giwake

game developer, I think?

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i make games and music, sometimes.

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caymanwent
@caymanwent

Every day I’m increasingly perplexed and infuriated how the cost of living keeps rising, wages stay the same, opportunities for well-paid work keep drying up, and yet somehow no one’s been guillotined for it yet.


MisutaaAsriel
@MisutaaAsriel

Historically speaking, riots, a civil war, or a revolution should've happened.

I oft wonder if technology (TV/Internet) and the rampant misuse of it has somehow enabled a greater level of control over the populace. Too many people busy fighting amongst themselves on the bird app over something fake news man said on cable TV, to realize they have a common enemy.

Many more who lack the knowledge and information due to information being moved online, whilst many around the world lack access to anything more than public television.

Unprecedented times. But god do I wish they were precedented.



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in reply to @MisutaaAsriel's post:

Prefacing this with a disclaimer that I'm limiting myself to the American experience: I'd counter that we have passed and hit a number of milestones. The problem is they're all the wrong milestones, IE the ones that presage, depending on how you look at it, either the rise of fascism or the fascist consolidation of power. 2016-2020 saw a fascist strong man harness the resentment of a white cishet male population that both felt denied the things society owed it and was increasingly seeing its position at the center of said society challenged. After said fascist demagogue tried and failed to seize power through a coup - mostly because he forgot the all-too-vital "win the armed forces to your side through charisma and use their power to back yourself" part of a coup - we're now seeing those very armed forces increasingly exert their own influence over civil society to achieve much the same end as the demagogue. It's like we're seeing an uncomfortable fusion of German and Japanese fascism in the 1930s because the ruling classes intuitively recognized that the only other options are a political upheaval from the left or kicking the problem further down the road.

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