throaway54

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by throaway54 7mo ago
Starship Troopers is actually nothing like Hackers? Verhoeven's Troopers is a straight-up satire of the USA's industrial-military complex.
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by throaway54 7mo ago
ytcracker still the greatest 2/26/2026 NES forever (9'.')9 (9'.')-o
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by throaway54 7mo ago
Content is an intentionally chosen word in order to make "feeding from the corporate trough" not seem so repulsive.
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by throaway54 7mo ago
It isn't, but its often been the only reason that a species didn't go extinct.
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by throaway54 8mo ago
No, the Democrats would do it precisely because of cynical human interest (they are like that). Donald Trump Republicans invading a Western nation plays right into their hands. They may as well just hand Gavin Newsom the next election. The
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by throaway54 10mo ago
The lazy are also most likely to push back against the process, even though they're the ones who can most benefit.
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by throaway54 10mo ago
Peanuts is also a product of Jazz-era America (50's & early 60's). Joe Cool is a beatnik, not a hippie or a rocker. So a lot of that context & content gets lost as the decades go by. Case in point being the name Peanuts it
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by throaway54 10mo ago
taking away our right to privacy sounds like a good way to get a lot more of what you say you dont want!
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by throaway54 2y ago
Most people are very selfish when it suits them, and most people would completely deny that selfishness as being not part of their "morality."
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by throaway54 2y ago
The problem with the French revolution was that the radicals moved too far, too fast, in the social reform. Their economics werent the issue, it was the total disregard for any religious or traditional culture and the factionalism that doom
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by throaway54 2y ago
The only real benefit is to the owners of Walmart though. Their food is not healthier, and their business impact is not better for local economies than what came before.
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by throaway54 2y ago
You could easily speculate the opposite; that countries with more structures of oppression or patriarchal forces have greater levels of focus!
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by throaway54 2y ago
>Not every animal views a zoo (or for that matter, a farm or a pet-owners house) as a prison. For a significant population of zoo animals, life in captivity is the only life they know. For the most part, they are as happy and content, as