Poorer areas also have a higher potential for poverty induced crime of necessity.

The quickest way to decrease petty crime is to increase the living standard of your “least”

Had the game save funny as I was changing a characters clothes, our party was long resting.

Next time we loaded up EVERYONE was naked.

Everyone…

A like my grapefruit around 28% anything above that and I get sleepy

How does this track with legal marketplaces?

I can buy weed that tests at 38% here if u wanted to, legally.

They’re talking pseudo-bs too

It exists.

I can go to the dispensary down the street and get it if I wanted it.

^ this is a bad faith engagement

So we’ve decided socialism was invented by Marx then?

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It’s very easy to not look like propaganda but still push a message that spins things in a certain light.

Many news agencies practice this, Al Jazeera, RT, the BBC, etc.

It’s not just east and west, it’s common practice.

The extreme vitriol we get here in the states is because SHOCK sells domestically but if you want to sell your message globally you say it politely and calmly and often in a soft spoken way.

The point of foreign facing news is to seem reasonably so you can push another narrative.

Not necessarily saying “foreign” news is bad, in fact I recommend everyone take a peep but always remember with whatever information you’re consuming someone has their bias in it

All while draining its member states of their wealth and human capital…

I’m not talking about socialism.

I’m talking about communism.

This post is about communism.

You’re advocating for communism.

The terms are not interchangeable.

In what communist nation are there free elections?

I don’t understand this mental gymnastics.

You’re talking about the benefits of socialism while advocating for communism but my questions have been about communism.

In what communist nation do you have free elections?

In what communist nation do the people actually choose their leadership, instead of a “elite (but remember communism is supposed to be classless…) group that elects the leaders”?

Communism is a novel idea BUT it hasn’t done a very good job demonstrating its benefits to the world. That’s the unfortunate reality of the situation.

This is a post advocating for communism.

Communism allows elections and choice for its people?

Where?

Serious question because it is relevant to the discussion, do you currently have a job?

Do you live in one of these western countries?

What is your personal frame of reference that tells you you’d have a better life than where you are in Cuba or Laos or North Korea?

What would china give you right now that you would move there for?

Please, be specific so I can understand.

Pretend you had a chance to convince me instead of angrily and frustratedly arguing your point in a defensive manner.

I believe in socialism, it’s been incorporated into democracy quite well actually and provided significant quality of life for its citizens.

Communism on the other hand has largely always moved to an authoritarian beat, China and Laos and Cuba and North Korea are all prime examples of this in the present day. Much like the two party system in the USA has hindered its democracy I don’t see how a one party system with strong central rule is not a HUGE step back from that. At least we have a semblance of choice and the mechanisms to fix what is broken.

Why do you prefer a form of government that takes choice away from its citizens?

Perfect, no response except to throw a question and “insult”

This is why you won’t be taken seriously ever.

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The kids face is also a mixture of Zorro and Wesley from A princess bride

Lots of venues in the suburbs surrounding dc in MD and they’ll always refer to the area as DC.

Granted given our geographical size the crowd is just as likely to be from PA or VA

The European bands calling it “Silver Spring, DC” are my favorites.

Or the increased health risks associated with all the roads and industry we plopped next to their communities.

Then again that could be considered consequences of poverty … or better yet cause of the poverty