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Do you have a less biased or more credible source for this fact check?

The Grayzone is worthy of valid criticism, but MBFC does not provide valid criticism, it is rightwing propaganda.

Having a disease named after you must be a real pain in the kirk.

Facing Worlds has to be one of the most defense-favored maps in CTF history.

So difficult to to breach into the enemy's fort, only a couple paths home, no cover, high prevalence of snipers.

In order to score, your team had to have full map control.

I'll be the pedantic one here and say it: Big Bird is wrong here, this is not wage theft.

Wage theft is unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, unpaid benefits, tip theft, etc.

If Big Bird is a Marxist, he should describe this type of theft as surplus labor value.

Or if Big Bird is a capitalist, he would just call it profit.

A tiny compnay called ComradeWorkwear tried to do this last year with their "Most Wanted CEO" playing cards.

In less than a week, their social media accounts were shut down, they were debanked, and they were visited by the police multiple times.

And perhaps worst of all, the playing cards were never released.

Now it appears most of the news stories about this incident have been scrubbed from the Internet.

Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards - Electronic Frontier Foundation

I think most billionaires are not paying either of those taxes in any significant amounts.

Most follow the buy borrow die method. Then their children just have to pay estate tax.

Advanced tax cheats like Bill Gates take it one step further by creating their own charities. You give all your money to the "charity" and give your kids full control of the "charity". This way you can avoid paying estate tax, and you only need to give away a tiny percentage of your wealth to actual charities and PR firms to save face.

The difference is not the genre of game, but whether it is played in person or online.

In-person fighting game tournaments are generally free of cheaters, just like in-person FPS and MOBA tournaments. The few who try to cheat in these scenarios are quite obvious, and instantly caught.

Meanwhile, online fighting game tournaments are plagued by lag switches, macros, defensive overlays, frame data mods, etc.

Coffee is a diuretic, it is beneficial to the kidneys and hard on the stomach.

A large percentage of cats die from kidney issues, not many die from stomach issues. So coffee is good for cats makes sense imo.

Here's a better link where you can download the full PDF Drug harms in the UK: A multi-criterion decision analysis

Sorry to hear about your father.

I believe the study considered everything you mentioned, you can see the categories in this graph:

PDF of the study is available: Drug harms in the UK: A multi-criterion decision analysis

How do you know they will not comply with an order to land? No country has tried, despite their obligation to do so under the Rome Statute.

Studies in the UK show that there are three classes of 'hard' drugs - alcohol, amphetamines, and opioids.

All three roughly follow the '10% rule': 10% of people who try these drugs become addicted, and 10% of addicts die from their addiction.

Meth, heroin, and alcohol each kill about 1% of the people who try them.

Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis

There have been many studies on this subject (none in the US, since we are under strict prohibition). They calculate both harm to user and harm to society.

Almost all these studies are in agreement that there are three classes of 'hard' drugs that are significantly worse than the rest- opioids, amphetamines, and alcohol. Many rate alcohol as slightly more destructive than the other two.

Tobacco is rated significantly less harmful, mostly because of the amount of tobacco it takes to do harm. No one dies from a single night of heavy smoking; many people die from a single night of alcohol, amphetamines, or opiates. Second-hand smoke is dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as a drunk driver.

Personally I think these studies underrate benzodiazipines, they should be considered the fourth class of hard drugs imo.

The last real Democratic Party primary was in 2020.

Most of the people we are talking about were literally too young to participate in a meaningful primary.

They had no opportunity to be involved in the process, and now they are being blamed for not participating. That's the modern Democratic Party in a nutshell.

When Luigi killed that UHC oligarch, the company responded by lowering their claims denial rate by 1-2%. UHC processes hundreds of millions of claims every year.

Do the math- the slaying of Brian Thompson meant that millions of claims that would have otherwise been denied were approved.

By killing one oligarch, hundreds of lives were saved. Perhaps even thousands.

We know this because Investors Are Pressing UnitedHealth Group to Deny More Care

Right, you don't "just shoot down" planes. You order them to land, as they are in violation of your sovereign airspace, and in violation of international law.

Russian planes violating European airspace are not shot down, they are ordered to land and they comply. Planes violating "US airspace" in Iraq and Afghanistan were not shot down, because they complied when ordered to land.

And maybe I'm being pedantic, but a leader overseeing an ongoing genocide is an immediate threat of the highest order.

There is currently widespread violence. It is the structural violence of poverty. Hundreds are being socially murdered everyday.

Killing an oligarch is a certainly a violent act, but it reduces the overall violence in the system.

Yes.

Scramble jets, have air traffic control instruct them to land, and if they do not follow instructions then shoot to kill.

This is literally how all restricted airspace works.

I would cheer on the guillotine much more than the average person, but let's be honest about what material conditions are required.

The French poor were paying 60% of their income on bread. That was not enough for guillotines. Only after a poor harvest, and added mismanagement, the prices rose to 80% of their income- only then did heads start to roll.

There were no guillotines in the great depression (probably in large part thanks to The New Deal). So for Americans to deploy a guillotine, it would require an economic collapse worse than the great depression.

Frankly, many of us will starve before Musk's head is in a basket.

"Tankie" does not come from Tiananmen Square, that is a common misconception. The term "tankie" is 33 years older than the Tiananmen Square massacre.

It originated to describe people who supported the 1956 Soviet Union military intervention in Hungary. Stalin sent in a bunch of T-35 tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution. He was successful, and thousands of people died in the process.

Ever since then, "tankie" has been used as a derogatory term against Stalinists, Marxist-Leninists, communists, and leftists in general.