It’s clear this guy is an asshole. You are frothing trying to make an enemy of me but read with a little more care. I was always an ally and you are here trying to divide us. I feel like you didnt understand my comment so I’ll repeat with emphasis.

It(Your use of redneck and hick as a pejorative.) drives those undereducated and uninvolved people(Single issue/peer sensative voters) to identify more with this asshole( The racist asshole that you somehow need me to clearly point out is both racist and an asshole.)

Read carefully.

It’s clear I thought the first was offensive as well. Lemmy is all righteous anger and no purpose these days.

There is nothing wrong with living in a rural area or being a blue collar worker. The last sentence there is unnecessary.

As someone who has been in both those demographics, this guy doesn’t represent me or the hardworking albeit sometimes simple people I grew up around.

Please don’t use those words as a cudgel. It drives those undereducated and uninvolved people to identify more with this asshole than the progressives that have more in common with them beneath the surface.

The Walton family lost the 50% line in 2018.

They still likely control the company in a more abstract sense.

To be fair. I don’t hate China and it’s clear you failed to back up your previous claim.

Religious intolerance by the state directly contributed to the staged and incremental reduction in that groups QOL.

For Americans, 1A protects religious speech even if it is a bit frustrating when you hear someone preaching in the street. I wouldn’t hazard undermining 1A even though we are all tired of bad actors abusing it.(Westboro Baptist Church, Proud Boys, etc)

The only example you call out doesn’t even ban religion. It’s restricted in China and I think the Uyghur population there can explain that it’s not sunshine and rainbows.

'China’s constitution says ordinary citizens enjoy “freedom of religious beliefs” and the government officially recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism and Daoism (also called Taoism). ’

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/23/10-things-to-know-about-chinas-policies-on-religion/

Ok. I’ll bite. What countries aside from North Korea ban organized religion?

I can appreciate its being monitored more closely. American churches have a significant untraceable cash trail.

That would be shortsighted. Religious though has been on the decline for centuries. Driving it underground and radicalizing it just empowers the bad actors.

Germany handles religion in a fine way. Kirchensteuer is a tax you pay directly out of your paycheck to your registered church. You can opt out of paying this tax by dropping your church registration. If this system was adopted in the US you would see far less people who identify as “religious”.

I didn’t get to use a calculator IN CLASS until late in my bachelor studies — forget about using them for tests. In a world with Chatgpt we need to teach in a more sterile environment or standards are going to swing into the ditch. My friend who is a grade school teacher has told me some stories that would make your ears bleed.

The smell of LJS actually gives me a headache. Nothing else does this to me the same way.

You are either a troll or willfully detached from the human experience.

Good luck finding happiness.

I reccomend you give Sekiro a try or watch a let’s play. You clearly don’t know what the game play looks like. Bosses should be hard but I never had to watch a video or read a guide to beat something in a souls like game.

Sekiro is a much better game than both Jedi Academy and DMC4. It is in no way slow or boring. My opinion and also the opinion of the majority of reviewers.

Every game you have mentioned enjoying involves a lot of hand holding. I get why you are not a fan of Fromsoft. You have a strong opinions but I assume it’s just because you are likely older and jaded like myself. Nobody under 30 has played Jedi Knight/Academy.

That being said all of those games are very different from one another. Sekiro is a completely different beast. The only thing tying them together is above average difficulty that can be (mostly) alleviated by grinding.

You have to face that we aren’t the target demographic anymore.

This is much better but your previous comment was awful. It read like a LLM alone wrote it.

That being said I can’t tell you why specifically it reads like that. I’m forwarding it to my friend who is a English professor to find out. If English is your second language then just keep at it and please don’t take the criticism here personally.

Please tell me of this enlightened place you come from where racism and discrimination do not exist. Surely they also are accepting refugees and I need but apply? No?

Everyone but my tribe are _______. Hehe I’m so clever.

I think these stairs are in a hotel in Prague/Praha. I swear I have seen them.

All right. You win. I see you’ve played axeyswordy before.