[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Who gets free helicopter rides? who-must-go

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

i'm finding that after Mohg, this area is a relaxing introduction, and I think a lot of underlevelled newbs that just beat Mohg after 3 hours because they rolled three crits in a row are going to enjoy that respite.

Also as someone who enjoys the lore I like being able to get a sense of where and when the setting is (mostly pre-early crucible era dancing beast architecture as expected, but that big tunnel is draconic. Also Tarnished Archaeologist is going to have a field day with the churches showing Goddess Marika and not the ablutions-era Marika seen in the og game opening church.) It's nice sometimes to just enjoy the world.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Oh, yeah, I know, I grew up on the old USENET lists, but they were a significantly different flavour of bad news than what they became.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lot of puffery in the piece, but he's broadly truthful, just exaggerating.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

China has managed not to destroy pre capitalist forms of community as completely as earlier capitalist construction did in the West. So this might be fairly easy, as people have clear social roles and responsibilities not tied to production

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

You're cool and good and people like you deserve good people around you.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But isn't not submitting to the glorious rule of the House of Saud and continuing with resistance the real slavery?

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Taking away the Haute Bourgoisie's Wompty Dompty Dom treat's is a bold move I'm sure will work out for him.

Should we break out the fresh cabbage?

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

You do get some celt chuds, but most were ran out of Folk communities long ago and settled in country music. Also the Chud trad culture they do like that is celtic or germanic is always half-baked 19th century revivalist stuff.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

He looks like the Pinkerton who is told to shoot the Union Leader's family.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

I see the guys at NYT have been dragged kicking and screaming into the hip new lingo of 2019.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

One answer is alienation. Pre 1940 politicians would personally apprentice ideological successors. Later, party machines would ensure transfers of power to popular candidates with similar views that could continue the older member's political projects, while the older member retired and became an elder statesperson controlling party strategy and acting as an advisor.

But the Democrats and republicans have elided all political cohesion away, and candidates get in either through party stacking or via personal rhetoric.

So there are no political projects or institutional ideological continuity, there's only the institution, blowing whichever way the loudest faction of capital says.

Thus ossification and gerontocracy as senior party members need to stay on because their machine will collapse if they don't.

You see this in a lot of other organisations as well. We all know of the Trot org with 4 80 year olds at the top, a bunch of students who will bail after uni at the bottom, and no long term junior cadre.

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