It’s clear this guy is an asshole. You are frothing trying to make an enemy of me but read with a little more care. I was always an ally and you are here trying to divide us. I feel like you didnt understand my comment so I’ll repeat with emphasis.

It(Your use of redneck and hick as a pejorative.) drives those undereducated and uninvolved people(Single issue/peer sensative voters) to identify more with this asshole( The racist asshole that you somehow need me to clearly point out is both racist and an asshole.)

Read carefully.

It’s clear I thought the first was offensive as well. Lemmy is all righteous anger and no purpose these days.

There is nothing wrong with living in a rural area or being a blue collar worker. The last sentence there is unnecessary.

As someone who has been in both those demographics, this guy doesn’t represent me or the hardworking albeit sometimes simple people I grew up around.

Please don’t use those words as a cudgel. It drives those undereducated and uninvolved people to identify more with this asshole than the progressives that have more in common with them beneath the surface.

New York and Florida both have more international tourism. California is third followed by Nevada and Texas.

No. And his books are good.

He tithes and hopes those funds go toward the good things the church accomplishes.

He has a lot of explanation on his relationship with the church and his stance on not allowing his religion to negatively affect his writing.

He has consistently advocated for lesser know authors and fought against Amazon to improve conditions for them.

His books are full of LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse people, women passing the bechdel test, and irl cultural inspiration from around the world.

He actually hires people to consult on things like schizophrenia so he doesn’t promote misinformation.

The thing you are asking him to do is abandon his community. Instead he works to better it from the inside. He is a lecturer at BYU and is directly exposed to the future leaders of that church. Let him cook.

So yeah I don’t like his religion’s track record but anyone who has investigated the guy can see he’s a fair author and the criticism is hyperbole.

The Walton family lost the 50% line in 2018.

They still likely control the company in a more abstract sense.

To be fair. I don’t hate China and it’s clear you failed to back up your previous claim.

Religious intolerance by the state directly contributed to the staged and incremental reduction in that groups QOL.

For Americans, 1A protects religious speech even if it is a bit frustrating when you hear someone preaching in the street. I wouldn’t hazard undermining 1A even though we are all tired of bad actors abusing it.(Westboro Baptist Church, Proud Boys, etc)

The only example you call out doesn’t even ban religion. It’s restricted in China and I think the Uyghur population there can explain that it’s not sunshine and rainbows.

'China’s constitution says ordinary citizens enjoy “freedom of religious beliefs” and the government officially recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism and Daoism (also called Taoism). ’

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/23/10-things-to-know-about-chinas-policies-on-religion/

Ok. I’ll bite. What countries aside from North Korea ban organized religion?

I can appreciate its being monitored more closely. American churches have a significant untraceable cash trail.

That would be shortsighted. Religious though has been on the decline for centuries. Driving it underground and radicalizing it just empowers the bad actors.

Germany handles religion in a fine way. Kirchensteuer is a tax you pay directly out of your paycheck to your registered church. You can opt out of paying this tax by dropping your church registration. If this system was adopted in the US you would see far less people who identify as “religious”.

I’m no expert but throwing that many virgins into a volcano might be ill advised.

How did you become so deluded? What a waste of passion.

They should take a loss because they sold a product and it’s availability shouldn’t be a lever they use to drive traffic to their new game. Is this where I say you are implying that corporate profits are more important than honesty?

Are you implying that they didn’t insinuate that this game would be supported longer when they had an actual expiration date on the product code, 2099? If the Crew 3 has been in development for 10 years and they spend a billion dollars developing it would it be ok to sunset the Crew 2 after a couple weeks to “motivate” buyers to buy the new version? Who decides what is the “appropriate” amount of time a product should be available.

If they don’t allow private or third party hosting for the Crew then anyone should be able to refund it since they bought a product that has been rugpulled.

You can feel free to ignore all of that because there isn’t a good reason to support Ubisoft here and this model unless you like the taste of shoe polish.

You should reread my comment.

I didn’t imply there is a public safety issue. I didn’t imply anything about morality.

If a company drops the hosting for online servers they shouldn’t prevent third parties from picking it up. That’s the whole statement so you don’t need to find anything between the lines.

Art does belong to everyone but that’s completely unrelated to my comment above.

If a company decides to stop hosting it’s online service they should be required to open it up for third party hosting. By ending their support they are admitting the profit capture is over so if another company wants to host it for profit so be it.

Do consider that regardless of a tariff being export/import companies will generally pass the cost onto the consumer. So in general all tariffs are import tariffs by proxy.

A poorly written nothing burger. Additionally, the OP is the writer and site owner so add on the self promotion tag and it’s a trifecta of time wasted.

If you have a moment I would love to talk to you about a rich investment opportunity best know as artisanal gourds. Not since Blockbuster has the soil been so rich and the climate been so perfect for artisanal gourds. If you act now I have a bridge that is heavily discounted we can discuss.

In other news the world is round, vaccines are good, and the Holocaust definitely happened.

Since this was posted Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Some Joe Rogan, idiot-pilled fuckboi probably gave him the idea. Trump doesn’t read, he is read to.