If folks have to do their own healthcare they should be unfettered.

And closer to evolutionary mechanisms of having favorite pills taken every time you feel bad, and eventually winning the Darwin award.

Not sure.

A lot of countries have prescriptions required, but without such prices for everything as in the USA. Maybe that’s not the problem.

EL 7 is EL 7. But that time is over

Thank you for helping me to catch what this reminds me.

Except it was a bit sharper difference between what they were and what they played.

That’s the point, laws and agreements are not rights and don’t affect rights.

There’s no external referee that’s going to stop the game because “your rights are being violated”.

Yes, that’s why they are called rights and not something else.

They were like football fans with knives, and their communist opponents kinda similar. So in part yes.

In part there was that nuance, that they were the approved kind of hooligans with knives, and their communist opponents those the government feared more. But neither wore balaklavas, and mostly they were on equal grounds, just Nazis were able to attract more support eventually.

In a poor depressed morally shaken environment communist ideas morph into Nazi ideas very quickly. Look not even at these people, but at (sincere, not official spoilers) communist groups in Russia, even the official CPRF has almost gone Nazi.

Militia is army in Latin, but in the day it already meant how people generally understand it now.

Also you are notoriously wrong about “not standing armies”, people were recruited and served for many years. Of course militaries were scaled up and down depending if it was wartime. Mandatory conscription and mobilization were a new tendency that, in some sense, led to WWI.

I think I want to play “Victoria” again.

2A is broken and shouldn’t apply to the modern day, but that doesn’t really matter.

Yes! Glad you understand that.

There’s a dialectic law with constitutional rights - if they are not on paper, then someone might say they don’t exist. If they are on paper, then someone might say they are given by that paper and exactly as much as written and intended.

Rights just exist, they are a transcendent object that can’t be defined or limited by laws.

I’ve been called a sovcit for saying that, despite it being pretty logical that if rights are limited and defined by law, then over time you’ll have fewer and fewer rights and not vice versa.

Those who don’t are afraid to arm themselves and share those vibes because it’s a statement, almost a challenge to possible strongman figures. Even if they think their reasons are different.

Those who are not afraid usually haven’t ever considered that they’ll actually have to defend values associated with those vibes.

That’s normal. That’s how it should be. Doing something for real is always a harder decision.

Sometimes not doing it may cost you. When the society is in terminal stage, that is.

When everyone does “preemptive obedience”, just not doing it and politely asking “ok, but who you are, please provide some identification and such, or at least explain me how you are different from a random person demanding it, I don’t know who you are and why are you demanding this” might cause dangerous levels of fury in someone who is not a random person, unfortunately, just treats a request for their correct identification (which they would be able to provide) and reasons as an insult.

To not let it reach that level, you shouldn’t, yes.

Actually maybe we will have a period of history when Germans save everyone from tyranny. I’ve read they are thinking of returning conscription and are growing military industries rapidly. Maybe for a good cause this time. Should be their turn. LOL.

Because having a gun for fun or feeling of superiority is morally easier than having it as part of citizen’s duty.

Makes sense. Maybe should call people of the same political opinions to some responsibility so that they’d arm themselves.

It’s not a new thought. There’s the grey hypocritical mass that obeys, which is the main body behind any fascist regime.

BTW, von Stauffenberg was pretty extreme right, yet he tried to assassinate Hitler, it’s not known of any moderates trying to do that.

I hope to see a time when it’s commonly accepted that Starship Troopers is not a fascist book, just a smart one.

The movie does, of course, accuse it of being fascist while pretending it’s satire.

Anyway, in history the conflict seemed like “military with the fascists or under fascists, and often helping fascists”, but in a lot of modern situations it seems that militaries are the component fascists fear most and try to neuter or spend in useless wars or corrupt. Every period of history is different. So maybe Starship Troopers being militarist is not a fascist trait too.

how all the “violence is never the answer”

Which is implicit support for covert, hidden violence. The stronger side, the government, the mafia have an advantage in that. The people have an advantage in open violence between the resistance and them.

It just appears that a lot of people are like “I won’t support violence until it’s bad enough”, well, how those dorks would know it’s bad enough if when violence is unacceptable nobody can resist or raise their voice and it all remains silent until too late? You don’t know when it’s bad enough. You can live your whole remaining life thinking it’s still fine, because all the worthy people have been killed\imprisoned silently.

A citizen doesn’t owe a state any reservation in citizen’s demands. A citizen not having that doesn’t hurt the society, quite the opposite. So if you feel that the situation demands reservation from you, for some supposedly good reasons, then it means it’s very bad. All conflicts in life are too hard and require all your effort and you still often lose, so being reserved for some supposed moral rule without good explanation is not an answer, it’s a scam, a Troyan horse, it means your are being deceived to give up without a fight. Probably that you already have.

Brownshirts, I think, didn’t wear balaklavas.

have similar cultures

Wha-ha-ha?

In any case, a good rule.

Try telling it to people with relatives\connections behind government desks, even small ones. They immediately either have this absent look as if they are calculating with effort how to best hurt you, or the absolutely hateful look as if no piece of you should exist.

That kind of reaction (EDIT: being so prevalent among that group of people) alone hints that today’s state bureaucracies have overstayed their welcome.

And then how long until ICE agents start showing up with holes on the ground because property owners “thought” they were real street thugs trying to rob them? Is there even a way to tell the difference? ~wink wink~

Should happen more often, this aversion to civil violence is a bit like a game of “I drop my weapon, you drop yours” between governments and people, except governments never fulfill their part.

Like Russian opposition trying to do “everything by the law” until realizing the other side never was, it was just silent enough in killing and randomly vanishing people and pretending its just dumb thieves. The same is happening in the EU right now, they just don’t know it yet.

If you’re not capable of taking proper care of your pet, don’t get a pet in the first place. Picking up the shit your dog left in a public place is part of owning a dog.

So you never ever think you took 3 waste bags when you took 1? Nothing ever falls out of your pocket? Forgetting something is “not being capable of taking proper care”?

Or maybe you are simply not capable of reading before answering. That’s typical for people without ASD.

If your kid has a baseball game the next day, don’t go drinking today. That’s the selfish part. Although I would argue if you do get drunk, you kind of just have to deal with it and go to your kids game regardless.

I don’t drink.

or pick up your dog’s shit, then that’s selfish

If you didn’t notice that you have only one waste bag, and your dog had a need in more than one place, and you’ll be late for something, and in addition to that generally have a bad sense of time and place (ASD definitely, BAD or ADHD probably), then it’s not.

It’s not anywhere near the same category as being too burnt out to do the dishes after a double shift

Imagine that sometimes people wake up this tired. Someone left an electric light on outside and you can’t force yourself to cover the window - bad sleep. Forgot to drink some water before falling asleep - bad sleep. Ate something salty in addition to that - horrible sleep.

If you have roommates and you left dishes in the sink, you are being selfish.

Suppose so.

If your kids have an early baseball game, and you are too hungover to show up, then you’re being selfish.

Hangover is a bad feeling.

Not returning a cart should be punished with crucifixion though.

seeing what can be done with the tech to make each person’s experience unique, with bespoke quests and dialogue.

That being possible would be fundamentally a level up from what they are now. I’ve read a paper on this someone linked in a Lemmy thread a year or so ago.

Maybe one day playing a game like Skyrim for 10 years doesn’t have to mean playing the same quests over and over.

I think a more manual approach would work, of a world model like Crusader Kings has, with traits and ties and opinions and random events of NPCs between each other and towards the player, and that AI being used simply to rephrase and slightly adjust descriptions and sequences of events - then maybe.

But consider how many NPCs that means and how many others they meet in their simulated lives, and how hard it would be to debug a story line to ensure that it’s always playable.

An LLM is not, strictly speaking, necessary here, and if used, doesn’t make it easier.

Baltics and Finland just chose differently, Finns to fight and Baltics to give in.

Different situations, Finland had lots of sympathies from both future western Allies and the fascist nations, and a better military.

About Czechoslovakia - I meant the Nazi approach to negotiations, like calling bombardment of a city in the middle of a diplomatic meeting. Compared to that USSR was almost civilized. Nazis were much like ISIS (similar ideology to Salafism too).

So if you gain anything depends on whether you believe USSR had further ambitions in Finland or not.

It definitely had, but Stalin with his “socialism in one particular country” already lowered the bar on that a bit. Still till his death USSR would be preparing for global thermonuclear war for world dominance and such.

OK, I think we agree on this. My initial post was about the stereotype which ignores the first and the third of the wars between USSR and Finland, leaving only the second, which was, yes, an aggression against Finland.