What about when you really do have plot armor? When you can jump off a building and land flat footed, but your efforts never give you more then you need?
The difference between main character syndrome and plot armor is that people with plot armor aren’t the writers of their story
There’s no evidence at all he’s a leftist. There’s not much evidence he’s MAGA, aside from his family seeming to be
There’s clear evidence he’s a terminally online gamer, that’s all that’s really clear.
The mainstream media has been incredibly irresponsible and spreading misinfo on both counts. The guy is alive, we don’t have to wonder. He’s going to have a chance to speak sooner or later
Show some empathy. Do you know how many people are being pushed out windows these days? Think of how boring that must be for the poor KGB officers
You should be more supportive. This was very creative
You realize it’s an order? They’re a sub organization under the Catholic Church, they have their own leadership
Anyways, there’s a cabal of pedophiles and consulting companies like McKinsey who are the literal global elite fucking everything up. They’re connected to everything and leave a paper trail.
It’s all out in the open, they’ve been grilled before Congress repeatedly, but no one takes it seriously. You can spend an afternoon just in their Wikipedia page, under controversies you have a list of just the things they were caught doing
The Jesuit order? The most reasonable and educated branch of any religion I’ve ever met? The order dedicated to knowledge?
Who has the energy to pretend anymore? We’re all just phoning it in, even the fascists
The holy Roman empire fell centuries ago. The power it held was distributed to organizations we generally refer to as “the West”
The Pope has immense power… But soft power. The only army they can move is the Swiss guard
Political violence is a symptom, not a cause
We were already here. Lawmakers have already been killed. Just, no one took it seriously because the Democrats miss every moment
And yes, they were already invading Chicago. They were already calling to arrest political opponents. They were going to do it all anyways
I’m sorry, what time period do you think we live in exactly?
The Ku Klux Klan is absolutely a political group…
When you do things in an effort to change society, that’s political. It doesn’t need to be coherent
What do you mean obeyed the Pope? You realize I’ve of his last actions was to donate the popemobile as an aid vehicle for Gaza
I’ve said that several times over the last 2 days, and it’s just not hitting
But this guy called for political violence, he invited it
Yeah well… Shooters are basically exclusively conservative. It’s just not happening, not from us
You could basically get around this with 4 programmers and an expectation around word choice. Voice to text has improved massively, you could just require them to say menu items with modifiers
Not that I disagree about drive throughs in concept, but this is just another problem easily solved by anything but raw LLMs
Power exists where people believe it to be. You want to build up alternate systems? Go for it, I think that’s great. I’d join up. Let me know when that’s an option on the table
But you can’t ignore where the power actually is. No revolution happens without organizing around people already in power.
And as much as you can learn from the past, we’re well into uncharted territory. You can read all the praxis you like, but those are the writings of academics.
At some point you have to talk to people, you have to get average people on board. You can’t do that by giving them pamphlets, they’re not going to read them.
You do it by picking your strongest argument, like housing or taxing the rich, and you get them on board. You give them leaders to rally behind, you gain their trust by improving material conditions for them. You fix their problems and win their loyalty, you tell them you’re going to fix their problems, and then you do everything you can to get money out of politics so that we can unfuck things
If you want to organize on the side, go for it… But we live in an extremely low trust and antisocial society. I just don’t see it happening anytime soon
The perfect is the enemy of the good
This is so dumb.
If you want change, you have to take power. Power is where the people think it is.
If people can’t even realize their own power as workers and unionize, they’re not about to rise up in some glorious revolution. And even if they did, the majority would just do capitalism again, because most people can’t imagine anything else
But the economic system is collapsing. When it does, we need power. That’s how this works. We take local, State, and federal positions and use them to do progressive things, to improve material conditions.
And then when we get to an inflection point, we need leaders who already have the support of the people. We need populist progressives in power
Yeah, entryism can eat my whole asshole
It’s clear what the people what. It’s not socialism, but it’s definitely is progressive. And that’s good enough for now
I think the concept is good, that’s literally the design our government was created for. United States. We don’t have provinces, we have states
It’s going to be a huge mess, but I think that’s the most likely path
Imitation meat is very highly processed food. I’ve never had lab grown meat, I’d need to know the details to judge it
I do like me a good bean burger though…I make big batches of dried beans and mash them, it’s great on rice, as a dip, you can fry it, you can add whatever you want to make infinite variations
But every once in a while I like to have a good burger. Like a few times a year… Honestly, if anything, meat tastes better because I rarely eat it.
Imitation stuff just doesn’t compare, maybe you could convince me it’s meat, but you’ll never convince me it’s better than “ok”. And plenty of meat is just ok… Most of it even
I’d rather eat my beans every day, and eat my steak and tuna a few times a year and enjoy every moment of it
It’s capitalism, but the government does it’s job and hammers down companies that get too big to fail
There’s also all the one party authoritarian bullshit, but main concept is the government remain the strongest power