It’s very strange, you can tell the writing for this game is all-timer level great because people can have wildly divergent interpretations of the game’s ultimate tone. It’s either one of the most depressing and defeatist games ever made, or one of the most optimistic and hopeful. And both interpretations are equally valid.

(I’m more in the optimism camp, for the record).

Yeah my first run (Reformist but lost the war) I funded Health and Education thinking I would get prompted for a new budget annually and initial investments there would pay off Keynesian-style.

But funding Law Enforcement is actually extremely important if you intend to

Which I did to a maximalist extent in my second, successful run.

Lmao you went Dictator, defunded the military, joined CSP, didnt promote Lucian, and didn’t form the Anti-Corruption Police, didn’t you?

I’m pretty sure thats the route you have to take to alienate literally everyone in the cabinet and have every possible bid to overthrow you go off.

You mean the police procedural, right?

Because classic mystery stories focus way more on what actually solves murders - detective grunt work like alibis, motives, timelines, etc

That that kind of game, with so much thematically and artistically bound up within it, could ever have come out at all, that was the real Insulindian Miracle

I came to terms with the inevitability that it was probably never going to get any follow-up, just like how I had to come to terms with the fact that the Song of Ice and Fire series will probably never be concluded. Its the definition of “Dont be sad its gone. Smile because it happened.”

Literally no one here is arguing that Ukraine is good, but the actual leftists (as opposed to national chauvinists) here are arguing that this is unmistakably an inter-imperialist war and not some convoluted “the invasion of Ukraine is anti-imperialist because Russia is on the imperial periphery of a super-imperialist bloc” bullshit argument.

I’m someone who can absolutely advance arguments that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was caused by outside imperialist circumstances. But now that it has happened, and is actual fact? There is zero “critical support” of Russian aggression here. The only legitimate communist position in this scenario is for Ukrainian and Russian soldiers alike to turn their guns on their own generals. Will that happen? No. But that’s the fucking position the Bolsheviks themselves took from the start, not some ridiculous stance about how actually the Kaiser was right to resist all along and criticizing the German war effort is bad.

Anyone on this site who genuinely believes Vladimir Putin does “anti-imperialism” out of any motive other than supremely cynical, convenient, competing imperialist interest seriously needs to re-evaluate their stances and sources. Or, otherwise, go join the fucking Maupinite/Hazite clowns who are basically doing the most cringe reactionary shit imaginable, because they are your people.

I say this as someone who has for a while tried to stay out of the dogmatic factionalist bullshit in favor of just shitposting when it comes to this site. If you’ve been suckered into believing a siloviki-dominated hyper-capitalist kleptocracy like Russia is a genuine force for “anti-imperialism”, you’ve been fucking had in the worst way possible. Even the most mindless simping for modern Dengist China has a more rational basis.

I don’t know how you watch this film and come away with the opinion that its “sympathetic to Nazis”, especially since the Kriegsmarine was the least Nazified branch of the Wehrmacht by a significant margin

CPRF stop being shit ass nationalists debasing a corpse challenge (Difficulty: Impossible)

The problem with YIMBYs isn’t this its that they suffocate all other voices in the room while having no feasible plans to actually challenge or change the structural forces of capitalism that produced this outcome

The satire of ideologies in DE is genuinely some of the most biting satire in that regard anywhere. The satire of communism hits particularly hard because it comes from a place of real experience and affection.

I’m a dude playing another dude disguised as another dude

And of course his daughters friend is fucking dead. Why? Because she’s a whore. She’s not as pure as his daughter. She deserved it. I mean it’s sickening. The whole narration, it’s psycho-sexual undertones. His daughter is alive because she’s precious on the human trafficking market, because she’s a virgin. There are no virgins in Europe you know, only God blessed Americans are pure.

Taken literally uses staple tropes ripped straight from 80s slasher films. The virginal Final Girl survived because she started following her dad’s rules.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN’T JUST ENACT STRICT QUARANTINE AND PREVENT THE RAPID MASS SPREADING OF PLAGUE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What? But I was told wage work is just a transitory stage in life toward my independence as a property owner. What do you mean thats utopian?!

Ultraliberalism is orthoganal to any sort of actual human emotion, so you either turn into the light bending man, or you compartmentalise like Joyce and cheerfully admit you’re a complete monster literally destroying the world, but hey, you like Disco and your boat is tasteful and you’re a blast at dinner parties, so it’s all good right?

lmfao this is great

/r/news locked the thread announcing his death within minutes

Reminder that this trash got over a thousand upvotes in the Castro death announcement thread back in 2016:

And so ends the reign of the man who took over Cuba and promised a “People’s Revolution” only to turn his back on everyone and everything once in power so he and his buttbuddy Che could murder close associates seen as risks to their power and plunge Cuba into a totalitarian dictatorship. He turned Cuba into his political ‘communist’ experiment and ran it like a rich-kid despot who reviled in his own ego forcing his subjects to listen to hour long monologues and tirades against their fabricated foreign enemies. The enemy was always the outsiders, and only Fidel could protect them and “their” revolution of course.

Yes Fidel was highly educated and had a law degree. He was also a great orator and manipulator. He was indeed very intelligent and any who sat down with him were often charmed by his compelling rehtoric and ideas. He woed not only celebs and even Canada’s own Prime Minister, but also generations of impressionable idealistic youth that clung on to his fantasy world. That’s what made him so dangerous.

In reality he starved, beat, and jailed dissenters and ruined the lives of millions of Cubans. Imagine being born and raised into the economic and financial prison hell that is Cuba? How would you feel about those who praised the man whose state almost literally owned you and your entire family like slaves? What justice did these people ever get? Nothing. They got and still continue to get f*cked over. Fidel is dead but their suffering is not. Remember that when you type an idealistic euology from the comfort of your first world home.

Many will eulogize him as some sort of ‘revolutionary’, foolishly pushing forth the very same false narrative that Fidel built around himself. The so called hero that enslaved a nation to be put on t-shirts and sold to people who romanticize the horror that was and continues to be the Cuban 'Communist" regime.

Oh and he did all this while smoking cigars and enjoying life on his secret island that nobody was allowed to talk about where he enjoyed cognac and other foreign films and imports just like some famous despots from Korea. Nobody can rival the hypocrisy of despots.

He partied, drank, smoked, banged, and laughed his way to the grave all while his people suffered. You have to give it to him, as a douche, he was quite a successful douche. Che got too ambitious for his own good and look what happened. Fidel was content with running his very own island plantation… erm I mean the “PEOPLE’S island paradise”.

What a revolutionary guise.

P.S. This was all America’s fault. That’s why Cuba couldn’t be free. It’s always the Yankees fault of course! Those globalist gringos keeping the “people’s” revolution down amrite? - Fidel probably, as he sips from his cognac and puffs his cigars from hell.

And they basically didn’t. They went the fuck back home because they’re cowards who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.

All the cringe ass takes calling this a coup have no response to this. And all the people saying eye-rolling shit like “the pod said these guys wouldn’t do anything im so fucking cool and contrarian”

Yeah okay what if they occupied the Capitol building. Okay now fucking what? I guess the government has to surrender lol