You should probably talk to him about your mom’s death to make sure this isn’t a rebound, because otherwise there’s a good chance you might have a sibling before any trauma of his gets worked out.

Well, I’ve managed to win every election legitimately in Tropico 5 so far while making sure there’s plenty of housing, education, jobs, food, and healthcare.

So guess so.

Not if you preemptively make what would be an opposition ideology illegal when making the country’s constitution

That says national not global

State ownership of means of production is the very definition of state socialism

Except there’s also state capitalism. The bloc may have been started with the intention of state socialism (doubtful, since we’re talking about Stalin here), but it was definitely run as a state capitalist system, as most authoritarian governments do - including modern Russia.

Libertarianism, centrist? Oh please. Its very foundation is rooted in anarchist concepts

Just because something is rooted in concepts that might be left (or right) wing, doesn’t mean the thing itself is at the same level (much like Stalinism).

Libertarianism itself is strongly center.

It’s offshoots, like Libertarian Socialism, are what’s left or right wing ideology.

Again, you don’t actually know your politics, instead shaping your perception on things based off experience, not what they really are.

Everything being state owned isn’t leftist, at all. That’s straight up authoritarian. Putin has almost everything owned by the state too - are you seriously going to call him a leftists??? Sprinkling in some civil rights so the state machine runs better does not a leftist state make. And actual libertarianism is solidly center neutral. Right wing libertarianism is an oxymoron.

But, there’s no point in discussing the situation further with someone who still has past traumas from an authoritarian regime.

As someone who lived behind the iron curtain, you may not realize this, but people lie.

Something or someone calling itself leftist does not mean it is. The USSR pretending to have been socialist is about as authentic as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea being a democracy.

Earth Liberation Front is about the most violent actual leftists example you listed, and even they pale in comparison to what the right wing does, and is again an appropriate response mechanism for permanently altering the climate of the entire planet in a devastating way for the fictional concept of money we have collectively decided to value. If anything, again proving my point of too little too late when you consider the consequences, and considering they formed back when there was acid rain literally happenings due to pollution.

The right is inherently violent because it’s an ideology of power and authority, not union and equality. Belief in power and authority is inherently violent, because subjection of humans goes against the inherent will of personhood, and will inevitably lead to conflict. The pursuit of power is also inherently violent, because it requires therefore forceful subjection. That’s why all authoritarian governments are right wing.

I can think of only one example in recent human history that broke that mold - only one dictator that, as far as I know, sought power solely for the purpose of improving their country and the lives of people while eliminating corruption, that being Lee Kwan Yu. They were the closet I’ve seen to an actual violent leftist ideology, and their governmental system remains an outlier in that it’s a democratic competitive authoritarian system.

Opinions are the foundation of all ideologies. Hitler’s opinions on undesirables for example.

The reason right wingers become more extreme is because of allowing their opinion on violence go unchecked lets them begin to actually start practicing it. Even the Charlie Kirk killer was a Trumpist who thought Kirk was too much to the left.

The issue in humanity has always been that the left has always only fought back once things become dire. They’ve only ever functioned as a check to a society’s collapse rather than a deterrent to it’s downward decline. If the left actually adhered to the paradox of intolerance, then society and humankind would progress much faster, because those who are a factual detriment to society - the greedy, the power hungry, the psychopathic - wouldn’t be allowed to gain power, either permanently or through meaningful consequences.

The issue is the left is inherently peaceful to a fault. They don’t actually go out and start punching let alone killing until it’s too late and they’ve literally been forced into it.

It’s also why rarely does violence actually permanently fix things - because those willing to do it usually want power rather than justice, and even if that is the case, it does not remain permanent policy.

But then, being reactionary rather than preventative to threats has always been the greatest fault of humanity, but especially the left. Not being aggressive with aggressors early on, not dealing with climate change until it’s kinda too late, etc.

It’s written like it had a word count due.

Seems the difference is you can make it more rigid or more flexible with the addition of certain mineral compounds. Same with moisture resistance.

You’re entitled to an opinion. You’re not entitled to be respected for it.

Opinions precede action.

New live action one piece is looking pretty good

Change it to the middle of a forest with no one around for kilometers and that 1% might go a lot higher tho

The reality is the only option you’ll have (for those asking for alternatives) is self hosting, if you’re worried about things like this. Eventually one of them may get compromised or emshitified.

Tuta, for example, is in Germany. All it takes is one election where the AfD wins and now Tuta is compromised. Either you’ll be hopping around continuously, or you settle for the best possible option, or you self host.

Kirk also helped organized and bussed people to the Capitol. It’s not just opinions.

But also, yes, if your opinion is certain people should cease to exist simply because they’re not white, I will think that person themselves should cease to exist in turn.

Do you have a link to one of those videos? I have someone I might be able to make go against Trump via a different conspiracy with that, since that’s their main issue with Trump now

Unless they were the witches they cursed Charlie Kirk

Since when is messaging platforms like Signal “social media”?

Made me happy for a moment there, you cheeky squirrel 🤣

I feel like that defeats the purpose of sauna a bit…

But anyway, I thought heat rating was a different metric entirely?