In Eve Online, when a capsule was destroyed, a frozen corpse was left behind.
I knew someone who would go around collecting corpses. A battle is going, he'd be out there scooping them up. He's running a hauler, and this was the day that when your ship got destroyed, every bit of loot went out in individual units, so when a pirate would try to shake him down he'd respond with "If you blow me up, you'll crash back to desktop."
That was how he played the game, gathering corpses.
I mean... I'm not going to argue the fall of the US isn't stupider than the fall of Rome...
But I will argue the fall of the US started back when Reconstruction was stopped. Just took a while for the confederates to win.
I'm a pessimist and past few years have been showing how it can get worse even when I can't imagine how much worse it can get.
There's only one guarantee, as long as there are two people on the planet, it CAN get worse.
FWIW this is why I think it’s so important to keep the farmers and union workers on our side.
WHELP
Hell, we imported a few of them from Germany.
I stopped trusting that from 2020. I thought there was hope for people then they turned around and voted again.
It's a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys... it's bleak down there...
We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they've swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn't a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.
Seriously... if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature... but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity... there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.
I don't expect much, but to keep an idea I keep wandering over to the conservative areas.
The Epstein Files are the only thing I've seen he's not been able to shake off from his cult.
Wow, obvious to me some people haven't been camping before, that or were miserable the entire time. That looks pretty freaking awesome!
I read it somewhere that anyone talking rule of law or the Constitution anymore is starting to sound like sovereign citizens, waving a document around like it's a magic shield that in reality does absolutely nothing.
I would like to disagree with this thought process, but I can't.
The millennials were robbed of their chance on the world stage by the boomers.
Gen X over there like "What the fuck!?!" (I'm a millennial, I get the plight.)
Exactly this.