They think that when the revolution hits, they can use Peter Theil’s spy tech to crush it, and then they will go full mask off.

Is the leader alive or not? Alive is likely a cult, dead is usually religion.

The next question is how isolated from friends and family or society at large are the members. More isolated is more likely to be a cult.

Other than that, there’s not much difference.

The usual setup is a cult is formed and then the second or third leader opens things up a bit and transitions it into just another religion… But sometimes a cult can be born from a religion as a small group breaks off to follow a charismatic leader.

A small correction, you could make anyone a mod of your subreddit, but they would be notified.

And spez stayed a mod for a long time before that sub was banned.

Yup, first and foremost, figure out your gameplay loops.

Get that right and you can pretty it all up later.

Fun fact, Palestinians on the ground preferred Biden/Harris to Trump.

I need to find the survey again, but yeah, at least in the West Bank, they know that Trump will be an active and willing partner in the genocide.

You sweet summer child. I envy your optimism.

Yes and no. The monsters are using migrants as a scapegoat to distract from the outright theft that’s about to ramp up.

But the thing about a scapegoat, they’re still killed.

When a monster tells you what they want to do, believe them.

The main part of the tax is that rich assholes would not longer be able to use those unrealized gains as collateral for loans. Because as soon as those gains are realized, they’re taxed.

This alone would massively limit the power of rich assholes.

Engage the core.

The time when they had to upload a virus to the Packlad ship.

Burger King just hasn’t died yet.

Spouses can move to the village, it’s just that the children never leave.

At least one parent was born in the village.

I’d almost believe that Hillary ordered her people to sabotage the campaign if it wasn’t the exact same “centrist” message the establishment Dems have been pushing since Carter.

Yeah, we’re coming into a pretty horrible timeline. I’d have preferred the one where the Brooks Brothers Riot failed. But that ship has long sailed.

This timeline is going to be an authoritarian nightmare with random high points where some rich asshole is murked by an Adjustor copycat.

Part of the problem is that you literally cannot build up a third party under First Past the Post voting.

The thing is, the current most popular alternative voting system, RCV is just as bad for third parties.

RCV was first invented in the 1780s by the Marquis de Condorcet, under the name Instant Runoff. He wrote about it, mostly to highlight it’s problems.

Like the fact that under IRV the majority preferred candidate can easily lose the election.

And that’s the tip of the iceberg when it comes to flaws in IRV.

Thankfully it’s been over 200 years since then, and better voting systems have been designed.

STAR is as close to the magical best system designed to date.

If we had STAR for all elections, plus voting day as a national holiday, we’d be in a vastly better place.

Ah yes, the Noem Chomsky. Famously when he was defending Pol Pot’s regime.

Ah, Cato the Elder. He had a good cheesecake recipe, but was otherwise a complete jackass.

It mattered in several states. Missouri added a right to abortion to the state constitution. Even as the people voted for the assholes behind the ban in the first place.

The simple truth is, the entire case against Hunter Biden was politically motivated from the start.

He paid the back taxes and the gun charges are normally laughed out of court.

This was always a Republican prosecutor wanting to make a name for themselves, and with Trump taking power, well, we all know how vindictive Trump is.

I don’t expect this pardon to matter much, Trump and the Republicans don’t care about law or tradition or reality. They care about power, and are less than 2 months away from it.

Steam isn’t a publicly traded company. Which means they can focus on customers and not investors.