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I have almost 2500 hours in the game. There are mods that change the nature of the game to the point where it seems like a completely different game.

There are also modders in the community who have worked on parts of the official DLC.

Speaking of, the DLC massively expanded the game.

But even just the base game is an addictive colony builder where everything is likely to end in flames. Or not. Because there difficulty settings are fairly robust. You can make it a chill little farm sim if you want.

The game is pure freedom.

Got to add, it didn't just happen in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan.

There were fascists in every country in the world, and a lot of them stayed in power after WW2.

Most of Asia was fascist ruled at one point or another. South America was almost completely ruled by various fascist dictators for most of the second half of the century.

But the more on topic point is that a large percentage of Americans of the time, had wanted the US to join WW2 on the side of the Germans. There were men who were sent to kill Nazis who had marched in support of the Nazis at Madison Square Garden.

That's not even counting the KKK, which was falling apart due to the leadership embezzling funds, but just a decade prior had enjoyed hundreds of thousands of members.

In 1930 the Klan had membership counting 11 Governors, 16 US Senators, and roughly 75 members of the House.

The Klan then had a resurgence in the 1950s, and well into the 70s all in response to the civil rights movement.

The Klan might be treated like a joke these days, but the sort of families that have multiple generations of klansman, don't teach love and understanding to their children.

There are little towns in the south that have been cultivating their racism since long before the civil war.

Hell, the state of Oregon was so racist that the banned black people entirely. The people who did that had kids who joined the Klan, so on and so forth, and now there are still places in eastern Oregon that black and brown people have to avoid on fear of death.

White nationalism has been part of who we are as a nation for a very long time. Thankfully its popularity is fading, which only makes the adherents louder and more dangerous.

The coordinated attack plan was actually foiled a year earlier. 9/11 was the Hail Mary back-up plan.

The Millennium Attack plots were well planned and coordinated, and were mostly foiled because of it. The plans leaked. (and one plan failed due to the boat sinking with all bombs onboard)

9/11 was the hastily thrown together back-up. Of course they didn't have anything planned for after it.

But I still doubt they would have bothered with any sort of small town, even if they'd been in a position to attack again.

Didn't read a single word I wrote, did you?

As many others have pointed out, you're arguing in bad faith.

Everyone knows damn well that a local story in a local newspaper will not have another source until maybe a national source picks it up, and guess what, those national sources will look at the fact that the Texas Observer is a fully trustworthy source who did the legwork on this story, and they will link back to it.

It's a 100% true, horrific story.

Or do you not believe that cops would do this sort of thing repeatedly in several states. Here's a selection of past stories on teens, and young teens at that, put in solitary for way longer than should ever be allowed. Watch out for the 13-year-old who committed suicide because of it, that one is a rough read.

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/too-young-shave-old-enough-solitary

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/06/22/louisiana-limits-solitary-confinement-for-youth

https://www.hrw.org/report/2012/10/10/growing-locked-down/youth-solitary-confinement-jails-and-prisons-across-united

Cops are fucking bastards. They love to power trip, and they love to put people in solitary.

Humans are bad at threat analysis. I remember after 9/11, little hick towns in the middle of bumfuck nowhere were worried that their little tourist trap landmark what not was under immediate terrorist, even though there was literally no way at the time to for anyone outside of that county to know that the little town even existed. The internet of the day wasn't exactly easily searchable, and most of those little towns didn't bother making their own website.

There are a lot of other examples of being bad at threat analysis. Like people being more afraid of sharks than jellyfish when at the beach, or being afraid of sharks at all...

I'm sure I could spend the next hour listing things that people are irrationally afraid of and not repeat myself.

Just because everything is on fire, my cook has food poisoning, my researcher is punching the boomalope, and my hunter is running from the fire, doesn't mean I've lost control.

No everything is probably okay as long as there's no raid or mech cluster.

Plus, I've learned by now to not have wooden bases, and to keep the flammables and boomalopes on opposite sides of the base. Chemfuel goes over in that little building over there, with a thin roof. Still need to remember that firefoam poppers are a thing.

So it's not a total loss. And that was the highlights of yesterday's play session.

Not willing to wait 10 minutes to play a game? You Sir, or Madam, have never played modded Rimworld.

Now imagine loading a game, realizing your mods aren't quite right, and having to exit out and reload.

As to 10 minutes to something like Warzone... no. Just no. An online battle royal type game needs to be fast. It can't be all laid back and calming like Rimworld, the colony/warcrimes simulator.

As others have pointed out to you repeatedly, the Texas Observer is a perfectly fine news source that has passed fact checking flawlessly for at least the last 5 years.

So stop spamming.

I also don't know, I smoked it more than once and am at best a 1 on the Kinsey scale. Maybe I didn't smoke enough?

After Ralph Nader cost Gore the 2000 election, (along with blatant supreme court fuckery) Democrats have been a little wiser about third party candidates.

See, under First Past the Post, a third party candidate is a liability. When you support a third party, or independent, the most likely outcome is the majority candidate that is ideologically closest to that candidate will lose. The Spoiler Effect.

RFK Jr. is a blatant attempt at Republicans trying to create a spoiler candidate. The problem (for them) is, he's much closer to Trump than Biden on many key issues.

Some states that allow child marriage, don't allow divorce until both parties are 18.

He was kind of saying "there's this thing I built that could make all of you really rich, but it's kind of horrible, you should totally dismantle it instead of using it to get rich".

When Eisenhower gave that speech in 1961, there were already people screaming about how the military industrial complex was horrific, how it would lead to endless wars, and how it would cause global suffering.

Eisenhower was the main force behind building the Military Industrial complex.

It's kind of like a drunken, pantsless party guest saying that there's a bunch of shit and vomit in the bathroom, and that it will certainly be a problem, but they're going home now, so you should clean it up.

Only instead of shit and vomit, it's a bunch of rich assholes making money by killing poor people.

If you want that cartoony trek, Lower Decks is also great. Just don't watch with the nieces and nephews unless they're older... It is the horniest ship in Starfleet, even though that doesn't come up nearly as much as the meme would have you believe.

Part of the "weakened Israeli defense systems" was Netanyahu redirecting people and assets from around Gaza to the West Bank to aid in the ethnic cleansing over there.

The entire plan was; "ignore Gaza and trust the magical iron dome system to be magic, but use the threat of Hamas to justify an ethnic cleansing where there is no real Hamas presence".

Twenty? I'm not a Christian so was unaware of the extra ten.

Let me put it this way, you could dump ten thousand Fukushimas straight into the ocean and given time to diffuse a bit, not notice a difference in oceanic uranium content.

The Oceans contain 1000 times more uranium than the known terrestrial deposits. This naturally includes the fissile isotopes.

But the real point is that it's actually fairly easy to filter that shit out via reverse osmosis. Thus, the only thing that the Fukushima water contains is tritium, which is impossible to filter out of water.

Fox hates him because Rupert Murdoch spent a shitload of time and effort to artificially boost the Pound Sterling in 1992 as the Tories were fucking things up.

Soros bet against the Tories, publicly so, and made over a billion on Black Wednesday alone.

The Tories lost the next election in a landslide (five years later) and didn't return to power until 2010.

September 1992 marks the beginning of Murdoch's hatred of Soros.

Here's the thing, Uranium is already present in seawater at concentrations far above what you would get if you dumped the entirety of Fukushima's corium straight into the ocean.

See, there's a common form of uranium oxide that's water-soluble. A large part of the world's free uranium is already in the ocean in solution.