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Good Citizen posted:It was fun watching the team walk ins for the opening ceremony and for Russia and China the commentators were like 'oh, here comes an evil country, let me list the ways'. Israel walks in *crickets* and Saudi Arabia! my big crack ping moment was last Olympics they talked at length about the "massive unrest" in Cuba. then Lebanon walked in, and nothing
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Vomik posted:how do people handle this obvious cognitive dissonance??? I was so stupefied i just stood there pointing at the screen, shaking my head, and looking around for others sympathetic to the brain breaking happening. The jingoistic Sinophobia in the Olympics broadcasts is pretty remarkable- openly rooting against Chinese athletes, prompting US athletes to grump about covid precautions, anti-China hit pieces book-ending media coverage of the events.
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Tricky D posted:When Iran starts smuggling weapons to the Houthis across the Caspian Sea, all of the world's navies will be obsolete. Terrifying poo poo.
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Andorra posted:from that thread Wasn't the Starship Troopers novel unironically pro-fascism?
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Braggins posted:Wasn't the Starship Troopers novel unironically pro-fascism? Yup. https://twitter.com/Sappo7/status/1490402062571556871
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Braggins posted:Wasn't the Starship Troopers novel unironically pro-fascism? It describes a Fascist utopia. Strange in a Strange Land describes a Communist utopia and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress a Libertarian utopia.
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Vomik posted:$27??? There it is
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Fame Douglas posted:It describes a Fascist utopia. Strange in a Strange Land describes a Communist utopia and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress a Libertarian utopia. ...is Stranger that 'communist'? Most of the 'utiopia' is rigidly theocratic and based on Heinlein getting his weird sex poo poo worked out (orgies and free love is good as long as it's with me and no homos can do it, pretty much). It feels like his utopian visions have been fascist, libertarian, and weird theocracy libertarian. Almost as if he was just a huge shithead who lacked any actual imagination.
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Fame Douglas posted:It describes a Fascist utopia. Strange in a Strange Land describes a Communist utopia and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress a Libertarian utopia. please explain how stranger in a strange land describes a communist utopia
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Radirot posted:is this old news? what’s that for, jeni’s intern auditions?
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does the US pay someone at voice of America to try and be this cool on Chinese language social media if so, how hilariously does it backfire
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stranger in a strange land describes a sex cult run by a man with superpowers
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farnhams freehold or i will fear no evil are the two craziest heinlein books ive read. to sail beyond the sunset has an unbelievably insane plot summary on wikipedia, as well
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hobbesmaster posted:does the US pay someone at voice of America to try and be this cool on Chinese language social media what do you think matty does for a living lol
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lobster shirt posted:stranger in a strange land describes a sex cult run by a man with superpowers I am shocked that the libertarian with ~opinions~ on incestuous pedophilia would do that
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hobbesmaster posted:does the US pay someone at voice of America to try and be this cool on Chinese language social media i get a monthly stipend for making a few posts a day on ZunZuneo, it's not great but it's a living
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lobster shirt posted:to sail beyond the sunset has an unbelievably insane plot summary on wikipedia, as well 
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RealityWarCriminal posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelje%C5%A1ac_Bridge If I heard an American firm promise that, I'd assume it's a death trap
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i will say that the fosterite church in stranger in a strange land is a very prescient vision of what american protestantism would become lol
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lobster shirt posted:stranger in a strange land describes a sex cult run by a man with superpowers Yeah it was a fun read. Probably not a good text to lay your moral foundation on though.
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KomradeX posted:If I heard an American firm promise that, I'd assume it's a death trap Don't worry, American firms promise that and then "unavoidable cost overruns" make it take 300% of the worst case cost scenario and a death trap.
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sometimes right wing fiction is instructive, like how Robert Silverberg's The World Inside is about how liberals are credential-obsessed perverts
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It's a shame that NBC News' need to smuggle a corporate International Politics 101 into the March of Athletes came at the expense of giving athletes from affected teams the same amount of discussion as others, including athletes from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Ukraine. I didn't disagree with what they said, but it was not a good time for it. During the Belarus segment, I expected them to talk about its dire human rights record because they're not a U.S. ally, but they talked about how a former athlete is coaching for China instead. edit: They talked about Iran's team the same way as for most countries as well edit: added Ukraine ^ galenanorth has issued a correction as of 01:03 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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I've heard of unconscious bias before, it's hardly a new concept, my point is that I don't understand it because it doesn't make much sense. How does one have an unconscious belief? I think that the phenomenon being described is something that people consciously experience: you consciously experience having a negative emotional reaction, or predicting whatever negative behavior, and then suppress those feelings because you believe they're racist or whatever is applicable to your reaction. The "unconscious belief" is really a prediction of what to expect based on previous experiences.
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D&D is full of smart people who understand what they’re talking about, that’s for sure. [Edit: According to Webster’s dictionary, “charisma” means…]
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KomradeX posted:If I heard an American firm promise that, I'd assume it's a death trap I mean any private firm promising something there an outlier is probably a deathtrap In the US, basically everything is a death trap
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spacemang_spliff posted:She's bribing Joe lol
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is pepsi ok posted:lol come the gently caress on, now we have a war progress bar That doesn't really sound imminent does it?
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https://mobile.twitter.com/carterforva/status/1490469216742428672 another big miss from Lee
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doing the dominos pizza tracker, but for war
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is pepsi ok posted:lol come the gently caress on, now we have a war progress bar Sounds like we need to elect Democrats, because you don't change horses while streaming!
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russia has reached 70% of war https://youtu.be/YHv5jgXz9I8
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We all know how progress bars work. We could be sitting around, like chumps, watching the little hourglass turn over for hours before the last 30% of Russian troops load.
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spacemang_spliff posted:I really should have gone into journalism you can pretty much say whatever dumb poo poo pops into your mind and someone will hand you a bag of cash with a dollar sign on it Unless you are critical to either Israel or Capitalism.
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ex post facho posted:
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Tricky D posted:We all know how progress bars work. We could be sitting around, like chumps, watching the little hourglass turn over for hours before the last 30% of Russian troops load. https://i.imgur.com/0bcxA2f.gifv
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