It is. It has nothing of horror (I mean, as far as I know), it’s just a beast of a puzzle game, but the atmosphere is for some reason just very very unsettling.
There’s also a darkroom in it with photos of people with blurred faces. GET ME THE FUCK OUT, I NEED AN ADULT PLEASE HELP
Russia’s not making the decisions, Putin is. And Putin’s not trying to “win.” I’m sure it would have been nice, but the process is not victory, it is teaching the lesson that if anyone crosses him, even an entire country, he’ll fuck them up and no one will stop him. Same as the US in Vietnam or Nicaragua.
That’s why his proxies make such a big deal about how threatening it was for Ukraine to join NATO: He said they weren’t allowed, but they did anyway (or at least theoretically thought about it), so now he’s killing their children, their fathers and brothers. And in his apologists’ minds, that logic makes perfect sense. The question of whether Ukraine was “allowed” to make overtures to the West is relevant to them. The question of whether Putin was “allowed” is bizarre and contradictory. Of course he’s allowed. He can kill whoever he wants. It is the privilege.
In geopolitics as in personal interactions, his approach is not really a “winning” strategy. You will drive away friends and allies, pursue “victories” that cost you and the people close to you far more than anyone gains. just a miserable way to live. It “works,” in a way, if you’re used to terrible dangerous situations and have developed a kind of trauma response that means you have to hurt and destroy everyone around you so they don’t hurt you first, but it doesn’t even really “work” in the sense of keeping you safe. It’s a lot safer to have friends. Easier, too.
But that’s not what he did. So now he and about a million Russian soldiers are experiencing the result. He can’t stop, or he’ll look weak, but he also can’t win, so he just gets up every day and talks with people who unanimously lie to him, moves from place to place in identical set up offices so no one will figure out where he is and move in to kill him, obsesses over what happens to dictators who can’t stay on the horse. I’m sure he’s afraid. He knows history, he knows how this ends, but he’s boxed in now. Anywhere in the world he goes, anything he tries to do, he’ll always be scared about his food, scared about anything he drinks. He has to stay in the match, he has to keep getting up and trying again. He has to stay on top, no matter what, and he’s getting older, and the horse is bucking a little more with every year.
And, like poor Victor, he still has hell to look forward to.
This thing is never going to be completed. It’s going to be just as much of an extended failure prone clusterfuck that eventually gets moved on from, with nothing whatsoever to show for it in the end, as his health care plan or anything else.
Image link is busted, I think.
@nutomic@lemmy.ml IDK what the solution is. If someone tried to post an already-proxied URL to a server that’s configured to proxy images, and that was the breakage, then IDK, maybe the users just shouldn’t do that. But it also might be nice to detect an image proxied URL, de-proxy convert it, and then re-proxy it from the original un-proxied URL. Certainly the nested proxying of suppo.fi trying to proxy an image which lemmy.ml is proxying for Hexbear’s proxied image of the original image (which then doesn’t work, who knows why) kind of suggests that something has gone wrong in some way that might be worth looking into.
Releasing the grand jury materials was always a strawman.
“Release the materials seized from Epstein”
“Okay okay since I’m completely committed to transparency and definitely my name’s not all over Epstein’s documents in all kinds of incriminating ways I will release the grand jury materials! See? Full transparency. Just like you definitely asked for. Hopefully this brings the matter to a close.”
It’s an artful dodge, moderately effective so far at shifting the conversation.
The point is not to turn a profit. The point is to look like a winner who’s making big boy moves and thus justify your insane big boy salary. Investors losing money is someone else’s problem (especially since the ones of them who matter have taken trouble to insulate themselves from the worst of the damage when the bubble pops and everyone loses their jobs).
What a wonderful little creature
why isn’t the media talking about the murders of the fisherman for drug trafficking being tied to trump pardoning a drug trafficker in the same fucking week
Because they, too, are some bitches.
Hey you know, that’s a really good point. I’m sure that all the Lemmy posters that were super concerned about the plight of the struggling American family trying to put food on the table and that’s why they were concerned about rising prices and inflation before the election and why Biden was responsible for them would have had the maturity to refrained from saying WAAAAAAHHHHH THERE’S INFLATION WAAAAAHHH THERE’S INFLATION and not been bothered by the rail strike’s impact on the American economy and given him credit for sticking to his guns and Kamala Harris would have lost the election less hard because paralyzed rail shipping didn’t become an issue and they didn’t blame her for it. I’m sure that’s how it would have played out.
My own personal politics, I actually in all seriousness do agree with I think the average Lemmy POV that Biden should have let the rail strike happen, and if it hurts the American economy then oh fucking well you should have treated better the people who run the American economy. What he did was the break the strike, then had his refurbished NLRB keep working the issue after no one was paying attention and get the rail workers a lot of what they were asking for anyway, just in a way that didn’t paralyze American shipping. I get why he went at it that way. After all, people blamed the fuck out of him for inflation that wasn’t his fault, so presumably they would have been happy to blame him also for inflation that actually was his fault.
But IDK how you look at that, and all this sudden burst of union activity the last three years and the legal and logistical support that his suddenly functional NLRB was lending to it which the OP article talks about in such glowing terms without examining where any of it came from, and decide that of course Biden hates workers. Why do you think he hates workers? This is some creation science shit.
I seriously was looking for what was the catch, before I saw that it wasn’t him that posted this one lol
Why on earth do people keep writing about KOSA and friends as if they were kids’ safety bills
They are surveillance bills. The kids’ safety stuff (to the extent they even had them) has been disabled from the start or amended out of them at this point. It’s genuinely weird to me that “journalists” are taking seriously the idea that they are kids’ safety bills and putting that in their stories, this isn’t the first one I’ve seen that does that.
Here’s a reminder of how that happened (under Biden, too).
Biden arguably broke the law with how quick he got rid of Trump’s horrendous NLRB pick and replaced him with someone actually good for labor (your link touches on that, search for “in the last 3 years, union petitions have doubled because” and then do the math about what happened a little over 3 years ago that might have led to different leadership at the NLRB). The Republicans fought it tooth and nail, and they kind of had a point, but anyway he made it stick and the NLRB has actually been doing good work for a while.
Anyway, after that happened a whole bunch of leftist voters looked at the choices on offer in the last presidential election and said WAAAAAAHHHHH NOT LEFT ENOUGH NOT LEFT ENOUGH and stayed home, and so a lot of Biden’s improvement-finally on these issues is now being undone and then some. Bernie Sanders is 100% correct as far as the uselessness of most of congress on all of this and the Democrats’ absolute unforced fuck-up / unforced gift to corporate America (either is possible to me, they’re both 100% on brand).
The part that is confused to me is that you guys actually had someone in office who did care about fixing this actual exact specific issue, and did, and you responded by fucking hating him and complaining about him constantly and also blaming his successor for everything he did wrong and now all of a sudden you’re aware of the NLRB and that it is important and upset that the Democrats are dogshit about supporting it. Which… I mean, yes, the NLRB is fucked now, and also the center-right Democrats in congress have their way paved to not have to get any better in order to win elections because everyone hates the Republicans now. Good job. Well done. On that as well as many other things which are ten times worse now. Excellent.
No! Stay and talk with them and make them ban you for saying reasonable things! And then whine about it!
(I am joking, anyone can do what they want, I’m just saying my preferred solution.)
Bro who the FUCK on Lemmy was upset about pulling out of Afghanistan lmao
These people live in bizarro world
(For what it’s worth, I think pulling out of Afghanistan was a clusterfuck, because it was always going to be a clusterfuck because that’s what happens when you pull out in the middle of a war. Maybe Biden made it worse in certain ways, maybe Trump tied his hands with certain elements of the deal he made with the Taliban, I honestly don’t really know. But regardless, the fact that it was a clusterfuck and did a bunch of damage in the way it was handled and made everyone involved look like morons should always have been an expected part of the proposition of pulling out, which is why no one up until Biden was willing to take the hit to pull the trigger on it and preferred just to keep killing Afghans indefinitely.)
My guy you haven’t been ready for war with Ukraine
Yeah. The other thing that I think is going on is that every time OP weighs in on domestic US politics, it’s always to criticize the most left person or the person speaking up about left issues in US politics. He hates Mamdani, Bernie, and AOC, and constantly talks about how they’re traitors to the Palestinians and anyone who supports anything good in the world should never support them and they are liars.
I suspect that introducing “anyone who wants to criticize this boat strike” thing into that category of people who are hypocrites, liars, enemies, the worst thing in the world, and we 100% shouldn’t support them and fuck you if you do want to talk about it being a war crime, is being done for reasons that are somewhat different than deep and profound concern for Venezuelan fishermen. Because it makes just about as little sense as does protecting the Palestinians by attacking Bernie Sanders.
Guy… nobody outside Trump’s immediate circle was cheering the boat strikes in the first place. People are just talking now about this new more egregious and obvious war crime aspect instead of the war crime aspect they were talking about previously.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/06/politics/venezuela-boat-strike-trump-legality
Why is it always this wild cartoonish bullshit with you guys lol
Honestly, Librewolf is pretty functional. It used to break all kinds of stuff, but now it’s just a couple of sites with fingerprint protection issues, and there’s a couple-of-clicks way to disable the strict fingerprint protection on any site you care about where it’s causing problems.
/r/thanksihateit
There’s a reason for that. Certain framings resonate well, and especially if they are synced up with how the target audience likes to view things anyway and who their “good guys” and “bad guys” tend to be. It’s just a matter of plugging the right people and situations into the powerful framings and then repeating the construction from a wide variety of sources. It’s like turnkey social engineering. It works incredibly well when it is done at a big scale.
Some examples:
And so on. None of this has anything to do with reality. A person who was starting from first principles would never reach those conclusions, since they are precisely literally the opposite of what happened. And, if you press the people pushing them for details, they’ll always fall back on basically the exact same individual anecdote or thought-pattern to support the backwards-land conclusion and push really really hard on that one anecdote. They are always super confident and pushy about the conclusions.
Supporting anecdote examples:
I can’t continue, I am getting genuinely annoyed lol. But anyway. There are other examples, they went all-out coming up with new ones of these leading up to the 2024 election and deployed a handful of pretty effective ones against Democrats. But those are the ones I currently see in active rotation.