Sure

Pre timeskip one piece was so good

I think powerscaling is stupid so any powerscaling discussion beyond “this is stupid” is not something I feel strongly about

Who or what is “the best” of something. Any genre I can think of: Sports, art, food, engineering, design, whatever. Or I guess I kind of do, if you have some wild take that I don’t understand at all, but the discussions where people are like “lebron or kobe?” or “poe or shakesspeare?” I just do not get. “What’s the best anime?” eh. There’s no best of anything, it’s all just a matter of definition.

The modern X-COM games, South Park: Stick of Truth, Baldurs Gate 3, HoMM 3 and 5, Disciples 2, Dragon Age: Origins (its basically turn-based) and FTL in the same vein

long story short

This really feels more like a “short story long” type situation.

Hexbear has the best emojis

Be the change you seek

Sounds like you’d enjoy hexbear. Full of people pursuing the old school forum vibe

Its always so funny to me when people talk about something “having politics” or “being political”. Everything is political. Politics isn’t just “I like [insert politician]”.

Everything is political.

I guess the one thing I can think of is mods achieving nirvana and stopping preferential treatment.

Hexbears neurodiverse comm or the disabled megathread would be a good start.

I think its democratic due to its democratic processes, not due to the absence of neoliberalism

Apart from their continued trade with Israel, the politics of China also brings me hope. One of the only actually democratic countries, and it has an actually competent government.

China

Then you should fit right in

Not at all pedantic, you’re just throwing words out there man. Why is it so hard for you to say “whoops I was wrong”?

Both can have radically different forms and definitions, throughout history and between people

Not really. Redditors like you like to insist that your personal understanding of a concept is as valid as any other, even though that is not and has never been how communication works. You are free to believe any word means any thing, but you’re going to have a hard time engaging in any gainful discussion with anyone when you gotta argue over the meaning of every word first - Especially when you are too prideful to acknowledge that your understanding of a term might be lacking and your definition is incorrect.

Mamdani is opening government-run grocery stores. That’s socialism - wouldn’t you agree?

“Socialism is when the government does stuff and the more stuff it does the socialister it is, and if it does a whole lotta stuff, then its communism”

Dude socialism isn’t defined by “does the government do social programmes?” it’s a social relation to the means of production and governance of state. Denmark has free university education (for a little while longer, its getting cut every year) but that is not socialism. China has billionaires, but that does not mean it is not a socialist state. That is because ideology is not determined by the presence of social programmes.

umm don’t you know other countries don’t use dollars?? they have their own currencies! Stupid american, doesn’t even know other money exists. next you’ll probably say something like sweden isn’t socialism

Just go look at the modlog