Honestly I wish I could have done that. The only problem is I had no way to even realize that before going through puberty. How was I supposed to know I would hate what my body would become?

The earlier the better.

I think they added a communist path for Germany recently, but I haven’t played it yet.

CK3 is pretty good for losing time. It’s definitely the easiest to just go with the flow. Most losses don’t feel game ending and can give you something to go after. I got a friend really into it even though he doesn’t seem to have any interest in the other games.

Vic 3 is alright once you figure out how to keep things stable enough while still ignoring the more complex systems.

HoI4 is a horrible broken mess. I’ve been playing it a lot recently.

I’ve never played EU4 so idk there.

Only if you define surrendering as “not getting everything you want”.

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I’m not well informed on the situation, but I can only imagine Turkey would take that to mean they can do whatever they want without resistance now.

It’s insane how they cling on to that 3 days thing when it came from an American general (who also specified a full scale invasion, which the SMO most definitely isn’t). Putin never said any such thing.

I’m still waiting on my ballot to come in the mail. With only a week left I would think it would be here by now.

an economic boycott of Israel

by September

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So the cons are pretty much what you would expect from a Catholic and not too far off from Francis. Aside from Palestine, but that’s not even actually a con yet, it’s an unknown.

American decline took off with the 70s move away from the Keynesian policies that saved American capitalism in the 30s. That move was fueled by stagflation caused by price shocks. The largest of which being the 1973 oil crisis, which was caused by the Yom Kippur War.

It seems like it all goes back to Israel, and American support for Israel is ultimately what’s killing America. Or am I missing something?

That’s shutting down.

It depends on how far Trump is willing to go. If he imposes 10000% tariffs or something and no one can afford to buy their products at all, their choice will be to shut down, abandon the American market (their largest market and where they are based out of), or onshore.

At some point the drop in sales from the increased prices would pretty much require them to move manufacturing back. We’ll see if Trump increases tariffs further to try to cause that.

But yeah, there’s a pretty big hurdle of actually needing to rebuild the manufacturing base in the US that we abandoned decades ago.

Of course the quickest way to do such a thing would be massive government investments (and central planning would be even better). It’s funny how the “communist” policies they hate would actually achieve Trump’s stated goals much quicker and more efficiently than the free market could.

But it highlights Trump’s inconsistent ideology. Aggressive protectionism (“big government”) to bring manufacturing back, but domestically leaving it up to the free market to actually do so, because “big government bad”.

some states who see it as “imposition” of majority language

I understand the concern, but English was a language imposed on them by a foreign colonizer. That’s significantly worse.

Neither a nor b are evidence that covid originated in China. (If they are true) they’re indicators that something like covid could originate there. But it could also originate in many other places.

Like say, a military biological research lab that has had multiple safety incidents located near a cluster of people who had an unknown respiratory disease months before covid was discovered.

6 jets lost, in their opening move. They had the luxury of attacking at whatever time they wanted without Pakistan knowing, but they still lost 6 jets.

Lula, Traoré, Maduro, Diáz-Canel, and Xi Jinping will all be in Moscow to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Nazis eating shit to the Soviets. A very cool guest list.

We only say “pay” when we read Brits adding an a before the e.