reply from 10 years ago and the first result on google:
have you tried googling it, idiot? *link that no longer leads anywhere*
Reminds me of a time when I had a strange problem and opened a thread asking for help; I eventually managed to solve it via somewhat esoteric methods and then posted 'nvm fixed it', only to then, years later encounter the problem again, and when I google that exact problem my post is at the top and the only one regarding this issue too, and I've no idea how I fixed it years ago.
The only time I condone making a reddit account is just to upvote the person who has a detailed explanation or a link on how to fix a pc problem.
Reddit is probably the best online resource for that, crowdsourced solutions to obscure PC/software issues, and the worst resource for absolutely anything else. I call this the "techbro saturation principle"
It's really crazy just how bad the internet has gotten at tech support in like the last decade. It's definitely also a result of every tech standard becoming more and more feature creeped and then slowly becoming incompatible, but just ten years ago if you had a problem you would definitely find at least a handful of people with similar problems.
Also google deliberately degrading their search quality to make people spend more time searching for things, so you get a ton of unrelated garbage and have to try to determine which ones are even the same problem you have.
The last message in threads for issues I was facing yesterday:
"There haven't been any new comments in the last 2 weeks. Locked."
it's not that the info isn't out there, it's that search has been so optimzed for profits, that you can't find shit anymore.
I miss the google from 20 years ago.
If their motives are better than the heroes, how are they a villain?
Why do stories that may start out so promising and suggestive seem to always turn to crap towards the very end? Because any consistent working-out of problems tends towards communism. Such a consistent working-out has to be sabotaged, thwarted; to do that, the principle of consistency itself has to be chucked overboard. A counter-revolutionary ending has to be passed off as a happy ending, meaning whoever represents the revolution must turn out to be a villain, no matter how implausible or visibly tacked-on this characterization is. Erik Killmonger, Daenerys Targaryen, Alma Coin, and Lady Trieu all break bad sort of inexplicably, punishing the viewer for supporting the power-claim of someone with good politics. The message is unequivocal: “Having good politics doesn’t make you fit to rule! Having no politics does! The restoration of the status quo is the best we can hope for.”
from https://redsails.org/the-swerve/
You know, this was my discussion about Gaddafi with the lib I worked with; I told him of all the stuff Gaddafi did for his country and he was just sitting there, waiting for me to be like 'but he DID.....'. I could see the that impassable void, that impassable hole that needed to hear that Gaddafi actually had like this one really evil thing that I hadn't mentioned yet, because otherwise to him it seemed inexplicable why we would overthrow him.
What is it the CIA accuses him of having done?
Also, tell me about the good stuff. I wanna troll libs with based gaddafi facts
What is it the CIA accuses him of having done?
Repressing protestors and being corrupt, as if the West really has any problem with these things. They justify his murder by saying he was "killed by his own people" and "opposed by rebels in his own country," ignoring that these "rebels" were racists armed by NATO. It's like saying the Sandinistas were "overthrown by their own people."
EDIT: As far as I'm aware, the government accused him of having killed 10,000 people and having given viagra to African mercenaries to rape people (nothing we all find more terrifying than black people apparently; because 60's racism is trendy again). EDIT 2: Amnesty international was on the ground when these accusations were made and said to the effect of 'no they're not'.
Parenti had a list about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7c41is/16_things_libya_will_never_see_again_by_michael/
When I first mentioned some of this stuff, he was hesitant to believe it so we googled it, and every one of the things on the list was coming up true; A Somali colleague of ours even confirmed the point number 12 about every Libyan citizen receiving straight to their bank a portion of every oil sale. Oh, and the last point? About the great man made river project to make water readily available throughout the desert country? NATO bombed it; there were civilians taking shelter around the (pipes?) who were killed in the bombings, and a (Libyan?) journalist confirmed this saying he was personally among the people pulling dead children out of the wreckage.
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Gadaffi did some good things, but let's not forget that he also went completely fucking insane and started arguing stupid shit like that real socialism is when women stay in the kitchen.
THANK YOU. this perfectly put into words frustrations I've had with media for years
If you think Daenarys Targaryan represents any kind of revolutionary or socialist force you need to reread the books. She is literally an avatar of monarchic power and aristocracy. She is four different kinds of the chosen one and special and unique by virtue of her blood, birth and station. Her return to power is literally the return of a people who rule over a continent by virtue of their literal special blood and their ethnic identity,
its the Bane problem. Contrived "evil" acts that don't really fit the motivation
also really doesn't fit the elder god aesthetic, which I would have understood to just be alien/unfathomable goals and motivations.
alien/unfathomable goals and motivations
To libs that's communists
Skibidi Ohio Tier
Villains who just want to watch the world burn. "Have you tried using JQuery?" Villains who are just evil or lust for power
Those are the most realistic ones though
Villains with better motives than the heroes is realistic too, given how often the heroes are cops, or nobility or some shit
"My goal is to free my people from the systemic oppression the hero's kingdom is responsible for that the hero doesn't know how to fix"
shoots fireball into orphanage "uh oh I guess you'll have to kill me
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Hate to admit it but chatgpt is really making headway in the "google the question and add 'reddit' at the end" space. There's been multiple google-to-solve things where it found useful info that google results didn't produce.
