Well before they were an apartheid ethnostate, sort of like America used to be. Democratic, kinda, but only for some.

I guess this is worse?

One thing gamers are notorious for: physical outdoor activity

"I want to attend your school just like my grandfather" = This is fine

"I want to attend your school because my grandfather wasn't allowed to" = This is not

Think about that for a second.

I wanted to leave for such a long time, but the alternatives weren't active enough.

If enough people stick around, yeah, I'm never going back.

This is literally idealism.

You have an idea about a market solution to the problem, and then act like you've solved the problem.

The problem isn't a lack of ideas! The problem is a lack of implementation! You have to get these ideas into the real world somehow, and revolution is the only way you can do that. There are billionaires aligned against implementing these ideas. You have to stop them.

Start calling it a regime like we do for enemies of the US.

The MAGA regime disregards precedent and disregards the facts of the case when making Court decisions. The website wasn't real, there was no gay wedding, the man she accused was happily married to his wife, it was all made up! That's not just authoritarian, it's fascist.

President Xi please, my people yearn for freedom!

Art hadn't been properly commodified yet because the technology for mass produced art didn't exist. They still needed artisans and artists, so they had to fund the arts if they wanted to see any created. They didn't appreciate art more, per se, but they saw it as fundamentally different from other widgets.

This is no longer the case. With the advent of photography, film, digital information, and of course the internet we now see profitable "art" without any need to fund it with philanthropy. Aside from one-off public works projects they can fund by stealing public funds, they can only imagine art through the lens of profitability and have no understanding of the amount of free time and energy that has gone into creating so much of the art that exists today.

There is no Medicis in 2023. Instead you get Marvel.

What are we supposed to do, go "outside"?

Brits can't understand they will never be the center of anything ever again.

The empire is dead and the nation is on life support. It's over.

"Customize"

If I can't have a prehensile penis that can weild a third weapon or gain a bite attack with vagina dentata then can I really customize?

Are you kidding? Cyberpunks get to fuck over a corp, this is absolutely a win for the user base!

Absolutely.

And until that's the case, there's a clear double standard that benefits white people.

I hear the teen son didn't really want to go, he just wanted to make his Dad happy.

Billionaires shouldn't be allowed to have children.

There's a theory that, at one time, "man" was a gender neutral term for persons and we called males "weremen" and obviously women "women"

That probably isn't true, but it's fun to think about a world where that was reversed.

EDIT Also evidently there was wifmann and wapman, which is an even funnier world to imagine.

But then what does /c/ mean?

If we're lemmings, then these are /c/liffs

lol but inflation is being caused by poor people demanding higher wages, right?

When the rich send men with guns to break up your non-violent organizations and communities, you aren't going to debate them into submission.

You will pay a subscription and have ads and your identity sold to the highest bidder.

Chicken and egg situation.

Did Russia make them into this, or did Russia seek them out because of who they already were?

One feature I liked a lot from RES was the ability to tag users, which I used to flag users and remember who they are and what their general opinions are on issues. It made arguing more interesting since I didn't have to rerun over the same old conflicts with people who will never budge on certain issues.