The US is normally the country that bombs the middle east but in Aleppo it was almost exclusively Russia and the Assad regime that did the bombings. Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent Turkey) were the ones who sponsored ISIS. The US for once actually sponsored the relatively good guys in the conflict by backing the AANES ("Rojava").
This is not to say that the US had any moral reasons to choose the AANES. It was strictly geopolitics but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
InkScape.
I don't fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don't. I love fiddling with vectors.
This is similar to the old Italian mercenary system. Get paid by one side to siege a city, then get paid by the other side to end the siege.
Same here. The idea of having her defend superheroes/villains for things like accidentally opening a portal to hell or creating a small-scale time paradox is a super fun concept. Regular lawyer shows have been done to death but a superpower lawyer show brings endless new possibilities and dilemmas.
Socialism is when the workers directly own their workplaces. While there are strains of socialism that view government ownership of businesses as an indirect form of worker ownership, they only view it as socialism if the government also abolishes the profit motive from those businesses.
Corporate welfare is a form of state/planned capitalism. Private ownership, profits and internal organizing; with the state being the main (or only) customer and also the party that takes on all the risks.
Capitalism is when there is a capitalist class that owns the means of production in order to extract surplus value, and a working class that uses the means of production in order to create value.
The truest capitalism would be a society where one individual owned everything and everyone else had to work under that individual.
Capitalism does not care - and never has cared - about people's ability to buy stuff. That's why market crisises happen. It's the result of capitalists taking more than the workers can afford to lose.
There have been times when the capitalist class has cooperated with the demands and needs of the working class. That's called a mixed economy, and as the name suggests, it's a compromise between capitalism and socialism and therefore far from "true" capitalism.
My theory about V (in the graphic novel) is that
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V and Evie are the same person. Evie is a trans woman who was imprisoned in cell five for being "undesirable", like the lesbian woman in the cell next to her. The chapter where Evie is "tortured" by V is actually her V persona making Evie face the fact that this actually happened to her. The bad guys say "you're the man from cell five" because they are bigots who refuse to accept her as female.
Sexual liberation and autonomy is a big part of V for Vendetta. I'm probably wrong about my theory but I just think it fits the rest of the message of the graphic novel.
Paladin Danse goes out of character in order to admire the U.S.S. Constitution (a robot-owned ship no less) even though the BoS hates the U.S. for nuking half the world. He then goes on to view Chinese ghouls as evil for being Chinese.
Hancock is not really a charicature or satire of American patriotism. The devs clearly want him to just be a patriot.
The minute men have blatantly nationalistic aesthetics (including their general dressing himself like George Washington). They camp out in the so very subtle "Museum of Freedom".
None of these things are done ironically. These people who live in a world destroyed in equal parts by the U.S. and China should logically hate everything the U.S. was and claimed to stand for. Instead, they constantly brown-nose a country that no longer exists.
Nobody in Fallout 1, 2 and NV (except for the Enclave) would ever consider pre-war U.S. as a force for good or something to look back to with pride. The Enclave are the bad guys for good reasons.
The only actual joke patriotism in Fallout 4 is Moe and his Swatters.
Nonsense. It gives the same benefits that a simple massage does but a massage doesn't put you at risk of paralysis or death.
It's quackery.
Imagine if Iran had allied with ISIS, killed the US President and bombed several US schools, then a couple of weeks later Iran's leader goes "anyway, we are winding down this war. It is someone else's problem now."
That's not how war works.
In a quota that uses integers and puts 100 as the average, a lot of people will be exactly average. Therefore it is incorrect to say that 50% is below average. It's probably somewhere between 48% and 49%.