The artist is RustyAtom, u/khynra on Reddit

For those who want some context: Theosophy has always been a huge part of the New Age movement and the founder of Theosophy, Madame Blavatsky, was a white supremacist. She taught her followers about a "Great White Brotherhood" (aka The Masters) who were racially superior to others. She was also convinced of the existence of superior "root races" (one of them being the Aryans) and various "sub-races"...

Unsurprisingly Theosophy would (for example) merge with the Völkisch movement in Germany (the precursor of the nazi party).

Theosophy with its belief in a secret underground realms, ancient high cultures, lost continents, superior alien races and so on and so forth, was one of the big influences on the late 20th century New Age movement.

Ah, well, better skip "Strange Days", "12 Monkeys" and "Gattaca" then...

June 12th:

"I am pleased to confirm the 6th round of Iran US talks will be held in Muscat this Sunday the 15th," Bad Albusaidi, the country's foreign minister said on social media.

Israel struck Iran later the same day.

So why should Iran have any reason to believe that "talks" will stop Israel and the US?

Bundesbeamtengesetz § 63

(1) Beamtinnen und Beamte tragen für die Rechtmäßigkeit ihrer dienstlichen Handlungen die volle persönliche Verantwortung.

(2) Bedenken gegen die Rechtmäßigkeit dienstlicher Anordnungen haben Beamtinnen und Beamte unverzüglich bei der oder dem unmittelbaren Vorgesetzten geltend zu machen. Wird die Anordnung aufrechterhalten, haben sie sich, wenn ihre Bedenken gegen deren Rechtmäßigkeit fortbestehen, an die nächsthöhere Vorgesetzte oder den nächsthöheren Vorgesetzten zu wenden. Wird die Anordnung bestätigt, müssen die Beamtinnen und Beamten sie ausführen und sind von der eigenen Verantwortung befreit. Dies gilt nicht, wenn das aufgetragene Verhalten die Würde des Menschen verletzt oder strafbar oder ordnungswidrig ist und die Strafbarkeit oder Ordnungswidrigkeit für die Beamtinnen und Beamten erkennbar ist. Die Bestätigung hat auf Verlangen schriftlich zu erfolgen.

Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

Consider this headline from Bloomberg in this context:

About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record

The problem is that it's not a question of intelligence.

Trumpists and their ilk are living in echo chambers of "alternative facts", perpetuated by Fox News, Murdoch newspapers and an nearly endless amount of rightwing influencers (starting with Rogan at the top). They are not looking at what's happening, because they are surrounded in a very comforting bubble of disinfo and propaganda that confirms everything they wanted to hear: The illegals get deported, the queers get finally put in their place, the liberals are frothing with anger, finally men are back in charge who tell women where they belong and America is going to be "great" again any moment now.

It's fascism and fascism has always been a "cult": The early pioneers of fascism (particularly D'Annunzio and later Mussolini) explicitly said their aim was to create a "secular religion" around the nation, the people and the leader. And you can only be a member of that religion if you accept its "truth" and reject everything that contradicts it.

Very smart people can adhere to a religion for a variety of reasons and the most obvious one is (and always has been) because it promises them power over others.

This is a prime example of why patriarchy is hurting men too, because what this guy is saying boils down to:

• We can make them work at any hour of the day because who cares if these guys have any life outside work?
• We don't have to do any work management, we just call those guys
• We can send them wherever, whenever
• We can create a toxic work environment and it's okay to treat guys like shit
• And those guys don't even complain because they need this job so bad
  Isn't it great?

The statement about "workplace laws" is so telling: Yeah, who cares about treating men with respect and dignity!?
It's not just about discriminating against women, it's also about mistreating men. That's what patriarchy is at its core: Pit men and women against each other and then reap the benefits. It's a "divide and conquer strategy".

Art is by Skaroy

A little long maybe, I assume it won't be long until it's just "likensub".

Because there are lots of people in this thread who paint whales as "rich schmucks" who can afford to spend $48k without thinking twic. This is a myth that lots of the gaming industry itself loves to perpetuate, because it absolves them of taking responsibility for ruining lives.

Research has shown repeatedly that whales are much more likely to be people with mental health problems and/or gambling addicts. That Star Citizen isn't a freemium game with loot boxes makes it marginally better than - let's say - Genshin Impact, but offers like the bundle in the article is still predatory.