We’re picking which laws we break, now?

Now? Apparently you missed… literally every single civics and social science class during your education. We always have. In fact, I can effectively guarantee you break several laws every single week.

Less of a staw man, more of a… straw curse?

That’s hilarious

Julius Caesar’s memoir of war in Gaul makes use of VIIII, for instance. You’re right that it’s much rarer, but was still used contemporarily and in modern times.

VIIII wasn’t exclusive to clocks, that’s the only long-lasting example we still have access to.

Is Luna, our moon, a planet?

VIIII is a valid way to write 9, though antiquated. If you look at very old clocks, you’ll see they all use this notation.

First, your formatting is completely broken.

Second:

The places where real power concentrates, where the old royalty gathers. Not the best in terms of scientific endeavours, but that’s not what those places are about anyway. It’s all about making connections.

I.E. completely irrelevant. Got it.

Double minimum wage in the USA is barely enough to cover rent in the cities

The fix seems pretty obvious, eh?

would add $553 billion

I.E., even ignoring the fact that not all students would require this monetary assistance, less than the budget for the 'murican war machine. Seems fine to me.

you’re quickly paying 85% of the $30k you’re receiving in tuition fees alone

??? Why would they be paying the tuition fees with free public education available?

Practical experience with what, shoveling bullshit around and expecting people to believe your nonsense? Get the fuck outta here with your corporate bootlicking.

Usual 'murican take. Do you use roads? Do you use clean water? I would ask about public transit, but you’re a 'murican, so I already know the answer to that is “no”.

Everyone already pays for the State to exist. Civilized countries use that money to benefit all citizens through free higher education, free healthcare, free public transportation, etc. The US uses that money to kill children in the middle east and to bail out huge corporations.

Your egocentrism is showing, USAian. I don’t even know where to begin dismantling your bullshit from how awefully absurd it is.

tuition for prestigious education out of reach of the common person

“Prestigious private education”? Are you joking? The people who take private higher education are effectively ridiculed, not to mention how private schools/colleges are always lacking – e.g. back in the day, when I compared my curriculum (actually prestigious public university) with all relevent private alternatives, they’d always be one year or more behind, which also means they’d finish their course with a huge gap in knowledge.

in many countries there’s a modest fee the government will pay out

Here in Brazil you can get upwards of two minimum wages. How is it that Brazil can afford this, but apparently the US couldn’t? Besides that, yes, you may need a side job – that’s what non-abusive internship/trainee positions are for. You work a few hours per day at a relevant position to your minor/major to get cash and relevant experience.

They come back at you in the form of decades of tax rates.

Except those decades of taxes ALSO pay for my healthcare (excellent, btw), bicycle infrastructure, to maintain parks, to protect local fauna and flora, for libraries, etc etc

Imagine being this brainwashed. You know where higher education is free? Pretty much the entire civilized world. Guess whether 'murican taxes compare favorably or unfavorably against that?

???

If we never knew capitalism we would say the same thing

We do say the same thing. It’s why we want to crush this shitty system. Because we know it is shit and doesn’t work.

needs regulations at every turn

A privilege which Anarchy doesn’t get.

I’m not a Christian

Neither am I. It’s a figure of speech.

I don’t think it’s at all possible for a society to be perfect, ever.

Then you shouldn’t campaign for the one form of government which does pretty much require a perfect society.

No, the issue is that metal has a lot of iconography which outright attracts Nazis and the like (e.g. heavy use of crosses, mentions of war and sometimes glorification of ancestry, viking culture, classically western icons like medieval knights and the Crusades, etc).

We have to push really hard against their co-opting of our symbols if we don’t want “Skinheads: Metalic Boogaloo” to become a thing.

And the silliest part is that Thor would fuck them up for this disrespect.

Speaking of which, does anyone know anything about Brothers of Metal’s political position (or lack of)? They barely seem to have an online presence at all, like a ghost of sick riffs and cheesy viking costumes.

In other words, literally nothing.

My brother in christ, focus on the whole discussion instead of taking it one argument at a time. An imperfect society will, by necessity, fail to the issues raised previously.

as long as human beings live in societies they will seek cooperation and justice.

You defeated your own position. Humans aren’t, nor can be perfecly just nor perfectly cooperative.