Here’s what we learned about America this week: The media is lying to you about where political violence in America comes from. Cole Allen isn’t an aberration. He epitomizes the kind of person likely to defend and commit political violence: smart, highly credentialed, left wing.
@KiasNguyen@MightyKeef And it's like WHO CARES but this is all stupid ass pendulum swing reactivity to 10 yr old complaints of white va for black characters.
@knight32145@the_Bradster007 Meh he felt real. Like he was developing before our eyes.
Like Tony and Bruce' rash vision was made manifest.
That all of Tony's fears he was trying to prevent he began to bring them to their doorstep.
Ultron was not as powerful as his comic counterpart but still formidable
@johnkloess@the_Bradster007 I mean it SHOWS us they are friends it doesn't assume anything. It TELLS us time has passed and that they work together now on a consistent basis
Humans invented writing to track debts. The world's first writing system, cuneiform, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3200 BC to record who owed what to whom. Clay tokens for accounting date back as far as 8000 BC. Debt isn't some corruption of a golden age. It's so fundamental to human cooperation that we created literacy because of it.
War is even older. At Jebel Sahaba in Sudan, archaeologists found a cemetery dating to 13,000 years ago where half the people buried had been killed by arrows, spears, and clubs. That's thousands of years before the first city, the first farm, or the first written law.
And about that beautiful planet of trees and sunshine: for most of human history, roughly half of all children died before age 15. Researchers who studied 17 hunter-gatherer societies found an average child mortality rate of 49%. Even in Sweden in the 1750s, 40% of children didn't survive to 15. Today globally, it's about 4%. In Japan and Iceland, 0.4%.
The systems the tweet mourns are the same ones that changed those numbers. In 1820, roughly 84% of all humans lived in extreme poverty (per economic historians at the University of Paris). Today it's about 10%. Between 1990 and 2025, roughly 118,000 people escaped extreme poverty every single day.
None of this means that debt or capitalism are without serious flaws. They obviously are. But the "paradise ruined" framing gets the history backwards. The planet was a place where burying your children was normal, and violence was a constant threat. Everything that makes modern life livable was built, imperfectly, by humans figuring out how to cooperate at scale.
This is such incredibly weird behavior. Not liking a gaming company is completely fine.
Hoping that hundreds of devs, (people whom have nothing to do with the decision makings of upper management) just loses their jobs, is incredibly weird. It doesn’t fix your life at all.
>Valve makes a online storefront
>everything about it is free
>support actually works
>seasonal sales
>generous and clearly defined refund policy
>regional pricing
>costumers naturally flock to it and choose it over the competition
>this is somehow illegal
DaCara Thompson was brutally raped and murdered and thrown over a bridge by 35 year old Hugo Hernandez - Mendez who is an illegal alien from Guatemala.
Not a word from Black Lives Matter, not a word from Jasmine Crockett, not a word from the NAACP, not a word from Black Pastors, not a word from Main Stream Media, and not one word from white liberals.
Doesn’t fit their narrative 💔🙏💔