ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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21hr ago
It's more than the character writing that's good, it's how all the little tangents in the game end up contributing to the outcome of the final battle that made it interesting / satisfying. Though I agree they dropped the ball with the main storyline, and the fact that they had to make a DLC just to connect it to part 3 is proof positive that they screwed up.
ArjinFerman
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23hr ago
No, but 2rafa was making the argument that European right wingers shouldn't be bothered by this, because they won't be affected. That's the perspective I was addressing this from, not that of the politician.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Funny how they don't seem to be able to do that with unrepentant rapists.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
As much as I don't like it, international treaties are already treated as equal to the constitution, and Schengen is indeed such a treaty. I'm not against jettisoning it, but doing it for Israel is, like I said, an act of utter cuckoldry,
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Wow, somehow I thought DA:O happened after ME3. I suppose what you say makes sense.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
I continue to wonder when the inflection point was, between the ascending art form, and it's degenerate form we see today.
It was Mass Effect 3. Or the point between it and Andromeda.
You are welcome.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Essentially nobody on the right is caught up in this
So? It's still an act of absolute cuckoldry to let it happen.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
What does that have to do with whether or not you believe in the argument you put forward?
Though he's being held in prison in El Salvador? Because the US said so?
Oh god, now I can't get the image out of my head, where he's getting locked up, and then hears a familiar voice from inside the cell saying "welly, welly, well... look who's here!".
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Yeah, that's why everyone was reluctant to trust him.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Iirc you don't live in the US, right?
Yeah, and I think this is a necessary condition for the argument to even be relevant.
If he's saying "allied countries put tariffs on only a handful of industries", but I haven't seen any American products, that would imply the industries that are targeted are precisely the ones that are competitive, making the "handful" argument moot.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
American manufacturing is actually really strong
I suppose it's possible we're using a lot of American components and capital goods (if you buy as local flight in Europe, it will almost certainly be on a Boeing, from my experince), but most consumer goods seem to be Chinese.
Free trade actually benefits a lot of agriculture too.
What I'm saying is that Europe has strong tariffs against American agricultural, and our farmers regularly freak out at the prospect of lowering them.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Seriously just go Walmart and look. It's not a majority of items, but there are plenty of things with the label
I'm European, never seen a Wallmart in my life, and this argument makes no sense since we are discussing tariffs.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
That's both not true in a meaningful sense, most of our meaningful trade partners have only limited tariffs on a small number of industries or businesses which is not anywhere near equal to large tariffs on everything and not true because the US economy is substantially stronger and better than most every other country in the world
So howcome I have never seen a "made in USA" label, and why is the local agribusiness periodically shiitting bricks at the prospect of dropping tariffs on food?
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Sure, but to my untrained eye the current system looks like it was used with MAD principles in mind. I don't like how it works, and why it's there, and I even think it's just a question of time before it all goes tits up, but I don't know if it's a great idea to cut random wires on a counting down detonator, before people are evacuated.
I'm no sure it's such a hot idea either, but the victory lap was unwarranted, imo.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
I'm pretty sure prototypes don't count as "it".
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
and Musk didn't make obviously false statements about the present.
"We are building it right now" about the Roadster, or some other vehicle that never materialized, back in 2017 or so, sounds pretty false, and pretty about the present to me.
His opponents said he would blow up the global economy with tariffs.
The amount of time spent on using Trump's trade policy as the reason why he's horrible was approximately zero. Probably because it would make his opponents look schizophrenic or sociopathic.
The model "Trump is as bad as he claims to be, but the damage was limited in the first term because of GOPe moles in the administration" has an increasingly good track record of making correct predictions.
Ok bro, so are you taking that bet about Trump's third term, or not?
Clearly given its popularity there actually aren't.
Clearly? Hollywood is releasing bomb after bomb in order to promote a specific message. We're not living in a world where the most popular things get promoted, so we don't actually know this idea's relative popularity.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
"Subversion" feels too much like cope to me. Ok, if you could spam the feeds with AI generated clips that take the piss out of the intended message and it's authors, it might work, but deep diving into the film to try to extract a "subverted" message is accepting it's frame from the getgo. You're better off rolling your eyes and moving on.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
It has to be quite exhilarating. All your instincts telling you you're done for, only to escape death without a scratch. I could see myself getting addicted to it.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
I'll take an L on my various "they ran out of mana" takes, clearly if they can make a goofy propaganda flic, and get so much buzz going around it, they still got something left in the tank.
Why anyone here would want to give even more energy to it is beyond me, though.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
To that I'll add my confusion about "we can't just send him back to a country with a 'shady' human rights record!" arguments. If his argument for being allowed to stay in the US was "I'm being threatened by gangs", isn't that problem largely taken care of by now?
I think gattsuru's response might have been meant for jkf's comment next to your's.
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