Yep, so unless you have a passport you now might not be able to take any form of air transportation.

I do what I can. But it doesn’t feel like enough.

And it clearly isn’t enough as things are getting worse, but also what I’m doing clearly isn’t enough either. Unfortunately, it’s impossible for one, or two, people to do enough. It’s just important you do what you can and remain cynical about what those limitations are.

I apologize if this felt like it was targeted explicitly at you, but I don’t see a path forward without aggressively corralling those who are doing “what is expected” vs “what they can” and I apologize if my attempts at pushing were misdirected or misplaced.

Keep on doing what your doing, if we all keep doing what we can we’ll get through this.

Oh I agree, but that one didn’t seem to bad to me due to the clocks depicting an in-game time that were everywhere. The ones that I almost rage quit on were:

Some I really appreciate that I’m not seeing on this list:

I’m currently enjoying Blue Prince which is a fairly new rogue-like puzzle/mystery game it’s hard to explain without spoiling but it’s worth looking up.

Portals of Phereon is one of my absolute favorites. It’s a fairly deep tactical RPG thing with loads of replayability. It’s kind of like a Pokemon x FF Tactics but with monstergirls and it’s also currently free while it’s in development. Be aware it’s extremely NSFW and horny, which I suspect is the main reason it’s not as popular as some of the others listed (IE rimworld, stardew valley, etc.) however the horny is such a key point to it’s original gameplay and world-building that it wouldn’t be the same without it.

Thea: the awakening is a decent tactical RPG. I love it for it’s original battle mini game, crafting system and world-building. It unfortunately has some balance issues and jankiness that prevents it from being an all time favorite, but it’s definitely one I would encourage at least trying.

Thought of a few others:

• Reus (2nd one’s alright, first one’s excellent)
• Library of Runia
• Book of Hours
• Kenshi (saw it listed one other time, but it deserves a lot more love)

how would you know if I was or was not actively doing something

It’s the Internet I don’t. The difference in perspective I see is the lack of ‘guilt by association’ which only goes so far. That was kind of what the whole Nuremberg trials were about. My point is that if you are not confident that in a real life interaction you can demonstrate either you were unaware, were resisting, dis-associated yourself or were incapable, then you do shoulder some of the blame.

The fact we’re having this conversation shows you are not unaware, I hope you’re actively resisting but the defensiveness tells me you might not believe you’re doing enough, and if that’s because you’re incapable, for whatever reason, then give yourself some grace. If that’s not the case then yes, you modern_medicine are to blame for the fascist bullshit happening around you.

people from your country surely do drugs which is why the cartels exist and kill people.

I believe you have a poor understanding of what cartels are and why they exist, but yes using your example I can confidently say I actively work to alleviate the conditions that result in people self-medicating and have distanced myself from cartels and their activities as much as I am aware and capable of. Can you say the same?

I agree that “blame” may not be the right word. Is there an English word for “complicit through complacency”?

Then I guess you should probably be actively doing something about that problem shouldn’t you?

So long as you aren’t that blame isn’t really misplaced is it?

argument against words than it does against concepts.

That’s good feedback, thank you. I did do both and I think it muddled the message a bit.

It was also not the best example, but I tried lol. Have a lovely day!

you’re going to mount a defense against the existence of Mt. St. Helens, right?

I will!!! Mostly to try and better illustrate what is being meant by “perspective is not reality”.

I am certain of the fact that Mt. St. Helens is a volcano that exists.

A mountain exists in that location that was formed via an underlying volcano, however the name for both is Lawetlat’la.

I am certain of the fact that it erupted prior to my existence upon this planet

Volcanoes themselves generally do not erupt, magma chambers erupt through (and via that process create) volcanoes.

I have never laid my own eyes upon this volcano

Nor have most. Outside of eruption events the volcano isn’t visible, only the mountain is.

The volcano Mt St Helens does not exist. Using the mountain of Lawetlat’la as evidence does not make the volcano Mt St Helens exist because while the mountain and volcano are distinct entities, standard naming convention is to call them both the same thing.

it’s the system we have and we should use it

That was Thomas Jefferson’s justification for the continuation of slavery.

Regulation and heavy taxes

This assumes a world where regulatory capture is not the default state of things.

the government can’t seize citizens personal property for no reason and without compensation.

That “no reason” is extremely vague and allows it to be one of the primary underlying argument against taxes and regulations.

Disagree with personal property shouldnt exist, but agree that businesses need to have their power and ownership regulated heavily

But without also limiting the power and ownership of individuals we loop right back to feudalism and the exact issues these systems were designed to solve.

What is your understanding of what “personal property” is like under some idealistic, utopian communism?

regulate harshly and with a 50s style tax

Isn’t this argument ‘free-market but with guardrails’ or did I misunderstand?

What do you mean by “personal property”? That monopolistic land ownership is okay so long as it’s individuals not businesses?

Since Nixon vs. Humphrey vs. Wallace back in 1968.

In 2024 pproximately 59.0% of voting age population voted, which is 63.9% of voting eligible population.

2020 was the only year to surpass with 62.8% VAP/65.3% VEP.

3rd place is 2008 with 58.3% 61.6%.

Well yeah, cause the only other way that story could’ve gone was “the OG Black Panthers were right, obviously the good guys and revolution is key” which isn’t a story that you’re allowed to tell.

To be fair, that series pushed that line much more than pretty much anything else I’ve seen on TV, but they did Ekko so dirty.

Daily reminder that’s how deportations have worked in the USA for over a decade.

Liberals cannot actively support it without also confronting the inherent contradictions within liberal ideology.

Thank you, I couldn’t have asked for a better demonstration of this point. A healthcare system that is based on the free market but that is “regulat[ed] harshly and [with] a 50s style tax on the rich” is not universal healthcare!

If you can see the issues with healthcare and can understand why universal healthcare would be a necesarry improvement then how are you still advocating for a free market solution for anything?

That baby died a long time ago, and required required constant human rights violations to keep it alive in the first place. Getting rid of the bathwater won’t bring it back or make it require less cruelty to keep alive.

It’s still shocking to me that people were stupid enough to believe that Jim Crow Joe would be a remedy for fascism in the first place.

It’s doubly shocking to me that you’ve already forgot about Roe v Wade, most deportations in history (even more than now), building and expansion of prisons/cop cities, expanded drone strikes/kidnappings, start of multiple genocides, etc. and then feel entitled enough to be this fucking glib.

You have not been paying attention. If you believe in electoralism then stop punching down and redirect your rage at those who actually have power to change things within that system.

Universal health care is antithetical to both market economies and economic freedom which are both core liberal principles. Liberals cannot actively support it without also confronting the inherent contradictions within liberal ideology.

Unless you’re using the term “liberal” in the US sense of ‘anybody “left” of fascism’ in which case you’re statistically correct, but mostly due to generalization.

What do you think Gitmo(GTMO) and other military black sites are for?

I don’t believe blacks and minorities were ever kidnapped and trafficked to foreign death camps

Historically domestic death camps have been good enough. A prison where people are serving life sentences is a death camp, just a very slow, inefficient one.

Those sent were charged with a crime, but not convincted. The laziness to not even coerce a plea deal as is tradition is the only real deviation from the “status quo”.

I do appreciate that the fascist morons are too stupid to realize that the “inefficiencies” they saw were design features not flaws. Allowing for the whole charade to be exposed without having to argue against each individual part of the kafkaesque machine.

In less than a month, the nazi party have already disappeared 1/3 the total number sent to Gitmo the last 23 years.

Can you provide some more specifics+sources on those numbers so I can also reference them later with more specifics?

Remember_the_tooth is spot on, but also glosses over the 20-21st century transition and the litany of bullshit that led to the modern police state. Jim Crow Joe and the 90s crime bill, Bush Jr.'s coup via Bush V Gore and the subsequent formation of DHS, expansion of black sites via the Iraq war, etc.

or are a registered member of a long dead movement.

Oh, it should be long dead, but it’s not. There is a significant amount of people that legitimately think “Hitler was right”. Those you’re referencing aren’t all Nazis (though some certainly seem to be, or at least are heavily inspired by) they’re fascists.

Using the word “Nazi” instead of “fascist” limits the useful historical comparisons that you can draw from and can have a blinding effect on making important comparisons. I do disagree with Stormdahl about ‘just calling them MAGA’ but I do agree with them that MAGA =/= Nazi just because it’s an explicitly fascist movement.

~1 in 100 when talking about demographics and populations is in fact very common. There’s a reason prevalence is usually reported in #/100000.

However, it might be better to compare to employment rates, based on US census data that’s about as common as engineers/architects(1.8%), social workers(1.7%), legal workers(1.1%), all scientists(0.9%), or farming+logging workers (0.7%).

There are more trans/enby individuals than scientists, and you don’t see anyone saying “if scientist were normal and commonly occuring…”