SoyViking [he/him]

Never trust anything you read on the internet

It is almost impossible for a character in a Hollywood film to speak with a Slavic accent and smoke a cigarette without also being some sort of asshole.

But also “if someone slices you across the stomach with a big sword you don’t bleed you just hold your stomach and fall over while going ‘arrghh’”

Magic computers that can sharpen and enlarge a grainy CCTV frame enough that you can read what people are typing on their phone.

The American president that goes “gee-haw we really need to stop Voldemort so the people of Agrabad can enjoy democracy and human rights!”

The divorced single-parent cop who struggles to make family life work despite being good at solving big scary crime.

The “we just want to do senseless evil for no apparent reason” terrorists

BOOH! Get new material!

• Me reacting to almost any major Hollywood production these days

Why are our tools of imperial enforcement no longer working as they used to? Could it be because they are wielded by the failsons of failsons who have steeped in imperial propaganda for so long that they actually believe it?

Nah… It must be the pronouns.

I vaguely remember playing it a little back in the day

I’m shivering imagining how cursed the content on the EU branded social media apps was. I’m having nightmarish visions of Eldritch horror levels of neoliberal cringe.

There are plenty of shortcomings of the Scandinavian model of succdem-infested bureaucratic mass unions but they’re still able to pull off something like this and make oligarchs shit their pants.

The lack of a tradition for political interference in labour relations and the large membership makes it much more politically expensive for rulers to intervene in labour disputes.

The European Commission aims to empower consumers and ensure tech giants adhere to European rules, providing immediate accountability for any issues.

Part of this “adhering to European rules” means complying with EU laws on “disinformation” and giving police forces of EU refined backdoor access to take down content.