From the environmental impact, to the social impact to the personal impact absolutely no part of it is harmless.

Given half the references are from the same people that said a gang leader was called barbeque because he was a cannibal instead of the actual reason, I’m going to suggest there might be a bit of a propaganda problem going on there.

The gangs formed due to foreign invasion and an illegitimate state seizing power. They aren’t some separate group from the people, they are the people that should decide what state they have. The primary victims of the largest gang, for instance, were politicians and un ‘workers’, the latter of which regularly were caught raping women and children.

The gangs are the security. Against actual evil. These aren’t international cartel members or gun runners or even drug dealers. They’re resistance to occupation.

Maybe, you know, the foreign troops trying to revive a us puppet state that was deeply unpopular with the people is the cause of violence.

Got it, fish are racist confirmed.

Global chat bans is the chat hate. Minecraft was (and still primarily is) a single player game with private server capability. Banning people from using a feature they paid for in a setting entirely unrelated to the company is a problem.

Its especially a problem if you own your own server, as you can be banned from doing any in-game admin work, including banning people via chat commands. again on a server you own and run that is disconnected from microsoft and mojang entirely.

Its a paradigm shift that has never had an equal in gaming. In no other games with private servers are features restricted on private servers. No one should have the capability to do that.

Most right wing voters, right now, practice community level communism, or at least a communal sharing economy.

But you gotta understand that for more than a hundred years now a huge amount of tax payer and corporate money has funded the single largest propaganda campaign in world history, associating the words socialism and communism with every single bad thing that could be described using literary, visual, or audio mediums.

Add this to a society that was already made up of some of the most religious and socially conservative (read shame oriented) people in almost world history, and you have a permanent brainwashing switch that gets flipped on mere mention of specific words.

Those are two different sites (.si and nyaa pantsu) due to an almost comical amount of drama between the admins of the former nyaa torrent site. Land might be a mirror of one of them but the other is an entirely different tracker.

Nyaa.si/nyaa.pant.su would be the original versions of that site, and usually have most things.

The country that heavily invested in science and technology, much more so than any other nation in history, is going to lead the world in those fields?!

It’s just the natural progression of forbidden language.

I’m not sure of the filters but a really easy one is:

Dim is considered too rude, so use the medical term closest to it, ‘retard’, retard becomes to rude so you use disabled. Disabled becomes too rude so you use differently abled, and so on. Forever.

Or; commit suicide -> go kill yourself -> go jump off a bridge -> go commit die -> be self unalived

All censored words and ideas go through this, which is why you should improve the material conditions of people so they can have enough time to empathize with others and avoid saying particularly bad words and ideas.

When you apply it to really common words and ideas, it evolves even faster and dumber.

There was a shitty f2p MMO called GunZ online once upon a time. It was so badly programmed that glitches literally became the primary gameplay loop.

I loved it. For those few that could get into it, it was a unique heaven of fps and fighting game that filled a void an over caffeinated teen with nothing but hyper focus and time didn’t know they had.

Also just ridiculously horny people.

Texas is a country. Now imagine $40 billion a year of various media and disinfo agents repeating that ad nauseum in every place they can literally all the time for nearly 50 years now, all so China can’t take revenge against Japan.

You’d get annoyed and probably ban it since that’s the easiest way to get your enemy to waste money forever.

Taipei is an autonomous region, like Xinjiang or Tibet. As long as they don’t grossly violate federal law they get to stay autonomous.

YDI. Maybe stop embodying the idea of ‘scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds’ for a few days and you might see why your actions even alienate relatively normie communities.

Post-industrial Buddhism is what it is. Yeah like it’d be great to do that in a cave or forest or open prairie but who the fuck can afford those things?

Abandoned buildings are free as long as you don’t fuck with the native inhabitants’ meth.

The Israeli public, at least 60-68% of it consistently supports genocide, even as they are direct witnesses and for the most part due to mandatory IDF enlistment, participate in it.

Most people in Russia hate their government and military, beyond some basic notion that they should be the toughest because they’re Russian. Most people in China, especially the military, have nothing to do with any alleged genocide.

But the Israeli public is different. That is why they get less respect.

The Nazis were popular in Germany for a time, the Israeli government is no different at the moment. Both populations should not be respected even a little, given they have largely chosen and supported attrocities.

Asking for one that isn’t a genocidal maniac shouldn’t be the impossible bar that you consider perfect.

I don’t know about you people, but I’m not a genocidal person, I don’t think genocide is a good thing, and I don’t believe a cult of fascists have a divine right to kill the brown people.

I don’t think it’s that big of an ask to have at least one candidate that believes the same as me in this very common notion.

Or, you know, be the party that at least promises popular things, instead of the party that just exists in idle opposition.

At least we’ll never have to worry about Dems after 2026. Maybe some better parties can take hold

I’m pretty sure Trump has proven every single tankie argument about the US.

The image says 16.7 for Taipei, not 6.7. neither my comment nor the image contains a 6.7.

Now you can argue all western and Eastern sources are undercounting nk and China, that’s why I didn’t even include nk given the natural mistrust of information from a country with less than 10k tourists a year; but any search of this info online shows the same trend: Chinese nationals dont commit suicide as often as their oppressed neighbors.