Nama [he/him]

I’m gonna take the space stairs and hit the stop button on every level.

Double-tapping(warcrime) on purely civilian infrastructure(warcrime)? If it isn’t the leader of the free World!

Doesn’t help that the game itself unintentionally worsens this issue.

Xeno-Compatibility is a cool af feature on paper, but using it, or having open borders with an empire using it, makes playing with bio-ascention a nightmare since you get an absurd amount of species you all have to modify individually while only being able to do so one at a time.

But the one mechanical reason to pick it is its a buff to bio-ascention.

And if you ever want to play lategame stellaris, the number of pops of the AI become the real enemy with how the game calculates them all individually.

With the upcoming complete rework of pops and genetic ascention this will change for the better though. Anti-lag genocide won’t be a thing anymore and I hope they cook with the gene thing aswell.

Why would capitalists build physical factories if buying up more homes and jacking up rent prices is so much more profitable in the short term? And once they suck the last dollar from the poor through their “passive income”, why build factories if the workers can’t afford anything anymore?

Local demand will break down even faster through these Tarifs, giving capitalists even less incentive to invest in production when they see nobody buying. Long term thinking isn’t exactly their strong suit.

I think this is just economic suicide and I’m all here for it.

I’m not supersticious enough to trust some Kennedy curse on this one. Ima sit in the cockpit. Just to make sure.

“With great power comes great responsibility” is just the logical followup on “From each according to his ability”

The real King Dedede

That is good then. I don’t really watch streams and went off the few minutes I saw, and maybe got hunger up on his take on the forced conscription Videos.

His sentiment is overall much better still than most liberals, of course. It’s just his dismissal of very valid leftist positions that irks me. This is a fight between two capitalist nations and the principled take would be no war but the class war. To that end, the forced conscription of both sides should be highlighted as the barbaric thing it is, where the state forces unwilling men to die for the profits of oligarchs. BadEmpanada rightfully points out that this whole war is a pointless meat grinder that doesn’t serve either people.

Russia doesn’t care about the fascists, but they are still there, and fucking Bandera is now widely celebrated. Ukraine is not a nation worth the blood shed over it. Defending Ukraine serves no purpose for the cause of any denomination of socialism. It is also not our responsibility as westerners to deal with the Russian imperialism either, we got our own house to clean. This shit is what broke the second international, we should know this by now. Working against the war effort of “our” side is the fucking point, because they are not our side, and we are responsible for it. So what, if Russia “wins” or there is a peace treaty? It puts an end to the dying and there are still capitalists in control. Boo hoo. But there is no need to put it this way.

This isn’t a fight where leftists should pick a side to “support”, it’s a pointless war we should oppose. The senselessness and cruelty of it all, of either side, should not be excused, but highlighted. This is what capitalism fucking does. Don’t say Ukraine or the West is right, don’t say Russia is right, say this war is shit. It was preventable, neither leadership cares about its people, and it should end. If you wanna go for the “good guy” appearance, say you support UN monitored referendums in the contested areas after a peace treaty, or something like that. Put the people first. They live on the land, they get to decide. That’s democracy.

Sorry for the rant.

If this was the entire argument, his position would be kind of valid. Nato poking the bear is an explanation, but not an excuse for Russia.

But then he later states that the forced conscription in Ukraine is just what any nation would do. Which, sure, but that’s not a fucking excuse either then.

Why are you doing this?

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What are you talking about? As long as Trans-Mega still beats out News-Mega, nothing is happening. I thought we had that established by now.

I’ll oversimplify a bit, but here you go. In economic terms, liberalism is a market oriented economy, and the current iteration of neoliberalism is marked by social welfare cuts and tax cuts for the rich with “trickle down” effect in mind (allegedly). That ideology is shared by both the democratic and republican parties. The difference between communists and liberals in the sense the word is most often used, is that economic approach, and from that perspective both liberals and conservatives are “liberal”.

Now the common use of the word is a bit different, but that’s almost exclusively US from what I can tell. Hexbear is also international though, and liberal is a common term for right wingers where I’m from for example.

Hope I could help.

Now this is public holiday I could get behind.