Being a farmer in modern times is more about being an engineer, not a laborer.
It's even more mutli-disciplined than that. They have to be economist (to know when to sell and when not), they have to be chemist (due to all of the chemicals in modern agriculture), and they have to be veterinarians (to maintain livestock). They can pawn off some of that knowledge to others, but they need to at least have passing knowledge to do in the field maintenance.
There is a reason that the largest college at my local university is the College of Agriculture. Which ironically has the side effect of making sure the university stays pretty based with students that are actually tolerable.
Also agree with your original point about the Farm Lobby. I have said it many times, and I will always say it: If you tried the sort of shit the Euros are doing to their farmers here in Kansas, the response wouldnt even be a protest. It would be the farmers responding "Lol. Lmao even" and continuing on their day. Then the next day, the Farm Bureau would be breaking down your door telling you that you just signed the death warrant on your political career in the state.
Ironically enough, Dodge is still relatively based. Ford has also started to realize that going all in on electric was a bad move, because they are walking back their electric fleet, returning old designs (like a V8 Mustang instead of Eco-boost). And of course switching to more hybrid designs since the Maverick is selling like its going out of style. Which sucks since I want one and they are still expensive due to demand.
or at least the late Mr. Toyada, I don’t know what his successor is like
If its related to Toyota, their chief engineer was recently saying how the world and the tech is not yet ready for electric cars and they should focus on more traditional and hybrid designs until the tech improves.
Then there is me, playing the game completely ass-backward in a way that would make the Neo-Lib Planner have a stroke:
Anywhere that can be reached by mass transit can be reached by car, with only a handful of exceptions (and even with exceptions, you can get damn close).
Roads built to improve traffic flow rather than infuriate drivers into giving up and taking transit.
Well-funded police that aggressively enforce the law instead of coddling criminals.
Manufacturing jobs available in abundance for those who dont want to be office drones.
Power provided by stable sources like coal and oil, to eventually be replaced by nuclear.
The main college funded and endorsed by the city is a Tech College.
All filthy hippies wanting their "15 minute city" are relegated to the district known locally as "The Hippie Ghetto" (whatever its official name is).
Etc.
I am kind of glad I met my fiancé in high school, so we got to know each other then and grow into the relationship over the years.
And honestly, I think we are in the death throes of it right now. What the blackpilled see as them being increasingly brazen due to an idea they will never lose, I see as desperate lashings of someone who believes losing is inevitable.
Parents are slowly but surely taking over school boards and demanding teachers be driven out or stung up by their toes.
Corporations are axing their DIE departments for fear of being the next Disney.
ESG is being scrapped by Vanguard and several other investor groups because there is literally nothing left to prop it up with and they need money.
The list goes on.
And of course, on this front, they have just made a great deal of enemies, while doing nothing to gain allies. And this isnt just "You disagree with us, so you are our enemy." They have likely created true, genuine enemies, that will do everything to stand in their way and make their lives miserable. And when the Twitter freaks cry to them about how bad it is, their only response will be "That's the point, dickweed!"
All because they couldnt control themselves over a single game. And this is why I have insisted the game was a net positive in every way for our side.
Which I dont understand. I live in a town of about 50k, which I always hear the usual suspects at the local university complain about the fact there is "nothing to do here", other than hit up the bar district near campus.
But for me, when it is winter I spend all of my time indoors on the internet, gaming and watching Anime. But when warmer weather hits, I am swimming in the lake or river, I am biking on the trail that goes around town (which is about a 40 mile round trip), and I go hiking out on the local prairie. And this year, I am planning on going to one of the state parks that has the other large prairie hiking trail.
But no, we dont have any nightclubs with trendy DJ's. So I guess that means we are practically living in the stone age.
Incidentally, exactly what you described happened in the VTuber sphere around the same time. Another VTuber named Silvervale also played the Harry Potter game. She was also attacked and driven into tears. She begged with her abusers that doing things like that will only hurt the cause because "hatred breeds hatred, kindness changes minds".
But she refused to stop playing the game, so they started harassing her more, started harassing the rest of her family, and tried to get her fired by her agency.
So she came back again, said "You know what?! Fuck this, and fuck you, you freaks! I will not be bullied because I wanted to play a fucking game! You lose, you will not stop me, fuck you!" The Twitter reeeing increased 10-fold, but by that point she was done with it and even stopped acknowledging them.
I foresee that becoming the way forward. Especially now that Pikamee retired. I would like to point out, like many others: the last time VTuber fans were this mad, they managed to cuck the CCP. What are they going to do this time, I wonder?
Knowing how many Leftist are absolute midwits, I would not be surprised if it works because “campus” makes it sound “smart” and “forward thinking”, instead of just calling it a town.
And at least from what I remember, they tried moving Left-Wing groups to rural areas. But since there was “nothing to do” and they “didn’t feel welcome” by the locals, they almost all ended up moving back to the bigger cities.
I foresee that happening again.
Even then, if you look at how many people are playing on Steam, it is still around 141k. Which isnt exactly a tiny amount.
But I like it. Nearly everyone here supports Russia, and that is very boring. And most of you guys are being good sports about it (Supremo excepted, but he is excused given his situation), so that's quite cool.
Debates are fun. When it is a brick wall that will never change their mind smashing against a brick wall that will never change their mind, it is just wasted effort. Which is why I dont bother most of the time when it comes to this topic. I just kick back and watch the undeniable video evidence roll in. Give it more time, and I guess we will see who is right.
Which is why this will be my final word, before I go back to largely ignoring the topic on this board.
Stunning and brave, a comfortable Murcan advocating for sending Ukrainian conscripts to their deaths. Doesn't the US give people medals for such bravery?
Their marching seems quite willing. I am just giving them a bigger gun for it.
Very interesting. Yes, not being serious is a great gift.
You clearly dont know anyone with Aspergers or Autism, do you? The "being less serious" I had to be taught was not "Lol, not caring and never meaning what I say." It was "When I say 'I am so hungry I could eat a whole cow', it doesnt mean I am literally going to eat a whole cow." Because until I was taught sarcasm (which had to be done the same way you teach someone a second language), I thought that such hyperbolics phrases were to be taken literally, and would chastise people for not living up to their hyperbolic actions. Because that tend to be a side effect of your brain being wired to think in pictures instead of words. Hence the skill in manufacturing.
This is quite surprising. Because you don't sound blue collar to me. Advocating for corrupt, petty puppet shitholes is more of a white collar preoccupation.
The hell kind of blue/white collar workers do you know. Because from my experience, it is the white collar workers pushing things like Globohomo, saying "Cant we all just get along?", "Guns are so barbaric", etc.
Its us guys in the shop that are spending our breaks watching combat footage, nerding out over their gear, and using the blast furnace and the foundry as yardsticks for "Just how hot does it have to get to start melting that tank?"
Seconded. As much as I like the, shall we call it, "fit tomboy" aesthetic, this whole trend I have seen developing of the "Step on me, Dommy Mommy!" thing is extremely weird to me.
I personally am partial to the one about how all the kids in Ed, Edd, and Eddy are in purgatory.
I am sure most people on here know my stance on the war. Which I feel gives it more weight when I say:
This cringe-tastic bullshit is exactly why any simping you see me doing for NATO comes with a giant asterisk labeled "We will continue our beef later", and whatever Zoomer they picked to run their Social Media page needs to be canned ASAP.
Glad you remembered my line lol
It works because it is memorable. And she is non-offensive enough to Normies that it would probably actually get some of the corpo and journo types to actually have to stop and go "they do have a point."
The SJW's lost to an anime waifu wolf girl.
I now have a new bar for people who cuck in the face of a cancel mob. "You have less balls than fucking Silvervale!"
So very much like normal Bing then? I suppose that is acceptable.
For very good reasons, because you know you would not do well.
More like sometimes when two brick walls are smashing into each other, the best course of action is to not even start.
Great. Show me one reference to a state named Ukraine in the Middle Ages.
Today I learned the Keivan Rus and the Principality of Kiev arent real. But then, I bet you think they belonged to Russia, even though modern Russia is descended from Novgorod. Hell, if anyone has the right to "take back" Ukraine, it's the Poles (since they conquered it as the Commonwealth).
Not a single word out of you about 9/11, or any other terrorism targeting Americans in the future. You have forfeited that right.
And I dont want any more words from smug Europeans when we handle things the American way. But then I have constantly seen you complaining about the American way, so I guess not much would change in that regard.
LOL! So your 'victory scenario' is the exact compromise Bennett brokered and that Ukraine's masters rejected, except one year of extra destruction for Ukraine?
Oh no no, you misunderstand. That is just the concession of "If there is well and truly no way forward and both sides settle for peace." I think Ukraine should push until they have it all back, including Crimea. And at least from what I have seen, Ukraine is also willing to push that. Tic-Tock, the tanks are arriving. And all Russia has to show for it is their latest ICBM failing to launch. It's the end of the 24th Vladdy boi. Where is my world-changing shock?
EDIT: It completely slipped by me on the first read. Of fucking course it was the Polish tanks that showed up first. The only thing that would be less of a shock is if there were some suspiciously Polish-looking "Ukrainians" operating those tanks. With a sadistic smile on their face of course.
You sound like you've never had a second of hardship in your life.
And I have found that those who think they know other's lives are usually the ones who have been pampered. Because those who have lived hard lives dont feel the need to foist it on others.
If you truly must know: I was relentlessly bullied to physical illness during my elementary school years (the illness coming from a powerful "mind over matter" response as I was told the only way to not go to school was "if you are sick"). After this, I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, which involved speech therapy and having to be retaught things like sarcasm, jokes, and "being less serious" in general. And as for today, I work blue collar in manufacturing, since it turns out that having a mind that hyper-focuses on details is useful for that line of work. Nothing as bad there, but I do still come home with cuts and bruises most days because metal is sharp.
But I guess I have just never had any hardship. Its not out of both a morbid curiosity with warfare (since especially Industrial-era war became my autistic obsession), and a fact that I just want to see Russians pay for the bullshit they have been pulling for years. My only regret is that it is the mobniks suffering instead of Putin and his flunkies.
In this case, I am referring to the MiG-31's, that have been flying on the border with AWACS craft and taking extreme-long range missile shots at Ukrainian aircraft. They arent particularly accurate (since they are shooting missiles that were designed against bombers, not fighters), but they have been accurate enough that it is suppressing the Ukrainian Air Force and keeping them from flying as many missions as they need to. And nothing they are flying is able to mount the sort of long-range missiles needed to reach out and touch them back (like the American AMRAAM or the combined Euro Meteor)
Gameplay of that WW1 game I posted about. Devs talk over it to show their decisions.
I got the chance to play the demo during Nextfest on Steam. I think it had some teething issues, but it is absolutely something I am still looking forward to.
Agatha Harkness' show has been changed to TBD. It was part of the new Marvel Disney+ shows.
Expect this to start happening a lot more. Despite both SJW's trying to happy-talk the situation, and Culture Warriors being blackpilled about ESG things, Disney finally had to admit during their last investor call that they are in a bad financial situation. And you know damn well that even with that, the situation is worse than they would be willing to admit. So expect Disney to have to start doing things that they would have never done before.
And for Iger to be grinding his teeth the entire time, because in a lot of cases it means destroying his own pet projects or his own legacy.
The 150 kilometer long building, that was supposedly vaporware, has been approved for construction.
Lol. Lmao even. Just Saudi Arabian things.
He probably forgot again because Nuland was wondering out loud about the possibility of arming Ukraine with 5th-Gen fighters (like the F-22). Of course, that seems more like "big ask" negotiation so that when they get down to the F-16's they were already going to send, they can tell Russia "Look, we de-escalated!"
Right before the Ukrainian Air Force de-escalates a large chunk of the Russia Air Force. What I wouldnt give to see someone finally reach out and touch those MiG's that have been taking the long-range pot-shots from inside Russia.
She didnt apologize. In fact, she streamed the game for the 3rd time now yesterday, and started it off by directly telling the "Twitter freaks" fuck you. And has in general refused to apologize for playing the game.
The closest she ever got to an "apology" to them was when she was, with tears in her eyes, telling them that hatred does nothing but breed hatred, and you need kindness to change people's minds.
With Warner Broes at the helm, it could honestly go either way. They have released based works even in the recent past, but every time they do that they turn around and release the wokest trash known to man. That quote higher up the thread certainly doesnt help.
What would you think of someone who said the same thing about that fake country?
And this is at least part of the reason I dont normally engage with you on this topic, and probably wont after I say my peace here (but its the start of my weekend, so I am feeling saucy).
Even at a starting basis point, we are already too wildly different from each other to even conceivably have the argument. Ukraine exist. It existed since the Middle Ages. It continued to have it's own language and culture even after it was occupied by the Russia's. It attempted to break away when the Soviet Union was forming and failed (and was brutalized as punishment). Then when that evil empire imploded, they ran screaming for the door like so many other former Soviet states, finally becoming free and independent in the process, much like the Poles and Baltics before them. They have had a good 30 years of being independent and doing their own thing, for the first time in centuries. And now they have their former overlord coming back to try and drag them back to their decaying land because they want some former glory, and wont take no for an answer.
And even if you didnt believe Ukraine existed before, well congratulations: It exist now. Because you united a people against a common enemy and gave them a reason to fight. Much like how there was no United States until the British opened fire at Lexington.
I say again: Is it any wonder that Ukraine's response was to channel their inner Pole, cry "Never again", and shoot the bastards in the face. And I say: Give'em hell. And here's a bigger gun to do it with. Gotta make sure they stay dead after all (like how 9mm only kills the body, but .45ACP kills the soul).
But when it comes to Russia, Poles and the Baltics unfortunately suffer from an irrationality of the highest order.
More like "The sanest and most rational reaction known to man."
Hard to believe that they are lukewarm about being allies with people who blow up their pipelines.
You know what? Fine. Fair point. But at the same time, Trump tried to warn them of this exact issue, and what was Germany's response? To smugly laugh and declare him to be a buffoon. So forgive me if I am not going to lose too much sleep over Germany once again suffering the consequences of its own actions (much like unilaterally declaring the EU open to migrants). And I say that as someone who is descended from Germans. But then like many others we did flee to America, so maybe there is some inbred hate for the old Fatherland in there somewhere (could also explain the attachment to Poland).
I'm sure Russia is also willing to accept a rump United States consisting of just Virginia and Maryland, provided that it behaves itself and does not interfere in any way with Russia's regional ambitions.
They are certainly welcome to try. Something tells me that they would be far less successful in that endeavor though.
It's ironic that as a "nationalist" you fully support Victoria Nuland and other bloodthirsty neocons to get "handsy" with Ukraine and even determine who the next Prime Minister is going to be.
And what happens if we pick someone they dont like? Then they will probably overthrow them, as happened to many American-backed regimes throughout the Cold War. So I really dont see what proof that it was bad for them in the long run. You dont get a movement like that out of nowhere, in the opposite way as we see the Woke on the backfoot and starting to fall since they cant manifest a grassroots support network.
Jingoism ill suits someone who purports to think for himself.
I suppose call it the backlash to all of the attempts to tear down my country. I am thoroughly sick, tired, and done with caring about what a bunch of sniveling European elitist think the US should be. I would rather be the American the Chinese and Russians think we are. Minus the Woke aspects of course, but consider most of those ideals come from France....
Ukraine doesn't exist.
See first paragraph.
Being propagandized for 8 years with anti-Russian propaganda and war fevor will do a number on you.
You seem to think I have been swimming in some sort of MSM slurry and being told what to think about all of this by the likes of Brian Stelter and Chris Cumuo. I have based my opinion on the war, from the very beginning, off of Raw combat footage. Not even with commentary, because there is no need. Video doesnt lie when you are watching it go down live. And it hasnt been just Ukrainian either. I have seen from the Russian side of the line as well, because like usual I dont trust just one side.
Do you know why I am so anti-Russia in this regard? Because I have listened to them. And their own news of the war, and their attempts to spin their failures, are so delusional I have seen SJW's that were more comprehensible. They lie about things I know didnt happen because I watched it happen. They still operate under a delusion that they would be able to overrun Europe, and that they should when they are done in Ukraine (that sound you hear is Poland giddy in the corner and itching for a fight). They are honestly starting to sound not too far off from what I remember of Soviet newscasters. So I question why you and others take them at face value either, when it is obvious to anyone who watches the damn footage you are being lied to. Just compare a map of Ukraine now to a map about a year ago, and tell me with a straight face Russia will win this. Maybe Donbass, but Ukraine will stand defiant. And I can live with that.
Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to go find Supreme. I imagine we can clink some beers and share some popcorn watching the latest Russian tank turret throwing competition. I also heard Wagner is hold the events for "Who wants the last magazine?" deathmatch tonight.
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