ZombiFrancis

Not that the distinction bears much value making: They funded the proto-Nazis.

In the time period in question (After WW1, Wiemar Germany) the social democrats were in direct coalition with right wing paramilitaries.

Those paramilitaries did some extrajudicial killings and some just so happened to form things like the S.A. and the Nazi party. (And tried to overthrow the social democrats government a number of times by military coup.) Erich Ludendorff is a notable figure to this period.

But by the time the proto-Nazis had murdered themselves and others enough to become the Nazis, no, the social democrats were no longer in alliance, but mostly after the second coup attempt.

moan about centrists and moderates until the second coming of Lenin or whatever

It has everything to do with power dynamics. The American centrists and moderates maintain the limit of allowed mainstream political discourse as there is no distinction between a liberal and leftist. In fact every attempt is made to maintain them as synonyms.

In America centrists and moderates define themselves as leftist, and they view anything further left of themselves to be something like unchecked authoritarianism.

Thusly the American right-wing gets to successfully operate from the default position of linking leftism to authoritarianism in all discourse and debate.

So most of the American Left is just plain stuck trying to escape this paradigm because the basic terms don't have the same coherency.

Advertising is one of the three major incoherent industries along with Insurance and Real Estate.

The two dozen or so folk on Lemmy who are conditioned to view any criticism of the American Democratic Party as being a Trump supporting fascist.

The dull and boring WW2 era maps are an aesthetic that I have enjoyed in WW2 strategy games, for what is worth.

All I mean by the 'doesn't matter' point is that there is not a high bar for visual effects and that the GUI not be compromised in the process. It appears you're aware of that already, so don't get hung up on how it looks too much; dull and boring isn't necessarily bad in this case.

It really doesn't matter too much honestly. The important thing, if it matters to the game, is that the effect the water has on gameplay is conveyed.

It appears to be a ~~19th century or world war 1~~ WW2 era war game? For example: If there's a pathing route for units moving by sea to different areas in thr Black Sea here that should be able to shown without being obscured by the color/texture. So if there's a supply/shipping route from Istanbul to Svestapol, however that is shown should be visually clear.

Another possibility for general vibe artistically would be to look at period specific maps. A ~~19th~~20th century looking map overlaid on a parchment texture can sometimes work for a game wholesale. At the very least there are specific and standardized map functions and symbols used to depict features you can always refer to. Topographic and physical maps can provide a lot of reference points for this stuff.

*edit saw the tank images better, so ww2 and 20th century?

That's the neat part: I don't!

There is this same body of users who got all up in the 196 forced migration and subsequent drama with the blahaj instance. It is the same group of people obsessed with everything outside American politics being russian bots and chinese spies. The same folks are constantly trying to perpetuate instance wars on political propaganda grounds.

The Saudis are separately at war in Yemen and against the Houthis and have been since I think 2015.

The Houthis have just endured a decade of fighting a US backed coalition, which isbwhy they've become increasingly capable of expanding their operations to interfere with shipping lanes unrelated to their direct civil war.

MIC knows it must sustain war and conflict and will always play all sides to keep the orpham crushing machine going.

If it stops, or even threatens to slow, well... stonks go down faster than any tarriff effect.

This has been the GOP ticket strat since before Trump. Bush wasn't masterminding war and invasion. Cheney was in coordination with the oligarchy back then.

So 15% of the senate, 30% of the partizan faction in the Democratic Party feels this way.

It may be that this is an issue that is large enough to be electorally relevant.

I wonder if rescinding telework agreements has boosted Minnesota's economy? I still don't get that decision and I don't think any amount of tweet bangers anout Trump is going to improve that reality.