Saeculum

At a certain level, I think most people, including myself, consume this sort of media wanting to know vaguely that it has a history and a progenitor, but uninterested in the specific details, and unwilling to do any sort of investigation.

We're in an interesting halfway period where the lies are not yet so good we have no way of telling what's real, but it's still easy enough to achieve that bubble where the things we interact with are unknowingly fiction.

Eventually we will have to embrace that nothing we see or hear can be known to be real.

Birds aren't real though

It's his turn (again)

With the rise of China and Russia and the weakening of US-NATO, countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK etc, will have breathing space to chart their own path, instead of being constantly under the jackboot of US Imperialism.

I don't disagree, but the path Russia seems to be charting is one of bourgeoisie oligarchy. Not something to admire.

People go for critical support because it opposes the US's interests and somehow forget that the USSR has been dead for over thirty years and the Russian Federation is a bourgeoisie oligarchy wearing its corpse as a mask.

2, Obama did some horrible things, but everything I know about him suggests he'd be a good conversationalist.

Every American either lives like the Simpsons, the family at the start of interstellar, or the cast of Friends,

So offending the state in China invokes the punishment of getting to experience the American reality?

but this site being populated mostly by different varieties of contrarians and malcontents

You can just say leftists/communists/socialists

This is anti-struggle-session thought

Help, I have an excess of yellow bile and a deficit of phlegm, can bloodletting really balance out those humours?

They have to roll really high on the table. Most of it is just stuff like stunned or bleeding. In previous editions they were more lethal.