space_comrade [he/him]

“Vets shouldn’t be advising owners to stop birds doing this unless it’s obviously caused a chronic problem like a prolapse, but that’s the absolute minority of cases,”

Probably Run To The Hills, the riffs are catchy and the lyrics go hard.

Bruce Dickinson is a goddamned Brexiteer piece of shit

Wait really? I always thought he was a generic lib politically.

Sure, there are also reasons for why some people don’t like the taste of beer, doesn’t mean we have to hem and haw about it endlessly.

All these factors point to a human population that will decrease maybe rather rapidly in the second half of the 21st century. And this will continue until we fix the problems and reach an equilibrium, or face whatever the alternative prospect holds.

Maybe this is fine actually? Why should the human population increase indefinitely? I think a healthy, well governed world society could work with 1, 2, 5 or 10 billion people alive, the only reason governments want more kids today is because the global market economy is a ponzi scheme that can’t survive without an ever increasing pool of workers.

How is saying individuals have preferences about living their life reactionary? The reactionary part here is psychoanalyzing people that don’t want kids and trying to fix it, maybe just leave them be? There are a lot of people that would like to have kids in better material conditions and will explicitly tell you that in pretty much those words, why not just take people at their word when they say they don’t want kids?

If you did the same kind of psychoanalyzing to queer people and try to adjust their material conditions so they stop being queer you’d be called out for it but this is somehow fine.

Not a bad idea but I think reloading it is gonna be a pain, if you don’t get the drone before you blow your entire load you’re pretty much gone.

Developing countries need to invest large amounts of resources into greening the concrete jungles.

Is that even feasible? What trees are gonna live through regular 45+ temperatures?

I get that this is a catchy one liner but it always felt like reactionary bullshit. In fact I don’t think you need to psychologically damage people a lot at all for them to not want kids.

Personally I just straight up don’t want to, it isn’t about the money, it isn’t (at least not exclusively) about climate change, it just does not interest me at all.

One of them, he and his partner i think she said met a month ago or something ridiculous? married and trying for a kid

Oh boy, those poor kids

They are shitty cigarettes though

Huh I’ve heard Chinese cigarettes are actually pretty good, must be a lot of variation in quality.

I don’t think you need to integrate Marxism so deeply into your ontology if you want to be an effective communist.

Personally I’m not religious but after diving deeply into some philosophical matters I’ve decided I can’t really call myself a materialist anymore, at least not in the deep ontological sense. This doesn’t mean I can’t accept that Marxism is the best tool we have for analyzing and, hopefully in the near future, shaping society to be more prosperous, more free, and more harmonious for all people no matter their beliefs.

MM spends the early parts of the series dressed in black panther/Malcolm x/black power fist labelled clothing and making both allusions to systemic oppression in conversation (Including outright calling Mallory out on the crack epidemic), and having his backstory be one rooted in capitalist exploitation and systemic discrimination is the thing. They just don’t do anything with it beyond have him not like Stan Edgar.

Also in the literal last episode they call billionaires the “ruling class” explicitly in that White House scene where Homelander meets fake TV show Elon Musk, but uh I guess they can just keep being the ruling class as long as Homelander is dead.

This is almost certainly a 16 year old child.

Eh you’re right but honestly I don’t really care about wonky writing when it comes to this show, clearly it was never meant to be a super serious piece of TV entertainment. I just enjoy the raunchy jokes and don’t think too hard about any of it.

It got my GPU completely wrong tho, it showed it was many generations older than it really is.

If you can’t handle me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best

• I.V. Stalin

Eh corruption and nepotism definitely existed in socialist states too and probably always will to some extent, I just think the damage done by corruption pales in comparison to the systemic damage capitalism in general does.

Overfocusing on corruption as one of the biggest problems in society is a liberal narrative because they’re incapable of thinking holistically about the entire system.

Human to human transmission is still considered quite rare tho, no? Hopefully it didn’t mutate to be more contagious.

Season 2 definitely felt weaker than Season 1, Robby pissing and moaning about how hard he has it was kinda obnoxious.