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I've lived in California my entire life, and attended public schools my entire life, including UCSB undergrad and UCB Boalt Hall law school. At every level of my education, we discussed the causes of the civil war, and covered other countries that abolished slavery without war. There was nothing remotely controversial about questioning why the political climate in the US was d
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Why do conservatives insist that the rich are our economic salvation? I actually appreciate big successfull businesses. I despise the greedy fucks earning 1000x their workers. For my entire life I've thought that a strong middle class was an American ideal. How do rich people extracting hundreds of millions of dollars out of our economy for their own personal income benefit the
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Abortion: Nobody likes abortion, but conservative politicians love to divide us on emotional issues. Keep abortion safe and legal, otherwise we have back alley abortions which kill moms. Promote a sex education based on facts instead of christian morality. Teach kids how to have safe sex, and then provide contraception to all women for free. You'll have less abortion, less pover
The South seceded because they wanted to keep slavery. None of the slave states had voted for Lincoln, and they felt powerless. They thought they had the legal right to secede.
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He "used to think" that Abortion was the biggest problem America faced.. REALLY? Did you sit down by a tranquil pond and think of that yourself? OR.. did some politician tell you that in church because they realized that it was a divisive issue which could be used to sway your vote.. Gonna guess you fell for the propoganda.. That ain't "thinking" that'
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Does Full Loot/Full Sac reduce complexity? Does it increase depth?
Having the ability to loot and sac adds depth for little complexity. It is easy to do, and has a huge impact on gameplay. I'm still of the opinion that unbalanced equipment is a core problem, and it is the reason loot/sac is more of an issue than the actual death. For some people, rathe
My favorite political figures are Ben Shapiro, Thomas Sowell, Steven Crowder, Dave Rubin, and Jordan Peterson.
The best thing I've seen lately which I think you should watch:
As far as "biggest threat to Murica" I used to say abortion, but right now I think the U.S. (and much of Western civilization) is trending toward collapse.
Oh yeah, I didn't vote for Trump.
Most of the world abolished slavery without war. I'm not saying the U.S. could have done this, but I am saying to ask why the U.S. different in this regard is a fair question. Even if the conclusion is something like, "No, we were different than Brazil because of A and B and we're different than Canada because of X and Y." it is still a good question. Clearly you know a lot ab
Most other countries were able to abolish slavery, including others in the New World, without going to war.
"Why couldn't that one have been worked out?" is a fair question.
I wish more people would ask how we can achieve moral ends without violence and war.
Unfortunately, we have people like those in Berkeley who probably think Trump asking this means he's a racist
...with the exception of Golden Axe, which was I was only bringing up to point out that old games aren't that good.
Minecraft is more fun when playing with other people.
I have no idea what games you can play on a Mac, but if you can barely play Minecraft then you may not have many options.
Have you ever played Card Hunter?
Thing is, CF even has an archaic RP system. Compare interaction with the environment and NPCs in CF to a game like Divinity Original Sin. CF has some, like how some guards assist and how shopkeepers interact with criminals, but it is very sparse, and the pieces that are like that tend to be heavy-handed. The vast majority of the PvE world is indifferent to how you play your character or your repu
When XBox got the old arcade games I was so excited. So many games that I remember really enjoying were now available. Except... they sucked. Golden Axe? I loved me some backroll-axe-chopping dwarf action. It was one of the best games of the day. Too bad it is terrible by modern standards for gaming. Game design has matured tremendously.
Team Fortress 2, Card Hunter, WarThunder, Hearthstone,
I think we were grouped when it happened. As a player I always thought it was cool how that played out.
Was that 19-20 years ago? Damn we're getting old.
Has a basic to-do list with client, project, and subtask and time tracking. Really easy to use.
Took me a little practice to remember to toggle on when I started and toggle off when I stopped. Sometimes I'd go to the bathroom, then grab a snack and next thing I know it's been 30 minutes and I left it running. Or I sit down and start and forget to start tracking.
Democrats sad that Republicans got better at pandering to special interests than them?
Is it more than a survey company that tells analysts that people want jobs and feel like they've been crapped on for 40 years?
Taxing imports is one way (like Trump is talking about and what we have done historically), subsidizing local production is another way (like we currently do with agriculture).
Honestly, I think we should do both.
As to automation and technology: We're going to use automation, so let's build it here.
Once we're buying local, the multiplier effect turns exponential.
The reason free trade helped us get rich is because we were selling to wealthy nations and had tariffs to protect our own industries.
And WWI and WWII.
International free trade is not making us wealthy right now. It doesn't work like that. We're subsidizing other countries while we wait for them to become equal trading partners. But as long as there is a third-world country somewh
It sounds like you think something is going to happen to the U.S. economy if we implement taxes on imports. Something bad. Like without international free trade and globalization, we won't be able to make money because people would rather not trade with us if they have to pay the tax, and we will not survive. Is that a fair assessment?
If you think taxes on imports will have a chilling ef