The alternative was to launch a half-baked WW3 with no real changes and then eventually decide to rebrand the whole thing to gain some popularity and just drop the 3.
Wars are subscription based now. Instead of one massive and enormously expensive short-term conflict, you get a decades-long enormously expensive conflict.
AKA, the forever war, from 1984, where war is waged specifically to waste and destroy the product of economies, to keep the proles poor, and thus unable to rise up against their oligarchical masters.
People are rising up in other poorer countries, but I dont know if it has any effect. Massive demonstrations and many people killed, but is change happening?
I dont know. Human societies are just dumb and not built for human happiness. Its just a big tax and profit game people run through for their entire lives. Then they get old and die. Thanks for your effort. Lol.
It's important to understand that change happens when we force change to happen, not when we implore the people who have already decided not to make change to reconsider. Demonstrations are great to raise awareness of the issue, but when it comes to actually changing anything, they're pretty crap. At best they can scare someone into making change if they think the demonstrators might get violent if they don't, like how the black panthers scared politicians into that very belief during the civil rights movement.
The issue now is that nobody believes we'll actually get violent, and for good reason. Generations have been raised on the idea that "violence is never the answer." Basically our only option to really make change is to use our numbers against them, but that means that some people are going to need to overcome their conditioning and volunteer to be the first to make the choice to rise up, likely to their own demise. If we can't do that, we're screwed, so the question is how bad does it need to be for it to happen, and will it be too late by then?
When war is baseline, and peace requires an ultimate seasonpass to enable purchasing it as pay per view. Luckily getting access to the unaffordable housing dlc only requires purchasing the "falsely advertised tertiary education with no actual marketable skillset"...
That all started with the rebranding of war as a conflict, i.e Korea. It worked, so we've been in conflicts ever since. No danger of world wars anymore.
It’s basically the geopolitical version of releasing a game in alpha, getting review-bombed, then delisting it and relaunching six months later under a new title with 80% of the same assets and a slightly different trailer voiceover.
What we forgot is that peace is the subscription model. The institutions supporting it require constant attention and care. Once you take them for granted and decide they’re not needed, that’s when the default, war, comes back.
Wars are subscription based now. Instead of one massive and enormously expensive short-term conflict, you get a decades-long enormously expensive conflict.
Uh...How do I cancel? Tired of paying for this, don't want it, never wanted it.
Vote out the lobby groups pushing American politicians into war.
Oh wait, you can't. Your democracy sucks ha ha
Just make them illegal.
Why would the lawmakers make a law against themselves making a lot of money
Referendums. Or riots. You know, whatever people are feeling.
What the people are feeling:
The people who didn't roit after finding out the president and his billionaire friends have been raping and eating their children would riot for this?
We have to lobby Israel so they bribe our politicians to do it.
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With the cancel link obfuscated by reams of propaganda
The unsubscribe button is just a placebo.
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I suppose the Cold War was arguably one of these too.
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AKA, the forever war, from 1984, where war is waged specifically to waste and destroy the product of economies, to keep the proles poor, and thus unable to rise up against their oligarchical masters.
We’ve always been at war with Iran.
They've been an imminent threat for decades now!
People are rising up in other poorer countries, but I dont know if it has any effect. Massive demonstrations and many people killed, but is change happening?
I dont know. Human societies are just dumb and not built for human happiness. Its just a big tax and profit game people run through for their entire lives. Then they get old and die. Thanks for your effort. Lol.
It's important to understand that change happens when we force change to happen, not when we implore the people who have already decided not to make change to reconsider. Demonstrations are great to raise awareness of the issue, but when it comes to actually changing anything, they're pretty crap. At best they can scare someone into making change if they think the demonstrators might get violent if they don't, like how the black panthers scared politicians into that very belief during the civil rights movement.
The issue now is that nobody believes we'll actually get violent, and for good reason. Generations have been raised on the idea that "violence is never the answer." Basically our only option to really make change is to use our numbers against them, but that means that some people are going to need to overcome their conditioning and volunteer to be the first to make the choice to rise up, likely to their own demise. If we can't do that, we're screwed, so the question is how bad does it need to be for it to happen, and will it be too late by then?
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When war is baseline, and peace requires an ultimate seasonpass to enable purchasing it as pay per view. Luckily getting access to the unaffordable housing dlc only requires purchasing the "falsely advertised tertiary education with no actual marketable skillset"...
Valve: WW Alyx
We've moved from waterfall through to an agile continuous-delivery world war paradigm.
Oh god, are we sprinting toward the downfall of civilization?
Perhaps. We’ll know when the authorities feel they Kanban books.
Cold War II, the Fascist Boogaloo and the Enemy Within.
With agentic integration.
WW Pro XL ™
Platinum Edition
Here comes the Cuba DLC
* Cuba Season
World War 365
Pretty sure they renamed it to Copilot
I knew Valve was behind WW1 and WW2...
They number world wars by year now. Welcome to WW2026
They always make em trilogies too
That's actually really convenient for managing shareholder value expectations.
WW s09e21The One With The Middle East (Part 7)
Continuous Invasions / Continuous Deployments model.
It’s been that way since the1990s, no?
Cold war is out, perpetual war is in.
Pretty sure this is the plot of Metal Gear Solid.
“Windows 10 will be the last Windows you need”
That all started with the rebranding of war as a conflict, i.e Korea. It worked, so we've been in conflicts ever since. No danger of world wars anymore.
Subscribe to the World War Battle Pass and revive your free military skin.
It’s basically the geopolitical version of releasing a game in alpha, getting review-bombed, then delisting it and relaunching six months later under a new title with 80% of the same assets and a slightly different trailer voiceover.
DLC heavy breathing intensifies
World war Tokyo drift when?
What we forgot is that peace is the subscription model. The institutions supporting it require constant attention and care. Once you take them for granted and decide they’re not needed, that’s when the default, war, comes back.
Paid tier with ads.
World War Tres. This way he can claim the T stands for Trump.
WWD (dumb or Donald)
World War Drumpf
It's one thing I'd be fine sticking Trump's name on.
All the dead in this war, military and civilian, American, Iranian and Qatari, are blood on Donald's hands
You don't think that's funny, do you?
I'm buying the battlepass (going shopping at a military surplus store)
And the dlc's have increased in price dramatically lately.
A rolling distro
World War Vibe
I guess the world is like Valve, no Half-Life 3, Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3, World War 3, nothing.
But we do get spin offs. World War Epstein instead of Half Life Alyx
Also Splinter Cell: Terminating Jeffrey and Splinter Cell: Seal the Files
L4D3 is called Back 4 Blood. 🤷♂️
War as a Service.
I wonder when they're going to drop in loot boxes.
World War Survive
Just let Valve develop it
Great, now we don't even own the war, but we can wear a variety of silly hats!
We’re one ME 1.3
You just dont announce it.
Time for the season of war.
What's your name? (What's your name?)
Who's your daddy? (Who's your daddy?)
GABEN FOR PRESIDENT OF EARTH
Hey look, a new creative way to deny we are in WWIII!
nah like fallout we will just call it The Great War
Lol, fair enough.
I hope we are around to see the end of it I guess.
I hope so too