every good, innovative US or EU product die immediately due to China/India making a 1:1 copy and flooding the markets with it?

If it’s a perfect 1:1 copy why does it matter? Can you explain how this isn’t just a stance rooted in xenophobia?

Enjoy innovative products that startups create? How about not having any of that because as soon as a startup makes something, a big corp comes in with their money, steals the idea, and floods the market?

You just described the dream of most startups. The goal of the vast majority is to be acquired by a big corp so that their idea/product can continue growing, because without acquisition growth is severely limited.

The main alternative is offering them a subsidy on a silver platter, but then you’re making everyone pay for that R&D

R&D for many companies is taking the research done by underpaid graduate and PhD students and using that to create some sort of product or buying out the startups those students created and building from that.

We already live in a system where the majority of costs are publicly subsidized (and that’s not mentioning the myriad of direct subsidies these companies receive, for an especially egregious example look at the amount Pfizer got paid to develop the Covid vaccine) and then the result is patented and privatized.

The intention was one of contextualizing current events. I’m not sure I understand what you mean by gatekeeping?

The original series of speeches and sermons by the former Nazi pastor Martin Niemöller’s mentiones the Incurables, Communists, socialists, schools, unionists, democratic socialists, Jews, the press, and the Church. but explicitly avoids mentioning the Nazi party started with felons and foreigners.

The original German poem omits the felons, foreigners, incurables, schools, press and church.

The American English version further omits the Communists and originally tried to replace “unions” with “industrialists”.

If you are going to project the “first they came for” concept onto the USA you can either start with the spirit of the poem:

First they came for the indigenous peoples

Which sets the start date of the poem to at least ~1850.

Or you can start with the letter of the poem:

First they came for the Communists

Which sets the start date to at least ~1950.

There is a big difference between “Fuck America” and “Fuck all Americans”.

Of those 300 million, the ones who are not to be blamed are the ones who realize this and also say “Fuck America!” Surely you can’t be so ignorant as to not see how the existence of that country as a political institution has a direct and causal link to this sort of outcome.

I do what I can. But it doesn’t feel like enough.

And it clearly isn’t enough as things are getting worse, but also what I’m doing clearly isn’t enough either. Unfortunately, it’s impossible for one, or two, people to do enough. It’s just important you do what you can and remain cynical about what those limitations are.

I apologize if this felt like it was targeted explicitly at you, but I don’t see a path forward without aggressively corralling those who are doing “what is expected” vs “what they can” and I apologize if my attempts at pushing were misdirected or misplaced.

Keep on doing what your doing, if we all keep doing what we can we’ll get through this.

Some I really appreciate that I’m not seeing on this list:

I’m currently enjoying Blue Prince which is a fairly new rogue-like puzzle/mystery game it’s hard to explain without spoiling but it’s worth looking up.

Portals of Phereon is one of my absolute favorites. It’s a fairly deep tactical RPG thing with loads of replayability. It’s kind of like a Pokemon x FF Tactics but with monstergirls and it’s also currently free while it’s in development. Be aware it’s extremely NSFW and horny, which I suspect is the main reason it’s not as popular as some of the others listed (IE rimworld, stardew valley, etc.) however the horny is such a key point to it’s original gameplay and world-building that it wouldn’t be the same without it.

Thea: the awakening is a decent tactical RPG. I love it for it’s original battle mini game, crafting system and world-building. It unfortunately has some balance issues and jankiness that prevents it from being an all time favorite, but it’s definitely one I would encourage at least trying.

Thought of a few others:

• Reus (2nd one’s alright, first one’s excellent)
• Library of Runia
• Book of Hours
• Kenshi (saw it listed one other time, but it deserves a lot more love)

how would you know if I was or was not actively doing something

It’s the Internet I don’t. The difference in perspective I see is the lack of ‘guilt by association’ which only goes so far. That was kind of what the whole Nuremberg trials were about. My point is that if you are not confident that in a real life interaction you can demonstrate either you were unaware, were resisting, dis-associated yourself or were incapable, then you do shoulder some of the blame.

The fact we’re having this conversation shows you are not unaware, I hope you’re actively resisting but the defensiveness tells me you might not believe you’re doing enough, and if that’s because you’re incapable, for whatever reason, then give yourself some grace. If that’s not the case then yes, you modern_medicine are to blame for the fascist bullshit happening around you.

people from your country surely do drugs which is why the cartels exist and kill people.

I believe you have a poor understanding of what cartels are and why they exist, but yes using your example I can confidently say I actively work to alleviate the conditions that result in people self-medicating and have distanced myself from cartels and their activities as much as I am aware and capable of. Can you say the same?

I agree that “blame” may not be the right word. Is there an English word for “complicit through complacency”?

Then I guess you should probably be actively doing something about that problem shouldn’t you?

So long as you aren’t that blame isn’t really misplaced is it?

you’re going to mount a defense against the existence of Mt. St. Helens, right?

I will!!! Mostly to try and better illustrate what is being meant by “perspective is not reality”.

I am certain of the fact that Mt. St. Helens is a volcano that exists.

A mountain exists in that location that was formed via an underlying volcano, however the name for both is Lawetlat’la.

I am certain of the fact that it erupted prior to my existence upon this planet

Volcanoes themselves generally do not erupt, magma chambers erupt through (and via that process create) volcanoes.

I have never laid my own eyes upon this volcano

Nor have most. Outside of eruption events the volcano isn’t visible, only the mountain is.

The volcano Mt St Helens does not exist. Using the mountain of Lawetlat’la as evidence does not make the volcano Mt St Helens exist because while the mountain and volcano are distinct entities, standard naming convention is to call them both the same thing.

regulate harshly and with a 50s style tax

Isn’t this argument ‘free-market but with guardrails’ or did I misunderstand?

What do you mean by “personal property”? That monopolistic land ownership is okay so long as it’s individuals not businesses?

Liberals cannot actively support it without also confronting the inherent contradictions within liberal ideology.

Thank you, I couldn’t have asked for a better demonstration of this point. A healthcare system that is based on the free market but that is “regulat[ed] harshly and [with] a 50s style tax on the rich” is not universal healthcare!

If you can see the issues with healthcare and can understand why universal healthcare would be a necesarry improvement then how are you still advocating for a free market solution for anything?

That baby died a long time ago, and required required constant human rights violations to keep it alive in the first place. Getting rid of the bathwater won’t bring it back or make it require less cruelty to keep alive.

Universal health care is antithetical to both market economies and economic freedom which are both core liberal principles. Liberals cannot actively support it without also confronting the inherent contradictions within liberal ideology.

Unless you’re using the term “liberal” in the US sense of ‘anybody “left” of fascism’ in which case you’re statistically correct, but mostly due to generalization.