thewildnaylor

I tend to only reload when something buggy or unintended happens(misclick) or if it's a really risky/story related thing I feel my character would be good at but got a nat 1.

But this has been one of the few games I've totally rolled with most of my dialogue/skill failures just because they still feel decent narratively. I'll save finding out what the successful/alternate outcomes are for next playthrough!

I think this comes from the fact that even slightly communist or socialist leaning democratic countries tend to be absolutely subverted, attacked and destroyed by the United States(See: literally every country in Central or South America that had a democratic movement even vaguely in favor of socialism or socialist policies).

Where ones that end up going authoritarian tend to have at least some resilience against immediate destruction from the United States since they usually become somewhat militaristic and paranoid(with the paranoia being at least partially justified).

More of a case of Communism and Socialism aren't inherently authoritarian so much as the authoritarian ones tend to be the ones that stick around long enough for people to remember.

Yeah no the whole "Universities are leftist brainwashing stations" is the most bullshit take I've heard and almost always comes from people who haven't been within 15 feet of a college.

Literally most of the shit I was taught was literally neoliberal capitalist-friendly stuff mandated by the states requirements for the degree. A ton of it was helpful in terms of building effective critical thinking skills but if anything the only instructors that ever introduced any sort of political slant was usually the right wingers or religious people. Literally had an instructor intentionally frame parts of our philosophy class in a way that made more pro-religious philosophy appear to be the correct answer. Students that spoke out and tried to say they favored things like determinism for instance were often shut down by the instructor trying to make us look at things like free will in a way that was more favorable to religion. Later found out after the class the dude was a former pastor.

And even the few openly left-leaning instructors were usually just generic neoliberal democrat voting cut-outs that for some reason Republicans and other fringe lunatics pretend are leftist-communist-extremist-goblins.

The vast majority of instructors just simply didn't even make their politics affiliation apparent. There's tons I couldn't even remotely gauge just simply because they only taught and talked about class material.