It was also part of the agreement of the postwar global economy, like how the Dollar became everybody's reserve currency. The idea had some merit. "If we shove all the governments out of pursuing autarchy and build an interconnected global economy, a World War III will become less likely since nobody is going to go to war with their trade partners, and if they do then that countries other trade partners will be its allies, making the war harder to win and thus less appealing."
You've gotta remember, after WW1 and 2 everyone thought number 3 was just a matter of time, and with atom bombs proliferating everyone just naturally assumed that was it. The end of the world was just a few decades away, so strange and desperate measures were called for.
That's actually incorrect and you're basing your understanding off the Commie's truncated version of Popper's idea. What Popper actually said was that you should only stop being tolerant at the point where the other side starts using power, force, or violence to get their way. Not merely for holding or voicing intolerant ideas. Lefties always leave that part out because without it, the quote serves them perfectly, and with it they know they're the ones being indicted by it.
Most Europeans were indigenous Americans first. Look up how BTFO "out of Africa" has become in recent years. The oldest signs of human civilization ever discovered on Earth, today? North America.
I use a variant of this to short circuit some NPCs. "Give me a couple policies that are explicitly right wing, but not far right."
So I can actually break this down. Years ago I did a big study on the tech and tactics used by Islamic militants (and others) around the world as a research project, which led to learning basically everything else about them too.
The two most important ME militant groups are Hamas and Hezbollah. But to understand why Hamas is "hated" I'll compare and contrast the two.
Hezbollah: Functions and organized like a small, but professional army. Recruitment, uniforms, budget, access to modern weapons, and makes a reasonable effort to follow the international rules of warfare. They basically function like Lebanon's de-facto National Guard, working alongside and complimenting their existing army and usually following the orders of its government whern told to do or not to do something. Notably while they're quite active (and effective) in actually conducting operations against muh Israel, they do so like a professional army. When Israel attacked Lebanon back in 2006, Hez fucked them up pretty good, doing more damage than the actual Lebanese army did and forcing the Israelis to withdraw much earlier than they had planned. Because of this Israel hates their guts and is desperate to paint them with the same brush as Hamas so the world will help destroy them.
Hamas on the other hand: These guys are almost a mirror of the 1970s IRA. They're small, pretty unprofessional, and fight dirty. They don't function like a cohesive force but rather a loose network of cells made up of friends and relatives, and so the right hand often doesn't know what the left hand is doing, and there's no central authority who can truly control all of them beyond going on TV and asking them nicely. If your cell wants to fight clean against Israeli military targets but Ahkmed down the block's cell wants to go all out suicide bombing civilians, you're both still "Hamas" and you're both despised by most of the world because of Ahkmed. Hamas's political "organization" does everything from collecting the garbage off your street to delivering your mail (and ran for, and won, the election for government in Palestine), but other parts of it are out there shooting anti-tank missiles at school busses (literally happened) whether their government likes it or not, so the whole group gets written off as terrorists. Hamas also has the problem if being trapped in a walled off open-air prison, so most of their weapons are whatever shit they can cobble together out of whats lying around. Much gets made of their constant rocket attacks, but nobody ever mentions that they're using perfectly valid tactics suited to the World War 1-2 level of their tech. "Haifa is a military port? Shoot 10,000 rockets at its direction and hope one hits something important to their military." WW2 Russia would shed a tear of pride. Someone who wanted to could easily draw a distinction between the "legitimate" Hamas and the "evil" Hamas, but that doesn't serve anybody's political purposes so it never happens.
There was a comedy movie where this was a literal gag. The priest pulls out a crucifix on the vampire and the vampire laughs, and says "Hah! My mother was jewish! You have no power over me with that!" And the priest fumbles around in his bag for a second and pulls out a swastika, and yells "Oh yeah? Well hail Hitler!" and the vampire hisses violently and runs away.
This is actually the origin of the "kike" slur. When Jewish immigrants got off the boat at Ellis Island back in the day, they had to take a citizenship test, and part of the test involved questions like "draw a + through the third word of this sentence" to show they understood sentence structure in English. The Jews instead would always circle the correct answer. When asked "what is this?" their answer was "kikel", the yiddish word for circle. It was their culture to never draw a + sign because it resembled a Christian cross. Obviously the mostly Christian US workers at Ellis Island back then got the lore behind this and weren't real happy about the diss, and started talking about Jewish immigrants in the vein of "oh boy, we got another boatload of kikels in today..." And the term eventually got shortened to "kike" as a reference to these stuck up Jews who hated Christians so much.
Chris got TDS? He was this close to being MAGA when he was making Socjus The Musical. What happened?
No it was. The actor who did the mo-cap for Jarjar all but confirmed it directly years later. Jarjar was supposed to be like Tobi from Naruto, or the Blind Masseuse. Someone who acts completely goofy and ridiculous, but their antics are all "part of the plan" and they just act like a fag as a cover. The problem was that Lucas overtuned his goofiness to the point that everyone hated Jarjar so much after EP1 that Lucas concluded he'd never be able to sell the reveal "Its wassa ME ALL ALONG, Jedi poodoos!" He invented Dooku to fill the role, which is why the latter kinda comes out of nowhere in EP2.
They also turn people in to the Swiss government, who can then share that information at their pleasure.
Its not even illegal to make it in most of the US. One of those weirdass things.
Its just like GG itself was: Absolutely nothing happens until the moment where a critical mass of people are so angry that they don't give a shit if they're the only one standing up, and they stand up. The magic happens when those people then look around and see all the others standing. Then they all click and the shit hits the fan.
The Eye of Valmar from Grandia 2 is a standout to me.
Grandia 2 was one of the early RPGs to show you enemies on the world map and let you avoid them. In games like that it was commonplace to skip many of the "trash" battles and stay at a level that was just high enough to clear bosses with some challenge, but without fighting everything or grinding. This was great! ...Until you met the eye.
So picture a huge boss that uses wide AOE status effects and hits fairly hard by itself but has a shitton of HP. And its fast, getting 1.5 to 2 turns to your one if you're underleveled. It can put your party members to sleep with a hugely damaging special move, and once slept (assuming they survive the damage) they lose 3-4 turns unless you had happened to stock up on heretofore useless Smelling Salt items. Next the boss came with 3 minions. Little flying eyeball dudes, whose attacks were individually weak but fast, so they were constantly smacking your party members around for chip damage and forcing them down in the turn order because attacks reduce initiative.
All that was bad enough, but if all three minions were alive they could execute a team attack called Delta, which would VERY easily one hit kill a party member from full HP. And if someone died? Well revive items were rare and cost 5000G IIRC, and since you werent grinding you never had the money to buy more than a couple and you never needed them anyway so you probly don't have more than a handful.
And did I mention this boss had a nice, pretty save point right before its fight room in a dungeon that you couldn't leave once you entered? Yeah, this son of a bitch was a point of no return boss, so if you think you're gonna just go out and grind some G to buy the items you need then think again. If my memory serves me the Eye of Valmar was literally the TVTropes posterboy for both "Wakeup Call Boss" and "That One Boss" many years ago. I was one of the generation who got to experience it firsthand.
The father became a born-again religious type, and the case was brought in one of the harshest, most corrupt, shithole mafia court districts in California for a reason. I believe the father and the lead prosecutor in the case knew each other somehow too. I want to say it was that they played golf at the same club for years.
The reason this works is unironically because of Googlebot. These paywall sites want to be at the top of search engine results, so they have to exempt Googlebot and other spiders from the paywall block, otherwise the data can't be indexed. All archive does is spoof the common spider user-agent headers on its requests, and poof, they get in.
The trial has been delayed by Mercedes herself numerous times, but the faggot judge still won't grant bail. The reason is that everything hinges on the testimony of the daughter who was manipulated by her father into making the accusations in the first place. They're waiting for the girl to grow up enough to understand how serious this all is so she won't just lie on the stand because daddy told her to.
Their own polls suppressed their voters too. "Oh she has a 99.9999999999999999998% chance to win already, I don't need to go vote since its in the bag!"
That cost them dearly, as by the time the sheep realized she was losing it was too late for huge numbers of them.
I mean, https://8chan.moe is right there in the sidebar.
Shit like this is why 8chan hosting is split up between 5 countries that aren't part of the EU or 5Eyes jurisdiction.
The one time I ever got professionally tested, it was 134. I spent most of my younger life as an edgy misanthrope because people are retards, but as I got older I learned to appreciate the wisdom of older people. Young people in the stupid range are infuriating and I avoid them at all costs.
I'm very saddened to see that Ross Anderson is a member of the prograt cult. If you're an old hat computer enthusiast, Ross was the guy who went viral back in the early 2000s warning the world about Microsoft Palladium and the globalist attempt to take over your PC in the name of "digital rights management." He threw a spanner in the works of the "Fritz chip" system and forced the industry to instead adopt the much watered down "trusted platform" system that Windows has today. For that era, he was a minor hero.
Today, this man who once wrote very influential screeds likening the Internet to the printing press, condemning censorship in every form, and supporting every technological and ethical aspect of the Hacker Manifesto, is now writing .pdfs for the IEEE where he contrasts free speech with "hate speech" and concludes that deplatforming "legal but undesirable" communities of people is both absolutely necessary but also only worth doing if you can invent some pretext to jail or personally destroy the owners of the platform, because if you don't then the Jewsusers will just return once their city is rebuilt. In other words he doesn't just want censorship, he wants ironclad, government implemented censorship from which no site, no matter how determined, can escape. He's also part of an "educational" group that is stalking the Farms, where in the paper he admits they're scraping the forum so heavily that they're getting every post in near real time, which I'm sure doesn't contribute anything to the various DDoS traffic what with making a billion requests a minute...
I hate the Internet.
Armitage III is an old favorite. Gorgeous animation, great characters, a great dub, and a really interesting plotline involving a murder mystery on Mars and a powerful "women first, women only" feminist government ruling over Earth.
I watched the first few episodes of this because I like fantasy plots and I like porn. But it just wasn't very good IMO. I like a good revenge fantasy as much as the next guy, but Redo took it so far that I wasn't offended, I was bored. You can kinda tell that a lot of people felt the same way because nobody hardly bothered to even make more hentai using the characters.
Especially being the best of the three. CB was good but it was very "hard sci-fi" where OS had just the right mix of fantasy elements to make a super interesting universe.
A good friend of mine played an all-in grappler with retardism (literally a caveman) in a campaign that I ran. It sparked so many ridiculous moments that I still smile fondly remembering it years later. A favorite was still him trying a jump check to leap from their moving aircraft that was in the middle of a dogfight to try and tackle the enemy aircraft all because he was too stupid to understand physics, and then he rolls a nat 20 on the check, passes the grab check to get hold of the other craft once he's there, and then proceeds to rip the door off, go inside, and beat the enemy crew to death.