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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
edited 7th Dec '15 1:15:36 PM by rikalous
Summarize? The site is blocked by my work.
A guy plays Democracy 3 based on Trump's stated policies. Crack down on immigration, cut taxes, tariffs on imports, and legalize the hell out of drugs and guns. It ends with him getting assassinated by a group called the Socialist Army.
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It was talking about Democracy III, a simulation of government.
Someone attempted to run the game doing Trump's policy, and was rather swiftly assassinated by socialists.
I've played that game before. I achieve 80% popularity, vastly lower crime, and end racism...albeit through rather Utopia Justifies the Means methods (extremely well-funded police allowed to carry SM Gs, use drones, ect). I fund the hell out of the space program. However, despite my massive security system, I always get assassinated by Liberals eventually.
edited 7th Dec '15 1:49:30 PM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34Does the game have an ideological bias towards having liberals assassinate people? Or is there a corresponding conservative hit squad gunning for you if you get too Communist, Comrade?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It's the capitalists and church movements that always get me. Well, try to — once I cut all subsidies to religious movements their number drops so far that their measly numbers are no match for my awesome spy agency. And there was that one time where I almost immediately got murdered by a black power movement for no apparent reason.
I've never tried playing the game as a communist-I usually roleplay as someone following at least a parody of my own politics.
I don't think any group is more violent than any other, I just play the game very right-wing. I think it's a little biased against religion, as the religious are portrayed as anti-science luddites. Capitalists are also a bit harder to please than I think they should be. But in general, I'd say it's pretty accurate.
Leviticus 19:34Yeah, the capitalists can get pretty rowdy. I made a British socialist utopia once. Ended up having to also make it a police state to compensate for all the assassination attempts.
Also, Trump wants to ban all Muslim immigration to the US
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edited 7th Dec '15 2:08:08 PM by majoraoftime
I usually play as a Keynesian secular social-democrat with heavy emphasis on SCIENCE, EDUCATION, and HEALTHCARE. Very interventionist and paternalistic. Basically my rule of thumb is "whatever improves Productivity". Capitalists and religious zealots are often trying to kill me, especially the latter.
I deal with crime by legalizing drugs up to LSD (but not Heroin, that shit is uncontrollable), prostitution, and gambling, and then taxing the shit out of them, on one hand, and investing heavily on community policing, surveillance, and ID's on the other hand. And utterly prohibiting guns. My greatest enemy in endgame situations is resource shortages, but I deal with that by heavily taxing CO 2 and fuel until the economy calms down.
On an unrelated topic, I found this little satire very interesting:
I wonder if the principles outlined here do in fact result in greater productivity, or if there's a better way that doesn't involve making life into a glorified treadmill? It certainly sounds dangerously close to how I heard people in the US live.
edited 7th Dec '15 2:18:23 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.This guy
recorded himself doing the same thing — simulating Trump's policies. Weirdly, he doesn't even get threatened with assassination — he just loses re-election. Clearly he's not going far enough.
And the whole time I was just screaming at the screen "CUT FOREIGN AID!" I mean, really, that has to be the closest in-game equivalent of "making Mexico pay" for the increased border security, but neither this guy nor the other one seem to have thought of it.
Maybe I should do a Trump playthrough on my own, see what comes of it.
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It resembles Singapore more to me. But yeah I can see the resemblances to America. What do you think we got rich by just assimilating all our Irish immigrants enough that they told us where the pot of gold was....oh god the secret is out!!
edited 7th Dec '15 2:27:31 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.![]()
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For fuck's sake he's not even pretending to care what the Constitution says.
Many preschoolers are getting suspended.
And as usual it has a racial skew. Of course the classic small boy observation that girls never get in trouble is confirmed as well. While I'm normally hesitant towards people blaming "environmental factors" for them fucking up their own lives, I hold an exception for children who are to young to friggen read. For god's sake, I can't see a circumstance where a student needs to be suspended for anything short of biting.
Just one question though, what do they mean by "ulturally responsive teaching approaches."?
edited 7th Dec '15 2:56:10 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.

It would probably be easier to list people he hasn't insulted.