They’d probably say something like “only the colonized countries need to be economically developed not the core” or “internal colonization is a myth, read settlers”. These people have the critical thinking skills of a shoelace.
Seriously, I’ve heard people try and argue colonies often have higher standards of living than their colonial masters which is one hell of a deranged statement.
I hate that even socialists make this argument. The amount of people who are like “China is economically developing these regions because imperialists need to do that” when they are obviously doing more than building a few one way train lines to haul goods. People who make that argument also tend to agree the west is imperialist but then don’t ever seem to ask themselves why the west doesn’t economically develop such nations. The simple fact is, the west doesn’t do so because it’s not really necessary for imperialist extraction and China does because they aren’t colonizing the developing world.
The thing about survival games is that the busy work is the point. Participation in it at first and finding ways to get around it as your base gets more complex is part of the fun. You start from nothing and eventually through effort and planning get powerful. The busywork is the obstacle for the player to overcome.
Without the busy work survival games become some kind of BR. Which has its appeal but scratch fundementally different itches. A pizza and a burger are quite different even though both have bread.
I really don’t think Pals are a dogwhistle for humans. Its just a monster collection game where you can make the monsters do stuff. Its legitimately not that deep. Its not like a game is saying slavery is good or anything. Like sure, you can be mean to the digital puppets if you want, but really a lot of stuff is just head cannon. Are they working for you because they are scared or because they live in some communist utopia and work as a choice? Up to you. Really I think its just a way to put them to use for more than just combat. Plus it means you can focus on tasks you find fun instead of some of the busy work of survival games. Seriously, every game has things like this. You can take any idea and if you intentionally read it in a negative light that will be what it looks like. Does pokemon promote dog fighting? Ofcourse not. Even if it really is just digital dogfight simulator. Does Disco Elysium promote drug use because drugs have useful effects in it? Does Skyrim promote capital punishment as a good thing because guards will try to kill you for committing crimes and you can kill bandits for the government? Irl crime is caused by disenfranchisement of the poor, is Skyrim proposing we kill them all? No. Skyrim wanted an easy low level enemy you could deal with to learn the game and make some early money. In fact, any game that involves killing anything can be construed in such a way if you like. Ofcourse this isn’t to say games can’t carry messages, but I don’t think this one really does. I think the devs just saw they could do some edgy marketing and went for it.
Not surprising. People in the military tend to be quite far right and since the US does nothing to slow the spread of fascism and abuses their troops you get a perfect breeding ground for fascism. Especially since anything left is “too political” and “hurts moral” the only arguments for change in the military come from the right. I know people in the military and they very much border on fascism if not are outright fascists that just haven’t told me yet because I shoot down their right wing shit in the few instances they drop it.
I hate Bernie so much. Such a scumbag. Advocated for the destruction of Yugoslavia and his constant grift of pretending to give a shit about the poor tricks a lot of people. More than that I’m sick of those who suck off this guy like he’s some hero of the proletariat when he’s nothing more than an opportunistic con artist. I’m so sick of the lesser evilism nonsense people try and use to justify this crap. Voting for lesser evil is all the left has done for fucking ever now and all its gotten us is a neoliberal hellscape. The democrats will never need to give the left anything because the left is spineless and gives its power away freely. If you’re a guaranteed voting bloc your demands will never be even considered because they aren’t real demands, they are simply polite requests. Policy is instead dictated by those who will jump ship if a better opportunity presents itself because they are the ones who may swing the other way.
Thanks for answering for me. Haven’t been on Lemmy in a bit.
I mean, days of the year is fine as is because that matches seasonal cycles which is important for agriculture and the like. Ofcourse along the equator lunar calenders were historically used because they don’t have different seasons but a calender used by everyone keeps things consistent for trade and the agricultural trade is still one of the most important things for humanity so it best remains a solar calendar.
As for time, 60 and 24 and in general multiples of 12 are great units because they can be easily divisible in many ways. This is why they were established as such in the first place, because Babylon had a big thing for what is called “extremely composite numbers” which are basically just a number that has more factors than any previous and equal to all subsequent ones (until the next extremely composite number) and all multiples of 12 (as far as I know) fall into this category. This means that units that are multiples of 12 both easily divide into each other (making it useful for changing between units) and easily divide into many other numbers making it easier to schedule a day as you have nice clean boundaries.
No, it really doesn’t. It’s all the same “go out and vote our way to socialism” BS. That shit ain’t on the ballot. Never is, never was, never will be.
Electoralist nonsense.
Look, I’m not just gonna go back and forth with contradicting each other. I know what I read, you know what you read, it is what it is.
Maybe you just didn’t read the ones I did. Regardless, they definitely did.
It really did, at least their paper did. Every article was “We must stop the rise of fascism and Biden will do just that!”. On r/cpusa they post like every article that party pushes and it was pure Biden simping. Most pro union president and shit. My view of the party comes from its publications (as its still not really impactful in terms of actions, at least not in my area as its so tiny) and it was pure liberal nonsense. “Voting is a revolutionary act!” Sounding stuff (yes, an article said that).
CPUSA did simp pretty hard for Biden during 2020 though. They, just like every liberal outlet, painted him as some savior of democracy against fascism. When in truth, Biden is just a quieter fascism. Hell, their subreddit was one of the most libshit places I’d ever been. Ended up getting banned after getting into an argument with a mod about if voting is revolutionary (they claimed it was!).
Damn, I thought Cali was supposed to have better public education than the rest of the country. No water, no air, and no education? Surprised people still live there at this point.
Really fun game. I’m surprised though, I raised the entire world to a high standard of living, fixed climate change and ecological issues, even raised happiness to max level and it still said I failed in making the world better when I guarantee it was. Regardless its a very fun game, thanks for the recommendation.
They really do infantalize such nations to a massive extent. Definitely plays a role.