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It never ceases to amuse me that a single unarmed person is a threat to police and can be gunned down legally with no repercussions, but large groups of armed people can march down the street solely for the purposes of intimidation with no consequences whatsoever.
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The second season kind of fell apart in the second half. The john henry storyline was really good.
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Sim Settlers.
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Admiral at least some semblance of an idea of how government functions.
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My thing with royland and duncan was this: Duncan seemed to have no fight in him at all. Royland was all fight. I would rather have a guy who wants to fight that i can hold back since im in charge rather than a guy with no fight that ill have to try and make fight.

Like I said though it doesnt really matter whoever you pick is happy and whoever you dont is pissed.
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One of the more enjoyable Telltale games honestly. The spreading out of the narrative among a group of characters gives them a bit more space to tell a larger story. Choice of sentinel doesn't really matter, but I went with the other guy because Duncan seemed like too much of a spineless goober.
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The stupid hats alone disqualify Texas from being a top tier state.
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If the cops won't cite him for it then the city has no business billing him.
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I love the logic behind the idea that because I don't want children, I should never be able to have sex.
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Bringit posted...

The Admiral posted...

I really love this setting, but my biggest fear is that this is basically just another re-skinned Far Cry 3/4 clone. The scene with the bear chasing the one guy (which was way overdone in FC4) definitely worries me.

The formula has definitely become stale across most big Ubi franchises. I played AC: Rogue recently and though I loved the campaign I just couldn't bring myself to do the busy-work again for the nth time which of course leaves you with a short game because the menial sidestuff tends to make up the majority of the content. I can't see myself buying anymore of their games unless they're dirt cheap on sale just because I've basically already played it at least 4 times regardless of the franchise.

Yeah this was why I couldn't be bothered to finish 4, it just felt like a grind.
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This assumes there is gainful employment available for all people that want to work. Spoilers: There isn't
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PC version has good mods.
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The_Juice_ posted...

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Neo1661 posted...

https://twitter.com/Nxvxskxt/status/866804777484668929


Could be staged.

That looks pretty staged.
And once again, ISIS claims responsibility for basically anything, even if they have nothing to do with what happened.

Wait....ISIS has a twitter? The fuck?

It's pretty public knowledge that they recruit people through sites like Twitter.

Twitter regularly bans them, but it's twitter so it's really easy for them to just make new ones.
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DarthAragorn posted...

Isn't Kesh a female

Yes.
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The chick from Minnesota couldn't look more Scandinavian if she tried.
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I liked the story in 3 better than 4.
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Zikten posted...

ironic that the facists are the ones winning and TC says take that facists. but ok. another win for SJW's and facists everywhere

You do realize that the National Front is actually a Neo-Fascist party right?
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I haven't played much since about a month after release. I found the mechanics to be to simple compared to games like Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, and Europa Universalis. I came into it basically wanting a space version of HOI or EU and it wasn't so I wasn't super into it. Not that it wasn't a decent game, just not what I wanted it to be. I've heard they've changed alot of stuff since then, I just haven't had time to work my way back around to it.
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Man, what sweet bootstraps she has.
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Antifar posted...

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-senate-california-retirement-20170503-story.html

A pioneering, California-led effort to create retirement security for low-income workers has been thrown into jeopardy after the U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to block states from starting programs to automatically enroll millions of people in IRA-type savings plans.

The measure, aimed at stopping the fledgling state retirement programs, now goes to President Trump, who has vowed to sign it.

That leaves lawmakers in California, Illinois and other states who only months ago were celebrating the success of their long-planned initiative scrambling to regroup. The Senate voted 50 to 49 to stop the state plans.

The retirement programs that were about to launch in seven states and are under consideration in many more were targeted by Wall Street firms and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The vote reflected the renewed influence of the business lobby in Washington since the 2016 election, with lawmakers defying the 38-million member AARP, a vocal supporter of the auto-IRA program. The seniors group had warned senators that its members would hold them accountable for their votes.

“Nobody had a problem with this except for the big Wall Street companies who invented in their mind that they would be losing business to these state innovations,” said Sen. Christopher S. Murphy (D-Conn.), whose state was moving to implement an auto-IRA program. “This is a terrible, terrible thing we are doing,” he said of the Senate’s vote to undermine the state programs.

The California Secure Choice program and similar retirement laws generally require employers with no retirement plans to automatically invest a small percentage of each worker’s pay in a state-sponsored retirement account. Employees can opt out of the program if they choose.

The money is managed by private investment firms that partner with the states. The accounts are intended to help build financial security for some 55 million workers nationwide whose employers do not offer a retirement plan.

The push to implement the programs was delayed for years by complicated federal Labor Department rules governing such investment pools. In its final months, the Obama administration gave states the green light to pursue their vision. But Congress has now voted to revoke that authority, leaving the programs in limbo. Opponents of the state programs say they became too risky for consumers after the federal rules were changed.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) denounced the regulation permitting the retirement plans as something “that President Obama personally ordered Labor Secretary Tom Perez to draft as a gift to certain blue states.”

Democrats on the Senate floor charged such arguments were a smoke screen to obscure an effort to protect the profits of big investment houses concerned their business could be eroded if companies moved their employees into state-sponsored plans.

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California and other states were moved to address the large share of the workforce not enrolled in any retirement plan after efforts to create a federal automatic IRA program stalled years ago. Reports by some bipartisan think tanks and policy analysts suggest the programs could ultimately save states billions of dollars by creating a measure of financial security for elderly Americans who otherwise end up on the rolls of Medicaid, food stamps and other safety-net programs.

Funny how the GOP is all "SMALL GUBMINT AND STATES RIGHTS" until those state governments do things like this. Then they have no qualms with interjecting themselves into it.
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You know as well as I do that short of nuking legislative filibuster this has 0 chance of passing the senate, and any changes they make to get it through the senate will never ever make it back through the House. This is about posturing for your base and saying "LOOK WE GOT SOMETHING DONE" never mind that they actually didn't really get anything done.
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tremain07 posted...

No, it's not. Health care is a luxury the same way having a home, clothes,food and bathrooms are.

Yep, not dying is a luxury.
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Larry hagman used to get harassed all the time on the street by crazy people.
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Hell the beatings he and Apollo both took in the first film should have been enough to end their careers. There is no way in hell that they would have been allowed to continue that match with the shape they were in by the last two rounds.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

Better to have the tool ready for self defense and not need it, then when it a SHTF situation to not have a tool and be screwed.

Unlike most people, I believe everybody naturally has the right to self defense.

You owe nobody a reason to want to survive or be a victim to a crime.

You don't owe any bad guy a reason to give up your belongings, to submit to their wills, or to go down without a fight.

Should the bad guy want something out of you, they better be willing to fight to the death to attain their goals.

If every crime they commit requires this level of conflict just for the most basic thing; crime would be far lower.

Are you going to do this in every situation? Like even where doing so puts other people's lives at risk? Because if so it just makes you sound completely fucking irresponsible.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

StarReaper13 posted...

Yes, previously Republicans and Democrats had their views essentially switched.

Not really.

Republicans used to be libertarian progressives, so only their social views have changed. Democrats were pretty much always the party of the working class, and their social views were pretty much the same as their Republican opponents' on the whole. However they were sort of a catch-all party and had various sects within, such as the white Southerners. They were mostly drawn to the party for its support for workers rights and unions, and their racism influenced who they elected within their communities, but not necessarily beyond that because they held a minority view in the party at large. In the Civil Rights era the Republicans (who had been politically evolving into a more traditionalist party) pandered to the "solid South" and its racism.

So basically racist voters are a parasite that jump from party to party and infect their views.

Yes it's called Nixon's southern strategy. They convinced racist white voters to flip sides to the GOP and then used that to turn around and destroy those very same worker's rights.
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“My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice…For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."

“The greatness of Christianity did not arise from attempts to make compromises with those philosophical opinions of the ancient world which had some resemblance to its own doctrine, but in the unrelenting and fanatical proclamation and defense of its own teaching.”

The first is from a speech he gave. The second from Mein Kampf. It's pretty clear where he stands on the issue.

That being said he did have his issues with the church in Germany. Primarily due to it's resistance to certain aspects of Nazi ideology. You can look at the feud with the Archbishop of Munster as an example.
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Since snake is career special forces and the re characters were basically just cops im pretty sure anything they could survive snake could as well.
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But but....only leftists can be violent.
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Ride ze shoopuf?
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Dash_Harber posted...

http://8values.github.io/results.html?e=82.7&d=78.2&g=77.6&s=89.0

Libertarian Socialism

I don't know about that though. The socialism, for sure, but I don't really understand libertarianism enough to say I feel that way. I tend to associate libertarianism with those tea-party like movements, and I despise those.

That's because in the US the term Libertarian was co-opted by scum like Ayn Rand. You fit more in with the traditional definition.
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Because they aren't dumb enough to put millions of South Korean lives at risk just because some short fat manchild says mean things.
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Imagine being the kind of fucking tool that would answer yes to this.
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I feel bad for the people of Seoul because they are ones going to get killed if the Trumpster decides to start a war.
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Haldol posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Should she get punched in the face for intentionally being an asshole? Yes. Jail time seems a bit excessive though here.

Not really

She broke into a mosque

That's illegal.

If someone broke into your place and vandalized would you be satisfied with just punching them in the face??

I was speaking more to the leaving of bacon. Breaking and Entering and vandalizing shit is always deserving of criminal prosecution.
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Should she get punched in the face for intentionally being an asshole? Yes. Jail time seems a bit excessive though here.
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If you want obedience get a dog.
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If nothing else Jennifer Hale is by far a better voice actor.
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People who ask this question are generally people who haven't watched large amounts of episodes of the show. Archie while out of touch and bigoted when put up against the wall pretty much always made the right choice. Mike while the progressive voice on the show was also shown to be a limousine liberal quite a few times who was completely out of touch with the people he was claiming to be in favor of helping.

The thing that really made the show stand out wasn't Archie and Mike's constant bickering, but the serious issues of the time that it addressed. Rape and victim blaming, women in traditionally men's jobs, infidelity, neighborhood integration, draft dodging. The list goes on.
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chrono625 posted...

epik_fail1 posted...

Just so you know, the christian bible also has questionable parts about non-believers.

And how many Christians are beheading people in the year 2017 over it?

Plenty in central africa by The Lord's Resistance Army.
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PlsGodDontBanMe posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Zikten posted...

I feel like somehow someone would make an exception for her. the government wouldn't just let her die

LOL. What world do you live in? Do you not remember the healthcare townhalls during the lead up to Obamacare? Crowds literally chanted "Let her die" to a woman talking about her daughter-in-law who was sick and couldn't get insurance coverage because she was sick.

Link?

I'm digging. It's not easy to find links to stories 8 or so years old. Upon further remembrance though I believe it was a crowd in florida that chanted "let him die" when Ron Paul was asked a question about by an audience member. The woman I mentioned was at a different event, she wasn't chanted at, she was just booed off stage. Again, i'm working from memory here. Trying to dig up links.
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Zikten posted...

I feel like somehow someone would make an exception for her. the government wouldn't just let her die

LOL. What world do you live in? Do you not remember the healthcare townhalls during the lead up to Obamacare? A Crowd literally chanted "Let her die" to a woman talking about her daughter-in-law who was sick and couldn't get insurance coverage because she was sick.
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Maybe she shouldn't buy an Iphone. Then she would be able to afford her insurance.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

At some point, whether you're pro or anti gun laws, Americans have to address the elephant in the room that their gun crime and massacres is not shared by the rest of the world, especially the developed world, even compared to both countries with strict gun laws and ones with loose gun laws.

What the US is doing isn't working.

Never gonna happen. We've decided as a culture that the unyielding defense of the 2nd Amendment is more important than protecting the lives of even school children. Which is fine I suppose. I just wish people would stop pretending that it's anything other than that.
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Kind of like Richard Spencer?
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He should be using that hatchet to chop off those bags under his eyes.
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Oh noes whatever will trump do without the support of richard spencer and his ilk.
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Imagine thinking that there is only one rebel group and it's simply good guys vs bad guys. The conflict is one of the most absurdly complicated messes imaginable.
http://valdaiclub.com/upload/resize_cache/iblock/bea/847_0_1/beae99b91637382c0fa421b4e8742a73.jpg
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Nixon's southern strategy is one of the key reasons behind the shift.
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