If anything reverse engineering is more permissible in the USA than many other places, IIRC

Actually facing jail time for killing someone with a car in France is unusual, that’s probably why

Then why are the sanctions still in place? If the US stopped pirating maybe we would be able to tell bow shitty the government is. But all anyone can see here is a cruel government getting off oppressing smaller nations. It’s not even about political blackmail, given how Puerto Rico and Hawaii are treated, only gratuitous violence.

What’s yours? This whole “pirates are also buyers” is just a cop-out, but sure your anecdotic experience is valid proof against the more logical alternative

White people moving across the world, imposing their language and culture, is a “cultural mixing pot” ? Did you play a uno reverse card lol

Right, because D-Day and Vietnam showed clearly that USA politicians never act against what the popular opinion dictates

What? This is exactly what Orwell wrote about

“plenty”

No one’s saying the points raised are not valid, just that there’s no need to be a cunt about it in what should be a professional setting.

Not what the USA said about Cuba but OK

You don’t have uber because of taxi lobbying against it I’d say. Or do you think lieferando drivers are well covered by those laws?

Isn’t civ a game about colonisation? If the stuff you described is offending to some, the whole game already is to them.

If you don’t put down a rabid dog and get bitten, I’m not going to blame the dog.

Stop using the word democratic to mean western aligned. The west has no trouble financing terrorist groups, and the reason democratic countries cannot stay so if they don’t bend to Washington is not happenstance. The first step to a democratic Iran might well be a USA civil war.

Is mint slower than Ubuntu? A bit surprised to hear an Ubuntu derivative called slow