I thought someone might go that route, so I came prepared. Even if we ignore Russia (located in Asia but absolutely culturally European) europeans have been responsible for no less than 6 genocides in the last hundred years.
I don't think your joke was that bad, what I took issue with was your justification for it. I'm sick of hearing "it's just a joke, get over it". It's rarely used by good people.
Tear down the military industrial complex. We're sandwiched between oceans on the east and west, and friendly neighbors on the north and south. Nobody's going to invade us. We don't need the world's largest military.
The "america bad" people have a point. The "america bad, Europe good" people are delusional. The US would have to last another 3000 years to even come close to the atrocities committed by Europeans.
I've learned that there's a huge number of people on lemmy who prefer government regulation to self control. I had an argument with a guy the other day who wants $12 lattes banned instead of simply not buying them. Apparently making something available is the same as putting a gun to your head and forcing you to buy it.
Yeah. Every single time there's an op-ed accusing Trump of inventing something, inevitably it's just something he exploited and dialed up to 11. The only people more confident of Trump's abilities than his supporters are his detractors.
The other 1/3rd goes to the feds, so they can pay for roads, social safety nets, nukes, drones, unconstitutional domestic surveillance programs, and Israeli genocide
Know who else generalizes huge groups of people and defends themselves with "it was just a joke"? Racists. Homophobes. Transphobes. That the company you wanna keep?
Trump does that conman thing where he never stops talking. It looks ridiculous when written down, but for some reason to some people it sounds reasonable as he's saying it, perhaps because he says it with such confidence. It's not hard to find especially dumb nuggets in that firehose of shit when you sit down and actually read it.
Most of his posts are a link to NPR or huffpo and him commenting "what a sad world!" or something along those lines. If he has a team he needs a new one.
Addicted to what? This isn't a loot box, there's no gambling seratonin rush. This package unlocks stuff you could earn by simply playing the game. It's an expensive cheat code. How many people are addicted to that? Does your crime have a victim?
I don't think they expect anyone to buy this. I think this is a marketing move. "Our game is so big that if you were to buy all these items individually they'd cost as much as a new Lexus. What a value!". Pure PR stuntery. And here we are, discussing it, so it worked.
Yeah, it's a shame we didn't have some sort of environmental organization fighting for a reasonable alternative for oil and gas instead of fighting against it
I thought someone might go that route, so I came prepared. Even if we ignore Russia (located in Asia but absolutely culturally European) europeans have been responsible for no less than 6 genocides in the last hundred years.