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The pigs seem to be skurrying in the other direction, unless the protest is actually peaceful. Then they're happy to show folks how big and bad they are lol.

The rise of the right, and these riots are a symptom of the same thing. Failure of the center and left, in whatever form it actually takes, to provide the conditions for a thriving society. But sure, be mad at the symptom, not the cause.

ACAB!

Yeah, actually it makes sense. They are property and the pigs' objective is to protect property.

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My guess is upright. They often wrap their tails around themselves back to front, so along the ground so that it encircles their feet as far as it'll go. This looks like they just let it go forward rather continuing to keep it pressed against themself. Admittedly it's a very weird angle to see a cat and I'm not sure why the front paws aren't on whatever surface they're sitting on.

I kind of dove into this game with no expectations and I absolutely loved it. The nonsense of this world you're diving into is so well done and weird in all the best ways. I loved it.

Just as Nolan intended douche sounds

Star wars is notoriously WW2 atmospheric fighters in space. The mechanics of space combat would be quite different. I'm assuming that's what they mean.

I mean the US not being the good guy was the distillation of his message.

Another person spoke about his Epstein connection which has come out recently, which is a huge disappointment. All I can say is that like 15 years ago, people like him, Norm Finkelstein and Chris Hedges helped to plant me on the left. Finding out about Epstein has been difficult to understand given his work and the effect it had on me.

Yeah, I honestly don't know what to make of that, it's personally a real letdown as Chomsky's power came from truth telling and moral clarity, and then he hangs out with that fucking pedo. I'm not sure what he was accused of specifically. I thought it was that he had dinners with Epstein. I hadn't heard he advised him. That'd be next level bad.

However, I don't think that changes his analysis. Either it's valid or not.

Don't know the exact context to this story because it just popped up on my feed, but it reminds me of a Chomsky interview about his book "Manufacturing concent". The book deals with the western media and how it controls conversations by setting the overton window.

​Andrew Marr: How can you know that I'm self-censoring? How can you know that journalists are...

​Noam Chomsky: I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.

Yeah, it may be the tech demo that Lemmy serves that skews content the way it does in other places (like bluesky). Another commenter was gesturing in that direction and it makes sense to me. Thanks for taking the time.