Orcinus

You're right, this isn't right-wing, guaranteed employment is in socialist constitutions. The more of us working, the less we'll individually have to. Contrast with, say, nazi Germany where they had relatively few people working many hours.

FUCK. I'm often deeply sympathetic to those who wish to kill their parents. So many cases of people punished for killing their abusers. But then there's people like these.

Wanting death to rapists is all well and good but I heard from a victim that, because most sexual abuse is committed by people the victims know, punishing them with death disincentivizes people from reporting their abusers. Maybe that can be alleviated by teaching people from a young age to recognize abuse and that rapists must die no matter how you personally feel about them? I don't know, it's a sensitive issue and I'm fearful of letting my hatred for abusers (my own and otherwise) cause me to accidentally hurt victims.

Fair enough but with their advancing military tech, China may not even need to send soldiers out at all by the time WW3 comes.

EDIT: Saw in another one of your comments that you're aware of the heavy investment in robots.

Fitting if he'd do that. That's Hitler's birthday.

Then China and Vietnam should stop trading with the US, right?

EDIT: To the downvoters: this is a legitimate question. I would love for such trade to stop, I hear it would only cost China $500 billion. But I'm worried that them doing that would cause the US to be more forceful in trying to get their resources and I think AES states are trying to avoid that. Even if China could militarily hand the US its ass, the damage is still a concern.

Neither clowns nor Mario deserve to be done this dirty.

I hear that video games can be art in the same way board or card games can be. Where the mechanics or challenge is the art in of itself. Like how music doesn't need lyrics to be art.

I'm glad to be a parasite to such an awful country. Give me good, accommodating working conditions and a short workday and good pay while my surplus value goes to public healthcare, production, and god forbid disability in meaningful ways and I'll gladly start putting in the work.

But there’s also folks like this suggesting the sinister sisipee is using western games as a digital opium to pacify their disgruntled comstituents:

I have a legitimate fear that such a thing is happening in the west, but on the other hand maybe it's for the best. The longer it takes for quality of life to fall so badly that even such "digital opium" doesn't suffice to soften it, the weaker the declining US will be when revolution comes.

Nice username, it checks out.

The latter may feed into the former. The US, including I believe much of its military power, is fueled by resources it plunders from Africa. I'm hoping with the US's weakening forces and weakening soft power, people will be more incentivized to follow suit with what's going on in Africa (and also in South America, there may be a wave incoming there too).