Is blue sky federated? I thought it was another closed garden. If slightly more open than Twitter.

Mindustry is much closer to the tower defense side of it.

Or maybe the RTS side.

There are even attack modes, where you build up an army to take on a fixed emplacement of enemy units.

If you think Hitler was loyal to Eva Braun, we’ve been reading vastly different books.

No, Hitler was just as much a sex pest as any other dictator, and was pretty bad before gaining power. Like targeting 14 year olds, and his 14 year old niece.

But he also had uncontrollable flatulence that could clear a ballroom. Which goes to show that while time travelers couldn’t kill him, they certainly could fuck with him.

The true captains of industry do want this. chaos is how they transfer wealth from the poor to themselves.

In a depression, the money doesn’t vanish, it goes into the pockets of the super rich.

That’s actually the plan.

Bankrupt the government and sell it off for parts.

Fun fact, there’s a 2008 law that specifically forces the president to give Israel all the best military hardware.

It was passed by W on his way out the door, and due to the Democratic party being compromised as hell, there’s never been enough votes to get rid of it, and any time the president might want to hold things back, they get sued under that law.

That was an unsigned non-binding opinion. And the current court will jump on it in a heartbeat.

Countless was a little under 2000 people (at least as far as Harris is concerned) That’s about half of what her predecessor in the same office did over roughly the same time period.

Now, that conviction is for “possession, sale, or cultivation”. Most paid a fine rather than serve jail time. We also don’t know the exact breakdown of possession vs sale vs cultivation.

We also know that Harris pushed for decriminalization and legalization in California, and has pushed some of the same as vice president. I think Joe is the roadblock there, even if he was convinced to pardon a bunch of people for simple possession.

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I will say, the voting system that we advocate for is important.

There are three common choices. RCV, Approval, and STAR.

RCV has some momentum, but is just a bad voting system. It’s arguably worse than Fist Past the Post, because in a way, it is FPtP. Or rather, it’s several FPtP elections in a row, dropping the lowest each time.

Which is where a problem creeps in. See, it’s drop lowest, and then never hear from that person again. So if they are the literal second choice of 99% of voters, they’re dropped in the first round and never seen again.

This leads to ballots that look like this;

1 - dropped in 4th round 2- dropped in 1st round 3- dropped in 2nd round 4- dropped in 3rd round 5- Guy you kind of hate and only listed because the rules said you had to list 5. He’s the one who got your vote.

If you had dropped your first choice, Your second through third might have won.

There’s also a version of the above ballot that doesn’t have a number 5, in that case your ballot is just thrown out as exhausted. Up to 18% of ballots get thrown out as exhausted. At least that’s what the data from California and Maine has said.

Most countries that use IRV (RCV’s real name) don’t publish any election data, so we use what we’ve got.

Anyway, Approval and STAR are both immune to shit like the above, because how you rate one candidate has zero bearing on how you rate another. Woo for cardinal voting systems.

You just completely missed the point.

You literally cannot “values vote” your way to a functional First Past the Post voting system.

And trying to get others to join in your misunderstanding of basic reality is actively harmful to your, and their interests.

Maybe that’s the problem. You don’t want to admit that you’re the bad guy…

Maybe someday you’ll actually understand then.

Your little party literally cannot win at anything beyond the local level.

Has your third party run for any local positions? No? They only show up in presidential election years?

That tells us they are horrible people who know damn well that they’re helping Trump.

Then it’s not “Full self driving”. It’s at best lane assistance, but I wouldn’t trust that either.

Elon needs to shut the fuck up about self driving and maybe issue a full recall, because he’s going to get people killed.

1.7% is more than enough to flip some swing states. Most swing states.

And two in particular have more than an average number of Puerto Ricans.

So yeah, it matters.

This is one of the laws forcing Biden’s hand.

https://www.congress.gov/110/plaws/publ429/PLAW-110publ429.pdf

There are more, little bits slipped into appropriations bills and shit.

How does the Leahy Act jibe with laws that specifically require the Administration to sell weapons to Israel?

There’s a law the Republicans forced through that specifically forces the Biden Administration fund Israel. That “bypassed Congress” claim is kind of wrong.

See, Congress said pay this, and then didn’t pass a budget that actually allocated money for it.

Biden actually tried to slow roll the funding the last time this happened, but this time around Republicans in Congress made sure he wouldn’t be allowed to slow roll it.

And the money has to come from somewhere.

That’s Congress.

The president can’t actually halt funding that Congress has allocated. See Trump’s first impeachment for this very scenario.

I’ll say that 99% of FOSS projects are better depicted with one guy pushing the desk/cart, and no one else.

Again, the Italians invented Fascism and it had nothing to do with America.

Italian Fascism was rooted in Italian Nationalism, which borrowed heavily from their ideas about the Roman Empire.

The Nazis didn’t even exist when Italian Fascism was developing, because it was happening during WW1.

After WW1, some Germans were reeling from the loss of the war and latched onto this new hyper nationalist idea that the Italians had invented.

Only after Mussolini seized power in 1922, did Hitler come into the picture. He tried his Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

It’s important to note that in 1923, the Nazis still didn’t have a coherent platform beyond hyper nationalism, and even that was shaky because Germany hadn’t actually existed for all that long.

After the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler went on trial and became a national figure in Germany. The face of the Nazi movement. And as such, he needed a coherent set of ideals and shit. Which he came up with in prison. Well, a swanky castle prison with all his friends and comfortable rooms and shit.

Anyway, it was during the 5-year prison sentence where Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, and finally had a coherent sounding ideology for the Nazi movement.

A full decade after the Italians had theirs.

Now, Hitler was also obsessed with the books of Karl May, who was a young adult fiction writer in Germany. May wrote books centered on the American West, even though he had never actually been to America, and didn’t speak English.

That’s where America finally comes in to things.

So when Hitler finally rose to power in 1933, he could then look at what America was doing to crib some laws. But even then, the Nuremberg laws were more inspired from Russian laws around Jews than what was going on in America.

Oh yeah, the Russians really hated Jews. You couldn’t be a 1900s antisemite without bowing to the superior hatred shown by the Russians, particularly under the Tsars. But that’s an entirely different history lesson.

Yes, but the Italians didn’t care about that, because they based Fascism (which they invented) on Roman laws, particularly the Empire period.