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8BitArchitect 10 points ago +10 / -0

"voters are unsophisticated"

Then why do we let them decide who's in charge of the country?

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

A boycott won't do a lot for my health or their bottom line. I don't drink a lot of whisky (averaged out over a year, I probably have about an ounce or two a week). What it will do is make me drink more scotch (not one of their brands) and less bourbon. At least until I find another bourbon I like in that price range.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

They did/tried to for 'pistols' they reclassified as 'SBR's, but that's one of those things that they get away with purely because no-one challenges them on it, I think.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

You make porn comics, don't you?

Ain't being a prude, you just have a certain... style.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

The classics (Doom 1 and 2) are abandonware and there's modernized engines that run them much better on modern hardware, so I wouldn't pay for those.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think the one reason I don't play more Factorio is that you (at least at the start) have to control a single unit to do all your construction, and that really slows a lot of the gameplay down in a way I don't find fun. I wish I could figure out how to get myself (mentally) past this because otherwise I really like the game. There any mods or tricks you know of that would help?

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8BitArchitect 4 points ago +4 / -0

Perhaps, you might say, poisoning the well of discussion?

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

Muslims are raping 'my' daughters about as much as Jews are pimping them out on the internet and convincing them that it's 'empowering'.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

We're certainly moving toward something more of an International Fascism in contrast with the earlier, nationalist incarnations (very cyberpunk dystopia), and I think anarcho-tyranny is a tool toward that end, but I'm not sure it's a desired end state, nor does its definition allow it to be called a form of government on its own.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +3 / -2

The US is more Fascist (corporate/government collusion with socialist policies) than Communist (which doesn't really like corporations), except without the good parts of Fascism (Strong families and national identity.)

I'd agree that pretty much every western democracy is socialist (thank the Fabians), but I'd hesitate to call any major world power communist after the fall of the USSR.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

Notice how the groups get smaller and dumber each time? When's the last time there was a successful communist revolution?

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8BitArchitect 14 points ago +15 / -1

If canada had any balls (heh) they'd just find the biggest, hairiest dudes, have them "identify" as female, and give them these tasks. Second best choice they could find the butchiest man-hating lesbians to do it.

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8BitArchitect 5 points ago +5 / -0

Was Drudge the guy that the CIA killed with the heart-attack gun, or was that Breitbart?

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

[Y]ou can be rich through inheritance.

That's rich in spite of your own laziness.

The rich who are deserving, in my view, are those who provide actually useful goods and services.

In a free market (which I accept that neither the US nor Europe has) 'useful goods and services' are determined by market forces. I'll agree that there are lots of 'useless' products and services on the market, but they're either there due to market forces, or government manipulation of market forces, and increasing the amount of government manipulation probably isn't the solution to the problem.

And to answer your original question, I'll suggest it's always theft to use force or the threat thereof take something from one person simply because they possess it and give it to someone else simply because they would benefit from it.

[O]ne of the few blessings of living in Europe is that we don't have [medical debt].

Because the US taxpayer and consumer subsidizes your medical system. If the US drops out of NATO and/or mandates that drugs not be sold at a lower cost overseas than they are sold to US consumers, your government medical system(s) would collapse. Not that our system of insurance cartels is good, but it allows your system of government controlled pricing to exist.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

I can see how someone would be poor through their own laziness, but you can only be rich in spite of your own laziness ("through no fault of your own"). The two situations are different.

Voluntary charity to care for the involuntarily destitute is entirely different from the state taking money under threat of force to distribute as it sees fit.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

What about RDR 1 was woke? It's been a while since I played it so I could genuinely be misremembering, but overall it was pretty based from what I remember.

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8BitArchitect 5 points ago +5 / -0

Why would you use Rust in an anti-woke project?

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