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Read what I said again. I didn’t say individual champions of workers rights or socialist were racists. This is about systems, not individuals with good intentions. I have yet to see a socialist government or a government controlled by a ‘workers’ party that fixed racism.

The point is, the idea that socialism or…

It was ethnic. They didn’t really care about the level of religious belief (but that didn’t help because, of course, the Law of History™ replaced God in the ‘Workers Paradise). The famous “Doctors Plot” incident (which was basically the Soviet version of the Dreyfus Affair) was not about religion at all. Soviet…

Who are you talking about, Bernie?

My castigation of Bernie has less to do with him being a “socialist” and more to do with the fact that I think he’s a hypocritical opportunist who decided to launch a gatekeeper, purity purge on the left at the exact moment an actual fascist was coming to power.

In a pure sense, yes. Workers rights would necessarily have to span across racial lines.

But in actuality, plenty of ostensibly socialist and communist governments, that champion ‘workers rights’ as part of their brand have been just as systemically racist as their capitalist counterparts (the USSR was officially and…

This is what I think is funny. There are literally, virtually all-white ethno-states that these people could move to that already exist. America is not now and never has been a “nation-state”.

Ok. Yeah. But how does this make it ok for Europeans to do?

You can be 100% Jewish and completely secular, like Einstein or Freud, who only ever identified as Jewish. It’s an ethnicity that has a prominent religious component, however, the religious component is not required.

Hell, David Ben Gurion was an atheist.

I guess you missed the part where Heimbach said that Jews should be “unironically gassed”?

What universe are you from where there is this plethora of Dune adaptations?

“I don’t find anything hampering about the loot box system to the progression in this game so that must mean everything is ok! I am super independent because I don’t allow myself to be swayed by commentz from lozers on the interwebzone.”

Right, the weather where you live is great so climate change must not be real…

I spent like the first 10 hours of the game just walking around being a tourist. This period/place in history is kinda my bag, like it’s half of my library, so I was READY. It didn’t disappoint. Alexandria is actually breathtaking. It’s not a perfect representation, but the fact that they went out of their way to lay…

He literally became a Democrat just so he could cash in on resources (resources he never helped raise in his career) and then he and his supporters were aghast when the party didn’t roll out the red carpet.

The entitlement is staggering.

Just some context. Gnosticism was Christianity, or rather a type of Christianity. Jesus is still the central redeeming figure of Gnosticism. And Gnostics considered themselves Christians.

The God of the Hebrew Bible - the “Old Testament”- is just more of a demigod (specifically named Ialdaboth) who is actually…

Dropping this in apropos of nothing: Bruce Greenwood is dad AF.

Would be totally on board with him handcuffing me to a bed (sans the heart attack).

When I try and explain the impact of the plague to people I always say that it was essentially what post-apocalypse popular fiction is. 2/3 of the population died in a really short time period. Infrastructure breaks down along with traditional authorities and bureaucracy. Entire towns empty. The closest approximation…

I am old enough to remember when people said this about TNG. Star Trek has always messed with “canon” and its own continuity.

Oh no! Something new! Can’t have that!

Also, have you seen Star Trek before? All the Klingons actual spoke Klingon. How much MORE Stark Trek could this get?

I do have kind of a sadistic glee thinking about this movie getting a wide release. It’s like people paying to get punched in the face.

“But is has JLaw in it?!”

Lol, strap in Becky.

The bourgeoisie is not gonna like this one.

The metaphors being “heavy-handed” seems to be the criticism of choice for this one, and I think that’s missing the point. The heavy-handedness crosses the threshold into pure absurdist territory by the end. It works because everyone completely throws themselves into it, full tilt. I loved it.

I am not sure when we…