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    My main reasons are they limit free speech/expression and they chose to centralize power instead of giving the power to the people, both in the government and in the workplace.

    I’m a socialist myself, but a big part of the reason why I’m a socialist is I’m very anti-corruption. I believe that the centralization of power allows for corruption (and the passing of unjust laws) to occur, as we have seen in the USA and USSR especially, but also basically everywhere else on Earth throughout recorded human history.

    The definition of socialism is defined as workers owning the means if production, which I interpret as workers also getting a say in how the means of production are handled. This idea is incompatible with centralizing power by the way I interpret the definition of socialism.

    Basically, check out Richard Wolff, who is an economic historian and covers this topic very well.










  • Chrono Trigger (Probably the best JRPG ever made, or even the best game ever made)

    Terranigma (Very philisophical action RPG that also happens to be a lot of fun)

    Silent Hill (The vibes alone make this one, but it also has a great story)

    DOOM (This one should be obvious)

    Majora’s Mask (An emotional powerhouse of a game)

    Tetris

    Also pick any mainline console Mario game that came out between 1985 and 1996 (not including The Lost Levels, but including US SMB 2)

    Super Mario Land 2

    Pokemon 2nd gen

    All GOAT, but all for different reasons.


  • I’d argue that hating concepts can lead to productive societal growth, and could even lead to personal growth depending on what is hated and for what reason.

    For example, I hate capitalism, corruption, greed etc., which led me to learn more about alternatives that I would have not learned about otherwise. This could also go both ways, though, since hate for the exact same things have also led people down a fascist road, as human nature makes it so that we always want an enemy to blame. Whether that enemy is the ultra-wealthy or whether it’s the common man (ex: trans people, women, immigrants, etc.) is largely dictated by the media they consume and the people they surround themselves with.

    Mob mentality is alive and well, and it’s up to all of us (as non-billionaires) to focus that energy in the correct places. Billionaires are the ones who started the culture war and keep feeding it, since that distracts normal people away from themselves, since they know that if they didn’t give the masses a group to hate (the common man), that they would find their own group to hate (billiomaires).

    There’s a reason Luigi has so much support even though he allegedly murdered someone.

    Economic instability will always lead to resentment over something and/or someone/group.