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Tbh I did not feel like spending a few hours attempting to come up with a tally for total deaths for each regime, type of death, indirect or direct, systematic or granularly intentional. So I did a quick Google search and not a real investigation. Never ask AI these kinds of things, people lol. Let's turn back a little on the heel turn. It isn't easy to quantify this, and affirming one side or the other does more killing or violence is more blame assignment than well well-intentioned historical review. I'll be honest and admit I did give in to BTG's opinion to appease the subject and move on lol. I can do that as a people pleaser and do apologize. I am not as well-informed as I should be on bloody left-wing regimes, and I'll try to inform myself a bit more, just like I studied more right-wing regimes in the past with more detail. So rather than focusing on who has done the most harm, we can focus on what we can learn from history itself and not try to assign blame. At least that's what I'll do lol. To me, fascists and colonial regimes have been the deadliest. Literally ethnic cleansing, sterilizing native populations, restricting social liberties, and such, but the damage done by supposedly left governments, which have also fallen into authoritarianism, cannot be denied either. BTW, I've been absent from this subforum specifically for a long time, so I'm not 100% familiar with everyone's perspective yet. Please be patient with me on that lol.

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That's a lovely rig, btw. What made you go with AIO instead of air cooling? I'm going Micro ATX for my next one and will try to get a smaller case like yours. Full ATX is just too cumbersome if you're not swimming in expansion cards. Ok, you definitely convinced me lol. I will be increasing my RAM to 32 GB. I found a CL17 stick for $14 more than the CL18 I was eyeing. Do you think it's worth it to go for CL17? I'm trying to decide between the Ripjaws V CL18, which are 35 bucks each, or the KINGSTON FURY BEAST RGB DDR4 3600MHZ – 16GB, which is CL17 and costs $50 each. The RGB could be sweet to have. I've never had RGB RAM. And Helldivers 2 is my most played game and will continue to be for a long time, so to me it makes sense to want to optimize my system to get the most in it. There's also this wild card kit that isn't bad at all, the Patriot Viper 4 Steel DDR4 4000MHz – 16GB (2 x 8GB) 19-19-19-39 for $40. I could get two and have 32gb of 4000MHz memory lol. Howeve,r I read online it's hard to get going with my CPU/Mobo combo and would probably have to dial down the speed a bit and adjust timings manually, and I don't really want to tinker that much right now. Here's my current rig, fully listed: CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X Motherboard: Asus Prime X570-Pro RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 3000 CL16-18-18-38 2 x 8gb GPU: ASUS STRIX 3070 Storage: 480GB Adata SU650 SATA for boot 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA HDD for mass storage 2 TB Kingston Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD for my games/most used files PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850 Display: Asrock PG32QF2B 1440p/165hz VA Plus an HP Z24i G2 1080p IPS panel from work lol CPU Cooler: BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 Keyboard: Red Dragon Dragonborn K360RGB Mouse: Logitech G305. Was using a G600 but I grew tired of the cable. I do miss the extra palm rest. Sound: Oppo HA-2 Headphone dac/amp + Audio Technica MSR7 or 7hz Timeless II OS: Windows 10. Case: Cooler Master MasterBox MB511 RGB. It has an extra pair of BeQuiet PureWings 2 fans providing extra exhaust.

I did a little superficial investigation, and it seems you're correct about the left regimes having killed more in raw numbers. TY for correcting me :)

No, I didn't claim that. You interpreted it like that. We obviously disagree on this. I didn't say communism hasn't caused fatalities. Ideologies and regimes that claimed to be communist or are cataloged as having slaughtered millions. Yeah. I said right-wing governments, of all kinds, most notably fascist, colonial, imperial, and apartheid regimes, are the ones that have caused the most fatalities in the last 100 years and maybe even more going back.

Hey people. I haven't posted here in a while. My rig is currently a 5800X on an Asus Prime X570-Pro, a 3070 and 16gb of ram @ 3000mhz. I use an nvme drive as boot drive and a combo of sata ssds and an hdd for massive storage. The rig has remained the same since I upgraded to the 5800X and 3070 in 2020. It does play my games mostly fine at 1440p with the exception being maybe Helldivers 2. It gets to 40-50 FPS on the most chaotic scenes. The rig also chuggs when I use Adobe Lightroom. I'm not really in a position to upgrade most of it right now, so in order to bring performance back a little, I thought I could switch my 16gb of 3000mhz ram for 32 or 64 of 3600mhz ram. This will allow me to use the Infinity Fabric at the highest rated speed 1800 MHZ instead of the current 1500. This should improve my 1% lows in HD2 by a little margin, and help Lightroom run better as it currently maxes out my 16gb. Am I crazy for wanting to upgrade my ram for a bit of performance in the 1% lows of CPU intensive games and make 1 photo editing program work well? The RAM would cost me about $75. I can get a 32 gb kit of G Skill Trident Z 3600mhz cl18 for $75. I can probably make back 20-35 bucks from selling my current kit too. What do you guys think?

You know, 20th-century history is the clearest evidence that the right has way more violent tendencies than the left. Like sure, there's been regimes on both sides that have been very bloody. Same with supporters and political activists. But if you look at the social, political, and economic events that have shaped the world through violence, the right is more involved than the left in the violence. The world's economy and politics have been engineered for decades to benefit the right. I might be partial to think this because I come from Central America, and my continent and South America have been intervened by the US for corporate interests or to stop democratically elected leftist officials from assuming power, or a mix of those plus some other ones. And guess what happens next? The neo liberal agenda goes craaazy in those. Also, let's try to kick up respectfulness and assertiveness a notch if possible :)

Let's be clear about a couple of things, moderation wise: -Nobody's opinion is more important than another person's. -The forum allows for discussion of sensitive and controversial topics to the point where there's coherent exchange of ideas and an exclusion from personal insults. Telling someone that they are never going to be normal has an intent to discriminate that is a personal insult so let's refrain from that. Now, on topic: It's a tragedy that anyone is executed in public, in broad daylight by some vigilante. That doesn't take away from the fact that Kirk was an ultraconservative neo fascist who promoted violence, militarization, islamophobia, sionism, racism, the anti migrant agenda, the far right, white supremacism and hate. What is really interesting to me is that Charlie had begun to be critical of Israel in public media right before this happened. And Trump and Bibi posted on X about it within a minute of each other isn't a great look either lol.

y is for folding. a is for calling and b is betting.

I'm sure you'll get the most posts crown. I'll get the last post brooch.

Idk about that :P

Hey :) I regularly consume short form content on Youtube and also long form and something that's called by attention lately is that, even though the genre has died down a lot, there's a whole new generation of content creators making machinima and specifically, source engine machinima. Only more catered to the short form content that is so prevalent today. Check out Chungus: Have you found other good examples of newer machinima? I'd love to explore what creators have been up to.

Gotta love 8th gen i5s. I used the snot out of a 8400 back when it came out. I'm considering building a HTPC for my projector and I'd love something like that. An ITX case and to have some fun with it.

To me, the root of all issues is a lack of empathy. You wouldn't want to be an asshole to your neighbor if you felt empathy, regardless of who he is. Same if he did for his neighbor. I think this scales as big as you want. Society wouldn't be letting itself down in so many relevant aspects if we just decided not to be assholes to each other with apathy and hate.

Good morning to you, too. How's the weather?