People are affected by material conditions, and the USA is very good at manipulating those material conditions from afar. That's all.
'agency' or 'free will' are nonsensical concepts with no significant shared definition. People's actions are ~99% based on their material and social contexts, and those contexts are heavily controlled by central authorities, some of whom are in turn heavily controlled by the USA.
I think this is very important to mention. There is currently no good, common, international quantified measure of 'standard of living'; Exactly like GDP, it's mostly measured by the largely made-up value of arbitrary goods.
Bernie Sanders is what putting all your effort into electoralism does to a mf
I agree, it definitely happened in olden times too. But it was certainly a lot less frequent.
I've come to terms with the fact that we just don't live in an era where games are finished when they're released.
I'll look to play the game in a year or two after it's been officially patched and after a COMPLETE mod comes out to fix that.
But.. basically every email provider or hosting service is legally obliged to give the information they collect to the government. It's not like this is exclusive to Proton in any way whatsoever. If anything, subpoenas are evidence Proton tell the truth and do at least stop themselves from having most of the important data so they can't give it away.
I wouldn't be surprised if I was the hexbear user with the most blocked users and comms ever. And I don't have you blocked, so it's a good start.
Fruit is goddamned delicious. But to add suggestions not yet said - deglet noor dates (not Israeli ones), passion fruit, figs, coconut, pomelo, dragonfruit.
And of course the king of all fruit, effectively unchanged in form for over 50 million years - The delicious physalis.
Pre-politics, they had a few genuinely funny early comedy videos, I'd argue.
Agreed. I liked his early comedy / Youtub drama videos, and that was it.
Though he never had good politics, even by liberal standards, at least he used to just not talk about it. He then just waded into it and wobbles thoughtlessly in every political direction without a single bit of cohesive thought behind anything he says. I still have genuinely zero idea why anyone likes it.
I stopped watching when he started the podcast (especially given one of the earliest episodes had Jordan Peterson on and was just them fawning at his super massive intellect).
Oof, I always hated how the revolutions tended to take your centralised states and leave you with nothin'. I do the same as you in terms of construction sectors, though I still have no idea if it's the right choice.
And yeah the exile and promote agitator actions are fun. I only discovered recently if you have Secret Police you can also try to kill them.
Uncritical support for the save scumming, it's frequently the way to keep a fun campaign going.
Whoop to the endless growth, max that GDP and living standard. Big spoons for all 
This still seems pretty not real. This is basically a note saying "I did it, it was me and only me and the proof is I own a computer (I work in engineering so you won't find any "real" evidence). I did it because I hate United. Anyway I know nothing, have no message to send, and couldn't possibly write more bye now"
Even if this really came from the police, if you wanted to convict somebody with very little effort, this would be the perfect evidence to "find". That in reality makes no sense to actually write.