Quote from: KingCheops;1041150Who'd have known that Natives are individual people with individual tastes?  Shocker.  I've known some guys who loved wearing Blackhawks/Braves/Redskins/Indians type gear because they see it as something of a celebration of Native cultures (never mind they were all Coast Salish so very different culture from the likely inspirations of the above mentioned).  I've also known some who are the opposite.

Quote from: Brad;1041087So is it bad form if I bring up the fact that Nazis were socialists?

Quote from: Mike the Mage;1041089Go for it. :rolleyes: Mexico is a long way from Russia so you have little to fear.

Quote from: Krimson;1041101North Korea is also a Democratic Republic and the States are "United".

Quote from: PrometheanVigil;1041116Having "socialists" in your party's name doesn't make you socialist. Oxymoron much? Try your contemporary Libertarian: they're happy to be asocial, entitled twats but the second they meet another like them, they suddenly cry foul and want someone in blue to cart them off.

Quote from: AsenRG;1041187Which is about as true as DPRK being either "democratic" or a "people's republic". Despite both of those being part of its name;).

Quote from: Krimson;1041118Libertarians are great. They think taxes are a crime, but for some reason expect maintained roads and clean drinking water. We have those types here, who complain about the existence of city workers, and then complain that two feet of snow isn't instantly removed from the roads.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1041217It isn't easy to talk rationally to libertarians about their goals because there are no examples, past or present, of meaningfully large, modern societies that could be called libertarian, so all you really get to do is argue about what features of non-libertarian societies they hate the most.

Quote from: S'mon;1041067I think the sjws count most libertarian types as alt right, so that includes Pundit and Macris. I would be surprised if they counted avowed lefties as alt right but you never know with these creatures.

I can think of one case actually - the murderous racialist Varg Vikernes creator of Myfarog rpg is connected to the actual alt right.

Quote from: JeremyR;1041070The problem is that alt-right doesn't really have any meaning anymore. Originally it was for Breitbart.com Roger Stone and Milo sort of conservatism, but then got latched onto by Richard Spencer and neo-Nazi types, at which it spread to include to anyone who didn't vehemently denounce Trump with every waking breath, as it's a way to imply that person is racist/a Nazi.

It's like "neo-conservative". Originally it had a very specific meaning, but grew to mean anyone that was either Jewish or hawkish (or both) and was considered a way to attack someone without seeming to be an Anti-Semite.

Quote from: TJS;1041074Dude.  You have a forum on your gaming site which you use to push your right wing political views.

It's absolute hypocrisy for you to claim other people are bringing politics into gaming when you're posting political screeds under the name "the RPGpundit.  Whatever their faults may be, you share them.

Quote from: Chris24601;1041106Call it failing then... because it ALWAYS fails. The only question is how much damage it does before it does.

In the US it's getting pushback from both the people who elected Trump and the up and coming generation that is more conservative than we've seen in decades. The latest polling and registration trends suggest the touted "Blue Wave" will be a ripple at best and could even be a Tidy Bowl flush instead. If the US continues the reverse course it'll get a couple of decades of prosperity before the control-left can reorganize and try again (they'll always try again).

By contrast Venezuala and the EU are probably going to collapse completely into failed states before the elites lose their socialist death grip on them. If they're lucky they'll end up with a military junta led by a local rebel leader. The alternative is a succession of Globalist/UN backed puppets who will keep the exploitation going until it turns into another North Korea (ie. kept from total collapse only to the extent it benefits the outside power) or, for the EU, a Caliphate and genocide of the native populations.

Socialism always fails because it's underlying principles don't align with reality and reality always wins in the long run. The same will hold true in the RPG hobby. The Control-Left will only hold power in the companies they do to the extent someone other than paying customers are willing to subsidize that control. So long as the market remains free the hobby will likely follow the US model (ie. pushback and recovery) and the big dogs will either follow the course or stop being the big dogs.

Quote from: Krimson;1041118Libertarians are great. They think taxes are a crime, but for some reason expect maintained roads and clean drinking water. We have those types here, who complain about the existence of city workers, and then complain that two feet of snow isn't instantly removed from the roads.

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;1041207Libertarian is outsider enough that there isn't a solidly known definition. But... a bunch of anarchists claim to be Libertarian because it makes them sound less crazy. (And not associated with late 19th & early 20th century terrorism.)