we need to shut the internet down until we can figure out what the hell is going on

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domestic dictatorship is always better than western installed “democracy” (aka corporate looting commission)

maybe the real therapy was the potions we distilled along the way

They did do that and were right to but to me that’s not “balkanization”, it was a federal union with a shared foreign policy and economic/political infrastructure.

When I hear balkanization I think of like the collapse of Yugoslavia or the USSR in 1991 for that matter, which was just miserable for everyone involved except the nationalist mafiosos like Yeltsin

how would breaking it up help anything? So you can have multiple parochial states in endless territorial conflicts instead of one encompassing the entire nation? So half the people remain enslaved by reactionaries while the rest are liberated? No way, its one for all and all for one, the revolution is incomplete otherwise. The Bolsheviks didn’t shatter the Russian Empire, they fought and fought hard to create the USSR

I don’t think Americans even remember why there was a war and just consider Vietnam “the bad one” next to WW2 “the good one”, no lessons learned or historical curiosity

It doesn’t matter what color the cat is, as long as it is cute and cuddly

probably like 70% of Americans would accept a military dictatorship right now even if it is a terrible idea

I told him they would have had so much more support and legitimacy if Israel attacked first

this is where I think you are mistaken. The Palestinian independence cause was about to be quietly erased and forgot after many Arab states normalized relations with the Zionist entity, and this was in process (Abraham Accords, ect) until the Al Aqsa flood completely derailed this diplomatic plan.

The atrocities committed by the IOF since then have sank normalization with Arab states for the foreseeable future, and attacking first allowed the resistance to capture valuable settler hostages. They would be in an even worse position with no leverage if the Zionists were allowed to start this war on their terms, though I understand that is cold comfort to the present reality of Gazans. They are on the frontlines of imperialism and all they can do is try to endure and fight.

I hold more loyalty to my dish rag at this point

Americans should be careful with these open endorsements for collective punishment. You reap what you sow and history has a funny way of surprising people.

can’t make an omelette without violently shaking and destabilizing the social fabric of the egg first

Contradictorily I wish x-com or Xenonauts toyed more with unique geopolitical situations, specially the latter with the cold war. It would make a lot of sense for different countries to have very different reactions to alien contact in general for cultural, geopolitical, economic reasons in any context

Terra invicta is an in-dev game that focus more on this aspect, but the geopolitics kind of drop off mid game in favor of space colonization being more powerful, which is a shame because imo the early game political maneuvering is more fun than the rest of a campaign right now. There’s only a 2022 start now but supposedly a cold war start is planned.

My comrade, you must try Idle Civilization: World Story (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=su.nkarulin.cardshistory)

idle civ clicker using Marxist historical materialism and class conflict. You can cause the October revolution, sounds like what you are looking for.

Even if you have a lazy cat, mice have since learned to avoid the smell of cat pheromones. So just having a fat furball laying around will make it more likely the local mice go bother your neighbor instead.

Windows is actually fedware these days. (Fedware that also scams and aggrevates the feds themselves) if you post here you owe it to yourself to dump that hot garbage as soon as you can.

take a look at bazzite perhaps?

any game that needs to install a rootkit on my computer to play it was never going on my computer anyway. Proton can more or less handle every else on linux at this point. Hardware driver support is getting quite mature too. 2025 is legitimately the year of the linux gaming desktop imo.

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