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Maybe it's that we made the Internet so full of disinformation that everyone is just automatically refusing to listen to others, maybe we have created a social group that just assumes they are more educated than everyone else cause they read some stuff in the internet.

i've always thought the decline of capitalism, or even just the accumulation of its downturns, had the consequence of people trusting authorities less than they used to, and that scientists just get thrown in the same bag ("people who mess with this convoluted stuff as if they know what they're doing and just keep making my life worse")

"everything was so great in the 90s" says the guy who never paid attention to a 90s hip hop song in his life

i wonder if that keeps researchers from developing economies from becoming impactful, because $3k is like 15 months of a minimum wage in brazilian reais, and more than entire month's wages for 99.9% of our professors

edit: for the humanities this seems especially bad, it kind of makes it sure that western social thought remains dominant since only you guys can actually pay for it

The multi millionaire friedrich engels is a communist?

Hahaha..

i wish i could live in a place that is like that all year long (and isn't in terf island or some other 1st world shithole)

And therein lies the problem, you and a lot of people like you, genuinely can't differentiate life and politics

the problem is precisely that for us politics has a practical effect on our daily lives. we have to worry about it, and talk about it, because if we simply let things go we get absolutely fucked

good for you that your current condition makes you immune to even moderate sways in the political environment. that is not the case for millions of people, even the majority of them

i think what he means is that the "developer" has the power because he "develops" the games and without him the games can't be "developed"

it's a silly way of mistaking a role for the individual that fulfills it. the role is necessary... not that particular individual

but it's not like they had a gun on their head.

they do have a metaphorical gun in the form of bills that need to be paid...

oops fixed it

It's irrelevant because it doesn't absolve your behavior.

there is nothing to absolve

and he's not "making an excuse", he's giving you an explanation for our very fine, flawless behavior

i think most people here are just apathetic towards it, yea

as for smaller, more involved groups, you have the english-speaking libs and the middle class which are just nyt-brained to the core (on every single issue, so you can guess their opinions), and the communists and PT libs (with opinions that are pretty close to ours: "war is bad, putin is shit, and we should stay away from the whole thing, but hopefully the end result of this one is a weaker, and not a stronger, american/nato empire")

Most countries are assisting Ukraine where they can.

lmao here i am living in a 200 million people country where nobody gives a single fuck about ukraine

even more political groups and discussions rarely involve ukraine except when lula decides to own zelensky in some way, no one here cares about nato's proxy war