windowlicker

just because something is common for a suburb doesn't make it acceptable. suburbs are horrible. you can commonly find monstrously sized trucks in suburbs, it doesn't mean that those vehicles aren't still horrible for the environment and people. extremely loud, unnecessary sounds like leaf blowers can lead to worse health.

as someone in the united states, this "alabama is the backwards hick place for dumb yokels" thing is pretty annoying and classist.

those psuedopupils are the coolest in my opinion. i had no idea about those.

being just anti-israel is significantly different than being pro-palestine. people on the right (especially the far-right as depicted here) are not in favor of palestinian statehood, or their national self-determination, or liberation for their people, or protecting their culture at all. they are just anti-israel.

We can and should unconditionally support Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorist attacks. But we also must unconditionally sympathize with the truly desperate and hopeless conditions faced by Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories. Those who think there is a “contradiction” in this position are the ones who are effectively blocking a solution.

we can and should unconditionally support a lion's right to defend itself from the person its eating. but we also must unconditionally sympathize with the conditions faced by the person being eaten by the lion. those who think there is a contradiction is blocking the solution!

theoretically it should, everything after the ? is literally just tracking shit and parameters, everything before is purely navigation stuff

purchasing a US made product in a store, say if its the cheapest option for example, is completely incomparable to booking a flight, reserving a place to stay, and going to travel to and financially support a genocidal state and the settlers living under it...

pro-palestine

zionist

this has to be satire or a bit. if they really knew anything about either cause, they'd know that these are mutually exclusive and like polar opposites

this annoys the living shit out of me every playthrough i do. no matter what options you choose, its always about V's constant sense of self-importance and becoming a "legend" while casting the anti-corporate and anti-capitalist sentiments as crazy (you can lean into silverhand, but i feel like V's dialogue options always imply that silverhand is a little crazy for believing what he believes. and by no means is he a great person, but if i was in the cyberpunk universe i would be on the exact same page as him regarding action against the corporations.)

in the cyberpunk franchise's universe there's actually the blackwall on the net, which is a firewall meant to keep AIs away from the net. it's interesting because the people responsible for the blackwall is netwatch, which works closely with corporations and is kinda a corp itself i think. in real life, corporations and capitalists are accelerating the AI takeover of our internet. kinda shows how even cyberpunk (the genre) writers cant even make fiction close enough to how fucked up the reality of capitalism really is.

now compare the emissions of having a child to military activities and billionaires using their jets constantly for like 30 minute trips

a ton of people (especially americans) immediately see someone they deem "crazy" (it can vary from someone actually having mental health problems to someone just simply acting differently from them) and immediately think they're in danger. i really don't understand this phenomena. i encounter tons of people acting strange in public and not once felt like my own life was in danger. people really need to learn to mind their own business, a lot of good can come of it.