SinAdjetivos

There is a big difference between "Fuck America" and "Fuck all Americans".

Of those 300 million, the ones who are not to be blamed are the ones who realize this and also say "Fuck America!" Surely you can't be so ignorant as to not see how the existence of that country as a political institution has a direct and causal link to this sort of outcome.

Yep, so unless you have a passport you now might not be able to take any form of air transportation.

I do what I can. But it doesn't feel like enough.

And it clearly isn't enough as things are getting worse, but also what I'm doing clearly isn't enough either. Unfortunately, it's impossible for one, or two, people to do enough. It's just important you do what you can and remain cynical about what those limitations are.

I apologize if this felt like it was targeted explicitly at you, but I don't see a path forward without aggressively corralling those who are doing "what is expected" vs "what they can" and I apologize if my attempts at pushing were misdirected or misplaced.

Keep on doing what your doing, if we all keep doing what we can we'll get through this.

Oh I agree, but that one didn't seem to bad to me due to the clocks depicting an in-game time that were everywhere. The ones that I almost rage quit on were:

Some I really appreciate that I'm not seeing on this list:

I'm currently enjoying Blue Prince which is a fairly new rogue-like puzzle/mystery game it's hard to explain without spoiling but it's worth looking up.

Portals of Phereon is one of my absolute favorites. It's a fairly deep tactical RPG thing with loads of replayability. It's kind of like a Pokemon x FF Tactics but with monstergirls and it's also currently free while it's in development. Be aware it's extremely NSFW and horny, which I suspect is the main reason it's not as popular as some of the others listed (IE rimworld, stardew valley, etc.) however the horny is such a key point to it's original gameplay and world-building that it wouldn't be the same without it.

Thea: the awakening is a decent tactical RPG. I love it for it's original battle mini game, crafting system and world-building. It unfortunately has some balance issues and jankiness that prevents it from being an all time favorite, but it's definitely one I would encourage at least trying.

Thought of a few others:

• Reus (2nd one's alright, first one's excellent)
• Library of Runia
• Book of Hours
• Kenshi (saw it listed one other time, but it deserves a lot more love)

how would you know if I was or was not actively doing something

It's the Internet I don't. The difference in perspective I see is the lack of 'guilt by association' which only goes so far. That was kind of what the whole Nuremberg trials were about. My point is that if you are not confident that in a real life interaction you can demonstrate either you were unaware, were resisting, dis-associated yourself or were incapable, then you do shoulder some of the blame.

The fact we're having this conversation shows you are not unaware, I hope you're actively resisting but the defensiveness tells me you might not believe you're doing enough, and if that's because you're incapable, for whatever reason, then give yourself some grace. If that's not the case then yes, you modern_medicine are to blame for the fascist bullshit happening around you.

people from your country surely do drugs which is why the cartels exist and kill people.

I believe you have a poor understanding of what cartels are and why they exist, but yes using your example I can confidently say I actively work to alleviate the conditions that result in people self-medicating and have distanced myself from cartels and their activities as much as I am aware and capable of. Can you say the same?

I agree that "blame" may not be the right word. Is there an English word for "complicit through complacency"?

Then I guess you should probably be actively doing something about that problem shouldn't you?

So long as you aren't that blame isn't really misplaced is it?

argument against words than it does against concepts.

That's good feedback, thank you. I did do both and I think it muddled the message a bit.

It was also not the best example, but I tried lol. Have a lovely day!

you're going to mount a defense against the existence of Mt. St. Helens, right?

I will!!! Mostly to try and better illustrate what is being meant by "perspective is not reality".

I am certain of the fact that Mt. St. Helens is a volcano that exists.

A mountain exists in that location that was formed via an underlying volcano, however the name for both is Lawetlat'la.

I am certain of the fact that it erupted prior to my existence upon this planet

Volcanoes themselves generally do not erupt, magma chambers erupt through (and via that process create) volcanoes.

I have never laid my own eyes upon this volcano

Nor have most. Outside of eruption events the volcano isn't visible, only the mountain is.

The volcano Mt St Helens does not exist. Using the mountain of Lawetlat'la as evidence does not make the volcano Mt St Helens exist because while the mountain and volcano are distinct entities, standard naming convention is to call them both the same thing.

it's the system we have and we should use it

That was Thomas Jefferson's justification for the continuation of slavery.

Regulation and heavy taxes

This assumes a world where regulatory capture is not the default state of things.

the government can't seize citizens personal property for no reason and without compensation.

That "no reason" is extremely vague and allows it to be one of the primary underlying argument against taxes and regulations.

Disagree with personal property shouldnt exist, but agree that businesses need to have their power and ownership regulated heavily

But without also limiting the power and ownership of individuals we loop right back to feudalism and the exact issues these systems were designed to solve.

What is your understanding of what "personal property" is like under some idealistic, utopian communism?

regulate harshly and with a 50s style tax

Isn't this argument 'free-market but with guardrails' or did I misunderstand?

What do you mean by "personal property"? That monopolistic land ownership is okay so long as it's individuals not businesses?

Well yeah, cause the only other way that story could've gone was "the OG Black Panthers were right, obviously the good guys and revolution is key" which isn't a story that you're allowed to tell.

To be fair, that series pushed that line much more than pretty much anything else I've seen on TV, but they did Ekko so dirty.