I hope you have fun with it. :)

Yeah, I had to put it down.

The gameplay was ultimately just too annoying to me, which is a bummer because the ideas and aesthetic were exceedingly cool.

Did they fix the janky dodging and rolling though?

It’s been really weird watching Donald’s officials go on TV over and over again using rhetoric urging Iran to adopt peace.

Sounds like begging someone not to hit you back after you punched them in the face.

Lots of social engineering incoming, no doubt.

You’re right.

They should all vote Green.

Same. My city reopened in Mid-June 2020 and I remember going to the gym and seeing people pretending the virus was gone, no masks, distancing, or wiping down the equipment. People are disgusting.

So I still mask up and carry sanitizer.

You just lived through a period where people literally threatened their neighbors (and tried to kidnap a governor) with guns because they couldn’t get a haircut or get some cheesy biscuits at Red Lobster.

The worst sin Donald can commit is coming between Americans and the convenience that they equate with liberty.

And yes, there will be another vote.

There is a portion of MAGA that won’t, sure.

But the majority will. This is a war of choice, not necessity, and you saw how quick people were to flip on Harris when it became clear she was comfortable with people being impoverished for no good reason.

As much as I hate how this is going to affect millions in the US and Iran, and elsewhere, who are already struggling, I don’t think anyone in the US will care unless it personally affects their own quality of life, so yeah, part of me agrees with you.

If the gas price skyrockets they will demand Donald’s head. Nothing pisses Americans off more than not being able to use their cars.

It would be oddly poetic to use our own basic grossness against us. Americans have terrible hygiene.

So, for those watching, as usual, the cost of the war can and will fall most heavily on the poor.

If hobbies aren’t the way, how do you feel about animals? Just being out and walking a dog will acquaint you with people in your neighborhood, and those connections can turn into friendships. You don’t even have to own one, sign up for Rover and walk your neighbors’ dogs, then you profit AND make make a bunch of friends.

My best guess is that they’ll use biological warfare. Our culture has already demonstrated that this is a huge weakness. They could also get us with a cyber attack, shutting down important infrastructure that way.

Americans have only ever pretended to care about non-combatants when it’s convenient. President Obama even invented the term ‘enemy combatant’ so he could pretend his drone strikes were killing fewer civilians.

Oh there’s evidence.

25% of US workers are functionally unemployed

Of course they’re not hanging out. They’re working three low-wage jobs for 100 hours every week so they can barely stay in their roach-infested apartments, as capitalism intended.

Isn’t this like punching someone in the face and then begging them not to hit you back?

Correlating education to wealth is fine overall but you are intentionally avoiding more direct metrics of wealth and inequality to make it seem as if this is direct causation for women having some upper hand.

No. I’m illustrating that the machinery of government can and has elevated women and minorities in measurable ways.

Women absolutely make less and hold a significantly smaller portion of the overall wealth in this country.

What I’ve suggested above would benefit them as much as men.

Women routinely have to leave their careers to manage the home and their family (due to archaic misogynistic gender roles). There is also just straight up bias in management decisions about pay.

Sometimes yes, hence why there needs to be more regulation, as I’ve suggested.

Your inference that I’m blaming women is projection. What I’m doing is essentially advocating for DEI, but income-based and not based on any one demographic with the dual goals of lessening poverty and improving the overall functionality of society. (So we don’t have entire generations of people being radicalized.)

Thank you for reading it.

There are two factors here in the US that correlate significantly with a person’s lifetime earnings potential: their zip code of birth and attainment of a college degree. It’s exceedingly significant (in a positive way) that women constitute the majority in college enrollment. I think that’s a good thing, but it also demonstrates inequality.

I want to see policies here that mirror those in more progressive European countries: Free college, a federally-mandated living wage that adjusts with inflation, and universal health care. I also want to see universities’ federal funding tied to expansion of enrollment rates, as there are many that keep them artificially low and yet still raise tuition rates every year. These benefits should target low-income communities without regard to race or gender.

In short, I want to see the economic ship lifted for the poor, and that’s how it should be done.

Most young people, and in particular young men, have three choices when entering adulthood: Work for sub-standard wages and struggle alone and/or live with their parents, join the military, or take on permanent debt on the hope of a college degree and an elevated life. (If they’re fortunate enough to land a spot in enrollment to begin with.)

Rampant misogyny has spread because people who consider themselves progressive have ignored these economic calamities and right-wingers have, conversely, highlighted those inequalities, created communities for young men, and gotten rich in the process. Currently the functional unemployment rate in the United States is 25%.

The solution, is creating an economy where prosperity is distributed among a more diverse population of people.

(But I suspect people will continue to vote Democrat and Republican and this conversation won’t matter much in the grand scheme of things.)

Probably more than a few cannibals in Gaza too right now, sadly.