No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
5hr ago
Chinese have internet, dude. They're extremely common in online games. Some probably even post on theMotte.
You can go on Chinese twitter, loads of action, mostly related to advertising pornography and prostitutes.
No_one
14hr ago
pan European problem
You don't get to conflate Italian organised crime with North African gangs. Distinct genetics and history.
No_one
15hr ago
Give it a few years. You remind me of the Europeans saying this same shit about America back in early 1900s.
E.g. Wilde with his quote ~"America is the only nation that passed from barbarism to decadence without ever having been civilized".
No_one
22hr ago
nobody likes what they produce
?? If that's the case, why do they have an absolutely gigantic trade surplus despite being the world's largest raw material importér?
No_one
22hr ago
That's not a natural law.
It doesn't have to be that way. There are ways of doing it that don't require certain states to endlessly produce debt
No_one
22hr ago
Southern Italy, which is the source area for most Argentinian population isn't really like that.
No_one
23hr ago
Neocon maximalist foreign policy ideas are the water US diplomacy/ related academia live in.
They have no opposition but MAGA and that's new , they have been living in an echo chamber since 2010 and even people who were skeptical earlier fell in line.
No_one
23hr ago
That state capacity got eroded. They can't even staff police properly, or intimidate immigrant crime gangs.
No_one
23hr ago
When they went along with the J6 narrative, or the narrative that US election are organised in a trustworthy manner?
No_one
1d ago
the intelligent people jab,
We don't live in a just, perfect world.
The world naturally evolved to be perverse and so it's wholly unsurprising that most people who aren't disagreeable assholes or weird autistics naturally gravitate to politics that are emotionally appealing and, on a surface level, sensible.
Look at this chart of donations by profession..
I'm not a believer and never was but I find it very easy to believe in man's fallen nature. Or more precisely man's retarded, perverse nature.
No_one
1d ago
What % of Americans even follows BBC ? This is example of bullshit coverage abroad, not at all uncommon. If this was e.g. British spooks or government arm-twisting a US media company's domestic coverage to be more hostile to Trump, that'd be an example of British meddling.
I agree that they're hostile and all praying and hoping Republicans live up to their image.
No_one
1d ago
US blue tribe is something like 75% of your 'intelligent' people. You can't really pin this 'interference' when 50%+ of the plot is your own representatives, and most of the people on the other side come from an environment where in some major countries, the media have been largely controlled by CIA since WW2..
deep state cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy
Mike Benz over on twitter is pretty pissed bc Trump admin didn't axe the NED but is trying to use for its own ends.
No_one
1d ago
They are not actually obligated to just take this shit. It's a habit.
If NSA is blackmailing US senators to ensure they vote how it prefers them to vote, what makes you think anyone who isn't a reliable dimwit like the current Czech president or doesn't have a handle ( I dunno, a record of attending Belgian child torture parties) even makes it above regional level in Western Europe?
CIA, hand in glove with BND used to basically run German media during the cold war. Allegations that they're still doing so were levelled by Udo Ulfkotte, who spent 17 yrs as a respected journalist in a prominent newspaper, before leaving and eventually writing a book claiming CIA is basically still running German media, vetting journalists and keeping a watchful eye on the coverage of touchy topics.
I don't believe for a second American influence is just the think-tanker /overt Atlanticist circlejerk that is outwardly evident.
No_one
1d ago
They have incredible trust in their governments.
True maybe of the Swiss today. The Germans used to trust their government, now that it's talking about disenfranchising 30% of the electorate, they don't do so anymore.
Neither do the French - Macron's approval rating is 11%.
No_one
1d ago
Those Blue-Tribe-analogues interfere directly in our domestic politics in ways that give our Blue Tribe additional considerable advantages.
How is Germany, Britain or France interfering in US politics? They're unable to do so.
Is there a single example of British government operations interfering in a serious manner in US politics since the FDR approved pro-war campaign of 1940-1941?
No_one
2d ago
Huh, that's neat. In Ark there was nothing like that, you had to just know people.
No_one
4d ago
Hmm. That's not that bad, assuming there's no subscription. Think marginal cost works out to about 25 cents per cup using an espresso machine and some of the fancier Arabica beans.
No_one
4d ago
I have been settling for coffee straight from a Keurig.
Have only ever heard of Keurig in the context of it being some sort of scam on Bobos that milks customers through overpriced purchases of consumables. The Starbucks of coffee machines or something like that.
No_one
4d ago
People who have 3AM shifts typically drink energy drinks and because they're poor, they're not even sensible enough to settle for the store brand but instead spend 3x as much on branded ones.
You can hardly compare the caffeine levels.
Not in real life, and especially not in virtual worlds where you can just put on a new face effortlessly.
I played a 'game' that had absolutely no rules (no pve zones, no group size limits, no spawn protection, no base protection etc) except for "don't hack or bribe admins" and ... while there were 'defect bots' they ended up on everyone's shit list, to the point you might get a reward if you found them and reported them to other players. And of course, bribing admins did happen a few times and there was even a touching occurrence when every sworn enemy in the game dropped the war they were fighting and united to keep eradicating a Chinese group of losers who were somehow related to then owners of the game and had an admin help them with cheats and cheated with impunity. The admin gave it up after the fourth time they rolled back a server for the group :D.
Defect bots, the ones who didn't quit the game in the end had a small group of their own, hated by everyone.
Didn't have anything to do with accounts, really. Lot of 'elite' players were perma-banned several times or because large groups were usually using duping exploits (and the biggest offenders got admin nuked) or had some idiot sell their stuff for real money, which often led to the entire group being deleted and permabanned. Which meant they had to spend $12 on serial keys and rebuild for a month with help of friends who escaped the ban.
Unless you were a known quantity (e.g. vouched for by someone trustworthy) only a fool would really trust you. Nobody would trust you with anything but most menial crap if you didn't use voice chat ofc.
No_one
6d ago
It only worked because jobs and incomes for women were scarcer than for young men. Baby Boom wasn't a natural occurrence but deliberate social engineering.
Well, it's ruining your, not my country, so I'm not going to argue that it's not inevitable when you clearly desire the ends of said policy.
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