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pionear posted...

The Prosecution wanted 20...

Do you think it was Too Much? (Poll Question)

Ghislaine Maxwell only got 20. Prosecution wanted 30-55.
So...I guess it was too much, based on the Ghislaine Maxwell standard?

Adam_Savage posted...

bullshit low twenty (20) years in prison

White women statistically get the lowest prison sentences of any group.
Sadly not surprised.
Well, they announced she was going on watch, so hopefully there's nothing afoot.. That'd be really unfortunate if something odd happened with the guards like it did w/ Epstein. Real tragedy, it would be.

Jen0125 posted...

Are you trying to honestly say that men historically have not oppressed women? And you say you're an ally? You can't even reflect on what your gender has done historically.

You said "trying to oppress", which is present tense.
Stop trying to shift the goal posts.

And yes, men did this to us lol. There is a majority male SCOTUS.

Again, genders are not the fucking Borg.
If Clarence Thomas says something horrible, that does not reflect on me just b/c we're both male, any more than Sarah Palin's idiocy says anything about you.
Also, Trump increased his share of white female voters from 2016 to 2020. After seating three anti-abortion justices, including one he speed ran thru in just 3 weeks right before the election.
You want this issue to be a gender war so fucking badly, it's just pathetic.

You really are a horrible ally holy shit just stick to voting and being quiet

Ah, the bile really pours forth here and then you double-posted just for ad hominem. :)

Revelation34 posted...

No pro-life view is valid.

I'm still waiting to hear how some stranger getting an abortion impacts Amy Comey Barrett

Jen0125 posted...

Where did I do that lmfao wtf you're getting so twisted up in your own creation

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80058279/965835914

God yeah we should really be nicer to the gender trying to oppress us ur totally right muscles

And my response to that, once again:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80058279/965836251

https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.aspx

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/

Majorities of both men and women express support for legal abortion, though women are somewhat more likely than men to hold this view (63% vs. 58%).

https://www.vox.com/2019/5/20/18629644/abortion-gender-gap-public-opinion

Men and women have similar views on abortion
In 2015, Vox and PerryUndem partnered on a polling project that tried to capture the full nuance of Americas views on abortion. One of the things it showed is that Americans do not understand broad ideological terms like pro-life and pro-choice in rigid ways or even necessarily see them as mutually exclusive.
It also showed that men and women are equally likely to describe themselves as pro-choice, while women are slightly more likely than men to describe themselves as pro-life.

I know you're a proud sexist and will continue to blame men for this, in spite of decades of polls and studies proving there is minimal to no "gender gap" in support for abortion rights.
So I'm just once again posting the data so everyone else knows how absolutely full of shit and hateful you are.

Far-Queue posted...

lmao can't believe they're still banging that drum

fwiw a pro-life or dumbass abortion opinion is still more valid coming from a woman than from a man, because it impacts women directly.

ffs these men be fragile af

FFS, one more time:

• Roe does not mandate abortions
• Roe just gives the choice to have one or not
• If a pro-life woman does not want an abortion, some other woman getting one DOES NOT IMPACT HER IN ANY WAY
• A pro-life woman is not "more impacted" by some other woman getting an abortion than literally any other person

Fucking hell. With modern feminists, it's like the genders are the Borg and what one member does with their body somehow affects the rest.

You, Jen, and the rest keep lying and gas lighting.

Jen is the one saying some other woman not involved in the abortion has a more valid opinion, yet I'm the one labeled as trying to value my opinion over others.

Jen is the one that blamed men for abortion rights being taken away, even though there's no fucking gender gap in support for Roe v. Wade.

You're the ones constantly hurling insults and Jen is the one who'll say "I'm done here" and then keep posting another 50 times, and yet I'm the one who's "fragile".

I get it. You have absolutely no fucking argument to make so all you can do is hurl insults and hope to convince others that by ganging up w/ them, you "won", and me not letting you just get away w/ your bs pisses you off.

Adam_Savage posted...

stream is so fuckin upset that his opinion is not worth more than a womans lmao

I'm not the one trying to assign one gender's views as inherently more valuable.
But I'm happy you now have a female Todd Akin to revere (3rd twitter link), I'm sure that was an exciting moment for you.

The next thing they're gonna do is outlaw being gay

Outlawing people being happy is like the most on-the-nose Republican thing ever

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1541102529483640832

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1541079380910301188?s=20&t=Rm7ZRKMC6FnIoGf89er7RA

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1540537530369642497

Just some more opinions from the people most valid to speak on this issue. I shall defer to their great wisdom.

Jen0125 posted...

Just another example of you being a terrible ally. You're not helping yourself.

And I'm not an ally lol. I'm the affected party. You really need to figure out what you're trying to argue about here.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ally

noun, plural allies.
a person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose: Canada and the United States were allies in World War II.

Biology. a plant, animal, or other organism bearing an evolutionary relationship to another, often as a member of the same family: The squash is an ally of the watermelon.

a person who associates or cooperates with another; supporter.

If you're going to be pedantic just to try and talk down to someone, at least check a fucking dictionary first.
Ally has lots of possible definitions. My use of it was valid. Oops, there's that word again...

adjl posted...

Nomenclature aside, you're not exactly doing the cause any favours. When the cause overwhelmingly depends on public opinion and raw numbers (since it's either going to be decided democratically or by violence), actively trying to alienate supporters is generally not a good idea, especially when the opposing side is more than happy to welcome disenfranchised men into their fold. Obviously, it's not particularly rational to say "I was pro-choice, but they were mean to me and the pro-lifers were nice, so I lean more pro-life now," but people aren't particularly rational creatures, and the pro-lifers don't need full converts so much as they need people that don't care enough about abortion to vote in favour of it.

That's not to say that you shouldn't call out men (or anyone, really) that express opinions that they can't support, but that doesn't extend to men that can support their opinions, nor does it have to entail insulting people unprovoked. Personally, I don't really care what you say. I will continue to argue in favour of abortion rights for the sake of swaying as many votes as I can, no matter how hard you try to discourage me from doing so. I will listen to and incorporate any insights you can provide, since your personal experience has that value (along with that of every other woman I interact with), but this cause is too important to let your ego get in the way of it, so I won't.

She doesn't care. pro-life is the fault of men only. She just wants to blame it on all of us, in spite of every poll and data point showing there is no gender divide on the issue.

And I agree. I doubt anyone would swap from pro-choice to pro-life. More likely is attacks from feminists like Jen makes pro-choice people apathetic and put more importance on other issues instead. Jen and others like her don't care about that, though. And like you, I'll keep being pro-choice and making it a litmus test for who I vote for. In spite of their efforts.

Jen0125 posted...

Right? He can't get over being told his opinion of a man doesn't mean as much in the area of women's rights and he thinks carrying on like a petulant child about it is going to make a difference. It just shows how little you actually value women lol

No, you just keep showing how much you despise men.

Jen0125 posted...

If you want to expose my hypocrisy then do it right. Don't bring up shit that isn't comparable to pat your own back.

You can never get a vasectomy. It is biologically impossible for you to do so. You will never truly understand it the way a man can. Your opinion on them is inherently less valuable than any man's, no matter his view of them.
That's your own fucking logic.

You are seriously a terrible ally. You need to do serious self reflection.

You're a terrible ally. You insult and drive away people that support choice for absolutely nothing, and never have the self-awareness to realize or care about that.
I'll continue supporting choice for the sake of poor women who can't afford to travel to another state and get the procedure done, and in spite of your efforts to divide us.

ZangsBeard posted...

And in this post, we have the fragilest of masculinities.

She spent 500 posts telling pro-choice men their opinion on abortion was less valid than Amy Comey Barrett's was trying to take away other women's right to choose, because apparently owning one vagina means you own all of the vaginas.

So no, I'm not going to just forget her misandry and hypocrisy. Stay mad.

Not sure how this turned into talking about vasectomies. Women can get tubal ligation, have the Plan B pill (for now...), have IUD, etc...
Doesn't change the fact that abortion rights are important to preserve.

Jen0125 posted...

Having a man act like it's hard to get a vasectomy is my first hint that they didn't even try to get one lol

You're a woman, so I thought your opinion is not valid on that topic?

Interesting, I'll look into it!

Suikoden's my favorite series and I'm looking forward to Eiyuden Chronicle (which I backed).

The most Suikoden-like game I've ever played is Exit Fate. I highly recommend it to anyone, it's a fantastic game and also is free.

https://exitfate.webs.com/about.htm

For my favorite game that "feels like" Suikoden w/o the staples like tons of recruits and army battles, Radiant Historia is one of the best games of all time. It feels like Suikoden in that it has a very detailed plot focused on a futile war between two factions both led by not-so-great people, with lots of political intrigue, betrayal, etc...

darkknight109 posted...

Which they've never had at any point in their history.

You know, I *really* don't like defending fucking Moscow Mitch, of all people, but one of the only good things I can say about him is that he never considered pushing to get rid of the filibuster and publicly shot down any discussion of it.

The filibuster never went anywhere during Trump's term - Moscow Mitch never got rid of it, or else we wouldn't be in this situation because in order to get rid of it he would have had to change the senate rules and those rules don't suddenly revert back to what they were when the term ends.

The only thing Moscow Mitch did was disallow filibustering on SCOTUS confirmations. Which, yes, is pretty scummy (though only, like, the 47th scummiest thing Moscow Mitch did that week, honestly), but the Democrats had already gotten rid of the filibuster for non-SCOTUS judicial confirmations during Obama's term (admittedly, in response to the Republicans deliberately gumming up the works to try and prevent Obama from filling judicial vacancies), so there was precedent there.

That's not true. He not only forced Dems to end it for court appointments by flat out blocking any at all when Obama was president, but also the removal of the filibuster to cabinet appointments (same reason: he blanket blocked all of them). Which is how particularly noxious Trump picks like Betsy Devos were able to get in despite bipartisan disapproval.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/betsy-devos-confirmed-education-secretary-pence-trump-cabinet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/18/president-trumps-cabinet-picks-are-likely-to-be-easily-confirmed-thats-because-of-senate-democrats/

And yes, expanding it to the SC was a huge extension. Of the change he engineered in the first place.
Point is, after experiencing all of that bs, Dems should be on board with shit canning the whole filibuster now, once they actually have the votes for it (Manchin and Sinema will not play ball). And you can be certain since they so much as talked about it, Mitch will absolutely do the same if he gets total power again, anyway. And then use the temporary invincibility to pass all sorts of shit to restrict voting and seal a Republican majority forever. If Dems break the filibuster first, they can add new states and make it much harder for Republicans to get a majority in the Senate again. Plus pass voting protection laws and anti-gerrymandering laws to make it impossible for Republicans to ever win the House again w/o actually winning the popular vote.
I don't know why you don't see how dire it is, but it's straight up rocket tag at this point.

Which they also don't have.

They could next year, if the economy weren't fucking them over. The whole reason the 2020 blue wave didn't deliver a stronger Senate majority was b/c it was a bad map (also, WTF happened in Maine?). This year is supposed to be a "good map". Multiple Republican seats up for grabs in blue/purple states, almost no Dem seats in red/purple states up for grabs.
Which is why this shit is so frustrating...

This is literally impossible to do.

Well, if the options are: a) do nothing about it and let radical right wing zealots destroy every law they want for the rest of our time as a country or b) alternate every few years whether they have that power or not; then I choose b)...

1) Institute term limits. Each justice sits for a single 9-year-term and can never sit on the court again once that term expires. To prevent sudden, rapid turnover, stagger the terms so that every year a justice retires and a new one is brought on.

Worthless unless it retroactively applies to the current justices, which it won't.
Republicans have a lock on the court even if Thomas is replaced by a Dem nominee for the next 30-40 years.
Plus, Mitch or his demonic successor would probably just undo that law once he has total power and it's beneficial to do so, anyway.

2) Nominations are no longer the sole purview of the president. Instead,
-Four justices are nominated by each party (and their terms start on alternating years).
-The final justice is nominated by the president
-When a vacancy opens up, if there are not four justices nominated by each party (i.e. the vacancy results in a 5-3 imbalance), the party that does not have their full suite of justices gets to handle the nomination. Otherwise (i.e. in the case of a 4-4 tie), the president gets the nomination.
-All nominations must be heard by the senate and voted on within three months or the justice is automatically seated. The threshold for a SCOTUS nominee to be seated is set at 60 votes.

This reduces the potential for political dog-fucking like what the Republicans did, it makes the SCOTUS less of an election prize (since the ideological makeup of the court is set and the president will be guaranteed to have an ideological majority within a year of taking office). It also prevents random chance from resulting in wild ideological swings in the court (like how Trump got to nominate more SCOTUS justices than any president since Reagan, despite only being a one-term president). The 60 vote requirement will also require that, unless there is a massive political tilt in one party's favour (unlikely, with current political dynamics), bipartisan votes will be required, which should prevent the worst of the ideological wingnuts from being nominated.

Other than the 60 vote requirement, which guarantees no Dem 5th seat pick will ever make it to the court ever again, this would be a better system.
But unless they kick out existing members to create said court immediately, it once again does nothing for the above reasons.
I also don't like tying it to the two party system because I still want to hold out hope that one day we'll escape it, or at least that the Republican party will die.

KodyKeir posted...

Printing the money wasn't the problem, it was who they gave it to. If the money had gone to the poor, the working class and actual small businesses,* that money would have been spent and circulated back into the economy and helped to stave off the current recession; what they did instead was give the money to banks, corporations, one percenters and other dragons that spent it on stock buybacks, executive salaries, or otherwise just hoarded it. The lesson from the 2008 financial crisis taught us that the economy could have recovered faster if the money actually went to the people that need it, unfortunately this lesson was not heeded because a trillion dollars is a scary number and the average voter does not understand modern economics.

*Koch industries for example, is considered a "small business" because of how they have structured their vast empire, and many millionaires and billionaires use these loopholes to pay less in taxes, while collecting government subsidies.

There still would've been big inflation, you don't just print a ton of money without it impacting the value of the currency. I agree, it would have been far better spent just giving it to people directly, though.

The small business category is so fucking bull shit and rife with abuse. It basically incentivizes corporations to not hire Americans and to move most of their operations to other countries. It's so utterly fucking backwards and destructive and I hate it.

We never truly recovered from the Great Recession, because we didn't do much to fix the problems that caused it.
That's why even in Obama's 2nd term and Trump's term when the stock market and economy seemed to be booming, they kept rates near zero (and Trump outright bullied Powell into doing so and even wanted negative rates!).
That shouldn't be necessary if the economy is healthy.
That's why when there's bad news (poor job growth, earnings are down, etc...), stocks go up. They anticipate that the bad news means the Fed will dope them up w/ more free money and low rates. And when there's good news, the markets tank. Because they fear it means rate hikes are coming. Literally just happened Friday. stocks shot up on bad news, b/c they think it means the Fed will end the rate hikes earlier.
Our economy is totally fucking broken.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

its definitely not going to turn around by November.

Probably not.
Again, too little and way too late.

But we can hope... Gas prices are coming down, at least... of course, Biden's gas tax holiday would mean prices shoot up right before the election season (face palm)

If we had ramped up military support to Ukraine sooner, they may have been able to kick Russia out by the fall and get an end to the conflict... Again, maybe. They've done damn well even before the big guns get to them, after all. Instead everything has been baby steps.

If the inflation and rate hikes cause a catastrophic decrease in consumer spending that hastens a downturn and in turn prices fall back to earth, the Fed might announce no more rate hikes later this year and cause stocks to soar... Very unlikely because there's just not enough time left (why didn't Biden push for this sooner?!), but it...could happen....

DirtBasedSoap posted...

if the economy turns around

lol

well, if it doesn't, the Dems are fucked

The Fed is causing all of this. They kept rates near zero way too fucking long, printed shit loads of money in 2020, and now are going into hyper-drive on raising rates up b/c they realized they fucked up (or now that it's a Dem in office, they're intentionally sabotaging) and are trying to make up for lost time.
Biden should've been demanding gradual rate hikes while president elect, or at least once he was in office. We could've been into the recovery phase by now. Instead, the Fed is engineering a recession to fight the inflation (that they caused, by printing so damn much money) during an election year.
I'm really frustrated w/ Biden's lack of urgency. I guess he hoped like all the presidents before him that he could ride things out and pass the bag off to the next schmuck. Would've been way better off ripping the band-aid off early and starting his term w/ a recession. It was inevitable after all the shit Trump (tax cuts) and the Fed (see above) did, just a question of when shit would hit the fan. Instead of leading us out of the recession from the start, he's gonna get Carter'd. :(

darkknight109 posted...

Because in order for the Democrats to codify access to abortion they would need:
1) The presidency
2) A majority in the House
3) At least 60 votes in the Senate
4) None of the anti-abortion Democrats to break ranks and vote against it (and there have always been anti-abortion Democrats - even now, when pro-choice sentiment is the highest it's ever been in the US, there are still pro-life elected Democrat officials in congress who almost certainly would not vote to codify abortion protections into law).
5) A Supreme Court that wouldn't immediately find a reason to strike down the law as unconstitutional

They've never had all of those at the same time. Even in the Obama era, which is the only time in the last 40 years that they've had a supermajority in the senate, it is very unlikely they would have been able to muster the 60 votes necessary to overcome an almost certain Republican filibuster.

They don't need 60 in the Senate. Just 50 that are willing to nuke the filibuster over it.
Until recently, they did not want to risk ending the filibuster. Then in Trump's term, McConnell had no problem casting it aside to pass whatever the fuck they wanted and now all pretenses of playing nice are gone.
Also, until this Friday, it was settled law, so doing anything extreme over something already existing seemed like a waste of political capital.
Now that it's not settled law and the filibuster has been dragged out behind the wood shed and shot in the head by Mitch, they just need the 50 pro-choice Dems willing to do it. Which they absolutely could get this fall if the economy turns around and they ride this issue hard.

The SC striking down the law, though....? That's a bigger problem. If Dems do get a larger Senate majority, they need to add DC and maybe PR as states, pass voting rights protections, and try to expand the SC in a way that wouldn't let Republicans just one-up later (I saw one suggestion to have 1 justice per court district...).

On a voter-level, the single best thing that can be done is for Dems in the most populous states like CA and NY to try and move to purple states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona... to firmly put them into the blue column. Dems have the popular vote nationwide. It's just distributed poorly...

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Because in the VERY FEW two year intervals where Dems actually controlled the white house and both houses of Congress, they still didn't have 60 votes in the Senate, and were not going to nuke the filibuster just to codify something that was already "settled law"?

ArvTheGreat posted...

but you found something to hammer her with right "wink wink"

You're taking "fuck the police!" way too literally

I got stuck in front of a cop a few years ago on local roads for a while. I figured immediately that she was "hunting". She tailed me the whole time, clearly trying to find something to hammer me with, but I wouldn't give her even some bs like "1 mile over the speed limit".

Eventually she put her lights on and pulled me over anyway, and told me I apparently had my month and year stickers on backwards. Surprisingly after all that effort, she gave a warning instead of a ticket, but that was the best she could find fault with.

It was fucking nerve-wracking, though. Ever since then, if a cop ends up behind me and there aren't other lanes to shift to, I'll just turn down random streets to "lose" them and if they keep following, just turn into whatever business / parking lot / etc... I can find until they go the fuck away. I'm well aware from the "don't talk to the police" video that a cop can follow anybody for a while and find some obscure reason to pull them over, a veteran cop himself said so... Only way to escape it is to not let them follow you for a lengthy period of time.

It's so tough to search thru these sales, lol
So many things.
One thing I've learned: Don't trust steam reviews at all. Fallout 76 and Shenmue III are both "mostly positive", lol
I guess the "I don't want to admit I was a sucker" sunk cost mentality is real...

Archgoat posted...

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

Interesting, I'll look into it.

Anyone know anything about Fate/Extella Link? I like musou games and fan service, but know absolutely nothing about Fate or whatever series it's from. Looks sorta good...

Dragon's Dogma for $4.79 is crazy. I already own it on PS3, but might buy it again since it's so cheap and apparently mods fix a lot of the problems w/ it (namely, discipline-locked stat progressions and switching out Into Free as the title theme... it's an excellent game, so the flaws aren't anything crazy).
If you don't already own DD: Dark Arisen, I highly recommend it, especially at that price.

Bligh_with_no_T posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/3/AAZcvsAADYRn.jpg

It'd be 6-3
Stop giving Roberts a pass

Jen0125 posted...

How does me not paying a private loan affect your taxes?

oh, it's private?
As long as we don't bail out the banks over that stuff then I don't care
Though we don't have a great track record of NOT bailing them out...

WTF news of the day is the Supreme Court reversing 50 years of settled law to force Christian Sharia Law on the country, and it isn't even close.

Jen0125 posted...

Why do you care what I do?

Because I pay taxes, and that money you evade paying back doesn't just magically disappear?

ZangsBeard posted...

This. But to expand, there are many many stories of providers doing the service for women who literally spit on them and tell them theyre going to hell for doing it

So... like... in the spirit "malicious compliance".... If the providers were to remember and publicly release the names of all the ungrateful hypocritical shit bags they provided abortions to over the years... since the Supreme Court has now decided that abortion is not a legitimate "medical procedure" and thus by law, medical privacy no longer applies...
It'd be totally justifiable to out said people to their communities, so that they know there are abortion-seeking wolves in their flock, yes?
I mean...I'm just saying. I really, really fucking hate those hypocrites, and the logical conclusion of this SC decision is right there and all...

Or just go to school overseas if it's so much cheaper and don't take out debt in the first place...
Or go to community college or an in-state public school that costs less.

Jen0125 posted...

Oh okay I'm giving advice then as someone who has considered fleeing the country and defaulting on my student loans >=]

Didn't you post that you got a really well paying job?
Why can't you pay back the money you chose to borrow?

ZangsBeard posted...

Don't ignore that a lot of them get abortions, and think of themselves as better, but the people getting them and providing them are going to hell.

Donald Trump has absolutely paid for abortions for his affairs, and he was the one that brought the extremist evangelical psychopaths to the "promised land".
Never forget this. Never let an evangelic EVER lecture about morality ever again. They went 80% for a guy that has lived the polar opposite of their purported beliefs, just to enforce their religion on the rest of us. Shout them down, curse them out, scream, "shut up, you fucking hypocrite!" at the top of your lungs every time they try to open their mouths.

adjl posted...

While it's true that men have no business demanding that women make sacrifices they will never have to make, women dictating what other women do with their bodies isn't much better. Being able to make a decision about your own abortion doesn't grant any rights to decide what decisions other women make about theirs, after all.

I agree, but the man-haters on this board give greater deference to a woman trying to take away other women's bodily autonomy than they do to men who want to protect those rights.
Said misandrists either don't realize or don't care that they're alienating half of the population for no gain at all.

Yellow posted...

I'm listening to my 90 year old grandpa remember the times when people did abortions themselves and hurt themselves.

On that note, how can one invest in wire coat hanger stocks? What are the primary companies that make them?
If this country is irrevocably fucked, I may as well use it as a buying opportunity...

Because, gentle reminder, you Christian Sharia fuck wits will never stop people from getting abortions. All you'll do is change the method employed.

Zareth posted...

Boy I sure wish there was an afterlife so RBG could see what her legacy has brought

I'm sure she realized what was about to happen on her death bed, at least.

I'm interested in what the (still alive, I think?) Anthony Kennedy thinks about all this. He was moderate-conservative but consistently defended Roe in court rulings. Kavanaugh was basically his hand-picked successor. Is he aghast and feeling betrayed, or...was he like Roberts (the coward who didn't want to be the swing vote for the radicals but now has no problem joining on in every 6-3 democracy-dismantling decisions) and just wearing a mask this whole time?

Democrats have won the popular vote for president in:
1992
1996
2000
2008
2012
2016
2020

Republicans have won the popular vote for president in:
1988
2004

In that time, Democrats have appointed:
3 of the current justices

In that time, Republicans have appointed:
6 of the current justices

Looks kinda backwards, huh?

Dems need to win the Senate races this fall so that Manchin/Sinema aren't needed for 50, then nuke the filibuster and add DC and PR as states, codify abortion, and if possible end the electoral college (think they need 2/3 for that, unfortunately... but the Interstate Compact might enable making it worthless at 51% electoral votes pledged to it).
No more being spineless play-nice cowards. The GOP have been fighting dirty since Reagan.

papercup posted...

"there's no mention of abortion in the constitution" there's no mention of a LOT of things in the constitution, good lord.

The constitution DOES mention "a well regulated militia", and yet that part is conveniently ignored...

Revelation34 posted...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have retired when Obama was president.

Absolutely.
This is her legacy now.
If the outrage leads to enough backlash to make Roe legal via a law, then fine. But until then, it's a black mark marring her legacy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61263393

https://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/3354960-staring-women-uk-can-land-you.html

"Intrusive Staring" is now sexual harassment and a crime you can go to jail for in the UK.
Modern feminism is fucking cancer and the UK is an absolute totalitarian shit hole

I like fries

But I love tater tots

(And from the last poll, I hate onions)

papercup posted...

I feel like a lot of games get dubbed that way.

I don't see how that's a valid excuse.
Others like Zeke and Morag were voiced just fine.
And even w/ no direction at all, a ton of those lines can't possibly sound good in any scenario. Did Rex's VA seriously record lines such as, "Jooooooooiiiin Meeeeeee!", hear it played back, and think, "nailed it!"?
Seems like a huge cop out. I'm sure it detracted from the VA, but they should be able to perform at least decent voice work on their own if it's literally their fucking job.

It's the weakest game in the series, still good overall.

Music: Amazing, as usual

World/graphics/exploration: Gorgeous as usual; worst one for exploration, though (stuff locked behind field skills; the whole disjointed world setup where you take ships between titans and there's no actual transition)

Story: Starts off weak, gets even worse, then gradually pulls itself out of its own nadir (chapter 4) and by the end is finally good.

Voice acting: Most is ok, but Rex (main character) and Tora (early party member, and you won't have a 4th to swap him out for, for a VERY long time) are absolutely fucking atrocious. So much so that I'm mentioning it as its own topic.

Combat: Needlessly complicated is the best way to describe it. You're basically painting by colors (elements) and then using chain attacks to break those colored orbs for massive damage. That's like the entire combat system. But they obfuscate and add so much fucking terminology and other pointless crap that it'll confuse the hell out of you if you don't look up how it works online. I didn't like it. One of the blades you can get from the DLC, Elma, gives you a 2nd option for how to fight that's more fun.

Other gameplay: Extremely tedious bull shit. Blades are mostly acquired via random gacha mechanics that requires grinding for core crystals that will often yield nothing but junk. Leveling up blades' skills is both a chore and necessary for field skills, some of which are mandatory to advance the story later on. Mercenary missions are just an annoying side thing to toss your many spare blades at so they have something to do.

The prequel story (Torna: The Golden Country) that's included in the DLC is vastly better. Voice acting and characters are way better. No gacha bs. No merc missions. Blades are playable too, and the game implements a "switch attack" to change between them that's important in combat (used to topple and such, plus you can heal damage taken if you switch at the right moments). It's literally better than the base game in nearly every way.

Lokarin posted...

The most depressing story of all time, and a good reason why you should never dox anyone and why you should correct any mistakes you make as soon as possible

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/21/man-arrested-for-stealing-sausage-rolls-killed-himself-after-police-labelled-him-a-paedophile

When he was let out of custody, Temples release papers wrongly stated that he had been suspected of inciting sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl.

Temple did not know of the error when he gave the papers to his then girlfriend, the court heard. When she then began spreading the incorrect information, Temple was subjected to verbal and physical abuse and his home was attacked, the court heard.

...Dox the former girlfriend
What a fucking bitch

And why are we only hearing about this 5 and a half years after he killed himself?

The U.S. in general has a huge problem w/ splashing accused peoples' names and faces across the news, and then if it turns out it was the wrong person there's like a small correction box on page 18 or whatever. I know this was a police report in error, but same basic principle...

You can still get a perfectly functional Motorolla for $100 or so.
I got mine a few years ago for just $50 on sale. Full price (on a prepaid plan, not a contract), so no subsidies.

Dikitain posted...

Because they stoped subsidizing the cost by offering contracts with them. They were always this expensive.

People were like "I just want a phone and not be tied to a contract for 2 years!" Well, you got your wish, now you can pay $1500+ for a phone and still need a service plan to actually use it.

As someone who had a flip phone for that entire period, paying way too much for my call-only phone plan, and thus subsidizing all these whiny iphone users... GOOD! I'm glad you guys can no longer get ludicrous discounts on the backs on the rest of us. Don't like it? Too fucking bad! I didn't like Verizon charging me a "technology fee" on my flip phone for "internet support services" on a phone that didn't even have fucking internet capabilities. Cry moar that your overpriced slave labor iphone is 4-digits price now. The salty tears are delicious.

Presumably it's a reminder that we're enduring these prices in order to sanction Russia and that Ukranians still have it far worse. In that respect, I admire it.

However, the reality is we're experiencing "fake-flation" spurred mostly by corporate greed and decades of competition-killing mergers allowing them to get away with it.
The price per gallon is not matching up w/ the price per barrel of oil and companies are intentionally avoiding drilling for more b/c they'd rather return inflated prices to shareholders.
So in the "the war is a false flag boogeyman to get people to blame instead of the real causes" sense, I don't like it b/c it perpetuates the myth that this is b/c of the war.

Once every 2 weeks

On the weekend. So by Monday morning any little spots I missed just blend in with the "5 o'clock shadow"

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/johnny-depp-fantastic-beasts-warner-bros-1234826539/

Sorry, it was Warner Bros. (the parent company of DC, like Disney is to Marvel) that dropped him. I made a slight error, and everyone's acting like, "lulz, WTF are you talking about?"

Muscles posted...

Most men would think those guys are all whackos that shouldn't have an opinion, so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything other than cherry picking examples of oblivious men to make your argument seem better. No one here has said all men have a valid opinion on it so those examples don't mean shit.

They don't care, they just want to bash men. It's literal strawmanning, but they don't care.

We could name women like MTG, Boebert, Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell, etc... as shining examples of women's understanding of science and basic medical knowledge if we wanted to, too.

deoxxys posted...

jesus she thicccc

Had to search for who it was, thought it had to be photoshopped, lol
Still not 100% sure, but seems actually legit. So... damn!

Name is "Epic Internet GF", btw

DC fired Depp immediately, but held onto Amber Heard and Ezra Miller until it became impossible to continue doing so.

DC deserves the shit storm that's coming in the next year for their movies.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I saw a recommended video a day or two ago that was like "This is why Ezra Miller won't be back in DCU", and I didn't bother watching because I figured it would be something boring and lame.

Apparently I missed way more than I realized.

Aside from being a groomer, he's also for a long time now had incidents of physically assaulting people in public.

Why would you ruin chocolate chip macadamia cookies by using white chocolate?
Anyway, macadamia chocolate chip is the best, M&M chocolate chip is great, too.
Ideally it's oatmeal cookie, regardless of what it is.

Nice!

ALttP is my favorite game of all time and I got Cross Code w/ that Ukraine bundle on itch.io

Guess I should try it soon. I'm so damn slow to get into computer games, mostly just sit on my backlog while I jump into the newest console stuff....

darkknight109 posted...

But I still think this is a worthwhile exercise, if only for people who might be reading this and who are unconvinced one way or another. Those are minds that can actually be changed.

Yeah, that's why I post to counter their bull shit, so whatever other people see the topic see that. Still not worth all the typing and effort you're making just to try and virtue signal, "I AM NOT SAYING I AM ONE OF THOSE MEN" (direct quote) to them. They don't fucking care. Stop worrying about seeking their approval. They literally hate you.

lol, some snowflake didn't like my acronym for the GoP.
If I linked like 20+ examples proving the "P" was valid, would it undo my moderation? Because it really wouldn't be hard to find...
Oh well.

darkknight109 posted...

To categorically say that not a single man anywhere in the world has important input to give on this topic and that the greatest, most experienced, most educated amongst them is still less important than a woman with no expertise or experience or, in some cases, even ability to have an abortion is arrogant and asinine.

It's sexist. It's misandrist. I said this like 300+ posts ago. Just stop wasting your time trying to convince these people, they literally stake all of their viewpoints on blaming men for shit. Just destroy their claims and move on.
I already disproved Jen blaming the end of Roe v. Wade on men in post 96, and all she could retort is "I'm not reading your posts".