The NCR in New Vegas is clearly a nation overtaken by oligarchs deteriorating because they are slowly hollowing out the wealth of the nation.
Their whole lore is being founded as a “commie” republic, but by the time of New Vegas the Brahmin Barons took over, because of the republic part of it.
Our only hope re: global warming is to live increasingly in large dense cities. They are just more efficient energetically and financially. Spreading out in smaller enclaves is too costly for the world.
Crazy how incompetent these people are. Come on you have EIGHT HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. Just go skydiving, do a bunch of ultra pure MDMA at a festival, pay David Hockney to teach you how to paint, go on a safari, spend a week with a tribe doing ayahuasca….
Well Marx already talked about this. Capital is like a shark, if it stops swimming (accumulating), it dies. And capitalists are the physical embodiment of the system, its avatars. They aren’t individual “people” anymore, just vessels for capital. Their desires and ideology become perfectly aligned with the mechanics of capital.
Maybe the conspiracies of Bill Gates going to India and Pakistan to give fake vaccines to poor women that actually made them infertile are not that crazy after all huh?
Funny how we’ve been portraying the parasite class as vampires or satanic baby eaters for literal thousands of years now… like we all knew about it all along, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to believe it consciously.
Foreign policy and trade in China was controlled by neolibs since Deng took power. Only in the most recent Xi years have the neolibs been taken out. We’ll see a very different China foreign policy-wise in the next few years.
They will never feel bad or regret it at all. Their moral system is completely different from ours.
They see things in a matter of Strong vs. Weak. To be Strong is good, to be Weak is evil.
The things they do show how Strong they are. And the things we suffer, and our incapability of doing anything about their deeds, show how Weak we are.
They have nothing but contempt and hate for us. They see themselves as superior, post-human, almost divine. God doesn’t fret the lives he takes, the sacrifices he demands, the suffering he causes.
Ask for the mirror