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🇷🇴 uhhh I have no horse in the race but from my time here I think Eastern Europeans are pretty chill. It’s probably better to have some dissenting voices in that echo chamber rather than letting them fall into a solipsistic nightmare?

I really enjoyed the food I had when I was in Czechia but after being in a lot of other Eastern European countries it didn’t stand out too much. The beer is inarguably the best in the region though and I’ve ended up drinking a lot of Czech beer in other countries. I think my favorite meal so far has been in Romania though, Italy certainly didn’t live up to the hype. I would also put Slovene above Czech food but I’m biased by getting homemade goodies from family there

I hate how they feel so untouchable and act with complete disregard for any kind of humanity. And I hate even more how the “civilized world” continues to prove them right

I do agree but would prefer to say that the disbelief still exists, it just becomes reflexively directed outwards. When someone who is fully bought into ideology is confronted with contradictions it’s the external evidence that is somehow wrong. The disbelief is always still there but their conviction to ideology is strong enough to deflect and refuse to engage honestly with anything that questions it. Consuming the ideology, of course, comes as naturally as breathing but in the context of fiction such things can be examined and engaged with from a more comfortable perspective. You are examining a fictional world where you can at least pretend to be a neutral observer free from the ideological convictions of that world. By putting up sci fi themed wallpaper we are able to ever so slightly distance ourselves from the reality that the fictional ideology presented is simply a mirror of our own and explore various contradictions without truly confronting our own ideological convictions. I think the degree to which fiction is “grounded” is simply a tool to help the audience distance themselves from their ideology a tiny bit more but the most important thing is that it’s all still fiction where discussion and examination of ideology can exist without disrupting the viewer’s own personal beliefs.

Idk I’m just spouting bullshit in the badposting comm, I’m still like a little baby when it comes to understanding ideology

But if all media is a reproduction of ideology it’s still the same no? Something more “grounded” is still built upon innumerable fictional meta narratives that we convince ourselves to believe every day. Something more fanciful and “out there” is still built upon the exact same things and merely adds some superficial differences like putting up a different color of wallpaper. Not to be all about it but I think those are all just different aesthetic presentations of the same thing that require an equal suspension of disbelief

Did he feel a stronger sense of connection to his immediate community and nation as whole in Soviet times? I mean that a bit more broadly than actual personal relationships as those tend to ebb and flow as you age, just curious if there was any real “camaraderie” between relative strangers

I’ve gone on long diatribes about this before but what these types of people mean when they say “political” is anything that challenges the status quo in even the most minute way. We already live in a facist militarized society so a hyperbolic parody of that just speaks to them as normal and the way things should be (i.e. not political). Also I don’t play the game so I’m really hoping “bug divers” is a reference to something in a game and unrelated to something else i saw Chinese players defending a certain city

I’m looking for some good history podcasts that don’t just regurgitate NATOpedia talking points, any suggestions? Lions led by donkeys, Revolutions, and Blowback are some bangers I quite enjoy but I always need more sloppa

Yes, the burger is the exquisite crown jewel, holy manna sent from god as a symbol of the achievements of white “civilization”. Truly makes all the hundreds of years of genocide and unspeakable atrocities worth it.

But seriously how can you try to gatekeep a fucking burger when it’s one of the most ubiquitous types of slop readily available all around the world?

Was briefly on YouTube while here in Prague and all of the recommended videos were some variation of “China bad” with the obligatory grumpy white guy in the thumbnail. A fun bonus was one titled “the satisfying downfall of just stop oil” with a clearly ai generated picture of the “tumblr hair woman” stereotype the right is still fixated on. Just makes me so depressed to see that the brainrot transcends all borders and is pushed to the top of the algorithm everywhere

Don’t let the intellectual masturbation goblin get in your head too much, comments like this are why I love it here

It’s a good one. I have shot a ton of sigs but the action always feels a bit stiff, even freshly cleaned and lubed. Thanks for the cool gun posts as always Tervell, I rarely comment but see them all and greatly appreciate them