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Eastern Europe would be the probable exception, due to the ever threat of Russian invasion.

(As for the Okinawan bases... I think all the sexual assault has something to do with it, beyond the fighting in the Second World War.)

British English has a lot more variance than Yankspeak.

We're more likely to use "help V+ing" than "help INF". An average larger vocabulary, atop different usages. Even with US dominated media eroding our dialects faster than ever there's still a lot of difference out there.

I will need a more specific question to give more response. Are you a non-native English speaker living in the UK?

If the base in Okinawa is famously unpopular amongst the Okinawa locals and a political head ache for the Japanese government, I don't imagine that other bases in less allied countries are more popular.

I know even the bases in Europe are famed for being rough and a blight on towns. (but then so are most British military bases in at least England...)

But Purges are a right wing phenomena to attack society, they'd never be able to off a millionaire.
A day or two before Musky gets on his private jet and flies off to a third country, or a private island or somewhere while right wing hate groups kill off minorities, leftists, and political critics.

I remember Maro saying when BLB came out that with modern game speeds 7 was the preferred number after all (originally, post Onslaught they felt 7 was too low iirc).

With BLB in Standard at the mo and GY being an ever-present matters thing now, I can see why it'd be on some cards.

We acknowledge that the game is a work of fiction. Historical fiction, but fiction none-the-less.

If every fifth character is also black, I think there is a point that can be made about verisimilitude and taking liberties; but since we know he really existed and that there has been debate on what he did, having a work of fiction that portrays him as a samurai under Nobunga doesn't seem unreasonable.

To compare, we know that Leonardo Di Vinci didn't hand out guns to people or build functional flying machines - but we know he designed all sorts of stuff ahead of its time, so it kinda fits in a fictional story with him in.

But only one of those seems to draw huge amounts of complaints online... And it's actually the less historically accurate one.

I don't think their lives are either, DragonFucker.

But Harris wasn't going to make them safer or even stop things getting worse. Ask them if they felt safer in 2023 or in 2018.

Your anger is better focused at Trump and Co in particular, and the US government in general than regular random people on the street.

As for me, I wish I had a plan. I'd just assumed Harris was going to win, but here we are.

I think we might differ on how bad we think the status quo of neoliberal US is, DragonFucker.

It may be harder, certainly more violent.

But maybe a wider range of society will be more motivated to take direct action.

Edit: and yes, my theory does explain Nazi Germany. A weak, capitalist state where Socialists and Communists were gaining ground electorally led to far right non-winners given power because that was more palatable than ceeding more ground to the Left. And after that it left global capitalism in a stronger state than ever.

It was a choice between neo-fascist now or neo-fascist later, DragonFucker.

Can you not at least see how people might want to try to find other paths forwards and actually make changes?

I was all for telling folks to vote prior to the election, but I can hugely empathise and understand why they didn't.

Kids in cages, anti-Trans laws, bombs to Israel and Saudi Arabia have only gone up from Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden. The system is the same, it just gets to mask off a bit when Trump is at the helm.

You're all for pulling the lever in trolley problems, aren't you?

Neoliberalism doesn't beat fascism though and that's the point.

Fascism is capitalism's immune system to eliminate dissent and critical ideas.

And then when everyone is united against the fascists who've rounded up the socialists, the students, the ethnic and sexual minorities, Neoliberalism steps back in, wipes the blood off of its hands, and says "wow, wasn't that bad. Let's stick with me from now on".

That's a potentially interesting definition.

Dream Daddy, the daddy dating sim isn't a woke game in this context because the conceit of it being an LGBT friendly town with a bunch of single gay dads makes it all make sense.

But a game set in 1300s Japan with a lesbian white protagonist would be woke because that seems incongruous?