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Those reasons but also sometimes I’ve seen games add achievements later and long time players that haven’t returned since never unlock the achievements they would’ve otherwise earned. Shoutout to HLL and the something like 30% “get one kill” trophy

She’s just describing podcasts

And they’re not wrong that these people get hate for racist/misogynistic reasons, but they also get a lot of well deserved hate based on their policy decisions. Funnily enough he essentially said that Warren would’ve ushered us into a new golden age if she had won in 2020, to which my response was even Joe fucking Biden couldn’t pass legislation through this senate wtf was she going to do?!

Drunk out at a brewery the other night me and a friend were ragging on this lib about how shit Obama was and when he couldn’t find a way out he just started stating loudly and repeatedly that Obama was hated by americans “because he’s a SMART BLACK MAN.” Like dude sure but we’re talking about fiscal policy here wtf are you doing? Liberal ideology is a radical experiment in self-perpetuating sloganeering

Honestly the folks at lemmy.world weren't cowards for defederating from us pre-emptively, they're cowards for not admitting they did it because we're such an active instance that we'd eat up their entire frontpage

Honestly could see the war lasting indefinitely a la Korea where a ceasefire is reached though western Ukraine will never recognize the sovereignty of eastern Ukraine under Russia and they just keep the artillery pointed at each other forever. The way the war has ground into WWI style trench fighting with heavy shelling it’s hard to believe there will be anymore major breakthroughs, or at the least it’s hard to imagine either side thinking it’s worth it to shove the amount of men and material into the grinder that would be necessary to succeed. Russia gets its buffer zone and the US gets another regional power to dump arms and troops into

The gigantic ppb is hilarious. Wait how does scale?

It comes up often from the Destiny/wider live-streaming community because it’s their way to hit left with racism accusations so they still feel like the “truest left” political formation despite being radlibs at best. I just know that’s a fight we wouldn’t walk away from

I've heard the take that Biden is currently in the process of Hadrian's walling up the american empire as we've hit our terminal growth point and are now contracting. Feels convincing to me

Yes. The roman empire entered terminal decline 200 years before it formally fell. The british empire was a powerful imperial bloc right up to the world wars and was only stepped down as a major player by the US & USSR during the Suez Canal crisis. It's only just now post-covid that they're truly entering a state of decay after death

These massive institutions of state power have massive amounts of inertia and take a long time to break down. The american empire could be in decline for several more generations before a new hegemon comes into being

The failure of the neocon project to create an explicit american empire that died in the sands of Iraq

Im not arguing for unipolarity and regardless of what anyone thinks or wants we’re heading in the one direction towards american decline and the rise of alternative power blocs. I just feel that people should have sober expectations about what that has historically meant