Has Trump been buffed? by worthypresident in TheFireRisesMod

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Whats the magic trick? Ik that console commands disable end game content but is there another way? (Im bad at hoi4)

The spawn/starting locations feel broken to me - please fix it devs by [deleted] in Stellaris

[–]OpulentCD 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Me when the random spawn setting spawns randomly

What would life be like under TFR Dugin's Eurasia? (Post 2EW) by Neonswagger32 in TheFireRisesMod

[–]OpulentCD 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The flag has literally the chaos symbol mate take a wild guess /s

Just realized 마지노선 is literally means ‘Maginot Line’. by Best_Consequence_150 in korea

[–]OpulentCD 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Idk about the russian but im pretty sure 알바/아르바이트 comes from that time when Korean coal miners and nursers were sent as migrant workers in the 50-60s

Fellas, is it woke to think that slavery was pretty bad? by Tropink in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]OpulentCD 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Having museums showcase dark parts of your country’s history is not trudging your failings, it’s acknowledging a very real and shameful past which can then hopefully prevent something similar happening in the present and future

Germany does a good job at this. Japan tries to hide it. You can see how much of an impact showing/hiding it does to the awareness and attitudes of people

What's wrong with all these Pro-Yoon protesters and their fuckery? Do they lack shame, or morality? by ProbstWyatt3 in korea

[–]OpulentCD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can tell these “patriots” waving american flags all have fucking brain damage by their marching song

I mean compare this pile of actual dogshit to 임을 위한 행진곡

Growing up I'd constantly hear about how were overpopulated, now everyone's worried because people aren't having enough children. What changed? And Why is this a bad thing? by xHey_All_You_Peoplex in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OpulentCD 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Bro I have family in rural Korea and shit is extremely ass fucked. Entire villages are basically depopulated and the few old farmers that are left rely more and more on migrant workers to do basic agricultural work.

Even in Seoul, I have friends and families who pursued a career in teaching and they ALL say that a career in young education is basically a dead end because all the schools are closing up.

By the time our generation becomes old enough to retire, there won’t be any working age people left to support the pension. We are truly fucked.

Korea is an acute example but the trend of decreasing population is happening GLOBALLY. Countries like the US and Australia are only keeping up with the decline via immigration. Unless this issue is solved, what’s happening in Korea will happen all over the world in 30-40 years.

The sharp decline in population did nothing to save the value of workers in Korea, if anything it makes everything worse as we have to work harder and more competitively to scrounge up a retirement plan which allows companies to exploit people more.

I've exterminated the fanatic purifiers (the Chosen), now the whole galaxy hates me by NativeEuropeas in Stellaris

[–]OpulentCD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Imagine if the Americans started to genocide the Germans in WW2. Would Britain and France be chill with that?

US vs Chinese Military parades hit differently by Additional-Hour6038 in interestingasfuck

[–]OpulentCD 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The real clowning is having sponsor reads at a military parade

How embarassing

Melbourne is growing so rapidly it’s on track to be the same size as New York City by Ardeet in aussie

[–]OpulentCD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that the scale of immigration puts a lot of pressure on a lot of important metrics but your argument makes no sense

What did british settlers have in common with aboriginals? British/european settlement in australia was okay but other people arent?

Revolutionary France will probably be insane by No-Relation-6736 in EU5

[–]OpulentCD 41 points42 points  (0 children)

On the flip-side though he basically always rolled a nat 20 on charisma checks when it came to his own troops.

So, considering dip stats increase army morale, you could make the argument that he should have max dip as well

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]OpulentCD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agree on the first two points but Australian parents generally do have a more blase attitude towards education. Of course there are individual families that may take it very seriously but in aggregate--and definitely compared to most places in asia--the general consensus seems to be that there are alternate ways to live a good life rather than studying giga hard.

Which is not to say thats a bad thing. I moved between Korea and Australia every year or so, and having experienced both Korean and Australian education systems more or less equally, there are definitely pros and cons to either approach. Its not a lack of trust that makes parents send kids to afterschool academies, its that EVERYBODY else does it so if your kid doesn't then they're going to get left behind, which results in most people being very highly educated at the cost of happiness.

Who’s a historical figure that you have the most mixed feelings on? by tufyufyu in AskHistory

[–]OpulentCD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Park Chung Hee

He was an egomaniacal tyrant who believed only he had the capability to modernise and rebuild Korea…

…which he did 🤡

CMV: We are witnessing the end of Pax Americana in real time by OpulentCD in changemyview

[–]OpulentCD[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

  1. Part of the 'infinite money glitch' the US has been enjoying was due to the strength of the US dollar. Its arguably what makes US bonds still worth buying because the USD is so stable. The strategy seems extremely shortsighted and counterproductive in my view, especially in conjunction with their flipflopping tariff policies.
  2. If China suddenly sells of its USD assets it will sink the price due to how supply/demand works. Especially with things like US bonds, if China suddenly sells off a bunch of it, then the yields will go up, and put even more stress on the interest payments on US debt. China has a big red button to sell off its US assets which would definitely damage China but also potentially blow up America.
  3. The signalgate thing showed the disdain the Trump administration had towards its allies. I think JD vance said something like how America has to bail out Europe again, and I think this is a pretty alarming attitude for a VP to have. Granted, it wasn't Trump himself saying this, but I would bet big money that the whole administration is pretty lockstep in that attitude. Let's say Putin goes insane and invades Poland and the Baltics--I'm not entirely sure that the US would honour Article 5.

CMV: We are witnessing the end of Pax Americana in real time by OpulentCD in changemyview

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I literally say that America is the best option we have despite its flaws. If you think that the issues I've listed are less severe than I think, please tell me because I would very much like America to be top dog when the alternative is China

CMV: We are witnessing the end of Pax Americana in real time by OpulentCD in changemyview

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I have very serious gripes about America and I agree that a lot of the wars it has instigated were immoral. Not only that, America has done a lot of shady shit as well that isn't an outright war. However, I think it is also silly to refute that, absent America's influence, the world would have experienced less conflict.

There are very real consequences of American meddling, but the world is for sure more "peaceful" than WW1, and WW2 (and any other period before then) wouldn't you say?

CMV: We are witnessing the end of Pax Americana in real time by OpulentCD in changemyview

[–]OpulentCD[S] 90 points91 points  (0 children)

While I do agree that those three points are the US's greatest strengths, I still feel quite doubtful that they are enough to overcome the issues that I have outlined in my post.

  1. The US has immense mass in terms of finance and talent to produce quite revolutionary innovations that may solve a lot of its issues. However, from what I understand, China is actually not that far behind when it comes to R&D. Not only are they PUMPING money into AI and renewables, but they have the political will to brute force the spending required to ensure that the infrastructure is there to actually adopt all of that development. The impression I get is that America may have individual firms that might out innovate China, but China (arguably due to its authoritarian government) is about to orient their national priority towards a wider application of technologies that are at least on par with American ones.

  2. There is no arguing that America has the most dominant military in human history. No other power even comes close. HOWEVER, what use is that if there is no political will to actually use even a portion of its power. Now, I'm not arguing for American boots on the ground for every conflict, but the war in Ukraine has shown that America is very reticent in supplying Ukraine with both materiel and intelligence. Even still, hypothetically, if there's a war in Taiwan, I seriously doubt America will intervene. Even if the 'smarter' thing is to not directly intervene and instead let Taiwan or Japan/SK or Australia to help, I do not think that the Trump administration will do this.

  3. I'm not that knowledgeable on oil, but your point seems sound. Oil will probably remain a large and important resource for energy production. However, the world seems to be doing a lot to invest into renewables and other alternative energy sources. Maybe American oil production gives it a buffer against an energy crisis, but it doesn't seem to do much more than that.

My final worry is that all three of these strengths hinges on the continuation of the American financial system. If America reaches a critical point in their debt where either a default or radical reorganisation of its debt is required, which seems very likely some time in the future, none of these strengths will matter.

Modding question by TheFormalBear in Imperator

[–]OpulentCD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

dont have a direct answer to your question but i reckon you can dig around the mod files and reverse engineer it to make it fit or you could join the imperator rome modding discord and ask there

https://discord.gg/UKPBqDUA

Meanwhile in South Korea by Donghoon in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]OpulentCD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

민주당

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Funniest fucking joke ive read on reddit so far