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Please read my original comment again carefully. I said nowhere that a dictatorship is better at governing. I said that Switzerland is rich because of their companies being capitalistic assholes that would or better ARE right now fucking up the planet and the rest of humanity. You can read on Wikipedia about Nestle, the Nazi gold and tax haven, the Russian influence, etc. That is how Switzerland got really rich, not due to their direct democracy (which I find awesome).
You could argue that there is a small connection between both, since the neutrality of Switzerland was part of why so many companies and banks managed to get big.
You are muddling two different concepts in your Switzerland argument. You are probably referring to the fact, that Switzerland has a direct democracy for certain political decisions in addition to having a parliament. But that is not why it's a rich country. That's because of their big companies who are by no means anything else but die hard capitalistic and self serving. You might know some of them for their evil deeds, for example Nestlé.
Not really, Thomas finds his friends in the first 10 minutes =D
The rest of the game is how they deal with each other and their problems and characters clashing and supporting each other together.
Well great great grandpa is a wonderful story teller for the kids and you wouldn't believe how big of an area on a field my second great aunt thirteen times removed can clear in one day.
Just checked the steam discussions and it seems a bug was introduced somewhere in between that makes the game crash when a transmission message is opened in game due to a bug with the interaction between game and steam.
A workaround is to just play through the game with Steam shut down completely, which works fine. The downside is that after collecting any Message from Home, that save file will be unplayable if you run the game from Steam - the game will always hang at startup. But, it will update your achievements first!
But that is not what you claimed earlier. Reuters specifically doesn't claim they are or are not Hezbollah members. Just that they saw videos of hurt people.
Just to make my stand point clear: I don't mean that this attack mostly attacked civilians, I just don't think we are at a level of information yet, where the full broadness of the attack is clear. If it really would be 2 innocent on 3000 hits, then yes, that would a "good" number.
Can you give me a link to articles from the journalists on the ground please, I'm not doubting you, I just haven't seen them myself yet. I only saw articles which reference officials from both sides (which doesn't really mean anything between Hezbollah and Israel)
That the other 3000 hits are Hezbollah people is said by the Israel army, which is not exactly known for being truthful regarding non israelian civilian casualties, to say it in a neutral way.
The kids are especially put in the foreground of the discussion because they are definitely innocent. For any regular middle age man? Fat chance when the IDF even says schools and hospitals are terrorist buildings. They just call them terrorist, because they only kill terrorist. You got killed? Means you were a terrorist.
Every fairy tale with a good king/queen/princess/prince?
Or One Thousand and One Nights has the king killing his wifes left and right, but by the end it's alright, because he really loves his current wife now...
Since you are asking for cautionary tales, The Fisherman and his Wife might a better fit. Just be glad of what you have and don't strive for advancing.
Oh, that is sad to hear. Was it in the original or in the remaster version?