It might take a detective to find out.

objective

rule of law

Which doesn’t fucking apply to the rich the same way.

I’d be down for that, actually.

A proper and full Disco Elysium sequel with Harry’s ongoing adventures, maybe even with the prior game’s save file reasonably used as a starter for how things begin next time around.

Sounds like Reddit’s taken the hope out of you. Hope is necessary, hope is a muscle. It’s simply the ability to imagine a positive future, and thus figure out how to work toward it. It’s necessary for communists. It’s not some naive belief that things will work out or an attachment to a specific future. Gramsci was right to call for “pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will.” We must see the terrors of the world and imagine the worst, and how to avoid it, but keep fighting because communism will win.

I admittedly read your comment the way I’d often hear it from Reddit. "Um, so drinking a gallon of milk while flashing an OK sign is now fascist dogwhistling to you? Are the fascists in the room with us right now? Do you need help? Who hurt you?"

Yeah, and the “OK” hand sign in other contexts does mean “OK.” Doesn’t stop cryptofascists from contexually applying it outside of those uses with vaguely plausible deniability.

Cryptofascists love their duper’s delight style dog whistles, such as mentioning "shekles/schmeckles’ or the like.

It has been a few weeks

Even if you’re not making shit up, if this is yet another tiresome “and therefore both/all sides are equally right and wrong,” you’re just another right wing coward trying to dodge the label.

if your goal is financial stability why would you go gamble on the outcomes of military battles?

Because WallStreetBets style failson ghouls get off to it, even with the contradiction.

No one is immune to propaganda, and many people have consumed a lifetime of propaganda that tells them that those that call for war and those that perpetrate war are typically the Adults In The Room who Make The Hard Decisions and Get Shit Done.

“I just claimed that all sides are equally right and wrong, therefore my status quo advocacy seems enlightened and smart and I stand above you all somehow!”

invest responsibly

I have held people dying, full of fear all the way to their last death rattling breath, with nothing I could say to soothe them and with no one else in the world that cared to see them go.

I have been tear gassed because I cared too much in a way that interfered with traffic around a big building.

I have volunteered to feed and talk to people that cried because I was the first person in weeks that would make eye contact with them and treat them like a human being.

I’ve been called plenty of names and had lots of weird hatred sent my way because I seemed like a “scold” or “too preachy” on the internet, like I was too soft and sensitive and lacked Grown-Ass Man™ hardening.

I believe otherwise. I think too many people live in soft and highly volatile bubbles and have urges to lash out at even the semblance of caring so they don’t feel uncomfortable seeing compassion in other people.

There’s this constant tension with D&D where it wants to be medieval and it wants to have easily-reproducible magic. Follow the magic through to its logical conclusion and you get essentially modern technology with a mystical/medieval aesthetic, ignore it and you get big blatant plot holes.

For decades, Forgotten Realms tried really had to be this “peasants have their minds blown if they see even a level one Magic-User spell being cast; this is a grounded and gritty setting sort of” pretense in the official materials, but then there’s basically a magocracy running most cities (even the fucking Luskan pirates and other “savage frontier” big mean guys!) and maps full of “oh a web spell is on this window at all times” sorts of signs that maybe those peasants should be a lot more familiar with the very special very rare spellcasters that rule over them and make all the important decisions.

This is my long standing hot take and point of contention with rules as written in conventional D&D fantasy rule sets: death, if the rules of the game were actually applied to the setting, is less about finality (except for the lifespan limitation contrivance) and more about health insurance or lack thereof. People who die that have enough money should by all means have family that pay for raises (or resurrections when the body isn’t available) as a matter of course and the material consequences of that would be that premature death from violence, illness, or accident would be mostly a poor people thing. Funerals would be awkward in setting: “sorry you can’t afford a rez. The divines bless the departed I guess, lol.”

https://awful.systems/c/sneerclub

It’s too bad; monitoring and dunking on capital-R “Rationalist” billionaire worshipers is a good time.

People who have to insist that they’re left wing usually have the most right wing takes imaginable on anything that isn’t LGBT rights

Some “leftist as they come” types hate LGBTQIA+ people too but want legal weed.

“I am about as far left as I can go while keeping this lanyard and having privileged access to the Good Old Boys WASP network”