Patton basically wanted to continue the war of extermination. from Losurdo’s Stalin:

Take the example of general George S. Patton. He dreams of an immediate war against the Soviets: “We will have to fight them sooner or later […]. Why not now while our army is still intact and while we can push all those damn Russians all the way back to Moscow in three months? We could easily do it with the German troops that we have, just arm them and take them with us. They hate those bastards." Unfortunately, according to the American general, it’s the Jews who oppose this project. Full of resentment toward Germany, they harbor sympathy for the USSR: the “evident Semitic influence in the press” aims “to promote communism." There clearly emerges a line of continuity with the Nazi understanding of communism as a subversive Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy: the enemies continue to be the communists, the Soviets and the Jews, the latter being “lower than animals."

on android firefox and on my linux desktop too

wouldn’t be surprised if she was straight up getting paid to do this shit but it could just as easily be her class position lib brainworms at the wheel

well “the CIA directly and solely” whacked JFK is a very reductive description of what probably happened. it’s like saying “bush did 9/11”

personally i just wouldn’t bother disclosing that i’m trans in the application, is it because you live somewhere where a very negative reaction to that is a strong possibility?

the “intended” way is bs and the backbone of lazy art critique!!! death of the author!!!

thank you for sharing these thoughts:) totally agree it’s a desert out there in terms of trans stories and a lot of them are just tragedies too, we need more radically hopeful/optimistic shit imo.

regarding the “deliberately intended message” … personally for me when it comes to art, authorial intent is literally the last thing on the list of shit that matters about the work. I don’t really care what the intended message of anything is, what matters is what I and others get out of it. how it relates to me. I’m completely death of the author brained. that’s how I personally feel and I know other people can hold very different views when it comes to art which is also valid.

it’s so worth it!!! if you don’t wanna grind it out blindly i recommend just looking up a guide and you can load level checkpoints and blaze through grabbing the hearts. you don’t have to replay the levels in full, you can load a checkpoint, grab the heart, then exit to map. then after ch. 8 you can look into the B-sides… hehehe

to be fair, after bethesda got their hands on the series (and especially by FO4), any of the satirical anti-imperialist or anti-capitalist signifiers have basically been drained of any and all meaning, echoes of echoes of echoes. power armour is the prime example. Noah Gervais spends a bit of time talking about it in his 9 hour fallout retrospective which is a great video if you are interested in the series at all!

i personally think it’s more effective that way. there is a trans flag at the end as a little canon-confirmation which is nice. so madeline is trans in the text. but i prefer the beautifully crafted subtext arc over having text boxes where madeline like talks about trans stuff or whatever (although i totally understand wanting more overtly trans media, i think celeste stands on its own as almost perfect the way it is). i think the amount of trans love for the game affirms that it is effective allegory.

the memorial makes me cry:( yeah i also read the game as broadly an allegory for transitioning and overcoming all the hurdles that come with it, persevering despite it all.

getting the moon berry is one of my proudest achievements in videogames lol

nice! are you gonna do bonus levels/chapter 9? the post game is super fun:)

balatro is totally worth it imo, absolute banger i got like 60 hours of completely addicted gameplay out of it and it’s a one guy game so idm paying up for it

the iof are competent at murdering civilians indiscriminately, which is their main purpose. they are complete dogshit at counter-insurgency, their ostensible purpose.

can’t recommend it enough, definitely one of the games of all time

yeag, i know what it’s like to be stuck in the opposite mindset and i empathise so much but I do think its an attitude that we should encourage and try to proliferate. i also acknowledge it’s easier for me than a lot of folks because i am very much not a binary trans woman just a total gender gremlin who leans futch tomboy

i got the Vicky DLC, fallout 1, 2, and tactics bundle, probably gonna pull the trigger on workers and resources too. also I’m gonna get divinity 2 and try out the co-op with my gf

lol i just looked this up the other day because I always see people saying it on here, such a hilarious excerpt