Attempting Anarcho-Capitalism in Australia in Democracy 4 Challenge

[@AlzaboHD]

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[@kingdogethell6774]

Alzsabo, make a country into a authoritarian state in Democracy 4.

[@Morkelfan]

I saw links and thought "Spambot" ngl

[@baranasantoso26]

Maybe little bit spice here turn the german into autoritarian state, turn great britain into communist, turn italy into religious state so on you get the idea

[@ekulgar]

no

[@ska187]

Labour Party: “We demand more concessions from you!” Alzabo: “best I can do is some contemporary chinese classes”

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

sounds about right for Australia. They will end up as a Chinese protectorate anyways.

[@Ieuanfahy]

I'LL TAKE IT!!

[@AlzaboHD]

Do y'all want more Democracy 4 content? What type of countries and campaigns would you like to see? Thanks for watching!

[@whiterunguard9084]

Honestly any countries or play throughs from democracy 4 would be cool

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

You should do Neo-feudal UK next

[@oishiio8768]

Turn South Korea into a second "Best Korea"

[@aqua7040]

I’d take any more democracy 4, love these videos

[@thefbi3350]

Make america great again by making them facist or nationalist

[@thisistherevolt]

I got a Dem 4 challenge for you, turn any country of your choosing into an ecofascist one. I tried in 3 and failed hard.

[@stevenandre7969]

Become Trees

[@lucca3113]

quite realistic

[@sephikong8323]

Every single time I end up doing that anyway so how ?

[@thisistherevolt]

@@sephikong8323 I haven't tried in 4, don't have it yet.

[@achaeanmapping4408]

Patriots, conservativs ecologists and socialists and trade unionists (look up corporatism for the last two) are my typical playthrough with minor exceptions

[@PastTimer]

As someone who has heard a lot of bad things about Australian internet, I'd imagined many would find a good internet connection worth it.

[@TheDrackOfSpades]

It is

[@soulsurvivor8293]

Not for an improvement of barely over 3%, 5% maybe but definitely not less than that haha

[@trissylegs]

Depends. Some places you’ll get gigabit fibre to the premises (like my place) and others you get Terrible copper internet where it’s just better to get a 4g/5g modem.

[@arkadyromanov7803]

I'm Australian, and I laughed. But it was a nervous laugh with an edge of panic to it.

[@flygonbreloom]

The realism hurts.

[@swinthrope]

The Liberal Democrats, oh no. Please no.

[@twDrex]

hahahaha.... wait

[@iknowsomestuff3209]

The coal mining children joke hits a bit harder now doesnt it

[@commemorative]

The fact the libdems were what he played... while calling Labor commies... it hurts...

[@orishaboy2728]

I haven't played democracy 4 but if it's possible turning any country to anarcho primitivism should be cool.

[@dubiusindex8216]

As the game is called democracy, all playable government forms are limited to this spectrum. Communism, Anarchism, Monarchism, Fascism etc are more head-canon than actually implemented I to the game. You can reach 0 on the abstract technology bar tho as well as cut all policies that relate to the modern world. You'll be left with very few, but it's technically possible.

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

@@dubiusindex8216 it would be cool to have the possibility to become a dictatorship or an oligarchy, i think the base of the game would work anyway with few adjustments

[@TheDrackOfSpades]

Unga Bunga

[@gandalf_thegrey]

@@alessiobenvenuto5159 Wouldn't that break the *entire* games premise when you remove the struggle of actually implementing stuff? A dictator can be ousted after public outrage, but until that he can implement what ever he wants with no opposition. As fast as he wants. And afaik the entire point of the game is doing change despite having... you know... an opposition?

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

@@gandalf_thegrey well, there is no opposition in the game for implementing and changing laws, you just have to worry about elections. If you are a dictatorship, the game could raise the danger of terrorist groups instead, giving you always a challenge to look up to

[@l1ttlelight]

This was stupidly successful and unsuccessful at the same time

[@AlzaboHD]

truly a schrödinger success story

[@andizulkaramy9349]

@@AlzaboHD can you do a succesfull christian socialist run on south korea

[@andizulkaramy9349]

@@AlzaboHD love your content man

[@elhombrenft4348]

Kinda proves that libertarianism would work

[@orlandomoreno6168]

@@elhombrenft4348 reduced lifespan

[@castortroy7136]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

[@MattCobra55]

Of course, because Atlas Shrugged is such an awful book that just makes people awful. Honestly, I can't think of anything worse than rejecting coercion, right?

[@MattCobra55]

Oh and just for the record, Rand wasn't a libertarian - she hated Libertarians. She called us "right wing hippies" so, this doesn't even apply lol

[@gandalf_thegrey]

@Sam Wallace For a while now I ask myself if there is actually still a communist following anywhere. Russia is an Oligarchy, China is an authoritarian dictatorship and only commie by name (Worlds biggest Trade Empire ≠ Communist), Cuba is basically just vibing Online discourse is *always* a meme. There is no actual communist discourse anywhere. Only praising the Soviet anthem and making fun of wide mustache man I mean... good for the world! But still curious.

[@stanleysmooth]

This quote gets posted a lot by people who haven't read Atlas Shrugged lmao

[@lucca3113]

oh man, you triggered the libs

[@mathieugariepy2948]

Great video! How about turning the UK into a 1984 nightmare next time?

[@AlzaboHD]

I was thinking either this or a return to absolute monarchy haha, cheers!

[@catmonarchist8920]

Just wait until Patel succeeds Boris and it will be IRL

[@blued2044]

"mining on Aboriginal land". me, who is Aboriginal: "ah shit, here we go again".

[@clinton8421]

The coal must flow...

[@Cookinlikesanji]

Half Abo?

[@themiband0598]

damn you people burnt down the rainforest so hard they turned into the outback

[@torylva]

"American-style healthcare" just being "Right to die" made me choke on my water

[@uplayxer6421]

It do be right tho

[@torylva]

@@uplayxer6421 It definitely is.

[@soogymoogi]

Ironic that we don't even have that outside of like one state though lmao

[@sofiaciel7599]

@@soogymoogi I mean, I guess having to choose between a health care plan, expensive medication, or doing nothing is *sort of* a right to die, i say, as i look at the combined prices of all my prescriptions without insurance

[@soogymoogi]

@@sofiaciel7599 I'm with you there, the only reason I'm functional is ironically because I'm bad enough even with my meds to be on disability so I can pay for my meds through medicare...

[@whiterunguard9084]

-I got off work early today -tomorrow is my day off -alzabo uploads Can this day get any better

[@tjurti6803]

I’ve got a fun ck3 challenge for you. Starting as a Dutch ruler in either 867 or 1066. make your way over to the middle east, convert to a zoroastrian faith of your choosing, Get your hands on the Persian empire and become the zoroaster. All while staying Dutch cultured.

[@jackiecozzie4803]

Is this completely random or is there a historical/religious basis for it?

[@gs-8279]

Start as Zeeland 1066

[@tjurti6803]

@@jackiecozzie4803 completely random

[@jackiecozzie4803]

@@tjurti6803 lol sounds fun!

[@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809]

A bit less 'extreme' challenge would be restoring the Frankish Empire, seeing as the Dutch language is a descendant of Frankish.

[@danielmessi1092]

I bet Ayn rand has watched this video at least a 1000 times.

[@GG.Sanchoo]

Ayn Rand wasn’t an AnCap, she was critical of anarchists and libertarians. AnCaps are Rothbard and Hoppe

[@purpledevilr7463]

I really like the Democracy 4 videos. There’s just something about Alzabo’s voice and politics that works well together.

[@MaskofPoesy]

>abolishes government >food prices halve. lol

[@カスカディア国人]

You can also make food prices extremely low with government programs in this game (which is accurate to what countries do in real life). In both my games, in which I played i super left wing, food was really cheap as well. I’m a farmer from the rural south, and I love me some government subsidies because it keeps food cheap without fucking the soil up.

[@donald347]

@@カスカディア国人 Have you not been paying attention to the price of food lately? Farming subsidizes do nothing when the state disrupts supply chains and destroying your purchasing power. Anything can be made cheaper with tac payer money lol. The market decreases prices without the need for us TO PAY FOR IT.

[@カスカディア国人]

@@donald347 the prices would be even higher right now without farm subsidies, and they also help preserve the soil. This is standard agricultural practice in most major countries for a reason.

[@カスカディア国人]

@@donald347 supply chains being disrupted by the pandemic is hardly the fault of the government, they would’ve been disrupted anyway even if the government had done nothing at all, a bunch of people getting sick means things don’t work how they should because they can’t do their jobs while sick, even more people would have got sick without the lockdowns during the worst periods, lockdowns that not everywhere did, they didn’t do lockdowns where I live and it was still miserable and a ton of people got sick, plenty of people here were unable to go to work simply because they were sick, and even when they did do lockdowns in other places essential services kept running. Doing nothing is not a solution to a problem like this, unless you want the healthcare system to totally collapse on top of having the supply chain issues. Part of the problem with supply chains too is that your god the market likes cheap over seas labor, it’s not the government’s fault they would rather set up shop in developing authoritarian regimes where people get payed nothing, that’s the fault of greedy men who want more money themselves and don’t care about their country and countrymen or the well-being of people generally. A government that does nothing is a failed state that has abdicated its responsibility the people and societal stability. This ideology of “government does stuff = bad” is the most idiotic thing to come out of western philosophy and is not reflective of reality, it’s just a lame excuse to not fund infrastructure or important programs and to abdicate all social responsibility to large corporations, this doesn’t mean they abdicate power though, they never do and no government ever will, it just means that instead of that power being used to develop society, it’s used to protect corporations and the status quo.

[@blocks4857]

@@カスカディア国人 makes you wonder if the thing you grow would exist without subsidies

[@michaelstites8485]

I only stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago, but i am thoroughly impressed with the quality of your content. I really appreciate how much effort you put into every video you make

[@ahuntermain1168]

mf doom pfp is a W

[@carltonleboss]

I wanna see you create a theocracy now

[@AlzaboHD]

I've been thinking about doing this as England and bringing back the absolute monarchy lol

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

​@@AlzaboHDDO IT.

[@reyrogers2806]

Love the ironic humor. Our "chainsmoking coalmining children" and Giving birth during 2 minute bathroom break Bwhahaha I spilt my coffee

[@JuanManuel-ii1ov]

That is no irony.

[@kaiserteddie9564]

>anarcho captalism >still has road mantinence very cringe, read some hope

[@kaiserteddie9564]

@thelastgamer dunno probably, and very if so, based

[@igorkreszow8983]

@thelastgamer it's "Hoppe" and don't worry, he isn't racist.

[@igorkreszow8983]

@thelastgamer Anti-imigration is not racism.

[@happymolecule8894]

@@igorkreszow8983 No, but it's statism. It's not anarcho-capitalism.

[@igorkreszow8983]

@@happymolecule8894 communities can come toghether to decide who can live among them. I see this as a right. That's my take on anarchism.

[@Ten_Tacles]

Privatized police force and prisons *reducing* crime is one hell of a take.

[@tylerjohnson6455]

agreed but they prolly just either killed them with the overbearing private police force or just threw them in their abundant amounts of private prison hell holes

[@commemorative]

The game is so heavily biased

[@sirllamaiii9708]

I mean presumably more cops = less crime

[@jakobmdch3160]

I mean if it's not regulated, punishments can be as inhumane as the prison owners want them to be, so the crime rate drops because the criminals fear being tortured or straight up killed if they get caught. Also the organized crime stayed, the biker gangs were still around at the end, because the owners of police and prisons are probably corrupt as hell. So a reduced amount of small crime makes sense, even if it's a terrible solution to the problem

[@Ten_Tacles]

@@jakobmdch3160 Punishment has never stopped criminals.

[@kontagan2397]

Turns out the Australian outback is perfect for testing recreational nukes

[@chips6670]

Not the first time they have been used there…

[@kova1577]

Japan is even better

[@Codeman90]

Getting Australia geared up for a Cyberpunk dystopia I see.

[@MadlandsMedia]

Personally I would prefer to live in a cyberpunk world.

[@carlsonraywithers3368]

Based beyond belief

[@reeceshugrue6167]

The problem with this game is that it sets artificial limits on how much a tax can make. Everyone in your country can be drinking, but you'll eventually hit a limit well before then. Corporations could be skyrocketing but corporate tax will never rise above a certain amount.

[@Palestinian_Imperialist]

Welcome to Ancapystalia, where everyone can be a king

[@clinton8421]

But your chances of being enslaved by that king in a neo-feudalist hellscape are almost unavoidable.

[@thomasfisher4833]

Welcome to Ancapystalia, where your worth as a man, is the worth that you bring. Minarchist!

[@FUnazis]

Why weep or slumber, Australia? Land of sand and heat! With desert and sand and pain for all All belongs to you! Every man a king, every man a king! For you can work under "indentured servitude" If there's something belonging to others We'll just buy up our own share! When in burning June, or December too Hot all year round, even in spring There'll be heat without end I'll just buy all your friends And every man a king!

[@lampinasuit892]

9:05 This is too realistic

[@Au_196]

Me an Australian: *YOU DID WHAT?!!* Also, try and turn Australia into an Authoritarian-Left nation in the next video of this series.

[@raptormancro]

sacrificing lifespan by 9% for 3% increase in internet speed seems like a worthy trade off 😆

[@limbobilbo8743]

“The enemy of the free market is the labor party” Oh alzabo you sweet french summer child you have no idea of the absolute shit show that is the political system here in Australia

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

I want this info dump.

[@byunbaekhyun2283]

Labor Party is Centre-left, right?

[@catmonarchist8920]

Don't you basically have to lean right to get anything through the senate over there?

[@limbobilbo8743]

@@catmonarchist8920 both labor and the liberals (our conservatives) are centre right The uap and phon are far right. The greens are either neo lib or left depending.

[@MattCobra55]

They are enemies of the free market - all parties are.

[@asio9733]

As an Australian, I've been waiting for this

[@juandegorerodriguez2360]

Based as Fuck....

[@maxd234]

Man what a humble dream, Australia the only place where I could buy a McNuke

[@NeichaUnagi]

Crime goes down Well yeah, when pretty much everything is legal... :')

[@troodon1096]

If nothing is illegal, there is no crime. It's such an obvious solution!

[@me-qn6bh]

Yes!! Was so excited when you said you might do more. I think anything with the potential to tell a story you will thrive at.

[@T-74]

So basically an average Australia run

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

What did you expect a country made out of prisoners sent to the island to not have a high crime rate? It's in the law for them to have such.

[@kaiserteddie9564]

i went there ans i felt very safe though that must be cause i am brazilian...

[@Arrusoh]

We actually have a low crime rate. Also majority of people do not decende from convicts. I am very confused by this games statistics for Australia

[@crocfighter.1322]

@@Arrusoh Presumably you can't make a country too good at the start because there would be nothing for the player to do.

[@coda5153]

Ancap doesn't mean no regulation. Voluntary society, private, competitive regulation.

[@sgtwolf0053]

As an Australian, I am horrified by what I saw. But also as an Australian, I am delighted by what I saw! Keep up the good work pal! Your content is stellar, and I greatly enjoy your Democracy videos alongside your regular content. I think this game has a lot of potential with all the wacky or serious paths you can take, and I'd love to see more of it here honestly.

[@DIY_Miracle]

I'm an LDP member and I was triggered the entire video. Keep up the good work lmao

[@matvprado]

Those democracy videos are the funniest. I cried watching them each

[@R3GARnator]

I guess he's taking this Beyond Thunderdome.

[@Tavsan123]

A society where judges truly work...

[@Ludovicus1769]

Here in Denmark we have also had tons of biker wars in the past, gruesome stuff it is.

[@C_hoffmanni]

I've been showing your vids to my friends who don't give a damn about strategy games and they absolutely love your vids. keep up the good work!

[@YFDB669]

1:11 you get fined if you don’t vote in Australia, right?

[@baldkevindurant]

Yes

[@カスカディア国人]

Yeah it’s a very small fine though.

[@alexbattaglia8297]

yeah, but you don't have to 'vote' you just have to show up and then you can do whatever you want with the slip

[@youraveragecanuck6788]

Day 1: I’ll try and actively continue to request this each day. Australia all the way to Spain.

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

The puns honestly write themselves🤣

[@Toddalotapodamus]

I know this isn't supposed to be educational, but Ayn Rand was absolutely not ancap. She would be highly opposed to most of the ideology.

[@taiwanisacountry]

I did not think far enough in terms of time splan that of course deregulation would result in more death and human suffering because of non-existing quality control for food and water. Well I did live in Beijing and Shanghai but the problem is not that current control is insufficient it is that it is that the damage is already done, and it is rather impractical to clean the water for human consumption. But beining from Denmark then you tend to forget how nice it actually is to be from Denmark

[@imspudus]

God Australia feels like this right now with our bumbling PM

[@alexbattaglia8297]

Incorrect, this 'ancap' government is actually doing something lmao

[@karolgajko]

* angry wall of text noises * Good vid Edit: also, it's democracy, and it failed (wink, wink)

[@Ponzi-Coin]

This is what hell looks like. What a NIGHTMARE!

[@wardonx887]

Stfu and go learn some history and politics dumb ass

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

Anarcho-capitalism is worthy of a million memes.

[@griffinhunter3206]

The coconut island meme is my favorite one, since it does explain the issue so well with it.

[@ortherner]

*million dollars

[@Cookinlikesanji]

Lmao vaushite​@@griffinhunter3206

[@ozark7834]

Hey did you know that this game has a dark mode option on settings

[@reganbrannigan3006]

This is incredibly cursed. I love it

[@genstian]

Ow dear, what was the criminals going to do when you legalize cocaine, and corporate powers distribute free samples in the mail?

[@OwenSammons-os2cu]

Basically Argentina now

[@Feowen]

"An epidemic of armed robbery is sweeping the nation." LOL

[@Pete_Partak]

Community Policing doesn't mean citizens police themselves, just mean law enforcement walks around more and spends less time in the patrol car.

[@PolitictalDipsit]

By anarchist especially the lib left anarchist. Community policing means guns for everyone

[@flyingspaghettimonster2925]

0:10 "Ayn Randarchy", Except she wasn't an anarchist, and even denounced them

[@PolitictalDipsit]

You know anarchy have two different words an- means without and archy means the state which summed up as without the state Ayn Randarchy most likely a state that based on Ayn Rand political view.

[@custos9209]

This just sounds like the Australian government tbh. Are you sure this isn't a video that's supposed to be titled "honest government adds"?

[@victorz7530]

Well doesn't this sound just like the path we're heading towards in real life hmm?

[@neptun6761]

What are you talking about?

[@rafaelian478]

Australia is doing the opposite

[@Natromat]

@@rafaelian478 You only think that because we had a strong pandemic response, you only need to look at the Liberals last 2 decades of policy making to see how we're going further and further down the American style pro-corporate system

[@ortherner]

not really, things are getting more authoritarian not anarchy.

[@elhombrenft4348]

No

[@ryzziktrognesou1]

Everyone of your videos is first class ! :)

[@VemiX1000]

All the Aussies say We don't need another system We don't need to know the rule of law All we want is life beyond the Thunderstate So, what do we do with our lives? We leave only a mark in stone Will our story shine like a bush wildfire Or end like the coral reef Is it all or nothing?

[@DonNorway]

I absolutely love political strategy! Please keep it up!

[@anonymousmodder1395]

As an Australian I find memes of my own country funny everyone makes fun of us losing to Emus but people remember the Japanese lost to something much more reactive the atomic bomb and two of them at that.

[@MichaelYouTubetube]

that casual midnight oil reference...

[@AlzaboHD]

The time has come to say fair's fair!

[@bigtuna9279]

I love how in the socialist experiment Alazabo turns America into a utopia and in this video Australia quickly becomes a hellscape

[@kamemesg2083]

It wasn't a utopia though, both were horrible morally.

[@bigtuna9279]

@@kamemesg2083 Lol compared to this nightmare, it was a utopia. Not a close comparison at all.

[@JonMI6]

A welcome change to the Authoritarianism in Australia

[@kylejamessmithproductions7848]

where??

[@darkdragon5520]

Ah, here comes the crazies

[@JonMI6]

@@kylejamessmithproductions7848 in Australia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5PLgYaGZpqLerM

[@doesnotreallymatterr]

Democracy inevitably always leads to tyranny.

[@Natromat]

@@JonMI6 Tim Pool KEKW

[@vladhut]

There will be no crime if everything is legal

[@clinton8421]

You should have strengthened the market with yearly subscription fees to Government Services Incorporated.

[@catmonarchist8920]

Does the game model bicameralism and the difficulties getting some stuff passed in the USA/Australia ?

[@Amantducafe]

Comment section is full of people making fun and memes about Ancaps with Ancaps subsequently commenting defending their ideology. Oh and Australians with crying laughing face

[@angeloskoulas3988]

When playing with three parties consider putting yout main opponent in the middle and the party in between you and them in the right side. The game makes no assumptions about political orientation. The party on the middle will stand against everything you do and the party on the right will be in between (I know it doesn't make sense UI wise). So as an anarcho-capitalist party it makes more sense for the labour party to be your main opposition, and for the conservative party to be in the middle. (However one can argue that you are close with labour in the authoritarian/libertarian axis and close with conservatives in the left/right axis)

[@dman700.]

There is no Emu political party :(

[@jungjung6501]

3:12 thank you for protect our community as I don't want to be stabbed by eshays

[@crystllclr3743]

Yep as an australian im voting alzabo 2022

[@exen8650]

Bro made a tutorial for the coalition

[@Arrusoh]

uhhh. A few of those things are kind of off. The Crime rate isn't high here and we have pretty damn good healthcare

[@pete-i7p]

Australia has incredible healthcare, the only country that manages cancer cases correctly.

[@xeanderman6688]

I was just watching the communist USA before going to sleep, now I woke up and see this. Nice.

[@noorhanisahabrahman4929]

Are you gonna do a mega campaign?

[@Asrahn]

Utterly incomplete up to the point where you abolish the age of consent

[@joshual9976]

Love the democracy 4 videos!

[@tylergarner9484]

I love a good AnCap Outback

[@CANmoPants]

"And a Nation Business Council of corporate interests is soon established." I thhought this was Ancapland, not Syndicatistan.

[@snappy_one9120]

i love your democracy 4 videos, more pls

[@MrXElegend]

As an Aussie this video was actually amazing

[@kylejamessmithproductions7848]

I love how anarcho capitalists claim to be against hierarchies...

[@neptun6761]

They are but they tolarate them As they will always exist Unlike the other anarcists who are against them all together

[@catmonarchist8920]

They claim that they are only against 'involuntary' hierarchies (and stretch the definition of voluntary to an extreme degree)

[@OmbreDunDouble]

Techno-futurist France with jacobins characteristics now !

[@TToS_Official]

is crime rate down because under anarcho capitalism, things are not a crime?

[@Kugel--]

I've tried making the American ancap party, and I got voted out after one term

[@カスカディア国人]

I managed to get 2 terms role playing as the Japanese Communist Party. The game will punish you if change too much too quickly (which is what I did in my second term). You have to plan out your reforms wisely. In my Germany game I was in power for 18 years until I intentionally made myself lose by doing a bunch of unpopular stuff at the end (because I wanted to test the limits of how far you can go with your popularity, apparently people really don’t like microchips, a police state, drones being everywhere, and censorship) you also have to pay attention to the things they tell you at the beginning of a turn, if the global economy is doing bad, you have to be extra careful about what you do because it becomes easier to lose GDP and enter a debt crises, this alone isn’t necessarily enough to kill you but combined with some unpopular policies will end your game.

[@カスカディア国人]

If you enter the game with the mindset of “I’m going to compromise and reform slowly” you can take a country in whatever direction you want.

[@Jaime0007]

The good ending

[@endlesssolitaire731]

@@カスカディア国人 I created a fascist socialist theocracy with chips, secret courts, total censorship, closed borders (no right to leave country and maximum border control), mass murdere and so on. Censorship works well if it is total. Everyone was happy because prior to that I made sure that most people would support my policies. Ironically even the economy was doing fine, I just had to keep hyperinflation to justify the permanent Emergency state. And somehow I had private space program with a socialist economy (or to be more fair as much socialist elements as the game allows). People in this game love dictatorship when it does what they like just like IRL.

[@カスカディア国人]

@@endlesssolitaire731 doing “socialism” and managing the economy was easy, it’s just that doing authoritarianism was hard in every country I played as besides America and Spain, in those two cases all I had to do was cater to the religious, and conservatives and they let me do whatever I wanted, in all of my recent play throughs I was winning 99% of the vote so I was able to have a bunch of points even without emergency powers. On my UK play through I managed to get all the way into the bottom left corner with a strong budget surplus, and I had to introduce term limits to end my game because it was never going to end and I ran out of stuff to do 😂 I think the game is a bit too dumbed down, what the game calls socialism isn’t necessarily socialism most of the time, they should add in worker cooperatives or something (and more things to nationalize), and when it comes to playing authoritarian they should also make it to where if you erode democracy enough you need less votes to win, because in a lot of cases dictatorships are only really supported by about 1/3 of the population, they just either prevent the “wrong” people from voting for every seat, control who is allowed to run, or they outright rig the vote (or they do all three of those things) it would be nice to have the option to do things like that.

[@narcissist84]

Story this video 🇦🇺 + 🎩 🐍 10/10

[@TopShot501st]

Most Based Australia 🦘

[@_6HavoK9]

I mean, being a "succesful" citizen in this Australia would mean having a guaranteed government spot somewhere in the global kingdom of ashes that is sure to come!

[@darkdragon5520]

Obligatory "Capitalism necessarily needs a hierarchy" comment

[@jacobderamo9187]

At least it’s somewhat more voluntary

[@YungMoomin]

@@jacobderamo9187 Giving you the choice between voluntarily becoming my wage slave or voluntarily living on the streets. If you, for whatever reason, can't work anymore and are not viewed as an economically productive piece of capital for someone else, good luck choosing something else. It's the illusion of choice.

[@endlesssolitaire731]

Which society doesn't end in a hierarchy? Oh, stop, the hierarchy in some form exists anywhere from the beginning. And at least capitalism gives some choices to most people.

[@endlesssolitaire731]

@@YungMoomin If you think that this is a bad choice you don't know what is the alternative. At least you are not assigned to your workplace under a threat of prison and possibly even arrested and executed or sent into concentration camp for not being productive enough (yeah, this stuff also happened, I even found official documents about it from USSR). And yes, you can always head to the region where houses have a price close to 0 and survive on subsistence farming. The reason people choose to be "wage slaves" is their desire for the luxuries modern civilization produces which obviously is not a motivation for anything connected with slavery.

[@YungMoomin]

@@endlesssolitaire731 That's crazy I don't remember asking tho

[@chasduff8186]

Best new song out rn

[@typhoon5914]

This video is a description of current Australian politics.

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

How to create hell on earth (easy tutorial)

[@otto4005]

Dropped a like just for you taking the u out of "labour"

[@alexbattaglia8297]

The ALP actually spells labour without the 'u', Australian Labor Party

[@PurpleMinecraft88]

i love your videos im so glad youre back