There's a lot of narrative potential there. Why would a group of rag-tag bandits attack a squad of seasoned fighters? Perhaps they were misled by their cruel leader who tortures those who fail to "motivate" the remaining bandits.
The leader could be secretly backed by a powerful noble who is funding the bandits as a way to remove competition. The leader doesn't need the bandits, so their lives are expendable, but the bandits are the outcast, down trodden, and desperate who have no alternatives.
What seems to be a simple case of greedy bandits suddenly becomes a power struggle between noble houses with the backing of the crown. Killing the leader may solve the issue in the short term, but the nobles will just install a new chump to continue the plan. Killing the nobles will have greater consequences across the kingdom. Disposing the crown will throw the kingdom into chaos.
And it all starts with one, desperate highway man begging for his life in the mud while the party thinks "it's just a bandit, they're evil, so they deserve to die."
Difference in thought is dangerous to the established power structures. It starts with thinking that you can use a different hand to wipe your ass and evolves into thinking maybe the rulers shouldn't be ruling.
Unpeeled. Just a large dollop of peanut butter sitting on top of an entire apple. Eaten with a fork and knife because that just somehow sounds more egregious to me.
The moves only make sense if you know what game they're playing. In this case, there aren't any ads in the comments, so why would they want you to spend time there?
People should not be required to pick between teams and should instead be able to choose their opinion on individual issues. Parties just remove middle ground and force voters to cluster together. What if you were against an issue that your party championed? Doesn't matter, you either need to get on board or change teams.
Killing the political party seems like it would be in the people's best interest.
Yup. Those cheap TV's are being subsidized by advertisements that are built right in. If you don't need the smart functionality, skip connecting it to the Internet. (If you can. Looking at you Roku TV's!)
And I do mean that honestly, it's not like he's empowered by people making memes of him. He receives no benefit, there is no gain. If I used Hitler in a meme because he made a funny face, that isn't an endorsement of his actions or beliefs, sometimes a meme is just a meme.
Manual? You mean the half-finished wiki someone put together that is the only source of information while also missing the information I need?