It’s mostly just Americans lying to ourselves because we happened to get a bad roll on where we got born.

I mean, reading that sentence, it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if they omitted it just to spite the British.

It’s only 20% off, but Alpha Protocol has returned to Steam just in time for the sale!

Unironically, yeah according to the data.

Woot woot! Hopefully going to pick up Balatro on sale this weekend.

I hope this kinda response is blasted from the rooftops, maybe make sure it’s on a billboard during the fall when prospective students are being showed around. Let high-schoolers across the country know that Columbia University supports genocide and is willing to use their reputation to spread misinformation.

What do you mean somehow? Cyberpunk as a genre has always been a vision of a future of unchecked corporate power, it only became prescient because Americans gave corporations unchecked power.

It worked fine at the time, the problem is that all of that motivation to defend democracy was artificial, and slowly faded from the public as the war faded into the past.

The flavor text teally sells this meme.

Wonderful to see our country is continuing our tradition of nonsensical psy-ops designed to exploit a tragedy and inflict as much harm as possible. I’m glad there’s no consequences for a nation abusing their power in such an egregious manner.

I’ll always go to bat for the idea that religion was a necessary evil. In the past, prior to telecommunications and concepts like a social democracy, you needed some way to keep the members of your primitive tribe alive and loyal to each other.

The problem is that now we no longer need it, and it’s been consistently twisted into a weapon by those who crave power over anything else.

Sure seems like an awful lot of people use religion to hurt others. Almost like it’s their main tool, or like religion was purpose-built to harm.

This almost feels like bait, your instance is Lemmy.ml. The ml stands for Marxist-Leninist, your home instance is literally the home for far-left ideology. You’ll still see a leftist bant for the reasons commenters have mentioned, but the single biggest reason is that your instance is owned and operated by them.

God I remember the hell out of Spiderman 2. I only had it on like a demo disk, so the game ended shortly after your battle against Rhino, so I just spent ages swinging around the city.

Hey what the fuck? Is the FTC not going to step in on this? This is a movie producer acquiring a movie theater chain, literally a monopolization of the market. Are we going to let Disney buy AMC next?

They have been. The problem is twofold; Airbuses are limited in the U.S., and airlines have increased the rates on those tickets because I guess a working airplane is now considered a premium.

This is one of those truly great moments where you can hate all sides of this. They’re all kinda shitty skeezy assholes, so whoever loses is a net win for humanity.

I dunno, I’m someone who was fine with the changes to combat introduced in Doom Eternal, but was honestly really turned off by how much id was kinda huffing their own farts with the story. The first game had Doomguy punch any attempts at exposition. The second turned Hayden into an Angel, the AI friend into God, the demons are extraplanar aliens that are being used for energy by the angels, and now the Doom Slayer is some destined force of cosmic balance. The little bits were of larger lore were kinda funny in the first game, it became flanderized in the second, and now for a prequel I’m worried id’s managed to fit their entire head up their own ass trying to convince everyone how cool their space marine is.

Their attacks aren’t all shitty. Far-right stochastic terrorism has killed people, lots of people really. They’ve declared war and started killing people, that anyone still treats them with kid gloves is mind-boggling.

Yeah, but that wouldn’t actually solve any issues here. It would make Alito a martyr and kick off the American Civil War the conservatives keep jerking themselves off over.