I’m old. vCOD, UO, and CoD2 were my shit. Cod4 was the transition, but still good. Blackops lost the theme and killed any competitive scene opportunities for the game, and as you said, it’s been Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v ever since, yet also worse every time.
Mercenaries. We have a term for this already and it’s Mercenary. Not a private contractor for a security company. Mercenary.
I always heard this “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” attitude/saying attributed to goebbels and went to go find the source.
I fell down the research well and found it’s actually from an author I’ve read but evidently not enough of his work: Upton Sinclair.
The source is The Profits of Religion and “Sinclair attacks institutionalized religion as a ‘source of income to parasites, and the natural ally of every form of oppression and exploitation.’”
Seems sadly relevant to today.
God, the performative bs. Like watching a B-movie only half the audience is enthralled like it’s some Oscar winner.
Matthew 6:6 - pray in private But I think Matthew 23:27-28 fits better:
27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
I just saw a person in a suit, then read the “mansplaining” comment, then went back and saw the posters name.
It feels so forced or I am just oblivious. I thought the response was an asshole being an “acktuallllllly” response.