To make people upset

yes only losers cheat in video games would a mature and astute characterization :)

Part 1: Anti-Missile and nuclear weapons on the border are 99% of why Europe has been so stable for the past 70 years. Trying to blame outside pressure for Russian expansionism seems a bit silly.

Part 2: Globalism isn't inherently bad. The jobs that have left the US aren't coming back: first world manufacturing is dead and will stay dead forever no matter how many tariffs you put up. The only reason we still use people in the third world is because its cheaper than robots. Robots are at the point where they're cheaper than Chinese manufacturing in some markets even, as seen by Adidas relocating to Germany for their manufacturing. Being anti-Globalism isn't a long term game for anyone who wants their country to matter in 30 years. Unless you get the ball rolling now on converting your economy to a service economy you're basically guaranteed to face a massive depression when every corporation finally has the resources to switch to automated manufacturing. Working class labor is basically worthless at this point. The only way that untrained individuals can really afford to keep working in the future is in jobs that can't be replaced by robots. The deep irony here is that the less training you need for your job, the easier it is to replace with a robot. When automated drivers and stock clerks become a thing, a million people will lose their job overnight when Walmart switches to them full time.

Switching to a globalist economy now lets us get our teething out of the way early and allows us to actually get people prepared for the time when anyone without a college degree is literally worthless on the market

Trump may be trying to win over the far right, but he has to pivot now to have a chance at the general. Right now, he simply is too unlikable for minorities to want to vote for him. All the Right Wing evangelicals are already on his side, but he keeps pandering to them. Hell he actually seems to be pushing them away at this point as he moves further and further into whatever he's moving into. Insulting a dead soldier's family just isn't something that makes sense if you want to appeal to the American public, and if his goal is to sway moderates he needs to switch away from things that are so easy to point at and call him an asshole over

Have you ever even played CS? You can literally have a VAC ban, have a kid, have that kid grow up, and still be unable to play CS with him. There's seriously very little practical benefit for even banning people from hacking other than it (arguably) prevent more people from cheating. To the end user who doesn't cheat, the difference between banning hackers and simply preventing anyone from connecting with a detected cheat loaded is negligible. I dont think the threat of banning is actually a deterrent. All you do if you permaban is tax players who want to play the game after cheating. I don't see the point in blocking the portion of people who cheated in the past but now want to play legitimately from playing. If they cheat again on the same account, you could just ban them again.

I feel like it isnt that complicated to spoof the hardware if youre that inclined but that wasnt really my point

Permabans are stupid for everything and just make alts more attractive.

Not a hard source, just my own personal interpretations. Johnson is polling at ~8%. Trump and Hillary are both polling at ~40%. I'm going on the assumption that most Johnson voters are conservatives who don't like Trump. Even if he pulls just 2 or 3 % of the vote out from under the GOP in some of the stronger states, it'd be enough to secure a few more of the suburban districts for the Dems and possibly swing the state.

This is ignoring that even pulling a few thousand GOP voters in a place like Florida could quite literally tilt the election in the Dems favor.

Trump arose (in brief) from the far right social conservatism that gave rise to the Tea Party. Trump himself played a hand in this by starting the whole birther movement funnily enough. The GOP base over the past 8 years has been consistently told that the GOP in DC isn't doing what needs to be done (RINOs and the rise of anti-establishment conservatives) and that the Democrats are criminals and working to make America worse. This lead to a large minority of the party hating the mainstream GOP and hating the Democrats, which is part of the reason people like Cruz or Rubio had some support. Cruz helped shut down the government and Rubio isn't too mainline in the GOP yet. Trump just happened to be the biggest and most boisterous of the GOP pick this cycle and he managed to get a strong plurality because most of the Tea Party types flocked to him while the rest of GOP spread their votes around in the early states. By the time the party had solidified around notTrump candidates, it was too late.

As far as winning the general is concerned Trump is nearly screwed. The current lay of the land makes it very hard for a GOP candidate to even contest a Democrat. The Dems start out with nearly 30 more EC votes than the Republicans when you look at previous voting maps and cut out the purple states. The country was already leaning towards the Dems in 08/12, but the way the population has shifted lately has made it even more difficult for the GOP to really win. The amount of minority voters who are eligible to vote makes up a bigger portion of voters than it did in either election. Whites are on the way out and blacks and hispanics are on the rise, and as a result the candidate who represents a part that continues to be regarded as anti-Black and anti-Latin America has a huge disadvantage. Considering that Trump is polarizing to begin with, he depends entirely on low minority turn out to really have a chance. Unfortunately, his incredibly strong rhetoric seems to be poised to cause a lot of voters to turn up just to prevent him from winning. Unless Trump can corner a demographic that isn't older white voters or conservative GenX/Y men, he's most likely going to lose. Even in his demographics, he faces opposition from Gary Johnson. In fact, you're looking at what could be the first election where places like Atlanta or Houston manage to turn their solid red state blue just from a high minority or low white voter turnout. If any of the conservative states like GA or TX get flipped, its almost guaranteed to be a loss for Trump. Considering Texas has been 48-52 for the past two elections and Georgia has been 45-55, it isn't too out of the realm for an outsider like Johnson to just spoil the entire thing for the GOP

so yeah Trump sucks I guess

u cant spell lee without L

r u implying scout isnt the best class?

pyro sucks, the problem is its hard to make him not suck without also making him AIDS to fight

Big ideas like making his flames faster but last less time are nice cause they make the flamethrowers take a bit more aim and reward not being terrible with them but they don't remove a lot of his underlying problems

i woke up and this thread wasnt deleted mana i am disappointed

why is wait even banned now? Is it still because of sticky spam scripts?

this is a thread to discuss the freshest and meanest new memes hitting the web

what memes do you guys see picking up heat? I'm a fan of arthur pictures with black people captions!

yeah. After plunging the depths of /r/tf2 for a year I've noticed the majority of it comes down to "I don't play either but I hate that 6s is only 4/9 classes" which makes sense if all you do is pub. Understanding why 6s is the way it is really does just require playing both gamemodes for a while and seeing how things really work. You may think you want to play fulltime spy but after going 5 and 40 over an hour and a half game you start to realize this isn't what you wanted either.