Basman

Sentiment that could skew in an authoritarian direction isn't uncommon, like expressing distrust in democracy and economic insecurity. Trump does acknowledge genuine societal issues that technocratic governments don't by virtue of these issue being systemic, but his solutions are simplistic sound bites that essentially amount to scape goating and are ultimately directed by whatever mood he is in as opposed to any principle grounded in politics. Trump will only make things worse while blaming his opponents for everything. Like how the US government is propping up AI to hedge against a recession because it is the only growing sector. Trump doesn't want a recession while he is in term and therefor plans to illegally bail out OpenAI from all the debts they can't pay. He'll be out of office by the time the recession hits if he doesn't succeed at becoming dictator. Then he'll blame the then president for the recession like he blamed Joe Biden for the economic downturn post-covid. That's my analysis at least. Trump hates looking incompetent. He literally cannot take advice, like with the tariff debacle. No one could tell him that it was a stupid idea from head to toe. He would literally be richer if he had just invested his stocks into index funds and did nothing instead of trying to build a bunch of businesses. It's all about image for him. Rant over.

It will remove a politician from the game, and if that politician is for example an authoritarian then you will have less authoritarianism in your politics. But it is undemocratic and uninstitutional. Your undermining the entire game of representative democracy when you start killing your rivals. If you normalize the killing of political leaders in general you create an environment where political control is a matter of physical survival, which reduces a country's options for constructive action. You can't have checks and balances if divided power is physically dangerous.

MAGA cultist brainrot. "My dad gave your dad money 80 years ago and I want it back now."

According to Anders Nielsen, the Trump regime wants create a new world order where the world is split into three spheres of influence. The Americas for the US, Asia for China and Europe for Russia. A new era of imperialism. Trump is envisioning the end game of the authoritarian movement, where he is part of an exclusive club of world leaders in an order where superpowers are free to dominate smaller countries.

People probably latched unto the theory because it does speak to a certain dynamic that people recognize even though it's unscientific.

I'd add closing of loop holes that skirt around taxation by technicality. Like what Elon Musk is doing by being paid in stocks and borrowing money. Foodora left Australia without paying the workers the wages they where owed. Internationals shouldn't be barred from running their business in one country if they don't live up to their legal obligations in another country through an international coalition. The government needs to have corporations under control and not the other way around. There's too much corruption politically and a lack of political will to regulate big corporations. One thing that China does right is that they are a sovereign power over their corporation.

Now Trump has a track record. You think he'll invade Greenland as well as he said he would? And how is Europe going to react, since Greenland is technically part of NATO via Denmark? If he invades I have feeling that Europe is just going to roll over while meekly complaining.

Violet Evergarden is an anime that insists upon itself. Gas station cry bait.

The new-Age therapy speak is crazy.

Each stage builds on each other like a flight of stairs. You miss one step and your staircase lacks the structural integrity to take you to heaven.

Higher stages are functionally superior in terms of being effective societies. The higher the stage, the more technology and resources a society has, both in terms of raw materials and institutionally (knowledge, skilled workers, etc.) Something like Sillicone Valley is an indispensible resource for technological innovation unique to stage orange development. Lower stages can't create a resource like sillicone valley or NASA. Actualized is a resource that couldn't happen in a less developed country. Case in point, would you rather live in Norway or Sudan?

It's a common but mistaken criticism of spiral dynamics that it is about superiority. It's just a map of cultural and moral development. It's descriptive, not judgemental.

Damn. Exposed.

I always knew that academia doesn't have monopoly on what constitutes philosophy. Nothing stops you from just contemplating stuff. Jumping through their hoops is just groupthink.

Is it an issue of porn or extreme luxury? People average spend more time doom scrolling, streaming series and playing video games than watching porn, but you don't see the same energy for non-porn media consumtion because a certain part of our culture still sees sex as dirty and taboo to indulge in over a certain point. Porn addiction isn't an actual thing. It's more like a compulsion likely rooted in depression, loneliness, boredom, habit, etc. Why do you doomscroll excessively? Because its easy and your life is not that interesting. Same goes for gooning.

In a primitive world, each tribe is a society in of themselves and abusing the members of a different society can benefit pragmatically because only your standing in your society matters. You can literally hunt and eat the children of a rival tribe like animals and your tribesmen will cheer you on (which has literally happened). As we become more intertwined due to technological and cultural development and we rely on different nations for trade, we start to gradually become more like one big society. We might not see another truly seperate society till if we meet an alien culture. Then its hats off again. Maybe like the movie Avatar.

What really killed RDR2 for me is just how simple the gameplay is. There's next to no decision making present. It's a game made for people who don't play games. I don't mind slowness if it's interesting. The game was too slow and clunky and the story was uninteresting. I already know the story from YT and it's more about character development than anything else, but character development moments felt like NPCs bugging me while I'm trying to do shit. I've been playing a lot of Tarkov this holiday. Already logged 20 hours. You can spend 20-30 minutes wandering a wasteland, not seeing a soul, but your constantly making minor and major decision. You could die in less than a second and lose all your gear. Combined with the detailed mechanics, it has sometimes an overwhelming amount of depth and tension. Probably the most hardcore shooter on the market.

Incel terminology is pretty funny when you don't take it seriously.

One Piece and Red Dead fans are the same breed of fanboy goblin. They are the swifties/k-pop fans of their respective media.

Your not dealing with a different society in your every day. Within your own society we operate on trust. Law and order only exists for those governed by a sovereign power (IE. the government), but there is no sovereign power governing the governments. Between societies reigns the law of the jungle, IE. a zero-sum game. But survival is increasingly intertwined in the modern world, so you can no longer get away with acting like a barbarian like you could in the past. The externalities of a zero-sum approach are too costly these days.

"It gets good after 400 episodes bro, trust."

Sex negativity is more damaging than sex positivity. Historically, people are going to have sex regardless of how repressive a culture is, they'll just won't be open about it. They make up weird loop holes, like it is only sex if its vaginal. You can facefuck a girl till she vomits but she's still a kosher and halal unsullied and pure virgin.

Showing your age.

To put this in other terms, the game starts in the post-peak valley of the first story arc. It makes sense to calm down the story and let the drama of the previous peak settle, the boat heist, and slowly build up for the next arc. But it doesn't make any sense to start the game there. It's obviously bad writing to start a story in the middle of a story.