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  • Africom - ? this is the only missing one

    It's Kenya, Uganda, and/or Rwanda IMHO.

    It can't be an African country that's part of Francafrique, and North Africa is usually lumped in together with West Asia. South Africa and Ethiopia are part of BRICS, so they're out. The DRC is a country imperialists are plundering for its rich resources, so it's not a base of operations either. A few African countries like Somalia (?) are under the umbrella of UAE subimperialism, so they aren't good candidates either. Nigeria is a bit too big to fully control, and it borders Francafrique and the AES.

    Meanwhile, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda are all former Anglo colonies, they border/are close to the DRC, and they are all very friendly with the US. This map says a lot.

  • But can you do this

  • Imagine if Harry Potter was written in such a way that they represent opposing ruling classes with Voldemort representing the feudal aristocracy of the ancien regime and the other character (I forgot her name) representing the bourgeoisie that overthrew the feudal wizards in order to enact a magical dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Voldermort should've been some larping fascist who seethes whenever he's called a wizard instead of a magus.

  • I always thought "The Simpsons got too preachy" coincided when Swartzwelder left the show.

  • They also trashed solar lol

  • Wait, is his head really that small?

  • That just sounds like a well-adjusted person who's most likely good with kids.

  • I don't even get their gripe from this particular screenshot. She's dressed rather modestly, so they can't cry about that. They just don't like how she has white makeup?

  • It reeks of "Christianity was awesome until Paul/Augustine/Constantine the Great/Leo IX/Martin Luther/John Calvin ruined Christianity forever."

  • I'm just calling the tourist a casual who would have their ass handed to them if they tried playing the original WADs and that the bar where the OG Doom community considers you decent as Doom (beating the Plutonia Experiment on Ultra-Violence) is far higher than what the reboot has to offer. There's also bullshit like E4M1 from Ultimate Doom where you get dumped in a level full of hitscanners with no real health pickup.

    Of course, there's nothing wrong with that. The Plutonia Experiment was developed by two brother mappers who purposely made it harder by the standards of the burgeoning Doom community at the time while the reboot is a AAA game tailored towards a mass audience. E4M1 didn't have the health pickups because id fucked up and flagged the health pickups to only show up for multiplayer.

    OG Doom is a fucking hard game, especially when you factor in Nightmare difficulty. Meanwhile, this loser tourist is crying about the reboot being too easy while OG Doom is right fucking there.

  • crying about the reboot for being too casual

    I bet you the tourist can't even beat Plutonia on Hurt Me Plenty.

  • The entire reboot is for casuals. The git gud crowd is doing pistol-start UVMAX runs of Plutonia.

  • Too bad it didn't have anyone who gave a fuck about Moroccans still colonized by the Spanish, leading to Franco steamrolling them with Moroccan colonial troops who thought they would get a better deal under Franco than the Spanish Republic.

  • King of the Hill is a lot more steeped in US culture. For example, Dale Gribble is pretty much an archetypal right-wing conspiracy nut, to quote one of the writers. The right-wing conspiracy nut is a particular US character, and his version is the 90s version that is pro-gun, obsessed with UFOs, thinks the government is spying on him, and gets away with paying taxes to stick it to the Man. They got politicized through Ruby Ridge and Waco. If you're familiar with the X-Files or Deus Ex, they are a good intro into the mindspace of the average conspiracy theorist from the 90s albeit with far less racism.

    Modern right-wing conspiracy theorist is Qanon/Alex Jones bullshit. It's a pretty different vibe from the 90s version that Dale represents. His modern counterpart is like sovereign citizens.

  • Judge got away with reviving Beavis and Butthead twice. He truly cracked the formula.

  • as for taiwan, the us recently sent literal billions in weapons and some taiwanese politicians are already openly talking about not turning into an ukraine situation with those, which means there might be significant popular support for that idea. they are constantly provoking. not to mention the "military exercises" they like to do in the region.

    Weapons send to Taiwan are mostly a grift. It goes back to US foreign policy of never fully committing to sending actually useful weapons to Taiwan because of the belief that Taiwan can always "flip" back to the Mainland and hand over said weapons to the PLA. It's because of this that Chiang Kai-Shek got shitty hand-me-down weapons, but at least he got them for free and those shitty hand-me-down weapons were still better than what the PLA had at the time. Lai is no Chiang. He's still getting shitty hand-me-down weapon platforms, but now he has to pay a premium.

  • If they had been less sinophobic, less russophobic, less zionist and pushed back more against the USA to guarantee Minsk 1 & 2 and the JCPOA then none of this would be happening, but everytime Israel/the USA commit barbarous and perfidious acts, they are always there to cover for them and side with them reflexively.

    There is no conceivable geopolitical benefit for the EU to entertain notions of Taiwanese separatism or any other anti-Chinese talking point like the US. Absolutely nobody in Taiwan thinks the EU will help them, and I seriously doubt your average Euro could tell Asians apart anyways. They don't even lost out that much relative to the US once China becomes a hegemonic power. At least Australia gets the excuse that they're geographically close to China when the EU doesn't even have that.

    But apparently the European brainpan can do nothing but seethe that they are being eclipsed by Asian countries they still think inferior despite being Asians themselves. The thought of being Asian is so revolting that they would rather larp as living on some fake continent and be pushed around by a bunch of even faker settler-colonial societies.

  • Then I don't see how a move towards European sovereignty is a thing. I think certain European countries like France are trying to decouple, but for every France, there is a Lithuania and a Kosovo and a Germany that are completely invested in the Burgerlander imperialist project at the expense of Europeans, both worker and capitalist. To really challenge the US, the EU has to still exist. France doing its own thing and Spain refusing to fully cooperate genociding Palestinians while the former Dutch prime minister sucks up to Trump by calling him daddy just weakens EU unity. Ideally, the US wants the entirety of Europe as a vassal, but it could live with a fractured Europe with enough vassals to make sure that Europe can never reunite. At bare minimum, they can count on Germany, the UK, the Baltics, and Kosovo as loyal vassals and can probably rely on the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Poland as well. That's already a huge chunk of Europe.

  • Europe should've cozied up with China if they feel like cozying up with Russia is politically untenable and geopolitically unsound. But Europe and Europeans are far too Sinophobic, so they can look forward to further vassaldom by the US.

  • I vote that accusations of AI slop should be decided through trial by combat.

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  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Jewish Zionist: Jews are better than them non-Jews. Christian Zionist: Jews are better than us non-Jews.

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    MyLovely.AI Data Breach Exposes Private Content of Over 106,000 Users

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  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    "The crybaby Stalinist is a whole new anthropological type."

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    New AI tool gets demoed on Fedora with predictably poor results

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    I sleep in a racing car with my hot AI girlfriend. Do you??????

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    Utroba Cave

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