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No, he melts down. It's a seething, lowkey meltdown but you can tell he needs his diaper changed.

Aw, it was deserved I'm sure but watching the meltdown would be a delight. Surprised he hasn't crawled out of his 25th can of whatever shitty beer he's drinking now that Bud Light is too offensive to desperately try to convince us it's a hoax.

Where's @Ginguy when we need him?

Apparently this is written by the author of the Alice in Borderlands manga (best version), so my interest just went way up.

You could try telling me the answers to the questions.

So, how does this open up conversation beyond dictator bad? What do you want? Should I asterisk every criticism of N. Korea's government with an essay on how actually N. Korea's government can't be held accountable since America made it that way?

You know what's way more democratic than America's stupid 2 party system? China's 1 party system. Way more fair.

Hang on, man. Putin was elected democratically, once his opponents were dead.

I had a Typhlosion with Earthquake, Thunder Punch, Flamethrower, and an interchangeable 4th slot (Strength for a while, I think I replaced it with Bite or Crunch). It was funny, if impractical for playing against just about anyone who had any concept of using stats and status effects in any meaningful way.

So, the change would be from big turtle with guns to... a big turtle....?

American war crimes are not going to convince me to support dictatorial governments no matter America's involvement in their creation. You can cry propaganda all you want, it does not change that the countries we are talking about have highly restrictive governments. Places with fullblown death camps.

Who the fuck even suggested we weren’t shitty abroad? Who are you arguing against? Everyone here is openly critical of America. You have no reason to believe just about anyone here loves our foreign policies. You crazy, dude?

I'm pretty sure if you asked anyone here if they like Democrats, most would land between "ew, no" to "I guess a couple, sometimes." They way I feel is thoroughly outlined by Buddy. I'm no fan of America. Not domestically, not globally. It's more complicated than everything the US government does is good/bad. Sometimes it does good, occasionally, usually by accident. It mostly sucks. But in terms of places to live, the more isolationist you get, the more dubious the countries tend to be. N. Korea is not a good place to live. China is not a good place to live. Russia is not a good place to live. These are statements about the current state of those countries as they are. It isn't like an attack on the citizens or anything. Just that the governments are horrifying. Like it or not, America may be rapidly descending toward fascism, that doesn’t mean we're all the way there. Right now, the extremism of Republican politicians and propagandists take far more precedence over whatever war crimes we committed to create bad overseas conditions. They're literally calling for being LGBT to be a crime punishable by death. Openly. No uncertain terms. We aren't completely there yet, but N. Korea, China, and Russia are.

Whether or not the US caused a thing does not change what that thing now is. And North Korea, regardless of the US' past, present, or future involvement, is currently run by a dictatorship. Recognizing a country as being run by a dictatorship when it is, isn't the same as endorsing the actions which led to the dictatorship.

I don't know how he knows my foreign policy beliefs when I rarely talk about foreign policy. I don't talk about it much because I, unlike distorted, have grown out of pretending to know about complicated things I don't know. I can barely keep track of the states. 90% of the time a foreign policy conversation is going, I'm like "da fuck they talkin bout?" It makes my head spin. I'm not confident in most of my opinions on foreign things that aren't "genocide bad" or "that one policy cool" or the like. Does he think I'm in favor of Guantanamo Bay torture camps 'cuz 'Murica? Like wtf?

You think I'm pro-American foreign policy? Really?

I wonder when he's going to get on peoples cases for calling it N. and S. Korea instead of the DPRK.

Okay. That doesn't change anything.

I don't call out America's fascistic actions? Really?

We have.

Future Redeemed was dense enough to be its own game, and an excellent one at that. Rain Code fills me with unhinged excitement. I don't know what Danganronpa guy's gonna hit me with this time, but it will be a fucking ride. I don't ask for much. A DLC and more weird supernatural murder mysteries is all it really took to tide me over. I don't need 20 AAA games released 24 months too soon.

The profound hypocrisy of criticizing America for their fascistic while unironically going to bat for North Korea, Russia, and China is deeply disturbing.