The very core idea of the book is fucking retarded.
If fertile women were to become actually rare in an actual patriarchy, they would become the world's most valuable commodity, along with their coddled children.
Women would be divided into useless infertile thots (used as cumdumsters by proles) and fertile Mothers, coveted by rich elites, locked away in gilded ivory towers and used as a display of their wealth and status. The richest men would preen like peacocks displaying their bountiful women with their many children. Their infertile daughters would spend fortunes on charlatans promising cures for dusty wombs and their high fashion would all be centered around appearing pregnant.
And no man would be allowed to touch another's man fertile woman under penalty of death.
The process is actually pretty standard. Things hit a rough patch, start going downhill and instead of returning to their roots, franchises turn to DEI for easy bootstrap money thinking they just need a bit of a push to get them over the hump.
You turn woke because you're already broke or close to it.
The worst part of all this is that there are children with legit mental health issues that are actually suffering from their brain being all fucked up.
Maybe even this dude's story is true and he was one of those unfortunate people with a fucked brain.
And instead of figuring out what made it go wrong and possible ways to help unfuck it, we have an entire medico-ideological complex that does the exact opposite. Not only is it impossible to treat delusion by pretending it's real, it's the worst possible thing you could do to a person suffering from delusion.
Imagine telling your doctor you're a Napoleon and him prescribing you a horse and cannon.
Right, but the point is that the communism fairy tale is different than the current age "we can just print infinity money and pretend it's real wealth".
They are both based on ignoring the reality of resource constraints, but if the communism fairy tale is for 5 year olds, for some reason, just about everyone takes infinite debt based money seriously. You have whole libraries full of books written by smart people in support of this second fairy tale.
And they read things about "GDP" and think it means something because line go up. And they make purchasing decisions based off of this line going up. And even go to war because "hur dur, our line higher than their line"
All while the government is literally drawing the line going up using fake bullshit money as ink.
Right, but the whole point is that the earlier AC games are basically ninja parkour, but slower paced and without the ninja.
Making a fast paced AC game with ninja trappings is the most obvious low hanging fruit that everyone would have enjoyed.
Just like the pirate AC game.
Ninjas, pirates, knights, zombies, robots and/or space shit are like the most basic settings. And ninjas make the most sense for an assassin game
You need self-insert girl-boss with English accent to fight the patriarchy, like a bunch of guys not taking inane girl-boss advice seriously when working on their wildly popular guy projects.
But she needs magic powers for the fantasy to be extra nice. Force choke the patriarchy, girl!
That isn't really true though, in terms of the actual population, as amply demonstrated by the referendum in 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum
The lowest result was in Ukraine and Russia itself.
The USSR broke apart because the elites wanted it broken apart.
Because the elites wanted what they got (massive wealth through corruption and graft and selling of privatized state enterprises for scrap, logistics control, etc. etc. etc.).
The elites were given this possibility because the USA basically promised them the possibility and provided bank accounts to store the wealth and yachts and houses in Italy to spend it on. Which is what I call being nice.
Russian elites today were instead promised pain and suffering instead of massive additional wealth. Given the stick instead of the carrot. Russian elites are pretty much 99% behind Putin and Xi, because anything is better than being a beggar under a bunch of whimsical sanctions applied willy-nilly by a bunch of fart-sniffing retards. And also they are ornery fucks who want revenge for having their stuff taken.
The war in Ukraine could have been won by the west in three easy steps 2 years ago, by being nice:
- Remove all visa restrictions for all Russians everywhere
- Give them all valid work/visa status
- Completely free movement of all finance from Russia to anywhere
All economic orders are fake and gay by design because they depend on people believing each other.
The source of that faith is the only real difference, and theirs ran out. But it wouldn't have if they had a unifying factor such as an aggressive enemy.
The point is that the populace wasn't united behind the whole apparatus and was kind of very much against it. And the apparatus itself was massively disjointed and working against itself. KGB generals wanted nice cars, soft toilet paper and jeans just as much as, if not more, than the general populace.
Had the US tried actual aggression in the 80s, the populace (as well as the KGB) would have had a unified purpose which superseded caring about having nice cars, soft toilet paper and jeans. All that is secondary to crushing the aggressor. It's a historical thing imho. Russia is pretty much defined by a model of growth against existential threats from outside aggressors. I think Siberia is pretty much the only place they took over without someone from there trying to raid their lands (and enslave their people) first and even then I don't really know.
Just as an example, the Crimean tartars burned down Moscow about 400+ years ago, which is why Crimea was some hundred+ years later conquered by Russia. Even having your capital burned down is nothing, really, in the scheme of things.
So this whole "lets scare those russkies with a couple dozen ATACMS!" is doubly retarded. You could literally wipe out all of Moscow from the face of the Earth and that will just make every single Russian determined forever to put eventual boots on the ground in Washington, like they did with Paris after Napoleon burned down Moscow.
The West defeated the USSR by being nice.
The idiot asshats running foreign policy these days decided it would be a good idea to do the opposite.
It's like you know those ornery fucks that are historically famous for tolerating any amount of pain and coming together to do whatever it takes to punish an aggressor? Lets aggro them to teach them a lesson.
GG, retards.
Seriously, be nice to Russia, leave them alone, it will probably fall apart by itself for lack of purpose.
Good. Shows their incompetence in trying to brainwash the masses as well as writing a story.
Paying for a show to spread the narrative when no one is actually watching the show is waste of money, and even Disney doesn't have infinite money. I hope they pay for 10 more seasons upfront, but probably not even Disney is retarded enough for that.
That's why they're $20 and on clearance sale.