To be fair a lot of what makes palworld so popular is that it's Pokemon on a console besides the Nintendo switch. All you have is a Xbox or a PC there's a Pokemon game for you besides emulating old games

Nintendo has been very risk adverse lately sticking with things that they know are going to be successful. Their last big gamble was the Wii u which was a bit of a disaster. The cardboard stuff was super cheap so there was no risk there. Even with the amiibo things they waited until there was an already established market to enter it.

I see I'm still living rent-free in some heads.

U MAD [I'm alive] BRO?

And ammo. Yeah some people have thousands of rounds of ammo. The military has millions of rounds, and enough men to go with them to effectively utilize suppressive fire. If you do get in an old-fashioned firefight with soldiers they can simply outbullet you if for some reason they don't have an armed backpack drone. Which by the way they totally do.

What demographic? Poor and disadvantaged? You know events like these are held by white people where there's only white people, right?

You completely lost me right here, bro. OH THE BOOTYANITY TWERKING ON COP CARS

Fun fact the Republicans pushed through laws that require a certain number of audits for middle-income and lower income earners. They literally passed laws to encourage the IRS to audit you personally.

The idea was to make you angry at the IRS and then to use that anger to get tax cuts for their billionaire buddies. It worked

You know that old Looney tunes cartoon where Elmer fudd turns into a sucker? If you voted Republican in the last 50 years that's you.

I'm not the one you should be angry at by the way

That's all. One of the things they figured out years ago is that instead of just outright blocking left-wing policy they sabotage it so that they can make sure that it doesn't work.

They figured that out in the '80s. With the projects. Basically we took a shitload of people mostly extremely poor and very black and brought them from blasted out rural hellscapes where they barely had roofs and brought them into what were for the time fairly modern apartments.

Then Ronald Reagan got in charge and he pulled all of the government support those people need it in order to have jobs and lives and let them basically collapse while also structuring welfare programs to make it virtually impossible for their families to succeed. Meanwhile trillions of dollars was diverted to the suburbs from the inner cities.

The right wing does one of two things against the left wing. If the right wing is in power and the power is absolute they murder the left wing. They will also murder anyone who they suspect might benefit the left wing so if you're a centrist the right wing will murder you in a heartbeat.

If they're not in a position of absolute power they fall back on sabotage. So Ubi just becomes an excuse to cut all the other government programs that people need and then monopolies absorb all the money and then the right wing points and says see see see it doesn't work!

There is no point to trying Ubi without backing it up with a whole shitload of other reforms and programs. It becomes nothing more than a guaranteed failure that will be used to convince the public against any further efforts to make anyone's lives better

You get that the unemployment rate is literally designed to be a falsehood because it stops counting people when they have been unemployed for a while, right? The methodology used for it has no concept of who is looking for work at all, it's based on a fundamentally bogus assumption that people who haven't found any for long enough aren't looking.

Because in 2025 the only person I could see making that comment is somebody between the ages of six and eight.

Nothing about any of those people is communist and I know you know that. And I know this is just bait.

But why? I mean for fuck sakes China has a private Health Care system. Pol pot just murdered people and seized their property and Stalin put a stop to the Communist revolution so that again he could just take all the money and power..

If you're not going to provide anything useful to the conversation why bother with these 1950s lies? Even the most ardent moron knows that they are bullshit. This isn't even like when the evangelicals come up with excuses to hate gay people. It's just sad really.

Who has ever tried UBI? Make sure your answer is about UBI and not just BI for a test group.

Most of those guns are irrelevant, as guns don't kill people by themselves, and a person can only realistically use two at a time, and can only use one at a time well.

Plus, you know, the government has thermal vision, guided munitions, satellite overwatch...

Infinitely more would be removing yourself from the equation in a carbon negative way. I suggest swallowing seeds and falling into an early grave.

If people don't buy stuff eventually the corporation collapses. The principals can make a profit before then, but repeat this enough times and the whole boat sinks as it happens to too many major employers at once. Hence too big to fail, which is of course the result of failure to enforce antitrust law.

Same for crony capitalism.

Billionaires don't want basic income because billionaires no longer want there to be a capitalist economy with consumers.

In a capitalist economy and a consumer economy billionaires are completely dependent on those consumers for their wealth, power and prestige.

Think of it like this, let's say you lose your job and you can't find another but your extended family all chip in and keep giving you money that would bug you right?

You would want to be dependent on them. And let's say you didn't like your extended family. Let's say you had nothing but disdained for them. You would absolutely not want to be dependent on them and their Goodwill.

That's the position billionaires are in with consumers and employees. They are completely dependent on them. But bizarrely unlike you with your dependency on your relatives they have a shitload of money and power they can use to break that dependency.

So think of it like this, let's say you were a real asshole and you decide that you were going to rob all your relatives who have been helping you out blind so that you want dependent on them anymore because you had all their money. That's what billionaires are trying to do. Take everything for themselves and leave nothing. And then create a system where they never have to be dependent on anyone else again and everyone else has to bend over backwards worshiping them or else.

China's population is starting to fall, as they have the same problem every developed nation does with low birth rates.