I’ve reemerged from my posting hiatus just to find out what’s going on here

I’ve re-emerged from my posting hiatus just to find out what the hell happened here…

110% difficulty strikes again

Wish we didn’t have to roll the dice for access to decent mental healthcare. Glad you managed to luck out!

AFAIK, the use of Bharat is considered to be a form linguistic imperialism foisted by the plains-dwellers upon the rest of the country.

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It’s Philosophy Tube! Rather, a bit about a snooty brit being condescending towards Chinese philosophy in Philosophy Tube’s video about Confucius.

“The orientals are incapable of a single original thought in their robotic minds, old boy!”

Can’t say I’m surprised. Just a horde of cut-throat individualists in tech, it’s a miracle they even reached 1400 members.

That sounds plausible but I’m not entirely convinced that the Soviets in the 40s could spook the US into mobilising at such scale.

Weren’t the Germans completely routed on the Eastern front post-Stalingrad?

This is hilarious, guy sounds like Jonathan Pie on one of his tirades.

I too remember enjoying Dragon Age II until I was told that I shouldn’t by angry online s

This’ll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?

Nah, they’ll just blame it on the immigrants ez

My reddit brain just instantly wanted to comment r/ABoringDystopia before I managed to stop myself.

I have a lot to unlearn folks…

How’s the regulatory capture going USA?

India, imo, is a loose collection of peoples with the single uniting factor being anti-colonial solidarity, a sentiment that looks to be fading fast. The faultlines in this artificially concocted polity are plenty, and what they’re witnessing now can be interpreted as the Hindutva movement conjuring a national myth that solidifies the Hindu position (specifically the Vedic flavor) as the numerical majority and asserting their sole right to the land.

Must’ve fulfilled some ritual purpose

IMO the last time capitalism got something right the Netherlands was still called Orange

That is one part of the equation, sure. Buy It For Life should be a cornerstone of transition economies, at least. However, I feel like future policymakers will have to be more radical and find ways to shelve commodification as a mindset altogether. This includes the concept of “shopping” as a leisure activity, but also other things such as consuming entertainment at the volumes we do today, and reduction in the role of consumption in courtships. I’m not even sure if such a shift is possible, and would possibly cause widespread resentment if it were to be implemented at scale.