in bad country china, you know what, forget about it

the first liberal countries, the UK, US and Netherlands were the first to legalize slavery, whereas the ancienne regime of monarchist europe largely abolished slavery as a consequence of every subject being allowed to be a practicing christian (and therefore being able to attend church, have a family, etc.)

edit: this is basically the synopsis of Domenico Losurdo’s “Liberalism, A Counter-History”

edit2: the book also goes into detail on colonialism, genocide, slavery and so on, and dunks on all the “greats” of old liberalism such as locke, burke, tocqueville, bentham; it’s a very exhaustive display of all of the inherent contradictions of liberalism

mud wizard should have prepared more spells

the only candidate who could tell trump he was going to eat him if made president, and mean it

The fallout was that the Chinese government bought the bottom and all the wall street dipshits than invested in the stock lost their money. The Chinese government has always posited that speculating on the price of housing is a social ill and they’ve always pulled stunts like this to curb companies that try to start this hype cycle. This time western investors lost money so that’s why we heard so much about it.

tl;dr it’s in state custody now

no, no, i’m not a maoist, i just happened to reach the same conclusion as maoism from first principles reasoning, as an independent free thinker

This is the dystopian future that civil-liberty campaigners are most afraid of - a China-style mass-surveillance state.

This is so rich coming from the UK, the most CCTVed country in the world. Oh no, if we keep doing this insane-o shit we’ll become almost as bad as the image we made up about bad country Jyna.

The only reason this is happening is because Vicky3 is a game that makes a separation between “the cool and smart entrepreneur making mad bank” and the player character, which is more or less, “the spirit of the nation”. Most games make you the exploiter for you to enjoy the power fantasy and as such invite no analysis from a player that didn’t want to engage in one to begin with. But here, these upperclassmen are obviously hoarding wealth for their own benefit which in the game’s simulation is just money sitting around in swiss bank accounts rotting away, to the direct detriment of the “spirit of the nation”. If you were playing as some working class prole or similar gamers would bomb the game as preachy marxist bullshit made to demonise the cool and handsome wealth creators, but as you’re this third party which wants to increase wealth creation nationwide, as a collective project, that is frustrated continuously, both economically, and politically, making their polity weaker, and more likely to get owned in military engagements, it instantly clicks with them even if they don’t want to engage in any kind of analysis, because the analysis is done for them, you are being stopped from doing this obviously good thing that would improve your polity by these arseholes specifically, they’re doing it in this way, and they’re doing it for this reason, have fun idiot.

This is sounds like a parody written by another leftist, but I guess you can never be sure with these people. Moralism is its own ideology and you get points in it. Everyone’s boo, Kim, IS a moralist, and if you score mad moralism points, he will not call you a fascist, but an even-keeled world-understander here to fix things up (please tell me again about how this is “a game about communism” and not just a character drama).

What is explained in the OP can only happen if you score points in ALL ideologies, because I’m pretty sure fascism points are checked before anything else, all things being equal.

In non-nerd speak, this is like asking someone “are you more Left, Right, or Centre?” and them responding “I’m actually all of these things at the same time, that is true Centrism” which does not make any sense and sounds like something a leftist would come up with to make fun of centrism. But again, people are silly and political literacy is zero on average so I would not be surprised.

Seeing we’re on the subject anyway, here’s my fave making fun on centrists joke: “If you’re arguing with a centrist and another one overhears you, what should they do? Agree with the other centrist, or create a new position that is between you and the other centrist?”

You know what’s baffling about this take is that at least mask off nazis have a very easy consistent non mental gymnastics take on it: “yes, they burned trans literature and it was good that they did so.” Fascinating, now face the wall. I don’t know what kind of pretzeling this moronic take requires. In fact, not only did Magnus Hirschfield’s institute research queerness and transness, they undertook the first gender confirmation surgery. The woman in question, Dora Richter, is presumed killed during the attack on the institute or in custody after it. All of this information is incredibly easy to verify.