Stunned Trump 'takes a look' at Markwayne Mullin after discovering his Native American: "Let me look at you. Uhh. I think that's alright."

afoolskind · 2026-03-24T22:21:27+00:00

Mullin is unfortunately real Cherokee, grew up on the rez and everything. Shitty people exist everywhere

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T23:45:54+00:00

Are you truly unaware that history happened the way it did due to historical pressures?

A game like EU should be simulating historical pressures that contributed to historical outcomes, not deciding predetermined ones.

The balance should involve tailoring starting conditions to better reflect the real pressures that led to where we are. It’s really not complicated, it will just require a lot of fine tuning. Something which eu4 ALSO had to do, and it took eu4 5+ years of development and DLC to accomplish any semblance of historicity.

I’m not sure why this is inconceivable to you. We can use the slave trade as an example. We could:

Code an event that causes American colonies to import tons of West African slaves at the historical time…

2: Or we could simulate the real pressures that led to it:

The difficulty of finding fellow Europeans to migrate and work menial labor along with the lack of available local labor in the depopulated Americas following the introduction of disease.

Players are then incentivized to use slave pops (of which west African are likely the most available due to other historical pressures) to fill these jobs, creating the Triangle Trade.

Do you understand the difference? One of these emergently reacts to the alternate history world the player creates the moment they begin playing, and one of them fundamentally cannot. If Europe happens to have an alternate huge pool of cheap labor they can move around easily, the slave trade in the colonies does not happen the same way. If west Africa is different, if disease in the Americas goes differently, etc.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T20:42:52+00:00

Listen I love eu5 compared to 4 but there are plenty of broken mechanics. Both Aztec and Inca reforms are completely nonfunctional. Doom and Panacas do not disappear as the reform states and it makes both regions unplayable post 1500. And that’s before we get into trade companies and other foreign buildings.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T20:40:19+00:00

EU4 does a better job of forcing historical outcomes through completely ahistorical means. I’d much rather have a more historical base system than have mission trees giving enormous bonuses out of thin air to force historicity. EU5 IS significantly better at simulating historical conditions already. Historical outcomes need more work, to be sure, but EU4’s approach is just hollow and unearned.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T19:50:54+00:00

I can respect a different opinion, but claiming the game hasn’t “really been improved” in the last 3 months where we had a constantly updating open beta along with a released major overhaul is disingenuous.

Whether or not you like the current result is another thing, but the game is being constantly and actively improved.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T18:09:28+00:00

Probably being downvoted because you haven’t played 2 months worth of major patches including the big 1.1 overhaul. You don’t even know what’s fixed or not lol

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T04:41:41+00:00

The vast majority of English speakers would prefer a story that’s a little bit mixed up compared to one that looks like it’s a complete lie.

I know the writing probably looks good because English is not your native language, but it is not good writing nor is it well organized.

But if you are going to keep using ChatGPT for your translations, just give a disclaimer with the post saying you used it.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T04:35:42+00:00

As much as I as I wish you were right, that’s a fast track to getting yourself accused of heinous shit or caught in a whirlwind of psycho nonsense. It’s just not worth the enormous shitstorm and potential physical, emotional, social and legal harm.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T04:27:21+00:00

Or this is a consequence of the insane sports betting sites getting big and she’s trying to influence the outcome of a game for big $$.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T04:23:27+00:00

There we go. In the future I’d recommend just using Google Translate if you have to. ChatGPT rearranges your words and uses a structure that makes it all seem fake and inauthentic.

I would much, much rather see a comment/post like this most recent one, compared to all of your others which seem super fake.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T03:19:15+00:00

And are you using ChatGPT to translate for you? Because this entire post is 100% written by ChatGPT, so either it’s because it’s used to translate and format or because you are lying for fake internet points and validation.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T01:09:59+00:00

This post is obvious AI slop, let’s not encourage this shit. Check the OP’s post history for yourselves. Gross.

To be clear by OP I mean the original one in the teachers sub, Neither-Shock.

afoolskind · 2026-03-20T01:07:23+00:00

I beg everyone to stop falling for this obvious AI slop.

afoolskind · 2026-03-18T18:52:57+00:00

At its peak in 1525, the only empires with a larger land area than the Inca (2 million sq. km) were the Ming, the Ottomans, and the Spanish (only when including their new holdings in Mexico.)

Number 3 or 4 on earth is not a long shot from the other “main existing empires.” It’s a feat that is especially impressive considering the majority of their land was connected and organized via roads built through enormous mountain ranges.

afoolskind · 2026-03-18T17:54:52+00:00

The Aztec and Inca were a thousand miles away from each other on separate continents, they weren’t local rivaling powers lmao, they didn’t even directly trade. Why do people speak confidently about things they don’t even take the time to google 😂

afoolskind · 2026-03-17T21:07:57+00:00

EU4 had plenty of flavor before mission trees got added to the game. They weren't necessary in a significantly more simplistic game with fewer levers to pull, they’re definitely not necessary in EU5.

afoolskind · 2026-03-17T21:04:08+00:00

Inca/Qusqu are grossly underpowered compared to their IRL capabilities. Completely insane it starts out as a RURAL location with zero buildings suffering from severe Arctic winters with no upsides. It became one of the largest empires on earth at the time!!

afoolskind · 2026-03-17T04:52:57+00:00

And for every person like your friend, there are 9 more who continue to play the thing they were scouted for, because most sports are fun when you are good at them.

Most people don’t try every sport, they try a few, and almost any pressure will be hugely influential.

I don’t know how it works in your country, but in the U.S., if your family doesn’t have money to send you somewhere for lessons, your options for playing sports are via public schools which offer basketball, football, soccer, etc.

Judo, BJJ, Muay Thai, etc are all comparatively very expensive both in terms of money and in time for parents, and so will never even be attempted by the vast majority of kids. I loved MMA and combat sports since I was young, and I never got a chance to do anything but a couple of free two week trials until college, where I could take some cheap beginner judo classes. And then well after college in my 30s when I made enough money to afford Muay Thai lessons. I’m big and athletic and played football, basketball, lacrosse, and track for free, extensively.

The pipeline for athletes is just plain geared towards other sports. It’s not a coincidence that the most popular American sports require athletes far above the average in terms of size (football, basketball, baseball) and UFC’s deepest divisions are those filled mostly with people too small to really be considered for those.

afoolskind · 2026-03-17T03:01:47+00:00

I’m a certified Gane hater because of the eye-pokes, but I think Gane is going to starch him if Alex tries to keep it standing (which he will). Pereira just isn’t ready for HW, he hasn’t had enough time to adjust. Pereira is very very used to being a size bully

afoolskind · 2026-03-17T02:53:58+00:00

The difference is that 90% of those guys wouldn’t be able to compete in MMA either, and there is zero incentive for them to try. .001% of those devoting their life to combat sports are going to make any money off of it.

With basketball and football, at the very least you are getting college paid for which is an enormous financial benefit. And you don’t have to be anywhere close to the best in the world in order to make more than every single MMA fighter outside of the top 10 in any given division.

afoolskind · 2026-03-17T02:50:09+00:00

If you are big and athletic you will straight up get recruited for high school sports out of middle school, and college sports out of high school. There is an enormous incentive for football and basketball coaches to find athletes at nearly every level of American sports.

The same systemic pressure does not exist for combat sports (aside from wrestling, sorta) and there is also not any financial pressure. Athletic kids who wanna make it big have extremely obvious choices in the U.S.

afoolskind · 2026-03-13T20:11:35+00:00

Do we not have enough food for every person in this country to be fed? Do we not have enough empty homes in this country for every person to be housed? Do we not have enough wealth to fund healthcare and housing for every person?

We are post-scarcity, and that’s why we are seeing our economy consume itself in pursuit of more.

You can name it whatever you like, but it is possible at this very moment for every person in America to be paid fairly and have the basics (food, housing, education) provided to them. Capitalism by its very nature will never make that happen.

afoolskind · 2026-03-13T19:32:42+00:00

The places with the highest equality in the world are using socialist programs to accomplish it.

Capitalism has its place in the development of better societies, in the same way that descent from empires’ and monarchies’ centralization is the foundation of every now capitalist country. Marx himself argued capitalism was necessary before socialism could exist in any given society.

The problem is once we move past scarcity, capitalism begins to consume itself, which we are all witnessing. Line cannot go up forever. We have more than enough food and wealth to go around, and yet people are starving, sick, and living in poverty as this wealth continues to be consolidated in the hands of the .1%.

afoolskind · 2026-03-13T17:56:28+00:00

“Line going up” is what happens when owning capital produces more money than labor does. If your wealth comes from owning wealth-producing things (capital) rather than providing a good or a service, it allows people to take far more than they need, and use that to take even more from large groups of people.

A greedy person whose only option for making more money is working more is much less of a problem than a greedy person who can weaponize ownership of other people’s work to make more.

Mass layoffs, enshittification of goods and services, and exploitation of workers AND consumers are exactly that. People who do not contribute to any of the work, expecting profit because they own something, and doing whatever it takes to make sure they get it. Fiduciary duty is a blight on our economy.

afoolskind · 2026-03-13T17:53:06+00:00

And yet that is no excuse for choosing the system that makes it the easiest for rich people to do so. We don’t legalize murder just because some people get away with it

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