The issue is people have gone down this line of thinking dozens of times and it always ends the same way. Your inability to see that is how we get there.

The picture is inaccurate because the boot wearer is acknowledging the existence of the tankies, which is giving them far too much credit.

It’s got most of the same issues as eugenics - yeah, it’d be nice if nobody had to suffer obvious and objective genetic diseases but it consistently immediately turns into “well but I think being a red head is a genetic disease”. You have to consider how a solution can be achieved to really weigh its benefit versus alternatives.

We can feed everybody by Luigi-ing a rounding error’s worth of billionaires. Or we can reduce global population by a factor of 10, which is almost certainly going to disproportionately favor rich white dudes, do nothing to that handful of sociopaths, and they’ll still burn the planet to the ground.

They do, but given everything Purdue’s done I felt it was fitting. Fine as a concept, awful when the sole goal is extracting money.

That feels an awful lot like saying opiates are fine just don’t get addicted. It’s easy to say when you aren’t susceptible, but clearly some people are and it’s not very productive to be dismissive of the primary way they make money.

Your “fatal counter point” is that you like it, and surely every single human brain feels the exact same way?

Frantically figure out the most bizarre people-shadow I can possibly leave. May as well aim to have a legacy, though with my luck I’d probably end up outside the radius for that swift a death.

Belize was the Brits, not Americans.

My only issue has always been that I cannot throw more money at the ape. So I buy the game for gaming-adjacent friends and almost always ruin their lives convert them

It’s also worth mentioning the reason Poland was occupying parts of Ukraine and Belarus was because the soviets invaded roughly a decade and a half prior, and got wrecked.

Did anyone… have expectations? I’ll watch it on digital for the dinosaurs, same as the last three, but I expect to be thoroughly whelmed by any part of the movie besides the scaly things

To elaborate, and because the game doesn’t really explain this - there are three “types” of endings.

Obviously, spoilers.

Pacifist, where you do not kill a single enemy(yes, that includes chumps),

Genocide, where you kill literally every single enemy, including grinding encounters in every area until “nobody showed up” or whatever it says(this is meant to be an unenjoyable experience outside of two mildly interesting unique fights, and boy does it succeed)

And “mixed”, which is anything between the two.

The tax being on your income and not entirely on corporations always felt like a fairly biased distinction. If companies paid the entire income tax long before it got to you, and you were simply paid ~2/3rds as much, I feel like people’s opinions would be different despite not much changing.

Stealing shamelessly from another comment, Stop Ice is a website version that should be a little more secure due to not being an app on your phone.

Fascists are stupid, but lots of sociopathic opportunists aren’t.

Whether or not this splits them is up to the useless old geezers who should have retired decades ago.

I’d have traded Bernie for axing all politicians over 60.

There are 3 years and 11 months many of us spend fighting for that. Then there’s one month where keeping the literal modern nazis out of power requires some unsavory choices.

I was sleeping in my parents room, on the floor, till I was embarassingly old.

Turns out I had/have Tinnitus and found the background noise of whatever show they were falling asleep to made it infinite easier to sleep.

I have three bottles, still sitting neatly in their half of the 2 pack packaging. It hurts.

Chaos like… basic social policies most of the modern world embraced half a century ago?

Seems like that isn’t going to be particularly productive for anybody but russia?