u2031 Of course there is extremism on both "sides". But ITT, I only see extremism on the one side and I'm just calling that out. Also I think extremist SJWs are quite rare. This issue is largely overstated by politically motivated media and echo chambers throughout the internet. It's very...

Nice!
Could be interesting to see the same stats but for the last year or month too

What's worrying is this anti-SJW culture, this "fight" against common decency. It's disappointing that even intelligent people are lured into this "us against them" mentality that is so obviously set up to divide the middle class by those who benefit. I couldn’t agree more, exce...

Just because you believe you're making a sacrifice doesn't mean you're making one. A sacrifice is to give up something you think is valuable to help a person or a cause. Whether what is being given up upon is a sacrifice or not is relative to how the person perceives it, there are no absolute right...

The sacrifice is that I get a lot of shit for the things that I say, of course. You get a kick out of it. When people are offended by things you say, you feel empowered and reassured of the importance of this "battle" you are fighting. A sacrifice? Give me a break. That you feel empowered...

Imo there are no subjects that should be taboo to joke about. It’s all about the time, place and how it is done. For some subjects there are fewer “right” moments than there are for others. If you have experienced some traumatizing event, you should expect your friends to not joke about it with or a...

The US have far from a clear record, but I would choose US over China any day of the week. You may say the US is racist, have a bad political system and whatever. It is still way better than a dictatorship that imprison/kills political adversaries, bans government critics and oppress countless mino...

If walls are to be nerfed, I like the idea of increasing the build time. That you can close a gap in your walls in less than 10s and the result is that you bought yourself another two min safe time is too strong. That walls seem so OP when Kenysie uses them (in late game) is because his opponents re...

Trump is the only Western leader brave enough to stand up to China and put an end to their decades-long theft of Western intellectual property! So what? Where is the benefit for the US or anyone else? And how exactly is it "brave"? China is stealing intellectual property and is using unfa...

I’ll list some things I think were good: 1. Standing up against China. As I have already mentioned before in this thread, standing up against the dictatorship of China is truly needed, both in trade and in South China sea. 2. Putting pressure on other NATO countries to contribute more to the defens...

I also think Trump have a few valid points here and there, unfortunately he is like a good conspiracy theorist. In the midst of what seems to be valid grounds for their theory, they pull out a random quote from the bible. Kek what valid points do you think he have? and how did he make polecy out of...

I agree water and docks are too strong. But from my view point (may or may not count for much as I’m only a lt) many games that Kynesie win is because his opponents suck at late game. Whether this is because they are truly bad at it or just refuses to adapt their playstyle because it is “a lame play...

If you have lived your whole life in a dictatorship with little contact with other nations, it's not strange if you do not understand how democracy could work. Ye, I don’t get why it has been allowed to be like this for so long either. Trump may be unstable, but for better and worse, he isn’t afraid...

https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2164172/going-postal-how-donald-trump-threatening For once I agree with Trump. China is a dictatorship that take advantage of both their own population as well as other countries. Trump do have the courage to address these problems ...

So last night the Basement finally played another full length treaty game after a long time. I'm going to do a full write up on how the game went soon, but I came up with an idea for a very fun Basement game: an AoE 3 drinking game. So far my ideas are mainly for treaty but I'm open to suggestions ...

France > China >> Rest is true for Andes. In most other maps China train units too slow to make them 2nd best civ imo. So, for the majority of maps it would be: France >> Japan > Russia/Portugal > Rest But this too can change somewhat depending on maps and if you talk about team games or 1v1. What ...

Sure. How would we get in the right mindset, with propaganda and anti-intellectualism as widespread as it is? Reminder: Trump didn't win the majority vote and very probably colluded with a hostile foreign power, or at least tried to, to get elected. There's the highly partisan "news" outl...

I doubt there really is anyone here who disagrees with that the politics are moving in the wrong directions in quite a few places or that we need to take better care of the environment. The question is what we should do about it.

France > China >> Rest is true for Andes. In most other maps China train units too slow to make them 2nd best civ imo. So, for the majority of maps it would be: France >> Japan > Russia/Portugal > Rest But this too can change somewhat depending on maps and if you talk about team games or 1v1. What d...

Today traditional hard-core fascism, Mussolini's Italy for example, is mixed together with any national movement as if they were the same thing. Just because you have one thing in common with fascism, wanting a stronger national state for example, doesn’t mean they agree with anything else from fasc...

Did you read either of the articles I posted? This is about political organizations throwing away core democratic values and the people being okay with it because they were fed lies and/or aren't paying attention. I doubt that's happening in Sweden, but it certainly is happening in a lot of other p...

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Fascism growing across Europe and America is frightening. But equally frightening is what means are used to fight it and the overall climate of the debate on immigration/refugees. If we start with immigration, it is not racism to say that you want less refugees coming to your country. There is alway...

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