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In Asia, it's a nightmare.

The PokeStops and events are plentiful and raids are easy to win and great.

But gyms, man. They don't change because of the smurf accounts. I stopped being able to get free coins because people would walk around my city with corkboards with 6-8 phones, and any time I knocked out a Pokémon at a gym, a new one was immediately in its place.

No more free coins, so I quit entirely.

My ancestors are smiling on me, Imperial. Can you say the same?

It's an allegory for STDs.

Yep. The Romans fucked themselves sideways doing this a few times. You can have all the soldiers or you can have some farmers and skilled laborers. You can't have both.

Imagine Vietnam-era US, but it was willing to sacrifice every warm body within its borders to win.

Like the US, I think Russia is on a collision course with failure. But they're going to take it a lot farther before waving a white flag. So much so that it will take the country decades to recover.

And Ukraine won't be looking too hot at that point anymore, either.

You're selling Earth blood that makes the sky melt.

That's pretty fucking evil.

The disease is unlimited money in politics.

There are billionaires who were already radicalized to this level. They're just pouring their fortunes into bringing everyone else into their fold, too.

Remember 15 years ago when Republicans finally stopped going after LGBTQ folks, and how that slowly started to erode after Citizens United? It is not coincidental. There are evangelist billionaires whose only concern in the world is a regressive future, and that's bad for everybody.

You ever watch Requiem For A Dream?

I live in Taiwan.

Can confirm that plenty of shit is slathered in cheese and/or mayo, milk is readily available at any store, there's an absurd amount of Häagen-Dazs, and milk tea is the most commonly purchased beverage in the whole country.

Butter can be a bit scarce, though, strangely.

I dunno about you, my dude, but the only people I've seen fucked up by antifascists were not saying that they didn't want to bake a gay cake.

But I've seen the people who didn't want to bake a gay cake be called pieces of shit who should do better. And I think that's just called social consequences.

This is where I tend to disagree with Marx as well.

Capital is a fantastic book full of scathing and prophetic analyses of capitalism and its innate degradation of value and connection.

The Communist Manifesto is a book with some good ideas but some implementation that I find flawed. And that's not a knock on Marx-- critiquing problems is a significantly easier prospect than offering solutions.

But a lot of Marx's proposals for the implementation of Communism are rooted in authoritarianism, even if their end goal is the dissolution of the state and capital. Also, for an ideology versed in the formation and interdependence of worker communities, the Day of the Rope is kind of antithetical to establishing solidarity and mostly serves, I believe, as masturbatory schadenfreude.

But hey, I'm willing to fix some of the stuff that doesn't work instead of throwing more fuel into the machine that over-harvests people and our planet to the point of destruction.

I really like this nuanced take, btw. Thanks for posting it.

Tell that to anarchocommunists.

I'm sure it will be news to them that they will want to hear.