[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think with socialism, countries can reindustrialize fairly quickly though, can't they? The USSR and China shot up without even having the luxury of the US's industrialist past, huge wealth they could invest in such efforts, or modern automation techniques.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

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[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Thought he was a Haley supporter. Some of them actually went to Kamala? I figured they all just went back to Trump after she dropped out because they tend not to have actual principles lol

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What's a NAFO? Still new to all the cool hexbear lingo lol

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

They just half-assing Venezuela or what?

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've only seen clips. I have a feeling the montage was good enough for me. It had the initial surprise and shock and I'm sure would wear off quickly.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Makes sense. I like the simplicity. I'd even consider stealing that as a house rule for other similar rpg's.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What is the difference between a circumstance bonus and status bonus?

I started reading the book than stopped because I have no one to play anything with except for 5e. But character creation looked super fun. I liked all the choices each level.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago

Hm... But what about GDP? Or the rich? How are they doing?

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Who was the person in the last thread that said that China needs to switch to a more *consumer economy fast? Sounds like they listened.

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/05/2024/china-rolls-out-42-billion-stimulus-package-to-boost-domestic-demand

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, that takes understanding context, history, material conditions, class relations, some basic economics and philosophy.

Or, you can listen to the guy on the radio and the blonde on TV, who say it's the Mexican laborers, black thugs, Muslim terrorists, and Jewish bankers. Oh, and the gays. And liberal elite, college professors. And since everything in that list is easily categorizable as the one word "woke", it's clearly a simpler explanation.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago

I agree, but am I only the one distraught af about this? What are people in America going to do? The first thing fascism always does is eliminate the Communists and Socialists. Not like the US has done so far, make fun of them in the press and isolate them through media consent manufacturing, I mean really make sure that political philosophy is entirely extinct. They're going to shut down these forums, arrest anyone to the left of Biden, ignore paramilitary death squads killing people in the streets, before moving on to the natural fascism scapegoats: shoot kids in Palestinian protests and call them terrorists, arrest LGBTQ people for being groomers, set black and women rights back to the 1600's, shit like that. I know that happens a lot now but there are pockets where people can feel safe in this country. They're going to use national power to override cities and states and eliminate those pockets.

Fuck, this feels hopeless now. Even trading out Biden will not work anymore with that photo. I'd rather stay here where my support network is, but I feel like I'm going to have renew my passport and chance it in another country that I hope the US won't invade, or buy a gun, and I really, really don't want to have to fight a bunch of CHUDs. I want to relax in my apartment, hang out with friends, play games, and just live my life.

The other thing I'm worried about is a fascist America stomping out communism around the world even more than it does. Cuba will get fucked by a full fascist America off its shores and China hasn't been as internationally helpful as the USSR.

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