Lianodel @ Lianodel @ttrpg.network

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When conservatives fearmonger about immigrants and brown people, one of the current favorite talking points is to say they're "military-aged." It's vague and meaningless, but it implies something sinister, and plays into just about any conspiracy theory an audience member might be inclined to believe.

On top of that, they're afraid from merely seeing these people. They're just scared to death of brown and black kids and young adults.

Really reminds me of the "military-aged" thing. It's just so pathetic.

I'm more optimistic about Bernie's odds, but whatever, it's just speculation either way. But yeah, a more prominent Bernie campaign would have done a lot of good even if he didn't clinch the nomination. It would have pushed for a more progressive platform for whomever won.

And I'm just so tired of bad faith arguments from people acting like the DNC has no internal politics or even preferences, and that there's nothing weird about the primary process. I once got called a conspiracy theorist for describing how the format of the primaries affects the results, even if you ignore DNC or media influence.

Or during the primaries with Bernie. While Bernie was bing harangued for extra medical records, Joe Biden got a free pass, despite only being a year younger.

Yeah. It can be simultaneously true that voting is a fundamentally broken system that will only allow for so much change, and that elections have life-or-death consequences. It can also be simultaneously true that both the parties are terrible, and that the Democrats are less bad.

I would give them more credit if they ever did any organizing, or even talked about organizing, but it's just crabs in a bucket.

Oh, and in another thread, they were complaining about "theft." It was the seizure of Russian assets to fund the defense of Ukraine. They were defending the foreign bank accounts of billionaires. Real clown shit.

Preach. Those people drive me up the fucking wall. And especially since their idea of praxis is being a dick on the internet and not voting, then claim to be the only true leftists.

I would put these in my D&D campaign.

And like with League of Legends, I bet SBF was hardstuck in bronze.

Am I paying taxes so the rich people get nicer streets?

Yes, you are.

Yeah, written in a little booklet and everything. You don't have to pass it down as an oral tradition from generation to generation!

You can also check the modlogs. They can be really revealing.

A shocking amount of Republican antics suddenly made sense to me when I realized they're just targeting low-information voters.

Are we talking about the same Akinator? In my experience, it used to be great, but has been dogshit for years.

Do you mean the reactionary behavior, or the inability to understand it? I feel like it could go either way, but one is more depressing than the other.

Love it.

In a similar way, I also like to pull out "capitalism only works on paper."

Yeah, that was a bummer. I first heard "Big Iron" via Fallout, but I listened to all of Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs and absolutely loved it.

Then I heard his songs that were less Old West and more Cold War.

Seriously. If someone's support is transactional, it isn't worth shit. It's not like having an okay position on some issues means you "get" to call for a little extermination, as a treat.

You don't have to be perfect on every issue, but for fuck's sake, there are hard lines when it comes to people's right to exist, and live free. And even any decent takes she had are long past, since nearly ALL she does nowadays is rage tweet about trans people from her fucking castle.

I'm sure it will also include civil responses to what opposing people are actually saying.

I recently got into hiking, which provides some nice changes in scenery!

Granted, that's hard to do as a regular thing multiple times a week. But still, a walk around your neighborhood, or especially local parks if you've got any sizable ones, might be fun in a way going on the treadmill isn't.

That was such a dumb move, not just because it was petty in and of itself, but because it means you now can't separate Musk's drama from his products. His antics will demonstrably spill over into fucking with your car, even after you bought it.