The company secret being they would fire anyone who tried to form a union.

Did they try to deny the obvious union busting?

Dark Souls was 2011 and it was way more influential than all those games (except maybe Minecraft).

His War Pigs cover is amazing.

The vast majority of songs these days use autotune, you just can’t hear it because it’s being used properly to fix when the singer is slightly off key.

The “autotune” sound only happens when the artist is purposefully singing off key.

From what I’ve been reading they have a lower incarceration rate than most countries and their penal system is focused on rehabilitation rather than punishment. Who knows how true that is without personally visiting one, but the US prison system is known for being awful and focused on punishment, with some of the highest (I think currently the highest) incarceration rates.

I don’t think most prisons around the world are “good”, likely far from the rehabilitative facilities most leftists would like, but the US penal system is likely worse than Japan, at least in regards to the prisons.

Except Japan is at least better than the US when it comes to things like health care, public infrastructure, prison conditions, etc.

We’re getting all the worst parts of other countries without the few benefits, not like that “benefit” is unique to stressful work cultures anyway.

You’re right, I’m just wasting my time in a really dumb losing battle.

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Yes, under a dictatorship, it’s literally happened before. Are you being serious or is this supposed to be some sort of gotcha where you go “socialism can’t exist without democracy so the label is pedantic”?

Socialism under one party governments have happened, that is not democracy, even if democratic elements exist within. You can’t have democracy under one party, the people need the ability to form an opposition party if the need arises.

Democratic socialism just means you believe in democratically governed socialism, not that you think you can just vote capitalism into socialism. There’s both reformist and revolutionary democratic socialists. I both believe in democracy and also see that the only way to overturn capitalism (at least in the US) would be through revolution. All the democratic part means is that they’re opposed to monarchies or dictatorships.

Exactly, the goal is to make it so everyone has that much accumulated wealth by the time they retire. We have enough so that everyone can live somewhat comfortably. People who critize socialists like Hasan for being rich are dumb. Being a socialist doesn’t mean you can’t be successful, it means you want everyone to have that level of comfort and security. If they were billionaires they might have a point, but I won’t say someone’s a hypocrite for being a socialist with a few million in the bank.

It’s also why I laugh when Conservatives talk about “The Hollywood Liberal Elite”. The real ruling class are the giant corporate executives and old money. Most actors are closer to working class than that. I also think public figures like actors, musicians, athletes, etc. should be paid a bit more than the average person, being under constant public scrutiny genuinely is stressful. The gap between them and us just needs to be closed a bit with the actual ruling class’ money.

Dude, the “gay fish” part was an old joke from South Park that had specifically targeted Kanye at the time. He added the incestuous part because of what happened. He wasn’t implying molestation victims are gay.

FF7: New Threat. Complete pain in the ass to set up, but worth it. If you love the original FF7 it fixes and adds sooooooo much.