A group of young white guys networking, drinking, and hazing each other is not unique to the US and I don't even know why it's being suggested as such. At best they're not as common because people in Europe seem to have a sense of the common good and will ban them. But they do exist. It's not about them being the exact same because obviously cultural distinctions exist. Just because Burschenschaft dresses it up as Medieval sword duels doesn't mean it's not a similar thing.
Just every person under 40 trying to become a millionaire by making a video with the right combination of "Charlie Kirk", "6-7", "________maxxing", and "Israel".
His come-up in New Jersey local politics was progressive. In 2005 he was very much on the Obama tip, doing that same faux progressive thing. That's what got him noticed in the first place. There was a documentary and everything. He could have been Obama if Obama had not been picked. Once he moved past local politics he became more centrist. Of course his consolation prize, apparently, is a lifelong Senate seat where he can do some tweets and speeches while pocketing money.
I've got over 2,400 hours in Dota 2 from my misspent uni years, and I'm currently sitting on 183 hours with Valve's latest and counting.
I'm having a good time, and by "good time", I mean I am magnetically attracted to this dopamine machine and cannot pull away, even while I learn about all the fun new slurs I can be called by strangers online.
The gaming industry is truly a child of techno capitalism. I get why the company wants games to be addictive, so they can capture attention and money. No reason for a consumer to think this way and desire to be captured. The full court rush corporate takeover, the destruction of anything creative, the anti-labor actions that you couldn't get away with in manufacturing or probably even the service industry. It should be studied academically.
My favorite thing is to slow cook it on the stovetop in oil, salt, pepper, msg, sriracha, garlic, and onion. Let it sweat out, stirring occasionally. Near the end it starts to carmelize and you let it get a little brown. Then it's done. It's so tender and savory. You eat it and you just feel better on top of being satiated. It's cheap. Cabbage also has more vitamin c per weight than oranges. You will never get scurvy. If you're diabetic it's great because it has enough sugar in it to facilitate browning and sweetness but it's low glycemic index and load. That means it won't spike your sugar suddenly and when it does go up, it won't be by much. There are different kinds of cabbages with slightly different flavor profiles. The cabbage meta is here to stay. Look into it if you are not cabbagemaxxing.
Marx wrote about the nature of human production where we come to know things by making them and then those things change human society by becoming part of culture. How do you even examine humanity without considering production and culture are related? Fields like sociology are pretty good about acknowledging Marx. Not sure about anthropology though.
Where do you think the rich's war on food for poors ends? Is it a "decadence for me, branded influencer gruel for you" kind of thing or will these people slowly gaslight themselves into not eating food at all because it's too pedestrian? Food will be the iphone or the big screen TV, where the poors show no moral fortitude by debasing themselves in consumerism while the noble elites only eat food because they can afford it?
Hey someone taking the discussion more seriously than you or caring about it more than you isn't a defect. We covered this during our revision of the CoC.
Do not demean or harass others for caring about a topic or details of a topic more than you do.
If you don't have anything constructive to contribute other than "people who reply to me are hyper online weirdos" then you should follow your own advice and log off.
The legacy of the 2015-era socialist podcasters will be the Roganization leftist media. Hope it was worth it just to dunk on Johnathan Chait with the r-slur or give the deeply materialist, dialectic commentary of Trump being gay. Still wondering where these noble normies that amassed around our normal podcasters are. Seems like after a decade of normalizing the left for normal sensibilities there should be something to show for it besides the personal wealth of the hosts. Maybe subscriber count is its own victory. Hey I went to a party of lefists and they knew what a podcast was, I guess we won in the end.
Everyone gets this wrong as nobody really knows or cares about the history of McDonald's architecture, yet the argument relies on that historical information. This is not new. In the 70s they did this exact same thing. They got rid of the bright and flashy style they had used throughout the 50s and 60s. They used more earth tones and natural materials. Their goal was to make it feel more homey rather than oriented at kids/young people. Imagine going from white, red, yellow with space-age curves, almost Googie architecture, to beige and brown.
The difference between the change in the 70s and the one now is how we react. This reaction is driven by social media outrage. Every minor change any business makes is blown up and added to some kind of culture war narrative. It's repeated so much that even leftists will be like "this is true but because of dialectical materialism." It's not even true. Your 80s/90s McDonald's, that you totally remember accurately, was colorful because some franchises reverted back to white/yellow/red. People thought the 70s retool was too drab and the earth tones had fallen out of style. Some stores were repainted. It's not a linear decline in aesthetics, it changes over time. The story here is that a business which relies on stores will change the stores every 20-30 years based on the prevailing style.
I know we are desperately grasping at any canary in a coal mine for the fall of capitalism, but I don't think it's correlated to the appearance of McDonald's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sanda_Dia
Also the reason why you don't see more German fraternities is WWII. They know it's not a good look: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/31/austria-dissolve-fraternity-linked-far-right-freedom-party-songbook
A group of young white guys networking, drinking, and hazing each other is not unique to the US and I don't even know why it's being suggested as such. At best they're not as common because people in Europe seem to have a sense of the common good and will ban them. But they do exist. It's not about them being the exact same because obviously cultural distinctions exist. Just because Burschenschaft dresses it up as Medieval sword duels doesn't mean it's not a similar thing.