going to win, but here we are.

I think we might differ on how bad we think the status quo of neoliberal US is, DragonFucker.

It may be harder, certainly more violent.

But maybe a wider range of society will be more motivated to take direct action.

Edit: and yes, my theory does explain Nazi Germany. A weak, capitalist state where Socialists and Communists were gaining ground electorally led to far right non-winners given power because that was more palatable than ceeding more ground to the Left. And after that it left global capitalism in a stronger state than ever.

It was a choice between neo-fascist now or neo-fascist later, DragonFucker.

Can you not at least see how people might want to try to find other paths forwards and actually make changes?

I was all for telling folks to vote prior to the election, but I can hugely empathise and understand why they didn’t.

Kids in cages, anti-Trans laws, bombs to Israel and Saudi Arabia have only gone up from Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden. The system is the same, it just gets to mask off a bit when Trump is at the helm.

That’s a potentially interesting definition.

Dream Daddy, the daddy dating sim isn’t a woke game in this context because the conceit of it being an LGBT friendly town with a bunch of single gay dads makes it all make sense.

But a game set in 1300s Japan with a lesbian white protagonist would be woke because that seems incongruous?

But Dragon Age was never good, either.

The first one was mediocre at best with some good ideas, and it was all downhill from there.

Yes, chat gpt deliberately spelt words wrong and kept it’s sentences straight forwards and without bizzare, unweildly, clauses. 🤔😂

That was after eloping from the second kidnapping/“rescue”.

But did the wolfman consent for the city to be built in his pack-lands?

Fair enough.
Be the change you want to see and all that.

I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don’t.

They’re old English letters used for writing the two different “th” sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.

It’s certainly simpler, I’ll give you that.
It takes too much mental energy to read that document.

May I ask why at all?

There were forced historectomies women were made to undergo in ICE custody.

This is malinfornation and false[1](https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/27/judge-concludes-nbcs-allegations-of-mass-hysterectomies-by-doctor-at-ice-facility-were-false-may-have-been-knowingly-recklessly-false/)

The official bipartisan US government investigation put it at 2, your Reason link lists 1. So a long way from the “mass hysterectomies” that were the sensationalist claims made. You’re right to push back on it.
There were still over 40 cases of invasive gynecological procedures done without consent, but it is not the claim made.

Fucking over people outside of the US is a short term strategy that means ever more people are waiting for a chance to take the US down.

Don’t expect all the vassal nations to come to the US’s aid, because the more bridges get burnt and the more the US looks like a hypocritical bully the more the fall will hurt when it comes.

There is a baseline of quality that is hard for a plucky individual to match outside of mono-medium media.

While it is possible for good video games to be produced by a single indivudal or very small team, it is a lot of work on their part and hard to do if worried about paying for food, rent, etc.

Filmic media (is there a good noun that joins movies and fiction TV shows as a unified object?), a solid level of difficulty above that.

Or maybe in a post-modern world we use (mostly empty) signifiers to give ourselves meaning and show allegiance to a subculture.

Its why we pepper our speech with allusions and cultural in-jokes - but where in the past they were tied to more concrete ideology, now they are simply signs that one has consumed the same media as someone. And the existing signifiers have more cultural clout than new ones, except to signify an interest in non-mainstream cultural products.
For the self has become simply a vessel for consumption. There is nothing beyond the consumption of product.
Especially as public allegiance to a non-neoliberal ideology is seen as uncivil. Unsurprisingly more peaceful Left-wing ideologies less civil and more incorrect that violent far Right ones, because the Left will always be more critical of consumption as the purpose of life.

Despite being wrong, Fukuyama’s inflammatory title has polluted the mind of the Anglophone and European cultural zone.