Ironically that's the same way it is in the US itself with large swathes of the population still holding the Confederacy in high regard, though at the moment most of those types are fairly placated with the naked unapologetic fascism of the current admin.
Liberals fear fascism for a different reason then socialists, they are worried that the government will lie, seize and walk away with their investments however they see fit to pursue their nationalistic/monopolistic aims, hence the obsession with "Rule of Law". They want their guarantees that they are included and protected in the capitalist umbrella, working class suffering is a non-factor.
Yeah I took one look at Civ 7 and immediately said nope. Automatically turning into an entirely different Civ with each age by itself sounds awful (especially with Native American civs turning into USA...what?). It think it speaks volumes that Civ 5, which released in 2010, is right now still holding twice the number of concurrent players on Steam that Civ 7 has.
It's enough for them just to weaken Iran, fracture it or at the very minimum destroy their oil facilities to deprive China but also other countries in general of another oil trading partner and thereby increasing their subservience to the US. They want to pave the way for Israel's eventual Manifest Destiny of the middle east and Iran currently stands as the only powerful middle eastern nation that isn't a collaborator regime.
Yeah anyone on the American right criticizing Iran for being a theocracy is completely full of shit. They'll cry crocodile tears for protestors in Iran and then immediately 180 to saying that ICE protestors at home should be forcefully thrown into camps and yell to the top of their lungs about how America is a CHRISTIAN NATION.
I think it can heavily depend which exact place you work at, I worked at a place assembling cardboard products and it was extremely chill and respectful, would still be doing it if I wasn't forced to quit due to moving. Meanwhile, I've also worked shortly in a plastic factory where I felt like I was inside a Nazi labor camp. Rude micromanagement, machines set to inhuman speeds, no phones or anything allowed, no going to your car at lunch, carcinogenic fumes and particles everywhere, ruthless firing of sick employees, shifts that can exceed 14 hours if there is a meeting, using and hiring active prisoners with crimes like assault and treating everyone at that level, people frequently losing fingers due to equipment failures, etc.
In the absolute most simple explanation possible I can give:
Non-fiat= Currency that can be directly translated to a certain universally valuable good at anytime (i.e. gold, silver), either through reserves or the money itself being made of said material (coins). The concrete measure of wealth helps gives investors and whoever else confidence that your government won't go bankrupt.
Fiat= Currency that's worth something because the government says it is. Look at us, we are big, our military is strong, don't you trust we will always be powerful, wealthy and stable? You better or else we send that military after you if you put our financial solvency into question. Notably used by the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the US today.
Yeah, Israel will definitely lend a hand, that's for sure. Kill more Syrians and annex more Syrian land under the pretext of fighting Islamic terrorists, why not. It's so convenient in fact that one might even think that Israel helped create the Jihadists in the first place.
Rojava is a western pawn the tankies said, they along with Syria as a whole will be abandoned and left to rot once Assad is gone the tankies said.
Yes, we fucking did. Now the area can comfortably enjoy Al-Qaeda/ISIS rule instead, at least until all of Syria is eventually annexed and ethnically cleansed by either Israel or Turkey anyway.
I mean, hating Israel aside, you only need to look at the Lex Luthor level stuff they pulled off with like placing explosives into pagers during their manufacturing process and having them all go off at once to understand why "Israeli cybersecurity software" is an oxymoron.
I grabbed a 16GB VRAM edition 4060Ti and 48 GB of RAM back in 2024 right before prices exploded and it was one of my best decisions. I have a PS5 but it's just collecting dust because I'd much rather be able to do everything in one place, not to mention the majority I'm interested in playing are either indie of strategy type games that aren't on the PS5 anyway. But yeah the current situation sucks, it's clear big companies are planning to choke people out of PC ownership so they can eventually force people into cloud based computing where they can charge ridiculous subscription fees and leave people completely powerless.
It's the exact same as what has been happening in the housing market where real estate companies have been buying up homes on mass and forcing people into rentership. Consoles are also being negatively effected because they use same RAM and GPUs that are are being strangled.
It also doesn't help that Europe heavily played up the "territorial integrity" argument to justify why they so staunchly support Ukraine and oppose Russia. Of course, shameless hypocrisy is nothing new for them, but it's still a terrible look politically.
I always assumed it meant someone who advocates for a romantic relationship between two fictional characters, or makes fanfic of it. For example "shipping" Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 with Aerith or shipping him with Tifa.
I think Facebook is proof that an online existence doesn't necessarily need to be anonymous in order to be unhealthy.