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?
Perhaps, you might say, poisoning the well of discussion?
Muslims are raping 'my' daughters about as much as Jews are pimping them out on the internet and convincing them that it's 'empowering'.
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.
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.
Notice how the groups get smaller and dumber each time? When's the last time there was a successful communist revolution?
We aren't on reddit, you can say sand-niggers.
They did have a whole movie about a "woman king".
*Translator's note: Kikeku means (((plan)))
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.
Was Drudge the guy that the CIA killed with the heart-attack gun, or was that Breitbart?
[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.
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.
I'd like to see how you define "undeserved"/"deserving" there.
Where are the elite police?
On private security details for the 'elite'.
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.
Why would you use Rust in an anti-woke project?
Out of curiosity, u/Unknownsailor, which of those books have you read?
His co-author is the one with talent on those. Forstchen wrote One Second After (and it's sequels) which I enjoyed quite a bit. Not alternate history, but alternate present/speculative fiction.
I read the Civil War series (spoiler: it ends with the south still losing.) and didn't find it particularly exceptional either way, but it did keep me interested enough to read all three. The one WWII alternate history book of his I read (1945) was in severe need of a good editor, to the point that a major character dies in the penultimate chapter, and is suddenly, and without explanation, alive two pages over in the final chapter.
u/Smith1980 I don't know about the rest of the WWII books, but while Forstchen impressed me as a writer, Gingrich decidedly didn't.
Why'd this get deleted?
20% sales tax
I'll take it over a comparable or higher income tax or property taxes.
In a "high trust" (homogeneous) society regulations are largely unnecessary because violating societal standards results naturally in some sort of exclusion from that society. Regulations/laws are only necessary to deal with situations where people disagree.
The type of regulations you're talking about exist to create trust in situations where there is no preexisting relationship between the parties. However, in many cases they needn't be proactive (you must be licenced/inspected/approved beforehand) but could be reactive (if your actions cause harm you will be punished accordingly.) In most cases I think I'd prefer regulations be more reactive on a smaller scale and only be proactive when dealing with larger projects/organizations, but I don't yet have a particularly well defined idea of where the line is where you should move from reactive to proactive.
Just make 'causing mayhem' illegal and punish it appropriately then.
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.