Munrock

Victoria 3.

It doesn't really focus on killing enemies, but you can build communism somewhere in the world and squash the imperial ambitions of the US while also pushing the empires into decline.

Play as Britain, stop the US from expanding West while slowly guiding the UK towards a proletarian revolution.

That's not a real photo. That's an AI trying to draw hands.

Ok nobody panic but the Iroquoian and Algonquian script has been removed from the signage in the New York photo. I don't want to jump to any conclusions or anything but maybe we should keep an eye on that area just to be sure there's no cultural erasure happening. I don't want to be dropping the big G word or anything rash like that but I haven't seen any evidence of the indigenous population practicing their local customs and culture in the area, except in obviously-staged displays.

Depends on what you mean by 'after the Socialist Transition.'

I don't think they will become actively interventionist, because history has shown external intervention rarely does more good than harm and never results in lasting change.

Regarding how much they support and encourage other countries to change, I think their decision-making there is based more on the dynamics between states than on China's internal condition. We can already see nations moving left and opposing imperialism as US power declines and a multipolar world arises, and China is facilitating those conditions.

I like how they think nothing's changing. What a nice surprise they're in for when their empires can no longer sustain the illusion!

Also quite telling is their use of a collective 'us' and 'you (plural)'. Most libs try/claim to distance themselves from the actions of their ancestors, but the mask slips when their language shows where they draw lines and which side they picture themselves on.

BayArea415 got unwanted attention because what he said was true and often incendiary. BadEmpanada wants attention so he says incendiary things that are occasionally true.

Let's try number of billionaires per capita instead of a flat number of billionaires.

It's actually January and February that were added in. Before that, there was just this gap during the winter when they didn't bother counting the passage of days until the start of spring was declared, in March. That's also why February is the short month, as it was the last added and just used up the remaining days.

12 hours in half a day is fine for me. 12 can be divided into halves, thirds, quarters and sixths. That's useful for planning out a day. Time is one of the applications where I don't have a complaint about using base 12.

There's a lot to be said in favour of federation, and the innate us-them mentality that comes with the federate-defederate border control is a thing. It looks and seems like a downside, but it's far and away better than the centralized lib authority we had in places like reddit.

Just sharing a thought that reading this thread prompted.

I get the feeling their nine-dash-line reason for banning the movie isn't the real reason they did it, because when you see the map it appears on it really is just... dumb.

I have no idea what an alternative real reason might be, except perhaps seeing the movie as a cynical appropriation of values by a company that objectively doesn't hold them.

I love that he wants a Taiwan that values democracy and human rights. Those are two very good reasons to prise it from the grasping hands of Western imperialism.