Nah cops protect instigators all the time.

Except that literally happened when the US government poisoned the supplies. Just like we did with paraquat to weed, and a million other examples.

It can be. Even just taking a nude photo of your own body as a minor is a crime in the US.

But that would include Trump so also not happening.

I didn’t mean it as an attack on you or anything, was just referring to the “5% is enough to tip the vote”. These people won’t vote differently even we do get to have a halfway “normal” election.

You’re giving the average person too much credit. Majority of people are genuinely incapable of either learning a lesson or applying the lesson elsewhere. Like sure they may now see some bad results of their vote and may regret it but they’re not actually internalizing any of it, they’re not working on themselves to be less susceptible to authoritarianism or to break to down any of the bullshit they believed on the way to making that vote they “regret”.

Look man, we have a right wing party and an ultra far right wing party…1/3 of us think the right wing party is so far left it’s either communist or “national socialist” and majority of the rest of us consider that right wing party to be reasonably left/progressive. You really can’t figure out where we lean ideologically?

I’m not a Democrat and I sure as hell don’t support Israel…what are you even talking about? The 1/3 thing is a consistent split throughout history across the globe, I’m not just talking about Israel or our right wing terrorist party and our super ultra right wing terrorist party.

You’re being too lenient. It’s not just Republicans, they’re only 1/3 of the population, the even bigger issue is the “moderate” and “apolitical” people that make up another 1/3…these people will loudly oppose anything and everything but blatant extreme right wing authoritarianism, in fact they’ll get more upset about the final 1/3 of the population that’s against authoritarianism than they will ever get at literal dictators.

Sure a couple will and they’ll leave…sticking us with a full on “yes men” style military just in time for them to carry out Trump’s coup V2

Remember during the 2024 election when Musk literally cried on stage at a Trump rally while he was begging people to vote for Trump because “if Trump loses I will get locked in prison”.

Yeah, Doge annihilating every enforcement and investigation organization in the government makes a lot more sense with that info, right?

Don’t expect homm3 levels of greatness and longevity but I was genuinely shocked at how much I liked the playtest awhile back. I was planning to wait for full release and lots of reviews to even consider the game but I saw enough potential in the test that I want to support it in EA as long there’s no glaring issues day 1.

Absolute best way to avoid cheaters is playing games with private servers and community moderators, infinitely better in every way except it’s not always as easy as “load game and click matchmake”. Arma is my favorite, it’s even become my go to game for playing weird stuff like Halo and Star Wars content.

Tons of older stuff being kept alive purely by dedicated communities, like Battlefield 2/Project Reality, BFBC2/Venice, Titanfall 1/R1, Titanfall 2/Northstar, Battlefront 2 og/legacy mod, Battlefront 2 EA via Kyber, several old CoD projects including combining games.

Also community and teamwork oriented games like Bellum, Squad, Glory to the Heroes, Gray Zone Warfare.

Virtual Reality is really fun for shooters tbh, extremely rare to see actual cheating there but it’s a lot to get into at first.

Otherwise I feel like I’ve rarely if ever seen cheaters on Holdfast, Overwatch, Bodycam, Straftat.

That’s how practically the entirety of the Internet was before it was monopolized and shoved into apps on smartphones. It was all leftists and hobbyists.

Yeah I have my eye on Screamer too, thinking it might finally be the game that gets me to move on from Split Second lol. We need more over the top action racers, some middle ground between like NFS and Mario Kart.

My next purchase will most likely be either Yes Your Grace 2 (all about choices and story) or Beyond Sandbox (modding platform for VR). Also considering Everwind and Toxic Commando but I’ll probably wait for some updates. I can’t remember if Road to Vostok is f2p or paid but that’s a day 1 either way for me.

But several old purchases I made are paying off now, Bellum and Glory To The Heroes are finally in testing phases…oh and Gloria Victis is officially coming back next month, it’s like if Chivalry was a janky ass MMO and I fucking love it.

I’ve actually been playing old games I never got to play back in the day, like Arma 2, og OFP, and Star Wars Galaxies. Also got into Guild Wars 1/reforged. It’s a shame young me threw a fit over the no shared open world, because it is one of the best games and best communities I’ve ever encountered.

We have a right wing party and an ultra far right wing party, neither of them will ever allow a left wing progressive into power.

You’re kinda proving their point lol. If you consider the US during that era to even slightly lean left then you have no familiarity with left wing policy and ideology…plus there was the whole, “oh shit, Communism is growing in popularity, quick give them the most bare bones social safety net so they don’t get angry enough to demand actual socialism” thing before they could get the cold war facade up.

The path is more important than the destination. Knowing the end result of a genocide does not help in prevention; however knowing step by step how a group of people was convinced to murder/torture/rape/enslave/dehumanize the entirety of another group of people is a massive help in preventing it.