My bigger problem is that it is always used as the foot in the door for more censorship and banning of things because the government said so. Australia banned loli, then they went and said that any porn actress with smaller than a B-cup is a child and also banned (as well as banning many a Japanese video game or anime).

I defend the loli shit for the same reason I defend hate speech and people saying nigger: The government always targets scoundrels to justify targeting everyone else.

Now, why his wingman decided to also deliver payload on the wrong area

I am going to do something I wouldnt otherwise and invoke engrained culture. Korea, from everything I have ever seen, places a ton of emphasis in authority and says you are never allowed to question it no matter how much it makes sense to do otherwise. It is extreme even compared to a lot of other Asian nations.

It is something I have thought a lot about due to comparing two disasters:

When the Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy, the crew decided to lie while they fled the sinking ship and left passengers behind. But the mostly Western Passengers said "I dont believe a word you are saying, I can literally feel the boat sinking under me." and started organizing their own evacuation until the crew was forced to actually step in and do a real one themselves. In the end, loss of life was still around 30, but out of the thousands on board that is a pretty small lose of life in the grand scheme of things. This was also helped by a captain in the Italian Coast Guard not believing the captain as he reported the ship was fine, so he overruled the captain and launched his own rescue operation.

When the MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea, the crew decided to lie while they fled the sinking ship and left the passengers behind. The mostly Korean Passengers listened to the captain and crew, not leaving their cabins even as the ship started rolling over and capsizing. As a result, over 350 of the 450 on board drowned, and the majority of those rescued were done so by private and non-Korean sources (including an American Marine Assault Ship that happened to be in the area and scrambled SAR helicopters when it picked up the distress traffic from other boats) because the Korean Coast Guard saw no urgency in the situation as the crew had not declared one (the Coast Guard then covered this up after the fact).

So I would imagine there is some of that "Good soldiers follow orders" attitude at play for why he would not question where they were dropping bombs.

You want to know what is the fun part? Denmark has given initial reads that they are planning on voting down the "Rearm Europe" bill in the EU, along with several other nations.

These people really are the most arrogant hypocrites to ever exist.

Well of course. You will not mandate anything to them, but they will mandate everything to you.

Or so they say. They dont seem to realize that the forces currently arrayed against them are out of patience and out of mercy for such huffing and puffing (especially when they usually fold anyway).

Yeah. I think he manages to hit the sweet spot I like with most of the others I watch where he is still serious and actually trying at the game, but part of the fun watching what stupid shit happens from him trying to play the game. Which is the general vibe I got for, like how RubixRaptor and his friends are actually ok at playing ARMA, but the scenarios they get up to or the typical "ARMA-ing" that happens is usually what results in the hilarious moments. On top of his friends just doing unhinged bullshit for the memes.

While I am sure that is more true than not, the one wrinkle here is that the scuttlebutt from behind the scenes is that Harris was not Obama's choices. He wanted someone else, who would be chosen at the convention. Pretty much everyone has made it clear that Harris was more or less a "Fuck you" from Biden with very few of the Party Elite wanting her.

I tend to lean toward ones that are more on the "For shits and giggles" side rather than true lets plays. But I do enjoy more serious ones from time to time if the game warrants it.

So to that end, the ones on my list that are some of my favorites:

Non-Vtuber:

GrayStillPlays

The Russian Badger

RubixRaptor

SMii7y (Smitty)

DougDoug

The Black Pants Legion/Tex

Wolfpack345

Vtuber:

Shiori Novella

Raora Panthera

Ceres Fauna Nimi Nightmare

Selen Tatsuki Dokibird

Miori Celesta

Leaflit (sidenote: is hyper based generally, but does more react content these days)

Silvervale

IRyS

Tomoe Umari (If not based, is very openly pro-USA)

Correct. What is important to remember though is that he also argues the principle should be used as a way to set up a coup de grace against your enemy, either by destroying them in detail as they retreat, or by forcing their surrender.

However, I do agree with the overall point that there should be the option for mercy, as long as there is genuine change reinforced by words. After all, a not insignificant amount of the people currently helping to pull this off used to Dems, as Carl pointed out.

It is quite hilarious the way that Frieren treats demons and the things they do/way they act, and so many Leftist are like "That is literally me, how dare you!"

Hey, dont blame me for the terms that were chosen to represent the difference between virtual and real streamers.

Fat Electrician especially is always the fun one to see. He is pretty openly and aggressively American and aggressively anti-Communist. And I have probably only seen one or two Vtubers take poorly to that, with most of the others going "Actually, you know, that is a good point" and starting to match his energy. Which you would never get from the usual fleshtuber women like Pokimane outside of some rare instances.

I don't agree that they should be at the back of the list for F-35's. We need an Air Force facing Russian incursions, period. Obviously the Liberal party sought to destroy the military and bankrupt the country, what else would they do?

To be fair, they got back into the F-35 program when Biden was still president, so it is not like he had any real incentive to make the orders on a "in our national interest" basis instead of a "first come, first serve" basis that he actually did. Trump would probably be willing to rework that deal to make sure they can at least get a few of them so that they arent flying 40 year old death traps into the air. Not that Trudeau would renegotiate that deal, mind you, but maybe if someone else gets in charge of Canada.

I've also had friends in several foreign militaries in the Anglosphere and there's something really terrible about how badly they get treated.

For as much as some people say we dont care about NATO anymore, sometimes it really does seem like we Americans give more of a shit about Europe's military than the Europeans do. Whenever you look at those polls and studies done that show that Western Europe has some of the lowest approval ratings of the US of anywhere on Earth, I can almost guarantee if you only did their militaries it would start looking like Asia and their 70%+ approvals across the continent.

But then, I would bet a lot of the European leaders would sneer down their nose at their own militaries about how "of course you would like those dumb cowboys, because you are dumb cowboys too", because they have gotten fat and safe in the world they built that has allowed them to ignore Rules for Rulers Rule 0 ("Keep the Army Happy") for too long.

EDIT: And because I recently saw this and it always pisses me off when I see it, the European Elitism that many of them engage in where they look at American telling them that the way they are doing things is ass and maybe they should act more like real allies instead of fat slobs and say "You dumb cowboys! We will just create a Unified European Army and then we wont need you anymore!" drives me batty.

The only one on that entire godforsaken continent that actually makes all of their own gear is the French, almost all of Europe is currently in the process of buying F-35's because every attempt to make something better than it has utterly failed no matter how much money they threw at it, Eastern Europe would rather work than the American military than the French military (so there goes half of your "European Army" right off the rip), they have been struggling to meet recruitment for their militaries, and on and on. I saw one dumb motherfucker try to say that they should just kick the US out of AUKUS and get British made submarines instead of American ones because "Trump said we are bad allies, so lets show him what a real bad ally looks like."

Luckily it is mostly just Reddit being Reddit, but I do get very annoyed when the NAFO type Euro-Elitism gets into my subreddit I go to for military memes and waifu bait. It was funny a few days ago to watch them all going nuts over an artist that did some good S. Vietnamese waifu art, only to then turn on said artist because they had a lot of "Vietnamese-Americans for Trump" stuff on their Twitter.

and they've got a good quality military in all branches

I dont know if that would still apply today. Their combat infantry are certainly good and their Spec-Ops are some of the best in the world, as well as having good mechanized forces (the LAV III is the genetic basis for the Stryker after all, and the LAV 6 is a pretty nasty machine).

BUT

Running down the rest of the list:

Navy: They only have 4 submarines (older diesel-electric ones from the 1980's), and while their 12 frigates would be pretty nasty at close range they lack real stand off capability like the US Navy has. And from everything I have heard, they have been having so many issues with their new heavier frigate program that it makes US Naval procurement look streamlined.

Air Force: Their air force is in an infamous state of disrepair, with their mainline combat aircraft being the CF-18 Hornet, which are old first-gen F/A-18 Hornets they bought used from the Australians in 1982! They are in such a bad state of disrepair that they are having to cannibalize planes just to keep them flying, and even then less than half the fleet is capable of flying at any one time. On more than one occasion the US has had to send planes to intercept unknowns over their airspace because the Canadians literally didnt have anything capable of flying up and taking a look. They are in the lineup to get F-35's to replace them, but they are at the back of the list behind the likes of the Japanese, Polish, Australians, and about a dozen other countries. They would have gotten them first because they had been in the JSF program, but in 2015 Justin Trudeau (damnation be upon him!) pulled Canada out and tried to find another plane for their fleet because the F-35 was "too expensive". Then he started looking all over Europe for a new plane so he didnt have to use filthy American gear, found nothing, and went back to the F-35...at a markup now, because everyone and their dog wants one.

Army: Again, their mechanized infantry are absolutely a threat, since they have almost 700 of the LAV's I mentioned. But they are an extremely light army with only 74 tanks in service, with 2/3 of those being older model Leopard 2A4's, which while not necessarily outdated are very much long in the teeth at this point (they are contemporaries of the original model Abrams and Challenger 2). And at least from what I have heard, a lot of those tanks are also in a pretty bad state of disrepair and have difficulty staying in battle condition to actually fight. Plus, we get to the simple fact that even counting their reserves, the Canadian Army is only capable of raising 63,000 troops to actually fight. EDIT: upon further looking, they also only have 33 howitzers, which seems like a fairly significant gap in long range firepower.

With all of that said though, I do agree with your overall stance that the Canadian Military could very easily be swayed to team up with the US to fix Canada, as from what I have heard through my own sources (both family and reading) the Canadian military fucking despises Trudeau and anyone who believes like him, as they feel it is the Liberals who have left their military in such an embarrassing state.

Probably about a month into his first term. My stance on him basically went something like this:

He announces he is running

"What the fuck? Again? And uh...that was kind of spicy for an opening statement. Still leaning toward Cruz though."

He starts winning primaries

"Wat? Guys, did we forget he was a Democrat for most of his life? This is clearly a bit and he is going to turn it into another business venture when he is done."

wins the primary

"Are you fucking kidding me you dumbasses?!"

election day

"...sigh...Well, at least he is better than Hillary..."votes Trump

he wins

"Wow, that worked?"

He starts doing the things he said he would do

"Wait, he was serious?!"

starts doing even more of his promises, including the stuff people said you could never do

"...I changed my mind...dons full gearMAGA ME HARDER! I AM NOT TIRED OF WINNING!!"

And as we have seen more of the establishment revealing itself, I got more and more approval of him, and now in his second term with him going absolutely balls to the wall I am happier than I have ever been.

My NPC friend keeps insisting Trump's policies will only hurt his base and that they voted against their own interests.

Meanwhile, the machine shop I work for has seen a major uptick in orders, including some customers going so far as to double their demands and even asking for more with the limit being our production capability rather than their demand. Which means overtime in my future, more pay, and job security.

I am sure it is only a coincidence this all happened about a week after Trump was elected, and even more after he was inaugurated. What a generous man Biden is, making it so his economic policies that resulted in a slow shop finally turned into prosperity right after he left.

Even this Monster Hunter you can see it. Because they announced that they are making it so that the armor isnt gendered anymore so a female character can wear the male armor, which is something the Woke types have pushed for for a while. But then they didnt actually change anything about the designs of the armor, so the female armor is still skimpier than the male armor and shows off more skin, like traditional gaming design.

But still noteworthy, as it is made by Capcom. Which is one of the companies that had censored on behalf of what they had been told by their Western branches. Although interestingly, they are also one of the ones who went "Welp, so much for that" and started changing course when they saw it wasnt working.

At least they are following in the footsteps of their dear leaders. Who were all degenerate drug addicts and occult obsessed weirdos who actually hated their own nation.

I dont think it will be hot, but I do absolutely foresee more ships operating around them, helping out the likes of Vietnam, The Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan (all of whom have been wanting to get closer alliances with the US and investing in more modern systems). Plus Australia has been upgrading their navy and air force to help with the deterrence.

Meanwhile, most of what we are looking at makes it seem more likely we are preparing to fight the Cartels (which would mostly be wet-work Operator type shit, so doesnt really matter for grunts), and deterring China (which is a popular position with Americans). If it did come to blows with Iran, we have already seen there is fuck-all they can do to stop us and would more than likely leave it with some key targets bombed and then walking away (like Trump did with Syria).

Then the Iranian people can sort out their own mess, probably overthrowing the Ayatollahs in the process and making Iran Persia again.

Iran, doubtful as he seems to be doing the same kind of tactic that go him closer with North Korea.

Even if it did come to war with Iran, we have already seen that they cant do shit to our aircraft (via proxy by the Israelis), and all we would have to do is destroy the key targets and let the massive anti-Regime sentiment we always see bubbling below the surface make Iran Persia again. All without us having to put a single boot on the ground (other than the usual "get in, get out" Operator-shit types).

At least with Protestants you can go: "Obviously the pope is a retarded communist."

My go to whenever I heard Catholics complain about the Pope doing anything is "Dont cry at me. My ancestors shot their way out of having to care what he thinks."

On that note though, you are seeing (at least in the US) signs that the religious aspect is not actually going away but is changing. Because studies show that the average American still practices and believes what would be seen as Christian ideals, but their trust in churches are declining. Which implies that we may see new Protestant doctrines pop up to fill the void that this data implies or people go to existing ones (like you said, Great Awakening style).

but machinery does most of the work

And that is the rub. Most of the people you see complaining about how much this will affect farming are cheapskate sacks of shit who never invested in the equipment to make their operations more effective and then made up for it with cheap slave-like labor.

I remember back in Trump 1.0 there was a farmer from Idaho who got national news attention because he was talking about how he had had a large part of a crop of asparagus rot in the field because he didnt have enough workers to pick it and the Media at it up and ran with it. What got less traction in the Media was the farmers who came out after the fact and pointed out that it was very much a him problem, because they had all mechanized their operations and gotten their harvest in with time to spare while he was scrambling to find people willing to work for minimum wage (or less) instead of investing in machines, then blaming everyone else for his problem.

And I guarantee you there are many such cases across the board.

Nah man, I would totally hate Trump if he gave me an extra $200/month in spending money to keep some social program I dont even like going. And he better not put in tariffs that would give the corporation I work for a competitive advantage since we dont have any overseas facilities to get taxed and only a few components that have to be imported (like ball bearings from Taiwan).

To back that up; at the same time I have seen people on here saying there arent any good games anymore, I have been having to whittle down my wishlist to the games I actually care the most about wanting to get because there are too many and I literally do not have the time.

And that is before we get into the well worn and long list of older titles you can always go back to.