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YouAreAPirate 2 points ago +2 / -0

Grease the palms of enough military members, pay off some NGOs or have it shipped in via Europe or Canada.

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YouAreAPirate 15 points ago +15 / -0

2000+ years of humanity exploring, ransacking and pillaging and they still have secrets we're uncovering to this day, incredible.

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YouAreAPirate 9 points ago +9 / -0

It's about power. Always has been, always will be. Disenfranchisement perpetrated by them increases their power, therefore good. Disenfranchisement enacted on them decreases their power, therefore bad.

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YouAreAPirate 3 points ago +3 / -0

This law is something you'd see as a plot point in a typical "approved leftist caricatures take down the evil not-Bush white dictator" movie.

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YouAreAPirate 24 points ago +24 / -0

Now step 2: exile from the industry.

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YouAreAPirate 3 points ago +3 / -0

To focus purely on the economic factors, it mainly occurs when a franchise starts picking up wider "mainstream" conciousness (ie. various sub-cultures become aware of it and start becoming part of its fan community).

It's here various "thought leaders" can begin making money off talking about it (journalists, youtubers, social influencers etc.) and even new ones start forming specifically around this franchise, heavily influenced by existing creators from other sub-cultures. These "thought leaders" commonly have sizable networks and can influence people to try and become employed to work on the franchise, either directly or indirectly.

Further onwards, economic reasons become hazy as there's a triple-threat of economic, social and political factors that eventually leads to a franchise's eventual capture. Despite all this, franchises, no matter their level of success, can still fall victim to capture by hiring the wrong person in the wrong position.

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YouAreAPirate 4 points ago +5 / -1

AFAIC this is the least this scumbag deserves. He made this bed, now it's bedtime.

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YouAreAPirate 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's all about pride. They get told "No" once and suffer a catastrophic reactor meltdown. See Trump's first election also.

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YouAreAPirate 9 points ago +9 / -0

Oh look at that, deriving present greivances from past events is no longer good because they aren't benefitting.

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YouAreAPirate 6 points ago +6 / -0

I am curious, when people stridently anti-Obama or anti-Trump see a picture like this, what do they think?

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YouAreAPirate 6 points ago +6 / -0

Although I kind of think HBK and Triple H's stints as bookers in NXT and WWE, alongside HBK becoming a born-again christian, may have helped sanitise their image in that regard, that's a completley fair assessment. I'll chalk it up to me being too much of a wrestling oldhead on that.

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YouAreAPirate 1 point ago +4 / -3

Maybe I'm a bit too naive, but I don't think his politics were a primary or even a major reason why Hogan was booed as heavily as he was. Hogan, as great as he was, has a reputation for being the biggest backstage politician possibly ever. There's a multitude of examples of Hogan sabotaging angles and stories to his benefit.

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YouAreAPirate 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's always a bit shocking to me when someone within (currently or previously) the AAA gaming industry comes out against the regressive leftist zeitgeist. Like an albino in Africa, it's a rare and wondrous sight, but you know bad things are on the horizon for that poor soul.

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YouAreAPirate 7 points ago +7 / -0

Student visas are at the tip of a very big and insidious iceberg that is the education system.

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YouAreAPirate 13 points ago +14 / -1

We're ~1 week from inauguration and several influential figures in the Trump campaign/ cabinet are openly saying they're walking back the single most important political issue on the populist Right. I think this is worth dividing the Right over.

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YouAreAPirate 3 points ago +3 / -0

Rome and Deadwood are great shouts, but I'd also like to add Jericho. They call it post-apocalypse, but it's really peri-apocalypse as the characters have to deal with the immediate fallout of America getting nuked and going to hell.

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YouAreAPirate 3 points ago +3 / -0

The increasingly incestuous relationship between corporations and government, disastrous urban planning policies, the undue influence of israel and israel sympathisers upon national and international politics, environmental concerns, America's unecessary need to waste money on forcing its way into the geopolitics of other regions, lopsided funding of law enforcement and exploitable labour laws and protections.

Despite my comments here, there are many beliefs the left and Right agree on, on a top-level. The minutiae and possible solutions is where it all falls apart, both sides believing their solutions are objectivley correct and neither willing to compromise.

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YouAreAPirate 4 points ago +4 / -0

The sports team analogy doesn't work because it assumes every other "sports team" operates over wanting to win the "championship". Every other "sports team" sees winning as the players on every team looking like their players. Maybe you should open factories and offices in these countries to fully take advantage of this massive untapped resource of "top talent".

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YouAreAPirate 59 points ago +59 / -0

"We need money!"

"To maintain your website, cover operating costs and overhead?"

"Yess...."

Actually finances leftist american propaganda

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