I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.

I would love for them to bring back places like the Bell Towers in DS2. Does elden ring even have a mirror knight type boss that can summon people?

Snipers, famously useless in real life due to ballistic physics.

While I think we’d prefer a non violent solution, the answer is the national guard. The national guard would very quickly demonstrate to any police force what the difference between the two is.

“Socialism will transition to communism” is just a communism thing. Social democracy is different. It doesn’t involve communism. Because communism is cringe.

Because exclusively that’s the communist viewpoint. There are different socialist ideologies than communism. It’s a rectangle vs square situation.

That’s neither exclusive to communism nor has it been achieved in most purportedly communist states (I hear Vietnam’s actually been having a good run of things but I can’t speak to specifics).

Socialism != communism.

They’re mask off on hexbear/lemmygrad, they try to be subversive on lemmy.ml. I have in fact instance blocked the first two, you can usually dodge them on .ml. Lemmy is far less enjoyable if you have not blocked them.

Commune-ism sounds like a lovely idea on a small scale, you gotta solve a lot of political problems to make it work on anything bigger. Social democracies like the scandinavians seem to be the best way we currently know to run a humanitarian society.

“America does bad things, so I should support china/russia instead!”

“Stalin/mao were (anything besides utterly reprehensible dictators)”

“Communism could’ve worked if-“

Honorable mention to thinking this coy “I’m going to act all hyper respectful and yet also like I know more than anyone about anything” bullshit gets you anywhere.

As a general rule, if you’re hearing about something from the news, it’s already too late to profit from it.

This might be the exception, but I’d temper any expectations accordingly.

Sorta, but that’s not the whole story. We have two legislative bodies, the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the senate, every state gets two senators. In the house, every state gets at least two representatives, plus some amount based on population - california has 52, for instance.

The original idea was to “make sure rural voices were heard”. In practice, it very much has been what you stated - if you’re educated but not rich enough to benefit from republican policies, you flee red states en masse, leaving mostly rich assholes and uneducated chucklefucks who are hurt most by the very people they elect. They then have a massively disproportionate effect on policy versus any joe schmoe in california.

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Educating people is a lot easier than fixing the system. No reason we can’t try to do both.

If only there were people desperate for a better life here, alive now, perhaps in a neighboring country or even entire other continent bordering the states.

Battery fires are significantly worse than combustion engine fires, that’s not unique to Teslas. I like EVs but let’s not pretend they’re fireproof.

Realistically, while Trump might be more outwardly “anti-china”, he’s also anti-america, so it’s a net gain for them.

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Trans woman competes as man before transitioning, is mediocre at best

Trans woman transitions, beats multiple world records for X women’s sports.

I’m not even gonna bother typing “transgender athletes setting world records into google” for you, you’ve either conveniently forgotten or willfully ignored these examples.

I just - almost everything else I get. I too would be rather upset at people calling for my head or saying I’m the work of the devil.

But there is evidence showing trans women have a massive advantage over cis women. It’s equal rights, not “fuck you I want more rights than you now”. That means you gotta compromise sometimes, and not just stick your head in the sand and shout oppression at every single speed bump.

You make the bold assumption those advocating for this consider the homeless “people”