why did you relable from hades
Redcat
joined 2 years ago
Well, they are right. Fascism was very much predicated on state enforced privatization. That's what 'Corporatism' means. A political ideology where society is organized like a body - corpus - and each part is sovereign. Private Companies would thereafter be the lords of their respective sectors. Fascism isn't defined by close relations between the Private and the Public sectors because that's actually true for all forms of industrialized societies. Even and in many ways especially the early adopters of industrialization. British free trade ideology was limited to the United Kingdom, while India was run as a resource and tax farming colony for the benefits of British Capital. The State, with its armies and political supremacy, is no less important there.
This is an important distinction to be made because Fascism was invented to enforce social harmony in face of class struggle. It is meant to subsume all political discourse of clashing interests between bosses, employees, landlords, farmers, urban workers, service workers, and so on into the body of the nation. In a fascist society you're not supposed to question the political order, as, for an example, bankers know best about the banking system which is why the State enforces their rights and power over their employees, and ensures that as much economic power is privatly held as possible.
ruZZia sending their meme swastika drones from ace combat 5 at uKKKraine
no seriously the drones look like a pokémon
That famine was an investment in democracy.
non hostile sovereign state
For the past several decades NATO has utterly destroyed various countries around the world, while maintaining ruthless tradewars against the peoples of Cuba, Iran and Venezuela, as well as a brutal colonial regime across much of West Africa. NATO won't stop at invading your country either. They'll maintain occupations in Syria and blockades of Afghanistan from now until the end of time.
NATO would rather see the people of Niger and Mali starve to death rather than pay market rates for their resources.
NATO will crow that countries in South America are too defiant, why, they didn't even try and coup the brazilian elections last year!
NATO is, simply put, a defensive alliance of the world's preeminent warmongerers.
Hosting NATO troops is the epitome of hostility.
Unfortunately for you some countries can actually resist. And resist they shall.
Does Ukraine not have the right to defend their territory?
Do eastern ukrainians have a right not to be ethnically cleansed?
Yes, yes, China is great
i disagree since they'll court anyone, even americans and nato
Well, that all depends.
The key difference between a 3E style game and a later version is that the floor became higher and the ceiling somewhat lower. 3E comes with ways to cripple one's character, or to challenge oneself with a substandard build. They aren't presented as such because the idea of trap choices and learning about the game to the point where you avoid them was an actual design direction in 3E. Third edition also had way too many ways to power game. Selling broken powers via new subclasses with new supplements was the whole business model. And Pathfinder is nothing if not a refined, modernized version of 3.5, which means that it inherits all of that while adding idiosyncracies of its own. 5E by contrast has much more straightforward character building.
Wrath comes with it's own set of incentives for min maxxing in the form of Mythic Paths, each of which synergize with certain character roles better than others. Sometimes that synergy is in spite of character fantasy too. Furthermore, Owlcat's balance is harder overall than the tabletop games'. So of course, while the game is much more chill on Normal and below, if you play on Core you really do want to read up on the builds that people came up with. Hell, I tell people who want to start off with Core to pick their Mythic Path first and then pick a class that works well with them. It just saves on a lot of frustration overall.
Like, it's not so much that WotR is fine if you just use a single class and buff. Sometimes that's optimal and prebuffing in every way you can is a requirement, not a win more. Incidentally, multiclassing caster is a bad idea more often than not. Baldur's Gate 3 just lacks a lot of the 3E chaff and is a better game to start with if someone's never played D&D before. 2E was even more straightforward when it came to character building, it was just somewhat weird, opaque, and quaint in a few ways that make it a strange starter as well.
i have infinite money and cheap food. someone please help me budget this my soldiers are starving
pathfinder = D&D 3.5 = stack every modifier under the sun to get a +1+1+1+2+4+2+1 attack bonus so you can kill monsters. multiclass seven different classes to get those bonuses.
baldur's gate 3 = D&D 5e = i dunno be a single class and prebuff i guess
the latter has fewer idiosyncracies and i'm way more comfortable recommending it to normal people.
i dunno i think not dying of starvation is a great human right to have
If you believe that the state has the right to enforce poverty on one group of people
citation needed
since no one seems to give a shit about the Uyghurs.
yes, they are making rice in the deserts of xinjiang using slave labor because there's a shortage of farmers in china. no wait the article is about sichuan
and the gov't isn't doing sufficient to make up for the loss of revenue
yes the chinese government is famous for not supporting it's agricultural sector
I would say that if the state expects people to do labor, then the state should be expected to pay for that labor.
meanwhile the united states actually does use slave labor in the deserts of california, but nobody seems to give a shit about americans
They are currently waging a hybrid war against most countries in the world. For every year of my living memory either NATO is bombing some place in the middle east, waging lawfare/starvation wars against countries in south america, or all of the above against someone in Africa. NATO is the sort of group that would rather see the peoples of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger die of hunger rather than pay market price for their goods. NATO will continue to blockade Venezuela until their oil is owned by american shareholders. NATO has bombed half of the muslim world, and now insists that it's leadership has been bought off by perfidious chinese money. And the Chinese, who played the game and followed the rules, even they must be cowed into poverty and submission.
It's a defensive alliance between warmongerers, and I know that if NATO decided to stage nukes/troops against my people we wouldn't be able to resist. Of course we stand with Russia. We wish we were them. We wish Libya could have resisted NATO. We wish Syria could resist NATO. We wish Iran, Cuba, Iraq, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Niger, Palestine, and so many others could resist NATO. We can only hope that China and Russia can, because if they can't, we are truly doomed to NATO's whims.
And NATO's made it clear. We are the jungle. We are less than human. And we are treated as such.
What you see as double standards is just us trying to survive your governments.