I thought the halo ce was generally very well received.

So was a whole bunch of other FPS tripe that glorified USian militarism.

Yeah, it does. They gave Half-Life’s spot to that crappy game.

Non-radical unions exist to play the working class.

Nicely done.

It’s been done before… before the “Red Scare” there was the “Black Scare” - it’s where the trope of the “bomb-throwing anarchist” comes from.

It’s a valid tactic - but if it’s not carefully done and well thought through, it can end up creating a lot of blowback… as it did for the anarchist Alexander Berkman when he attempted to assassinate the capitalist Henry Clay Frick (hint - don’t assassinate a capitalist during a strike… if the striking workers thought that’d work they’d probably do it themselves).

Not sure about that paper - it recommends ocular irrigation (with water) for OC gas… the exact thing you mentioned hurting so bad in your first response. The thing to remember here is that a lot of the discourse on this doesn’t distinguish between the use of a liquid to flood particles away from skin and membranes through it’s kinetic action (possible with CS gas and very necessary with white phosporous) and relying on the chemical properties of the liquid itself to bring any kind of relief.

The capsacin is dissolved in an oil,

That only counts for OC gas (pepper spray) - most anti-dissent chemical weaponry doesn’t contain capsaicin. Milk won’t do shit for CS gas, for instance. For CS gas, water is the only thing that works.

Considering how many different types of this shit there actually is and the fact that they can mix them up pretty easily regardless of what the law actually says makes a one-size-fits-all solution pretty difficult.

edit: did I just say a one-size-fits-all solution to this is difficult? Silly me.

Considering the routine fake heroics ascribed to pig both in games and in movies, you’d really have to go out of your fascist bootlicking way to get your game called “most reactionary.”

Who did you think presided over colonialism, genius? Martians?

By the time of the Great Irish Famine (one of the British Empire’s earliest achievements) the transformation of England from a feudal society to a liberal one was complete.

The US was literally founded as the model for the liberal nation state - it’s entire history of genocide, slavery and yes, colonialism was drenched in the tenets of liberalism from the moment the constitution was signed right to this very day.

Go redo your history - and, this time, don’t get it from PragerU.

opportunities

Really? It has nothing to do with the hundreds of years of colonialist looting and pillaging liberals presided over that is still ongoing today?

freedom.

Really? This has nothing to do with with the targeted maldevelopment of the 3rd world presided over by liberals that is, again, ongoing to this very day?

Way to go outing yourself like that, white supremacist.

Liberty means freedom

And has liberalism delivered any of this?

And a good thing it is, too - if you liberals were managing it lemmy would have been sold off to Meta or Google a long time ago.

And nothing of value will be lost.

It’s a good idea. Words are extremely powerful - by dictating what something is called, you can frame a given narrative as this or that before any education on said narrative has even occured. People think it’s nitpicky, but it’s not - they pay propagandists a lot of money to come up with words.

Wtf does that even mean?

Pretending that production for profit and production for need is the same thing is fallacious - end of story.

All I’m trying to do is explain to you that resources are finite and too many people will burn through them.

You still haven’t managed to justify the right-wing trope of “overpopulation” - pretending that the vast majority’s consumption is (somehow) the problem isn’t proving it, merely regurgitating it.

the white people that slowed down the most.

Sooo… you have figured out that in a capitalist society access to women’s healthcare is merely another commodity - and, thanks to colonialist pillaging and repression, white people do tend to have more access to that commmodity?

You don’t say.

Population projections for the world do not show a decline.

No… it shows a trend towards stabilization - which, just by itself, demoslishes the entire concept of “overpopulation.”

Unless of course you take the lack of resources into account…

What lack of resources. Resources being hoarded by a capitalist elite was as true in 1950 as it was in 2023 - so how does that affect the trope you are trying to justify?

Water used for industry is still going to be used regardless of who controls that industry.

Absolutely not. Pretending that capitalism doesn’t work the way capitalism works is a certain dead-end for your argument.

they just don’t have a means to act on it.

That is one piss-poor justification for the status quo.

Population growth has slowed but it has not stopped.

The people at the top aren’t worried about population growth these days, Clyde - they are worried about population reversal. You wanna know why?

Whether Malthus himself was a right-winger or not isn’t really important… it doesn’t change how the trope of overpopulation has been used to protect power and privilege (ie, the whole point of right-wing ideology). For instance, there is a very good reason why white supremacists support the criminalization of women’s health care in (supposedly) “white” countries while demonizing 3rd world countries for their (supposedly) “explosive population growth.”

It’s a very old trope that flattens human consumption and therefore camouflages the reality that certain classes of people consume resources at astronomical rates in comparison with the rest. It’s utility in shielding class hierarchies from scrutiny should be perfectly obvious.

The article says rich people are using 2x as much water as poor people domestically.

FTFY. That’s just household use, Clyde. We haven’t even started with the water usage that makes the rich rich - ie, the private ownership of industry and commerce (which, of course, externalizes the destruction of water resources).

That’s hardly out of the realm of possibility considering the population already has gone up 8x since 1950

That kind of population growth is a thing of the past. The only way to successfully reverse that would be by design - such as the measures taken by certain aspects of the US political establishment to enforce patriarchal norms through institutionalized violence (ie, the criminalization of women’s healthcare).

You do you.

This…

All things being equal (and that’s the important factor) there is next-to-no chance of us ever reaching such a bizarre amount of people

…just went completely over your head, didn’t it?