And that’s great and all, but someone donating isn’t exactly the end all be all of things a person can do. Bill gates donates a lot to certain health organizations in Africa, yet I don’t think he is exactly much concerned about them really succeeding in doing anything substantial. Sure, it’s a pretty big difference between the two of them, but still.

Well, first of all, I can’t be Fred Hampton because I’m just a poor, rural, Eastern European mf who is basically scraping by. Not to even mention the myriad of social and physical health problems, along with the crux of it all being social anxiety and chronic loneliness. Also, I could be living in a socialist state today if not for american interference. And whilst interference in the first conflict we had could even be debated, the second one where they bombed the shit out of us, definitely can’t.

But for the sake of the conversation, lets assume I’m just the average american joe. Even if I was one, lived in the united states and all, I would still expect Hasan to have a much better chance of doing anything revolutionary than me, because he has a platform, money and ultimately that kind of soft power. Like, however ridiculous you find it to be, shit like coca cola and mickey mouse definitely can be used to project american “ideals” and “values”. You will see a coca cola ad, think it’s fucking idiotic, yet it will stay drilled in your subconsciousness. Then when you go to buy some soda or something, you will buy coca cola, not because they’re good, but because they’re a “trusted brand”. You won’t say this, but you will subconsciously think it.

Why denigrate stuff like twitch streaming? Hasan isn’t exactly the most ridiculous thing that could ever happen, considering the fact that the 45th president of the us was a celebrity tv star, and his current opponent ran her early campaign on a meme based off of a successful album of some british pop singer. Not to mention stuff like Zelensky, ironically, playing the fucking president of ukraine in a tv show before actually being elected president lmao. Hasan would honestly be the least surprising thing as of late. I don’t necessarily expect him to be that, I just feel like given his platform and kind of inherent influence, which neither you nor I possess and might never possess, he just could be doing a lot more for the cause.

This also kinda correlates to another thing I commented, which is this kind of mythologizing around politicians, like they’re some 200 IQ people that are receiving this 1 in a 1000000 education of how to rule a country. I think if given the choice in an election between genocide joe and Hasan, not even correlating to their views, I would rather have Hasan. It takes some skill to be constantly entertaining for multiple hours at a day to tens of thousands of people, certainly more than just twiddling your fucking thumbs in the senate or wherever, raising your hand only when it’s time to be racist, sexist, homophobic etc. In my country, we call these people “career politicians”, and considering some of the fucking people that have power in it, I would seriously fucking love to have Hasan take their place lmao.

Exactly this. I too wonder how the thinkers we often cite would react to modern material conditions. Probably would make an addendum or two about the attention economy, maybe even a whole book.

I’m glad this comment appeared because he did do more than I anticipated.

Still, the criticism stands. He does indeed engage pretty proudly with consumer capitalism, and not exactly in the sense that he treats himself every so often. It’s not technically, precisely defined as something wrong by theory, but it is a bad look. I mostly agree with him on a lot of stuff, but I do still believe his lifestyle does diminish his (and our) message.

And maybe it’s unfair to him, but when I look at some history of american leftism, I see a guy like Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party. Like, I don’t believe they exactly had millions of dollars like Hasan does, yet they managed to do for leftism in america than any other person or group of people. Maybe it’s just the american feds and whatnot, but I don’t see a reason why people can’t at least try to organize in a similar manner. Like idk, sure he does his little thing of giving people a platform and all the aforementioned things, yet I still feel like he could be doing more. Feel like it’s more just a bit disappointing that nobody is really willing to give up their comforts of everyday life to actually do something.

The problem is that with his whole 2.5M house shit, is that whilst he technically didn’t exploit anyone to ultimately get that money, he doesn’t exactly seem to use it on anything relating to his principles either. He makes the money off criticizing western capitalism and imperialism, only to buy house and fashion which ultimately reinforces that same capitalism and imperialism. It isn’t technically wrong, but it’s just a bad look. Basically the same way that you would know, if you follow bball, how having the last possession in a game in which you beat your opponent handily and are still trying to score is bad and disrespectful thing. It’s not against the rules, but it is something called an “unwritten” rule, and people will get mad that you didn’t respect that.

I would just like to salute comrade Cowbee for embarking on a Herculean, dare I say Sisyphean task of arguing with liberals in lemmy.world. During his quest of trying to find out if liberals have even just one functional, many of his brain cells fell.

It’s looking like we already have him in vivek

Isn’t Trump kinda the one to bring that about tho? Idk much about howard dean, but I assume he was at least somewhat respected as a politician beforehand. With that scream, in a kind of patriarchical society creating a mythos of education and prestige around politicians, revolving around political etiquette that scream is simply seen as infantile and unserious. Trump entered politics as that kind of infantile and unserious candidate in the first place, being a cartoonish, stereotypical, Saul Goodman-esque figure. In the end, it’s all about expectations that people set. Nobody believed agent orange would win, but in the end he did because he represented a kind of tonal shift in american politics, not to mention straight up saying what all these bourgeois politicians already believed anyway. In the same way LGBTQIA+ want to practice their sexuality without the fear of being killed, beaten or prosecuted, that is the same way in the opposite direction in which fascists want to freely express their racist, sexist, homophobic views without any consequences. Trump said these things out loud, and republicans found him ‘cool’ because he didn’t beat around the bush, at least in the public, about their true beliefs.

Ultimately, Trump isn’t some anomaly. He’s just a natural unmasking of the fascist paradigm of amerikkka.

I mean, I had to optimize my playstyle in eu4 to actually use all the money I always accumulate lol, and realized mana is a much better resource. I also tried playing M&T 3.0, which is also very econ heavy, but my main problem outside of the lag is the UI being an absolute clusterfuck and not really being able to navigate it. EU4 just really isn’t designed for that type of shit, so with EU5 being centered around pops and not mana, it’s hopefully gonna be a lot more complex in a good way, with a UI you will actually be able to understand.

I literally saw this image on the local when we were playing amerikkka in the olympics, but when I went back to find it, I couldn’t.

But this guy should 100% become an emote lmao

I’m like, the complete opposite, the only game that even comes close to EU4 is HOI4, but even then it’s basically incomparable. Btw, how’s Vicky 2 like? I’m excited for EU5 because it’s gonna have pops and an actual economy, but I personally never liked the setting of the 19th century, so should I give it a try anyway?

Unless you are playing with your friends, I feel like it’s just better to pirate it since the dlcs come with the game, instead of having to do those creamapi shenanigans (especially for me since I’m on linux).

I know Paradox is a shitty company at this point with their dlc policy and whatnot, but I sincerely hope they don’t fuck up EU5 especially considering the fact that how it’s looking in the dev diaries, it’s basically gonna be a combination of CK, Victoria and EU. Playing that and Elden Ring (when I eventually find enough money to buy the PC for it) and I don’t have to play another video game for the rest of my life.

I think I know what you mean

The true irony of paradox games is actually owning EU4, but still pirating it because the DLCs are like half the fucking game.

As a non usasian, I think that at this point it’s more about who can mobilize their base more than it is fighting for some imaginary independents. Kamala had some hype at the beginning, but now it’s entirely artificial and on reddit. Trump is a known commodity, but at this point he’s washed compared to 2016, especially since not even 2 assassination attempts can raise his ratings. I guess in the end, it’s better to bet on republicans to go out and than the democrats.

How could I forget those?

I have never played any Final Fantasy games, but looking at Ubisoft, I honestly appreciate them at least putting a number on their ridiculousness. Considering AC officially only counts to 4, you honestly wouldn’t think they already made 14 of these fucking games (including shadows).

1000%. Like, where the fuck will these games even be set? Ancient China, Medieval/Colonial Spain, Medieval Africa maybe?

If the franchise wasn’t such garbage nowadays (but I realized that it honestly always was, especially when people take off the rose tinted glasses), I would seriously love something that could truly cover the place that was Russia before and during the October Revolution (image a game where you could organize soviets and general resistance to imperialist rule). But as someone else said, considering how they portrayed Marx, I don’t want them touching that shit with a 10 foot pole.

You probably made the best possible decision, considering the situation. I unfortunately had the displeasure of seeing a guy enter multiple relationships with different women, even though he acknowledged there were multiple red flags even before he started dating them. In one instance, he literally left a fucking 24 hour timer so he could know when to stop ghosting her and actually answer the message. Totally wild shit. In the end, he hurt himself and others emotionally, when he could have just said “no” at the beginning, and spared everyone a lot of nerves and tears.

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Stay strong comrade