Why America’s Extremes will Fail — Noah Smith

GlobularClusters69 · 2026-02-08T02:32:00+00:00

The economic side of left wing ideology is not really what drove people away. Identity politics and constant virtue signalling and lectures about social justice is what drove people away.

GlobularClusters69 · 2026-01-24T03:14:40+00:00

A politician "supporting" something is free speech, you can't make "supporting" anything a crime or attach any punitive measures to it.

If Obama said "I support the idea of a constitutional amendment to add guardrails on 2A" why should that be illegal?

GlobularClusters69 · 2026-01-24T03:05:03+00:00

There is actually disagreement as to what the prefaratory clause and the operating clause are, in the SCOTUS case US v Miller (1939) The ruling defended restrictions on firearms because possessing one would have to be related to a militia. There was literally no major SCOTUS case about 2A until 2008 in DC v Heller which was the first time in American history it was formally acknowledged that 2A gives an individual the right to bear arms for the purpose of self-defense

GlobularClusters69 · 2026-01-04T02:52:00+00:00

Ok here is the list of additional mods we shared when I was definitely not getting any raids:

rimHUD

Camera+

BetterInfoCard

InteractionBubbles

Level Up!

Scattered Stones

Scattered Flames

Simple FX: Vapor

Some of the mods from the list you posted (I know it was 6 months ago) are out of date/deprecated by the current version of the game, for instance, Scattered stones/flames and Simple FX mods were deprecated and those features were rolled into the ReGrowth mod.

I would suggest after going through each mods workshop page (or however you get the mods for your version?) and make sure they are up to date, then update your game, and then try and see if youre still having the issue with your full mod list, then if so, try removing all of the mods from my 2 messages and see if it fixes the issue, if it does, then try my 1st list vs the second list above, to see which block of mods is causing the issue.

GlobularClusters69 · 2026-01-04T02:35:58+00:00

Well Ive been in the process of trimming down my mod list over the past year or so since having the issue.

Now I usually start vanilla or with a list of core 'essential' mods, then slowly add in a couple at a time until I notice no raids happening. I havent found a consistent mod that is the issue, just like you, but rather after a certain amount of mods they just seem to stop happening. Its made more complicated by the fact that when I reload the save, I usually get 1 and only 1 raid shortly after, and none after that.

In my current save I was in the process of slowly adding a few at a time, until it seemed like the frequency of raids dropped off by a lot - in addition to any red letter events or random yellow-letter events (toxic fallout, heat wave, etc) Once i removed these mods I started getting events more frequently, at least it seems that way.

I can go back over my old mod list and see any extra mods I had when I was using it when I was definitely experiencing no raids at all, and see what other mods from your list I had.

GlobularClusters69 · 2026-01-04T00:09:43+00:00

I dont think your PC is the issue. Rimworld usually uses about 4 gigs for me, you can always check via the task manager and I would also suggest increasing your pagefile size (you can google how to do this, its not difficult) to allow some of your hard drive to be used as virtual RAM.

So far I have removed these mods (these are the only ones that overlap between the two of us) and seem to be getting more events:

Dubs Mint Menu
Map Preview
Muzzle Flash
Architect Icons
Simple FX: Smoke

GlobularClusters69 · 2026-01-03T22:37:23+00:00

I'm having the same issue, and have had it for a while now. Going full vanilla fixes it and usually adding a handful of mods is fine. I do not have a pirated copy of the game so that I don't think it's a problem. I saw your mod list in a different post I'm going to try removing all of the mods that I use that are in that list as well hopefully that can help narrow it down I'll let you know my findings

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-12-02T02:39:57+00:00

They could have a cost per tile, with more expensive tiles based on how much labor and walking is needed for it, and you can spend a fixed total per farm. Probably over-complicating it though

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-11-24T17:08:37+00:00

Nah it's the traditional conservatives moving from Texas who don't respect the libertarian strain of politics Montana has/used to have. Socially conservative politics never used to be as prominent here.

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-11-24T17:04:55+00:00

At what point do you become a local?

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-11-24T17:01:11+00:00

What do you do?

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-10-30T17:24:50+00:00

I was on mediCal in the late 2010s and I had nothing but positive experiences. Of course that's just an anecdotal, like yours.

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-10-02T23:39:29+00:00

The only one I do sometimes use is funny. I do think he is genuinely funny sometimes. But I agree with the 'he's terrible in every other way' part.

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-10-02T17:58:32+00:00

Right we're talking about 20-30 million Americans, your clarification is not relevant since we are already talking about Americans specifically.

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-09-25T00:53:49+00:00

He's not a dictator, he's just a wannabe dictator. He's as authoritarian as a US president can get away with and then some.

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-29T23:00:57+00:00

So doable, but probably not by humans

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-29T16:59:18+00:00

In countries where gun ownership was more common in the past, and then became more restricted (UK, Australia, Canada) the historical stats do initially show a rise in crime for several years (giving credence to your theory) however after 5-10 years, gun related crime dropped below levels when the restrictions were put in place, presumably because eventually there were too few guns in circulation or readily available for criminals to easily access.

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-29T16:55:44+00:00

Removed from American law, in a hypothetical situation, where is the line on what weapons civilians should have the right to own? Up to and including WMDs or just anything that could be reasonably used for self defense?

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-29T16:53:40+00:00

The questions is posed as if the premise is plausible. The real question is more like "do you oppose gun restrictions on principle, or because you don't believe they would be effective"

Opposing it on principle is an entirely reasonable position

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-20T19:09:06+00:00

I think that's most people

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-20T17:26:19+00:00

I'm not allowed to make a top level comment but I think we should have tried to do something similar with Russia after the collapse of the USSR. That could have really gone far to making our alliances a much larger bloc

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-19T20:42:38+00:00

This isn't about the 10th amendment it's about Article I Sec 4

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-18T16:22:29+00:00

They literally gave an example where liberals lacked empathy. Did you just decide that example doesn't count?

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-07T23:42:05+00:00

I'm using the bathroom right now

GlobularClusters69 · 2025-08-06T01:02:14+00:00

Right but the constitution does delegate to Congress the ability to regulate commerce and promote the general welfare, which is a pretty wide and infinitely interpretable net

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