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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#106076: Dec 7th 2015 at 1:12:15 PM

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

rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#106078: Dec 7th 2015 at 1:15:09 PM

Maybe Immigrants Day? Yeah, that would fly well in the current political atmosphere.
Italian-Americans don't count as immigrants anymore. You can tell because now we aren't supposed to hate them and fear them bringing their scary foreign ways over to not assimilate.

edited 7th Dec '15 1:15:36 PM by rikalous

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#106079: Dec 7th 2015 at 1:16:01 PM

Such a day would probably be designed to celebrate immigrants all throughout history.

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rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#106082: Dec 7th 2015 at 1:45:20 PM

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.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#106083: Dec 7th 2015 at 1:49:23 PM

[up][up]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

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#106084: Dec 7th 2015 at 1:56:14 PM

Does 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!"
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#106085: Dec 7th 2015 at 1:57:00 PM

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.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#106086: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:04:34 PM

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 19:34
majoraoftime (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#106087: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:07:43 PM

Yeah, 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.

edited 7th Dec '15 2:08:08 PM by majoraoftime

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#106089: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:17:22 PM

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.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#106090: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:25:33 PM

Is this game on Steam or something? It sounds pretty entertaining.

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#106091: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:25:40 PM

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.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#106092: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:26:34 PM

[up][up][up] 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

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#106093: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:28:10 PM

[up][up]It will entertain you for a weekend or two. Pretty damn cheap, too.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#106094: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:31:19 PM

It certainly sounds dangerously close to how I heard people in the US live.

We don't live in the 1980s anymore.

Well, Donald Trump still does, but then again he's insane, so....

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#106095: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:41:39 PM

Trump doesn't want to ban Muslim immigration to the US. He wants to ban all Muslim entry into the US, even on a tourist or business visa.

EDIT: Link removed until I can find an article that's not paywalled.

edited 7th Dec '15 2:42:24 PM by Deadbeatloser22

"Yup. That tasted purple."
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#106096: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:47:16 PM

I just tried to play as Trump in Democracy.

Predictably, I got assassinated by a violent ethnic uprising in the middle of my term.

DirectorCannon Since: Nov, 2011
#106097: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:51:22 PM

[up][up]

Notably, according to a clarification call to the Trump campaign this includes Muslim-American citizens who are abroad when this policy takes effect.

edited 7th Dec '15 2:51:37 PM by DirectorCannon

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#106098: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:53:15 PM

Well, if you're going in, you might as well go all in.

I'm just waiting for him to call for making American Muslims take a loyalty oath or lose their citizenship.

edited 7th Dec '15 2:54:04 PM by Hodor2

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#106099: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:54:16 PM

I'm waiting for him to start handing out cute little gold stars.

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#106100: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:55:46 PM

[up][up][up][up][up] 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

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