So opponents generate $ by playing copper but can't use it?Yes, in many hands, you have a choice of (effectively) discarding a Copper or 2 cards.
Also this helps opponents a lot if they have terminal draw, which will be quite often.
Puppet Strings - $3
Treasure/Attack
+$1
Each player (including you) may play a non-Attack Action or Treasure from their hand.
Each player who didn't discards down to 3 cards in hand.
So all the probabilities are against a randomly sampled hand from that set. So it depends on the position of your opponent, the number of players only matters indirectly. (Of course if your opponent actually raises every hand, then position no longer matters and these are just the wrong probabilities.)So this is a bit of a nitpick, but I understand "random sampling" as a uniform distribution. But surely the probabilities change based on the information of what you have in your hand (and the flop), right?
It seems like we're not getting around a Trump Biden rematch unless Trump dies or declines cognitively a lot more than so farHey, Biden could also die!
But like men are the demographic more likely to vote for ring wing nutjobs so arguably those are more important to reach rnYeah from what I hear Destiny does decent deradicalization work, so that's not bad. But it means it's not going to be my type of content.
Oh, I guess he just reminds me of a colleague I used to have who also had a like debate club background. He talks very quickly and with an extreme level of confidence that is unwarranted. This is partially just the nature of debate, but this kind of behaviour is also an element of toxic masculinity that drowns out less confident voices.Destiny is obnoxious
why? (I promise I won't turn this into a long discussion.)
Is nostalgia really about remembering something from long ago, or is it really that children feel the-emotion-called-nostalgia frequently, maybe almost constantly, and the reason we associate it with memory is because it's not in the default state for adults, so we almost only get to experience it when remembering something from your childhood?I'm not sure your theory holds up.
Seems really strong. Maybe have it be “costs exactly 1 more than the last card played”?I was honestly rather worried that it's too weak. It takes a substantial amount of work to even make this better than Necropolis. And the ceiling (in magical dreamland) is that you can play all the Actions you want for the rest of the turn (if you exploit some shenanigans with other cards playing cards); that's decent, but not like a busted effect.
Social Climber - $1
Action
Do this any number of times:
Play an Action card from your hand that costs more than the last Action card you played this turn.
as Varys correctly pointed out, power resides where people believe it residesThis is a bit undercomplex though. In Nazi Germany, lots of people believed that Jewish bankers secretly controlled the world. That did not exactly give those Jewish bankers more power.
I notice that if the general argument is "a lot of good ideas poll well, even if it's not all of them" this sounds like an argument for more direct democracy rather than representative democracyWell, direct democracy is more democracy than representative democracy.
I am not sure where you are headed with this question. It's unclear where this policy would go. Currently the people are slightly in favor of nuclear energy, but this fluctuates over time.[UBI case]
Ok, say I buy this. What about more difficult issues, like being pro nuclear energy? Not a popular position among democrats afaik. Would a true democracy do anything here? (Admittedly, I don't know what precise policies he proposed, but there was something about research into a new kind of reactor afair)
I don't think there is any simple story of how macro politics evolves. I also don't think that anyone meaningfully controls the big picture. E.g., no one in Germany caused or planned the war in Ukraine, no one controlled how people reacted to all the refugees; it just hit the country and then people reacted in the ways they reacted. It's just a big ugly mess.Well, the rich definitely have more influence over policy than the poor; there are several studies on this (for the US / for Europe).
It really seems to me like my own story of "people just aren't very smart and easily influenced to believe dumb shit" is simpler and explains the situation equally well.It don't think this story explains anything. Who does the influencing? Are those people smart? Why are they smart and others not?
which is a green party but without the tankiesAlso, are there normally tankies in Green parties? This is news to me.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like AfD really has all that much power in Germany?It's true, but they have been doing well in polls lately, and state elections are coming up in several states that are strongholds for them, meaning they will probably win first place there.
