Oh, yes, then I would be very angry.

That’s actually a really good point. Interesting games tend to make me read books. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t at least a social democrat, but reading definitely pushed me over the line to the actual left.

I’m not sure about the angry part (I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be angry about in this context), but I’m a lifelong gamer, and I’m here. The circles I inhabit tend to be fairly progressive, usually pretty liberal, but occasionally actually leftist. I don’t usually feel unsafe hoisting the red flag in my groups, so perhaps I am part of a pipeline to the left.

I don’t do twitch or youtubers, so I haven’t really noticed much of a pipeline to the right. But I do occasionally see nonsense about random games being “woke” for insane reasons, so I am vaguely aware of their existence. It’s just not a crowd I associate with.

But why do all that when you can eliminate melanin instead?

I’m not Ukranian, but this deal sounds pretty frickin nice. I would like my country to accept these terms without a war with Russia.

It was a dark day. And it’s only gotten worse.

It is fictional, but based on real people and events. I would compare it something like Peaky Blinders, which I thought was a pretty decent representation of Victorian England and the gangs of the time. I thought Minning Town was a pretty good representation of what the CPC is all about, and an example of what a currently existing communist country can be like.

Glad to help! It’s honestly a little heartbreaking when watching it, knowing what happens just a few years later, but it’s still a great watch.

Another one I might suggest is “Minning Town”. It’s a Chinese TV Drama about their poverty alleviation efforts for the Hui people in Ningxia. It’s a legitimately great show, and covers a lot of aspects of communist society. It focuses on internal workings and ideals of the communist party, and a slice of life for the Hui minority. It’s also available on YouTube, although the subtitles can be a little sketchy.

I know you said you aren’t interested in historical content, but I would like to recommend “The Human Face of Russia”, which was a documentary produced by the BBC in 1984. They travel throughout the Soviet Union and speak to people about their daily lives in the context of a communist society. It’s easily found on YouTube.

Indigenous peoples are formally involved in the governance of unceded territories across Canada, including in densely populated areas.

Oh Canada. Your home and not native land. I do find it amazing that they implicitly admitted that we are not in control of our own land though, and actually came out and said that it would be very bad if we did.

I believe that suicide is no longer an option for me as I want to fulfill my purpose in this life and see the capitalist system finally fall apart.

Good. We need living comrades. The light at the end of the tunnel is the day that you move out. Keep the faith, keep working towards that, and one day you will never be under their power again.

Link to the full document is at the bottom of this summary. It’s nothing too terribly surprising, but it’s accurate and a good read.

I don’t think that the dishonesty and hypocrisy is actually lost on them. The difference is that the US is always the “Good Guy”, and whatever enemy of the moment is the “Bad Guy”. When the bad guy does it, it’s because they only do bad things. When the good guy does it, it’s because they had no choice. It also makes it easy to just make up whatever you want about the bad guy, such as this garbage, even when they’re actually doing what they claim the bad guy is doing.

It’s because the free press told them that it was very justified and the only reasonable option.

My sister can pass for Japanese. She doesn’t dissuade people from thinking this, as natives are not well loved where she lives. It’s a hellhole.

(She also has taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and claims there’s no racism there while simultaneously doing this… But that’s another story).

I’ve read a whole lot of US history last year. I’ve never seen the country in this big of a public debacle before. They’ve usually been pretty good about making dissent quietly disappear. But they’re spinning so many plates right now, and the cracks in their “good guy” facade are just growing deeper and deeper. It really makes me wonder if this is what’s going to finally break their back. More and more people are waking up to the reality that they’ve lived their whole lives in the worst kind of propaganda. Something’s gotta give. I think Vietnam was the closest we’ve seen to this, and it was just one war. Now the US faces trying to start shit with China, fighting a proxy war with Russia, and somehow coming up with a way of demonising Palestine and Iran. Their propaganda machine is failing quite badly.

I’m so tired.

Unless you’re blonde or going grey. I really wish I’d gotten started earlier in life, but I’d already started going grey when I did laser. The laser got most of it, but I had to finish with electro. Much more costly, painful, and time consuming, but effective on all hair.

This is what I wanted to say. Googling is a skill. I work professionally as a programmer, and have for decades. A good chunk of my job even now is searching docs or the internet for the answers to my troubles. If a CS student can’t do that, they’re going to have a bad time.

Also, just want to say that apparently I’m rubbing some people the wrong way here (maybe you even), but it’s nice to be able to have a civil conversation anyway, and just take a few downvotes instead of getting raked over the coals every time I post and eventually banned. =)

Peace be with you. I’m tired, a bit depressed, and I spent 6 hours writing posts for my comm today. I just want to go have a few drinks and go to bed, so I’m going to abandon this conversation. Sorry if I offended anyone with my lack of understanding.