I did a Sweet 16 bracket elimination contest for regional IPAs a few years back just to force myself to identify the ‘good’ ones and eliminate bad ones. Even after doing that, I do a little dance any time there’s something else available.
yeah TBH I barely drink beer at all anymore because finding beers I like has gotten to be such a chore.
There’s some IPA’s I like but I don’t like drinking nothing but IPA’s every time I drink beer. And pretty much the only “mainstream” beer I spend money on is Modelo, but again, if I drink nothing but that all the time after a while I start to get tired of it.
It’s this picture real? What the hell is the context for this guy to take a picture like that?
He’s got to trolling everyone, acting like he’s extremely creepy as a joke.
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Corporations made bank off their labor and gave them fuck-all. Because of course, streaming is different from TV or movies, on account of mumble mumble mumble, so decades of negotiation can go pound sand.
People will be training AI on their ex’s face to show how unhinged they are. Anyone could make pictures for divorce or custody battles that depict the other party like this.
And if they dismiss it as AI that’s a whole other problem. Actual pictures will mean nothing.
It would almost give me heart attack, lf I were to see Zuckerberg staring me from my kitchen window like that. And not just because my kitchen doesn’t have a window!
The name changed, the number of satellite republics changed. The religion really didn’t change that much other than the orthodox Catholic Church being able to show back up without getting executed. The state held properties got bought up by oligarchs so that’s a little different from traditional fascism where private companies are controlled by the government and vice versa. In the current case the oligarchs tremble in fear so the traditional ties between private companies and government that one finds and fascism doesn’t really work in this situation. So calling it both fascist and a theocracy isn’t in keeping with the traditional meaning of either word. It’s like calling a Tesla a horseless carriage. A lot is different from what that originally meant.
The religion really didn’t change that much other than the orthodox Catholic Church being able to show back up without getting executed.
Nonsense. The orthodox Church is as big a power in Russian politics as it was in Tsarist times. They pretty much control the social policy of Russia. For example, the draconian anti-LGBTQ+ laws are, if not religiously motivated, at the very least using religiously based arguments to justify the bigotry. That’s a far fucking cry from “show up without getting executed”!
The state held properties got bought up by oligarchs so that’s a little different from traditional fascism where private companies are controlled by the government and vice versa.
Nope, oligarchic capitalism is very much a pillar of modern fascism. Same in Putin’s Russia as it was in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
In the current case the oligarchs tremble in fear so the traditional ties between private companies and government that one finds and fascism doesn’t really work in this situation.
Couldn’t be further from the truth. The oligarchs (along with the church) are the power base of Putin, gaslighting the public and keeping him in power no matter how much he abuses the people. Far from trembling in fear, they’re living in a malevolent symbiosis with Putin’s government.
So calling it both fascist and a theocracy isn’t in keeping with the traditional meaning of either word
Yeah, it is. I’ve already explained the theocratic element and, other than oligarchs playing a different role, it’s fascism as it always has been.
In conclusion, you’re talking absolute bullshit and should really learn more about reality before you make assumptions that are completely divorced from it.
Oh. I see, you live in a reality that’s 25% different. And you happen to be so rude that you can’t find ways to educate anyone on anything because you are too busy insulting them for them to even take you seriously.
No, I live in the real world and I DID just educate you. My mocking tone is entirely appropriate given your arrogant assertions of nonsense about well-known facts concerning a major world power. It’s not my fault that the truth perplexes and offends you.
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