Already happened.
One of my mutuals ran a based instance called wolfballs. The instance was one of 2 on Lemmy worth talking to, and to this day despite having been down for years most Lemmy instances block both by default.
One of my mutuals ran a based instance called wolfballs. The instance was one of 2 on Lemmy worth talking to, and to this day despite having been down for years most Lemmy instances block both by default.
Witcher 3 is 10 years old...
It's actually pretty impressive how pathetic the past 10 years of gaming have been. Like, how many people haven't seen really exceptional games for so long that we're all thinking of these ancient games and going "yeah, I play new games sometimes!"
In the past 10 years there's maybe been 5-10 really killer game releases? Prior to that, there were years with 5-10 great game releases.
It's actually pretty impressive how pathetic the past 10 years of gaming have been. Like, how many people haven't seen really exceptional games for so long that we're all thinking of these ancient games and going "yeah, I play new games sometimes!"
In the past 10 years there's maybe been 5-10 really killer game releases? Prior to that, there were years with 5-10 great game releases.
"Hey so I'm the guy who killed Batman"
Oh, so what's your superpower?
"I have a gun and I made sure my base was well lit"
Oh, so what's your superpower?
"I have a gun and I made sure my base was well lit"
We're being ruled by his illegitimate son, and it runs in the family. The media just loved ours, but he's a bit of a jerk.
15 seconds earlier...
Donald Trump: "I love trees, they make the air fresh and I love fresh air."
Donald Trump: "I love trees, they make the air fresh and I love fresh air."
I had heard some of the bureaucratic healthcare institutions out there claiming that they might have to declare a pandemic, which I think is showing just how disconnected from reality they are. Everyone everywhere has been sick for months.
And the world has been just fine without their help. Sucks being sick but welcome to Earth.
And the world has been just fine without their help. Sucks being sick but welcome to Earth.
BUT DONT YOU REALIZE FEDERAL FUNDING IS GOING WAY?
If you ever find that you're a transgender afghan, you won't be able to get USAID to buy you an afghan! Try to think about that!
If you ever find that you're a transgender afghan, you won't be able to get USAID to buy you an afghan! Try to think about that!
From a post-metamodern superpositional standpoint, it is exactly obvious that Europe's major problem is that they only hold one truth, and that is because they are a modernist creation. They do utilize postmodernism, but in the way that the left does, only to deconstruct and eliminate competing value systems, and never against itself. The European elites have deconstructed religion, the family, gender, race, cultural heritage, nationality, and so many other things, and yet somehow they fail to deconstruct the European project that they have created. As if this one grand narrative that they have produced is the only one that can possibly be right, and so it is beyond any and all reproach.
Moreover, in eliminating every ideology but itself, it is implemented and extremely modernist view of the world, with postmodernist merely being the weapon that it uses to crush its opposition. This is important because the Europe that was a successful civilization was a Europe of many different cultures, it was truly pluralist. You had Celtic and Scandinavian warrior cultures, the remains of Roman and governance and history, you had Greek philosophy, as well as the various cultures of barbarian tribes who had lived either on the outskirts of the old Roman empire or had been somewhat subsumed into it. It was this combination of cultures, which brought different strengths and weaknesses to the table, which ultimately ended up forming the vibrant Europe that ended up taking over the world. Now we can have a discussion about the morality of taking over the world of course, but the fact is that besides doing that they also ended up ending the global slave trade, they ended up essentially inventing the modern concept of science, and produced the richest freest civilization in the history of the world to that point. The fact that the successor to that title wasn't another civilization altogether but a former colonial holding that split off before the French revolution is telling.
While there are differences between Italian fascism and European fascism, there are enough similarities that I think we can consider one to be the evolution of the other rather than completely different things. Rather than one being totally different than the other, I'd argue the latter just tries to sand the sharp edges off the former.
The Europeans never gave up on fascism, they just drew a smiley face on it and considered the job done.
Arguably, it goes back to the second world war and the sort of command and control bureaucracy that occurred back then. That was important to win a world war, but like most government programs it never fully went away, it just became civilianized.
And of course people who follow me know full well that I'm not just using the f word without ever having talked about what it means. Fascism is a totalizing ideology where everything is subsumed under the state, even Private industry. People are still allowed to "own businesses", but only in so far as they are doing the will of the state.
If you want to make a European scream in pain, threaten to take away some of their totalizing state.
There are two minor differences between Italian fascism and the European blend.
The first is that the Italians were nationalistic, they believed in Italy as a concept, whereas European fascists instead worship the state as an apparatus anywhere it goes, so if they can create one big hyperstate across europe, they will worship that, and anywhere that they can create a world government they will worship that.
The second is the particular brand of militarism. Europeans will pretend that they hate armed conflict, they don't want to get involved, they don't want to control anyone they just want to be chill and happy... And then the moment anything happens, they're sitting there demanding to know why their big brother America hasn't sent in the tanks. It's a fun little mental trick where you still love militarism, you just want someone else to do all of the fighting so that you can sit there in your Ivory Tower, sniff your farts, and Lord over everyone else about how Superior you are and everyone else.
Now the Europeans might tell you that it's completely different because the Italian fascists were openly trying to empower themselves whereas the enlightened Europeans fighting to make the world a better place for humanitarian, climate action, and social justice. Which only means that it's pretty pathetic that the modern European man is less honest then in Italian fascist or a German national socialist who were at least open about their goals. Moreover, the Europeans might claim that they don't use things like secret police, propaganda, or brute force. Unfortunately, this is in direct contrast with reality where all three of those are used, just in a less obvious way than their predecessors.
So a question that naturally arises from all this is, what does a less fascist Europe look like? Well, a hugely important thing would be the reduction of the state. Now Europe has pretended to reduce the power of its state through the guys of neoliberalism, but the problem is it's a lie. They didn't reduce the power of the state, all they did was eliminate social programs for the common Man and increase social programs for their fascist elites. Italy today has something like 60% of its economy solely based on the state. Let's get that down to 20% and we can start talking about not being fascist.
What I think is going to happen first though is the elimination of europe. It's a suicide, just like Italian fascism and German national socialism.
I think that the war in Ukraine really laid the truth of European fascism bare. Don't get me wrong, Russia was wrong to invade ukraine, and the death of generations of young men is really something terrible on a scale of that I can't even imagine. But if America hadn't been there to dump hundreds of billions of dollars into that war, what would have happened? And the Europeans know that, which is why they were pounding the table so hard for America to continue supporting a war that isn't even on the same continent as them. Meanwhile some of the pettiest racist crap you've ever seen in your life happened: kicking people who haven't been in Russia for decades off of sports teams for out of competitions because they are russian. I guess it turns out the European is still just as racist as they've ever been, they just need a good cause.
Moreover, in eliminating every ideology but itself, it is implemented and extremely modernist view of the world, with postmodernist merely being the weapon that it uses to crush its opposition. This is important because the Europe that was a successful civilization was a Europe of many different cultures, it was truly pluralist. You had Celtic and Scandinavian warrior cultures, the remains of Roman and governance and history, you had Greek philosophy, as well as the various cultures of barbarian tribes who had lived either on the outskirts of the old Roman empire or had been somewhat subsumed into it. It was this combination of cultures, which brought different strengths and weaknesses to the table, which ultimately ended up forming the vibrant Europe that ended up taking over the world. Now we can have a discussion about the morality of taking over the world of course, but the fact is that besides doing that they also ended up ending the global slave trade, they ended up essentially inventing the modern concept of science, and produced the richest freest civilization in the history of the world to that point. The fact that the successor to that title wasn't another civilization altogether but a former colonial holding that split off before the French revolution is telling.
While there are differences between Italian fascism and European fascism, there are enough similarities that I think we can consider one to be the evolution of the other rather than completely different things. Rather than one being totally different than the other, I'd argue the latter just tries to sand the sharp edges off the former.
The Europeans never gave up on fascism, they just drew a smiley face on it and considered the job done.
Arguably, it goes back to the second world war and the sort of command and control bureaucracy that occurred back then. That was important to win a world war, but like most government programs it never fully went away, it just became civilianized.
And of course people who follow me know full well that I'm not just using the f word without ever having talked about what it means. Fascism is a totalizing ideology where everything is subsumed under the state, even Private industry. People are still allowed to "own businesses", but only in so far as they are doing the will of the state.
If you want to make a European scream in pain, threaten to take away some of their totalizing state.
There are two minor differences between Italian fascism and the European blend.
The first is that the Italians were nationalistic, they believed in Italy as a concept, whereas European fascists instead worship the state as an apparatus anywhere it goes, so if they can create one big hyperstate across europe, they will worship that, and anywhere that they can create a world government they will worship that.
The second is the particular brand of militarism. Europeans will pretend that they hate armed conflict, they don't want to get involved, they don't want to control anyone they just want to be chill and happy... And then the moment anything happens, they're sitting there demanding to know why their big brother America hasn't sent in the tanks. It's a fun little mental trick where you still love militarism, you just want someone else to do all of the fighting so that you can sit there in your Ivory Tower, sniff your farts, and Lord over everyone else about how Superior you are and everyone else.
Now the Europeans might tell you that it's completely different because the Italian fascists were openly trying to empower themselves whereas the enlightened Europeans fighting to make the world a better place for humanitarian, climate action, and social justice. Which only means that it's pretty pathetic that the modern European man is less honest then in Italian fascist or a German national socialist who were at least open about their goals. Moreover, the Europeans might claim that they don't use things like secret police, propaganda, or brute force. Unfortunately, this is in direct contrast with reality where all three of those are used, just in a less obvious way than their predecessors.
So a question that naturally arises from all this is, what does a less fascist Europe look like? Well, a hugely important thing would be the reduction of the state. Now Europe has pretended to reduce the power of its state through the guys of neoliberalism, but the problem is it's a lie. They didn't reduce the power of the state, all they did was eliminate social programs for the common Man and increase social programs for their fascist elites. Italy today has something like 60% of its economy solely based on the state. Let's get that down to 20% and we can start talking about not being fascist.
What I think is going to happen first though is the elimination of europe. It's a suicide, just like Italian fascism and German national socialism.
I think that the war in Ukraine really laid the truth of European fascism bare. Don't get me wrong, Russia was wrong to invade ukraine, and the death of generations of young men is really something terrible on a scale of that I can't even imagine. But if America hadn't been there to dump hundreds of billions of dollars into that war, what would have happened? And the Europeans know that, which is why they were pounding the table so hard for America to continue supporting a war that isn't even on the same continent as them. Meanwhile some of the pettiest racist crap you've ever seen in your life happened: kicking people who haven't been in Russia for decades off of sports teams for out of competitions because they are russian. I guess it turns out the European is still just as racist as they've ever been, they just need a good cause.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qYcVT3BAQJA
The comments on this short are something else.
I don't know whether to be impressed or repulsed.
The comments on this short are something else.
I don't know whether to be impressed or repulsed.
https://youtu.be/dymb0SvHCnY
"Maybe it's just me, but I do believe we're going to have to get medieval on your buttox"
Jeez, posted 18 years ago? Must be why it's actually funny.
"Maybe it's just me, but I do believe we're going to have to get medieval on your buttox"
Jeez, posted 18 years ago? Must be why it's actually funny.
There's something I've seen a lot of people say: "I want to either save the world or destroy it" -- it's sort of a chuunibyou thing to say when you think about it, but it speaks more to the fact that many people -- both men and women -- don't feel like they are able to cultivate anything.
They've been told they can't do anything and so they dive into fiction where the heroes save the world and the villains destroy the world.
If we told people once again that they can cultivate something real in their lives if they work hard and smart and act with virtue then they might want to instead go on the adventure of their lives.
They've been told they can't do anything and so they dive into fiction where the heroes save the world and the villains destroy the world.
If we told people once again that they can cultivate something real in their lives if they work hard and smart and act with virtue then they might want to instead go on the adventure of their lives.
Under Principal-Agent theory, Musk is the president's agent -- which he is. A bunch of incompetent lawyers who gave it up to argue in the congress should even know that much. Musk only serves at Trump's pleasure, and the moment Trump isn't happy with what he's seeing, Musk will have to pound sand.
Ironically, many of the bureaucrats DOGE is helping to fire are the "unelected president" in their own minds. They think they don't serve at the pleasure of the president, they think their job is to serve... I guess whatever they want?
Ironically, many of the bureaucrats DOGE is helping to fire are the "unelected president" in their own minds. They think they don't serve at the pleasure of the president, they think their job is to serve... I guess whatever they want?