People tend to forget just how hard the propaganda machine was swinging then. Remember freedom fries? And how the start of the war was timed for primetime television?

“It happened, therefore it can happen again.” – Primo Levi

Saw this written on a plaque at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin and it really gave me pause, reflecting on what is happening all around the world right now.

I’m sure you looked fabulous 👌

Keep your archdukes safe!

I’d argue that’s the outcome or survivorship bias, where people focus on the one winner or that time a thing worked and ignoring all the other failures. E.g. people think investors all swim in money because they only see the warren buffets of the world, when in reality there’s thousands, millions of people who tried the almost exact same thing and lost some or all of their savings in bad investments.

Gamma ray bursts

The germans invading

Electrified bodies/puddles of water

Yknow, the usual stuff kids are afraid of…

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I am braindead

Ok got it

Kick the frog!

Implying that they wouldn’t already control 99.999999999% of the wealth by then and had lobbied to make any private property, except their own, illegal

“Pardon my cacography” sure has a better ring to it than, “can you read this?”

This entire thread is giving me impostor syndrome

Mr X to the Z Xzibit

Don’t forget about privatising British Rail, turning one of the best rail systems in the world into complete shambles

Neither is it on social media anymore, it’s all just dick measuring, scams, MLMs, attention seeking and hating on outgroups now.

Women are you doing a clearance thing to me first thing in your position to be done in a few weeks to ensure the work is carried away and the offer will not work out.

Uhhh…

Why did this read like a Trump speech…

I must’ve played a ton of trash games that I purged from my memory, but one notable one that comes to mind is Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. The game was super highly anticipated and hyped and I was a massive C&C fan before, only to be completely disappointed by this massive turd that they shat on this genre defining franchise. The revolutionary “physics” did nothing to the game play, the main story was maybe a total of 4 hours and it was just buggy as fuck with the AI pathfinding being incredibly bad and somehow worse than the predecessors or the main other RTSs of the time.

I read the whole series and somehow missed this, I did chalk up a lot of things to “must be a chinese cultural thing”, like the whole idea of all nations actually working together or globally banning “escapism” and just suspended my disbelief, so maybe I glossed over that bit as well. Is there a good article that dives into this?

E: Found this article, that goes into it as well as other issues, well worth a read

It exists in real life too