Sorry are we not still in Iraq?

The year is 1991, the US goes to war in the middle east. The year is 2002, the US goes to war in the middle east. The year is 2026, the US goes to war in the middle east.

You seem not to know history. Mossadegh wanted to nationalize the oil fields so that the people living in Iran could benefit financially from them. The CIA murdered him and then installed the Shah, for the express purpose of letting Western corporations exploit the oil fields.

This exact story line has played out in countless countries for decades. The CIA or some other group has been doing this to the third world for a loooong time. Any time any of these people try to assert themselves to fix their homelands, the CIA has them killed.

These humans are just cogs in a machine. Khomeni did alot of bad in the world but the CIA coup in 1953 is what created the conditions that lead to the 1979 revolution and the Ayatollah assuming power.

Killing Saddam Hussain didn’t fix Iraq. Killing Bin Laden didn’t fix Afghanistan. This will not fix Iran.

The US blowing shit up without careful consideration creates a cycle of violence that has been the history of the middle east for the past century. Doing this one good thing will had to a thousand bad things. The US has created all the terrorists that want to destroy it, and this situation is no different.

The problem will always be capitalism. The 1953 coup was motivated in response to the nationalizing the oil fields. As long as we are beholden to the profit concerns of rich men, these cycles of violence will persist.

Man if only there was a way to design society so that people could walk more.

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What about all the times the DNC gently massages preferable primary candidates?

They can’t kill each other without involving us. Also our stuff.

How can the corporations get out of the way to stop letting corporations run the country?

China would put most of these guys to death

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It is cheaper!

Sorry bro whatever is going on in your life. I still love you. 🫂

You can make the world better in little bit meaningful ways. Sometimes just making your life better is the way to make the world better. Be gentle with yourself and with others.

No I am not calling it generic. I’m just saying the book is so iconic and so copied that coming to it for the first time today feels like I’ve already read books and played video games that are like this. It’s not a fault of the work, it’s just that it’s hard for it to feel fresh today.

I am currently reading Neuromancer by William Gibson. This novel is often credited with starting the cyberpunk genre. It’s a novel that is so iconic that when you read it today, it feels a little generic. If I didn’t know the history, I would say someone wrote a book version of Cyberpunk 2077. It is interesting because he actually uses real life brands, instead of being forced to invent brands for the book (like what Cyberpunk 2077 did).

The problem with capitalism is that rich morons can dictate all the resources onto a game with completely unreasonable expectations, and when it inevitably blows up in their face they’ll ruin the lives of the hundreds of people who worked on the game by firing them. And these people’s families will fall into chaos through no fault of their own.

A ring of rich pedophiles runs the world.

The proletariat don’t need to learn theory if they get to class consciousness organically.