Ooh, I see. Your argument is not that "people with jobs don't go hungry in the USA", but "it's worse in Latin American countries famously exploited by the USA".
Got it.
I think Democracy (in its many forms) designed with checks and balances is a viable answer to the problem
Yeah, you wish. Electoralism will always work in favour of the wealthy class. Even damn ancient Greeks knew that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
It’s not like latin america where starvation is much of an issue almost everywhere if you don’t have a job
1 in 8 USians is on SNAP. 1/3 of people on SNAP are employed.
Source: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416 and this is easier to read: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/11/14/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-us/
Tiananmen square protests were (also) against introduction of capitalism to China, so... you know... (https://jacobin.com/2019/06/tiananmen-square-worker-organization-socialist-democracy)
It’s well secured to not allow internal corruption
Meanwhile in China: from taizi dang, to current and bi-yearly purges because of corruption, including people very close to Xi.
The community of CIV5 still lives. We even have ongoing development of Vox Populi (and other mods, but I think that one is the most active), slowly releasing version 5 of it.
Refinements of basically everything expect the graphical engine - Ai is much much better now.
Now you're a bacon of just ice.
I'll see myself out.
as a civilian until they roll out the tanks, and your guns can’t do shit against tanks.
CIA would like to present you Simple Sabotage Field Manual solving all your needs in that department.
If you’re willing to pay what people were proportionally willing to pay in 1959, you can still buy a washer dryer set that will last a lifetime
If only that was true. It isn't.
The rest is spot on.
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I'm a 35 yo gay man and I feel old reading that :) Also I believe the term describing all that and more is "queer", which basically means "I'm gonna have fun" :-)