There actually is a strong profit incentive though it’s a significantly longer term than investment than most of modern capitalism. They don’t want forests, they want they want plantations. They are working on changing the nature of the forest and the land to make it a more valuable asset for private capital. It should be clear how this is related to the planned privitization of the forest service

bombs Latvian fuel depot which has been to disused since 1993

Take that, perfidious ruskies

Disclaimer: I have never used a pre written campaign. That being said, I find that creating a campaign is both easier than you might think and extremely fun and rewarding. As others have mentioned, the most important part is being able to improvise and yes and with your players. Just come up with the outline of a setting, (where are we, a few pertinent places/people), and an initial tension/excuse for why we need to start an adventure (maybe some potential antagonists and twists). You can develop more than that if you want to, but that’s honestly all you need to get started. The world and its society doesn’t need to be fully fleshed out because as your players explore it, it will become more fleshed out and hopefully come to life. You won’t get it perfect the first time, but like any other skill you will develop it with practice and hopefully you’ll have a great time with your friends doing it

You don’t need to make a custom map, but here is a way to approach that if you want to. I like to start with a random real map, whether of a city, region or park etc. Ideally one your players won’t be exceptionally familiar with. Very roughly and inaccurately sketch some key details onto a piece of paper (rivers, roads, coastlines). Maybe sketch a mirror image if your unconscious mind recreates the map too faithfully. Now turn that into an appropriate map for the campaign in question. Municipal Police head quarters? That’s the evil castle of the main antagonist. Creek? More like mighty river. Golf course? Dragons lair. Or whatever feels appropriate to you. Pretty soon no one will be any the wiser.

Adding a fourth pedal which just actuates the brake light without braking

Since the trump attacked Iran, I have only bought gas at the reservation or at this one extremely sketchy station with equipment which looks like it hasn’t been replaced since Jimmy Carter was president, which is widely speculated to be a money laundering front. Only places I can afford gas anymore

I enjoy having older men be simultaneously oggling me while being visibly uncomfortable in the pool locker room. When our version of the great proletarian cultural revolution comes and these old men are reeducated, this is one thing I will miss.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/morocco-missing-soldier-body-recovered-lamont-key-african-lion/

Two us soldiers apparently drowned in the ocean in morrocco during a training exercise

This is the modern version of “Auschwitz couldn’t have been that bad. It had an orchestra and pool” Utterly disgusting

This is interesting info, thank you.

It’s official, a second coworker is now they theming me! Honestly better than I hoped for.

Groupings of people can just be reactionary as fuck do to their economic position.

maybe explicitly name the class dynamic at play instead of using generational politics as a bad proxy. Homeowners are generally reactionary due to their class interests. Honeowners tend to be older. There is no magical brain change which makes one reactionary upon reaching a certain age.

Similarly israelis are generally reactionary due to their material conditions as active settlers within the political economy of Zionism. Not due to any magic quality of theirs as the antisemites would imply

If you build more housing, housing prices will drop, that’s bad for white boomers, homeowners, but it would be good for broke ass millennials and Gen Zers. renters. But boomers homeowners fight tooth and nail to prevent new housing to protect their property values. A lot of them aren’t even subtle about it.

In and other western states homeowners tend to be older. However using age as a proxy for a class dynamic is inaccurate.

without the first sentence and the word “our” in the last sentence I would have mistaken this for an unironic antisemitic or neo nazi post

This is a really good line of argument. I would add, think about libya after western intervention caused the state to collapse. The result was not the flourishing of feminist and liberatory movements, but the regression of social progress in a warlord society. That would be a likely outcome were the West to be successful in bringing down the Iranian state. Unfortunately, us-israeli aggression has probably put back feminist struggles in Iran by decades.

You have drawn a false dichotomy. The people whose bigoted and reactionary views we are patiently trying to challenge and correct are also the elements of the multinational proletariat who want to overcome oppression with us. That’s why they are coming to our organizing spaces when invited. They come as imperfect humans just as we are, and unfortunately that means they frequently bring reactionary ideas.

Where are these revolutionary masses who have no bigoted views whatsoever?

Explaining things, especially things people have been primed to hate, is a difficult skill. It takes practice and likely a lifetime to master

True. Many Christians too love the purity testing with their understanding of sin.

I really appreciate your framing around empathy I think that makes sense

Seems this guy is a DC pig, who led the DC pig department security detail when Satan visited, not affiliated with the entity directly as oop implies. DC pig being a pedo is also extremely non shocking

It seems like Hezbollah is moving from targeting vehicles to targeting soldiers with the drones. I suspect the strategy is shifting as their operators become more skilled.