That’s the biggest sticking point for me, and it’s so big I’m not sure how liberals are ignoring it: we’re seeing what happens right now when you’re a friend to the US empire. How anyone can still advocate for being a friend to the US empire - outside of a desire to benefit from imperialism - astounds me.

I agree entirely - especially a game like TF2, which continued limping along as a live service generating money from key purchases and the like. We really need greater protections on art preservation in general.

tf2c fans eating good

I don’t think you can. All the effort and energy you poured into educating yourself is nearly impossibly to extend to someone else. They have to want to learn, and most people don’t. People aren’t stupid or ignorant, they are overwhelmingly incurious, and incuriosity is much more devastating to the mind than simply being ignorant.

If you could tell people where they went wrong, and have them accept it, the world would be a smoother place.

You pick your battles, convince the people you know you can convince, and further down the road we look to systemic solutions for undoing imperial programming.

Honestly reminds me of Civ VI’s Australia, themed exclusively after colonial Australia complete with mixing Aboriginal music conventions with, like, waltzing matilda. Like, really.

Thanks for the mod recommendation, making this post actually made me take a trip back to Civ IV and try the ‘Caveman2Cosmos’ mod, which is absolutely unhinged in how expansive it is. Civ V was my personal favorite so knowing there’s a decent overhaul mod (especially one that adds vassal states back in) gives me another civ-related thing to look forward to.

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented

Sounds like a replacement for the cheap agricultural labour immigrants presented.

Insightful and informative post comrade. Thanks