TheBigCat [none/use name]
It’s just a secularist word for “God will provide in His mysterious ways.” It’s Calvinist to its core that there is a predetermined fate for all subjects under capitalism and nothing will ever change that. It’s also mixed with a financial Pascal’s Wager that, yes, capitalism might be fake and predicated on human suffering BUT I might get to be the one giving the pain someday so I shouldn’t rock the boat so I might be wealthy. American society is founded in a mire of tax dodging libertarians and neurotic Jesus freaks.
I’m so grateful for my parents reading about these examples…my dads at least some kind of liberation catholic who is anti-abortion but for some incredibly idealistic reasons that I think I helped point him in the direction to socialism (eg his views not mine but: birth control should be free, sex Ed should be better, single moms should get total assistance, parents need assistance with raising kids, and EVEN nonviable offspring should not be born especially if the mothers life is at risk; all of this is a huge step for him mind you). He also said that the Romanovs deserved what they got and the entire confederate military and polity should’ve been executed lol.
Sounds like my man Steve is getting it good and I’m drinking to him. Doesn’t matter if he’s gay/straight/or NB but if you sound like you’re dying while you’re getting some then kudos to you champ.
Hey sounds like my workplace. The working class, especially the white working class, has been incredibly propagandized when it comes to damn near any cultural or economic issue. Most of these people have trauma that they’ve never really confronted and it’s excused via propaganda. I know a guy who does my job but wishes he was an engineer, who hates engineers, but falls back on, “well, I was a shitty student who didn’t put the effort in so I deserve this.” No motherfucker! If you want to be an engineer you should be able to go to school and try at least, but he’s so cowed and submissive to the system that he literally thinks he’s deserves to break his back because of grades in high school. So many people bitch about welfare recipients or welfare scammers and it’s like they don’t even know that the biggest frauds in the country are the assholes getting billions in tax breaks. I want to challenge them but I get so tongue tied, but maybe I need to speak up a bit more and direct their attention elsewhere. It’s like they have the anger and energy and it’s all pointed in the wrong direction. Same reason I can’t fault trump people who aren’t nazis: the system has failed, but they diagnosed it the wrong way.
Bingo! I’ve always had a low key interest in sports but I absolutely hate the culture around it. So the team I wanted to win, lost. Oh well. Why is the national anthem played before any game that’s insane! And the ads are just ridiculous. I just wanna drink beer, eat some chips and watch some dudes throw around a rubber ball. I already have internet, insurance and I know where to buy food.
Fallout 3 is, in many ways, a modernized retelling of Fallout 1 with slight tweaks to make it feel more original than it is (and I say this as someone who loves 3). However, New Vegas is stronger in that it does what 1 and 2 did well: give perspective on a post-apocalyptic America 200 years after the bombs fell. The Capital Wasteland felt insanely empty and uninhabited for being a major region 200 years after the war whereas the Mojave wasteland felt far more lived in with more lore and character development.
I don’t see it happening to be quite honest. I know the rebel government wants it, and the US will continue using them as an outpost for the foreseeable future, but if Beijing ever says, “hey, that’s ours and we’d like it back,” I could see a struggling American empire saying, “Fuck it, go ahead.” Also lol at the idea of China wanting war with the US and not vice versa, or does China do annual naval drills with Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico and I’m just not aware?
Love me some honeybees and bumblebees. Carpenter bees are dicks though. Still, honeybees and bumblebees are quite docile and vital for our food chain, plus bumblebees are awesome little guys because they just wanna pollinate and keep to themselves.