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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One of the best lines in the game. I wonder how many people Disco Elysium brought to Marxism? The fight against Capital starts with knowing how it operates, where it's going, where its weakspots are, and how to struggle against it, and that requires reading theory. I keep a "Read Theory, Darn It!" beginner reading list if anyone wants it, let me know if you have any questions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I got chills when he said that line. Game wasn't wrong.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's the one silver lining. My biggest fear is that things won't get worse fast enough. Humans, being dumber than frogs, won't jump out of a pot of boiling water if you raise the heat slowly enough. I can only hope that the next four years are so terrible that we learn our lesson and have it actually stick this time.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fun fact: in the boiling frog experiment, the frogs were 'pithed.' Jam a stick in their skull and scramble their brain.

Frog spinal cords have a lot of reflexes. They'll use one leg to wipe a painful stimulus off the other. They'll jump. But they accommodate pretty quickly and won't get excited enough to jump out of slowly warming water. Gotta have a brain for that.

Recounted here: https://archive.org/details/studiesfrombiol00martgoog/page/398/mode/2up

Original ref: Goltz, F. 1869. Beiträge zur Lehre von den Functionen der Nervencentren des Frosches. Berlin, 1869, p. 127, etc Which is actually online: https://ia801200.us.archive.org/15/items/b22344937/b22344937.pdf

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Oh wow

the brainless frog, if allowed to rest in water the temperature of which is gradually raised, behaves wholly unlike the normal frog under the same circumstance

Damn I'm really happy they cleared that up! 1800s people were really something else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

arent we 'pithed' too? distractions and brainwashing galore to turn us away from ourselves and the problems around us...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

A lot of the repercussions if decisions made over the next four years won’t actually be felt for five or six years. And if the Democrats are actually elected AND allowed to take power in five years, they’ll both have to clean up the mess AND get blamed for causing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I think some people never learn, especially the people that have their heads so far up their own asses that they only hear the FOX propaganda shouting.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

just because you know what's coming, doesn't make it any less horrible.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

The point is that it is already happening.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I'm 90% sure that our ruling classes miscalculated our response to the election choices they let us have and 10% sure that they decided that accelerationism was in our best interests; it was closer to 50/50 before I read the post and watched this video.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

it makes you sign in to see it hahaha