I have to suffer the dead eyed stare of these abominations every time I visit my local book store. Who the hell is buying those?

Your granny has needs, Red, stop thinking only about yourself.

We finally found the main character.

The two moderate beheader factions will push out the extremist beheaders, then fight among themselves.

The problem is that with the quality decline of high school education college education has become all but a requirement for white collar jobs. Yes, the skillset you’ve been taught is going to be painfully out of date, but the fact that you have enough preserverence (and money ) for college means that you at least won’t be autofiltered by employers.

That’s the funny thing about popular uprisings - the people are passive, until they are not. A lot of dictators and tyrants thought the people they opressed were weak and malleable, only to get massacred, and their lifeless body paraded through the streets.

Systemic violence breeds resentment, and unless a few people at the top start pumping the brakes and reverse course, the floodgates will open, just has they have many times before in history.

Sometimes violence is the spark that brings systemic change. If there isn’t an implicit threat that misbehaviour of the ruling class might result in them being dragged out into the street and shot, then all politics become meaningless, and we might as well relocate ourselves to the slave paddock.

I see that the corporate owned media is sweating bullets.

Good.

Lmao, the Crusades were a thinly veiled excuse for looting and pillaging, and every Crusade but the first ended in dismal failure. Only ignoramuses glorify them.

Every year since 2003 has been the year of the Linux desktop for me. Linux has no shareholders, no owners, and no price tag. Using stupid metrics on an OS that has deliberately made to be impossible to enshittify is dumb.

Hotep flavored Sovcits are a bit rare, but are out there.

Judging from the replies, people don’t like Star Wars, they like space opera as a genre. Wonder what would have happened if George Lucas adapted H.P. Beam’s “Space Viking” instead.

I bought myself an Anbernic, and I’m very pleased. GB pocket sized, can run PS1 and less demanding Dreamcast games

That money grubbing asshole would not care if you died in a ditch, why are you clutching pearls over his assasination?