Literally who?
I don't mind checking the river to see who's corpses have floated by, but I really don't care about propaganda aparatniks who shilled for the machine a decade ago. Their obscurity speaks for itself.
EDIT: I'm looking through an archive of the journalists on Deepfreeze.it. I guess I have to ask who this guy is/was again? I don't see him on that list.
I checked up on the Bike Karen story a few months ago. She's lawyered up, so there's a lawsuit against the media outlets in the works. Both sides have laid out the receipts for the bike they fought over, which more or less confirms the guy was docking the bike to avoid tolls. (He's low income and if he keeps the bike longer than 45 minutes, he gets dinged, so he's doing what's incentivized.) He squatted on the bike while it was docked to keep it available for his personal use without paying for it. The 'Karen' just used the app and got assigned 'his' bike, so he got in her face and forced the bike back. It was probably standard behavior for him, save for the virality of the video.
Here's an article from the summer with the (then) recent developments. I've tried finding the suit itself, but websearch is garbage and pulls up the viral event much more than the lawsuit.
USSR ... not engaged in 'genocide against white people.' However, that ironically was the plan of your hero Hitler.
As someone who has a branch of my family in Ukraine, one which didn't emigrate in 1905, I laugh in Holodomor-- the kind of death Communists have in store for all of us: death by hunger.
You don't get to dismiss with a handwave 'whatever the depredations of the USSR.' If that's the condition, the rest of that conditional statement is null and void. The depredations of the USSR have everything do do with why the Nazis attacked them.
I say this even though the Nazis wouldn't have constructed either Slav or Jew as white. They knew very well what horrors Stalin intended for the rest of Europe when they preempted his planned offensive and blew up his army.
Stopping the USSR, given the horrors of its existence, would otherwise be a moral good if not an imperative.
That you go on to imply Hitler's genocide of Schrödinger's Whites is ironic? Well, good thing I was already laughing.
The problem with that is all totalitarian governments spend massive amounts of time and effort making sure that their voice is the only one heard, and that everyone knows what the price of dissent and defection is. The average person might realize that they're being lied to and slowly starving to death, but everyone who leaves just disappears.
This comes to mind:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I remember Pelosi saying we needed to join the throng for Chinese new year in Chinatown, to "send a message."
I'd argue 'wizard led movements to preserve the cultures of Rohan, Gondor, and the Shire in the face of mass Orcish immigration' sounds pretty damn right wing. I'll point to the memetic structure of Orcposting to prove it. The left, as proponents of immigration, map onto the dark lord. That's why this comic is backwards-- like so much of what the left produces, it's projection.
I have hope that, like with the Reedy Creek district getting dissolved, their D.I.E. devotions become partisan enough for there to at least be a discussion when that time comes.
I fully understand that the ESG/government backing racket exists, that they will be supported and kept alive in exchange for 'services rendered' to the state.
Let them bleed anyway. Force them to expose their hand and leverage their position. The more untenable for them, the better. I know better than to expect a happy ending, but let them suffer.
I suspect you're thinking of Diablo: Immoral, the whale-bait game where you'd need to spend $200K to cap out the T10 gems on a single character.
Which, as Vox Day would say, is the point. Not being racist is synonymous with accepting the destruction of your people.
I had been following the Missouri half of this case. I found the federal rulings (~4-6 mos ago?) in favor of the states' positions most promising.
I am not surprised that the injunctions against censorship have been lifted. When it comes to stays against abuses of power, federal courts have little reason to rule against federal officials. I am disappointed, but not surprised.
I'll toss in my recommends:
Vintage Story is a standalone minecraft-like, which takes elements from Terrafirmacraft, recreates them in a custom engine and adds an apocalyptic time-travel twist to create a crunchy survival-crafter experience with a meaningful stone age, where pottery and whatever you scavenge from ruins remains important into the midgame because there are no rock or wood picks. Casting Copper to exit the stone age is mid-game. The Bronze Age is difficult to exit. Late game is Iron and wind power. Endgame is steel, alcohol, and cheese.
The recent 'Resonance Archive' update (v1.18.0) added a meaningful endgame site rich with doomed civilization lore. (Spoilers abound, obviously, but also a potential selling point. YMMV)
I have been getting good mileage out of Wildmender, which is the very finest voxel waterflow simulator you can drown all your plants inside. The devs are green party save-the-rainforest types, but if you care to hold your nose, there's a decent single player game with co-op privation modes available underneath.
My playgroup has been mucking around in Tribes of Midgard. For the 7 bucks I paid in I've gotten a good 30 hours of play in just the Saga Mode. The game really only feels viable when you hit the 3-5 player 'sweet spot' for a critical mass of gathering/exploration. It's a fairly generic collect-a-thon with cosmetics and a procedural map. Most of the unlocks for play related items are golden horn, but there's a platinum currency for whales to obsess over. Just click the black viking chick on the cosmetic menu's banner to buy some... (lol no)
The other game that perpetually draws my attention is CK III, (a not-really indie game) which I mod to scratch my particular autismal fixation on Vikings. I will never get tired of repeatedly sacking Rome and stealing the Pope's fancy hat.
I'll second Symphony of War as being worth the buy in. (Got my hour per dollar out of it. You probably will without even hitting the DLC.)
Necesse is a city builder with dungeon delving/island exploring mechanics I also got my hour per dollar out of. Early access, though.
ZERO Sievert is all the slavic post-apoc flavorland of Tarkov, but single player (ie no hackers) and top-down 2d. Another good buy for the hours per dollar, although there's a good chance of ongoing development nuking your save at some point further along in the Early Access process.
Never saw it that way.
I didn't either until Lindsay pointed it out. Reasonable people will not realize that they cannot extrapolate reason onto revolutionaries, who are inherently unreasonable. When they commit to perpetual revolution, they are tacitly admitting they will never stop.
Reasonable people need to be reminded of this again, and again, because it is an entirely alien mindset.
I guess I can see how the nameless mooks 'getting away with it' might stick in your craw. The reality of their being nothing but fodder for the machine is plenty soul-crushing without us adding to it, IMHO.