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Antifar posted...

I don't think it helps Democrats to speed this process along.

Yeah, that's pretty much the dumbest thing they could possibly do.

Honestly, there are too many candidates on stage for this point. It should be just Biden, Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, and Yang. Nobody else has even a ghost of a chance of being relevant.

On the other hand, it was good to start with a really low bar.

I have seen some people intimate that she was treated unfairly, but I think it's more that Kamala Harris was never treated with kid gloves like some of the others were/are. She hired a bunch of old Hillary staffers to run her campaign and never seemed to have any idea of what she should be standing for and seemed completely unprepared for the fact that people might dig into and criticize her record and that a token pro-MfA stance would not insulate her from criticism from the left. That one fleeting moment where she knifed Biden at the debate only to come out against any kind of busing program was emblematic of her campaign, IMO.

Caution998 posted...

Deadpool_18 posted...

Trash is trash. He literally nailed dogs to trees and slammed a dog by its leg on concrete until it stopped moving.

Fuck im

The guy is one of the very few superstars/celebrities to go to real person jail and come back a changed man. Please consider how he has improved his life since then.

Yeah, Michael Vick is a poster-child for successful rehabilitation.
Also, has everyone forgot he succeeded Donovan McNabb in Philly and was really good for a season and a half? He also wrote a really thoughtful piece about his time in Atlanta and how it felt watching them take Matt Ryan from prison before their recent Super Bowl appearance(he was rooting for them.)
He was supposed to be the offensive coordinator of the Atlanta Legends in the AAF, but he backed out of it(perhaps he caught a glimpse of how screwed the league was financially?)

Yeah, LA's uniforms are actually good. Like, not great, but good. Everything else is really bland, predictable color combinations assembled in a bland, inoffensive way.

Doom_Art posted...

Her randomly asserting unprompted that she wasn't a Russian asset during a debate was pretty funny though.

Shades of Christine "I'm Not a Witch" O'Donnell there.

Because the Democratic establishment is invested in perpetuating the political situation which both gives them great power and great lee-way to not do anything with that power. By continuing to pretend that the Republican Party can be reasoned with, they have a ready excuse for why nothing is being done(the real reason is because the party's donors don't want any radical change). It is also likely the case that they underestimate just how bad the Republican Party is, because I'm sure their Republican colleagues are nice to them on a personal level(and there's significant overlap between the two party's donor class) and they can't accept their friends would ever intentionally do what they're doing. Most of these people are utterly disconnected from average people, whether they are a poor rural white person or a struggling urban black person, so most of them struggle to empathize with them, because their own personal situation is so far removed from the reality the majority of Americans face.

Of course, they also fail to grasp the status quo they are desperate to preserve is doomed no matter what they do. Whether it's by Republicans breaking American democracy or climate change wrecking the planet or whatever else, change will inevitably come, and they will be utterly unprepared to face it. It's why they need to be replaced, and the sooner the better.

Are you serious!? That's so goddamned stupid, it's breathtaking.

I read one of his books on the development of governments over time(still have the 2nd one to read) and he's clearly brilliant and well-studied. Enough that it's difficult to believe he would believe that there was ever an end-point. Human society will never stop changing or developing. Or regressing.

ThyCorndog posted...

What is macrons political idealogy? He seems like a neoliberal centrist to me but I get the sense there's more to it than that

Well, you see, in order to defeat Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron must become Marine Le Pen. It's all to defeat that creeping fascism, you see.

Yang doesnt fit the mold of a typical candidate, nor does he appeal to the pundit class or the Democratic donor class. He is a true outsider. That doesnt excuse his faults, but its a useful demonstration of how our political discourse is managed and how political insiders gatekeep.

lilORANG posted...

This didn't end Klobuchar's campaign, and those accusations were a lot worse.

Well, to be fair, did Klobuchar's campaign ever begin?

But as you play the game the first time, there were many amazing reveals and twists.

Greenfox111 posted...

Baten kaittos the traitor thats been sabotaging your party is the player character

Baten Kaitos: Origins
You, the player, are not a guardian spirit as in the first game, but actually a shard of Malpercio's soul.

Ogre Battle 64, man. What an absolute classic!
Also got all 121 stars in Super Mario 64.

Sonic R?

HellRatUFO posted...

@Damn_Underscore

A bunch of middle class white man children that put themselves into student loan debt chasing after majors with no return value that want to be bailed out at what will ultimately come at the expense of blue collar minority demographics is the epitome of white privilege.

You've been gas-lit so effectively you do the gaslighting yourself.

LoL-eSports_462 posted...

Damn, hes just trying to help but experiences intense push back...

Nah, it's more like he's trying to launder his own racism by talking about how he has been oppressed.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/mayor-petes-police-chief-pick-prompted-clashes-with-common-council/
https://freebeacon.com/politics/buttigieg-appointed-police-chiefs-faced-multiple-accusations-of-racism-from-black-cops/

TL;DR Buttigieg, upon being elected mayor, fired the city's black police chief who was running an unpopular(in the police department) investigation into racial bias in policing and then replaced him with a white guy who not only immediately shutdown the investigation into racial bias in policing but was accused of racial bias in hiring practices! Needless to say, Mayor Pete backed his police chief to the hilt.

It is, sadly, very easy for some people to become addicted to alcohol. It's also a convenient way to self-medicate for anxiety and depression(which is really unhealthy and often eventually leads to the former).

PowerOats posted...

JBaLLEN66 posted...

PowerOats posted...

what can I bring into the 14th century?

I feel like Im missing something on how bad it could be

it's literally on the top 5 list for being the worst time to be alive

War? Disease? Famine?

Try pandemic: say hello to the Black Death!
Of course, most modern humans have some resistance to it, so you're more likely to survive than everyone else, but that leaves you at ~50% mortality with bubonic plague(if some idiot "doctor" doesn't kill you). You're still screwed if you get the pneumonic version though!

Bad_Mojo posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Paradox games on are sale at the standard -75% base games and -50% off expansions.
I remember a time when expansions regularly went for -75%.

CK2 is always free now, so it's okay

Only the base game though, which is a bit less with CK2 than with the others. If anyone wants advice on expansions, just @ me or PM me or whatever.

Lebronwon posted...

If Obama speaks out and Bernie still wins wouldn't that screw him. Because then Trump can go even Obama doesn't like him.

It's clear at this point that Obama got exactly what he wanted: he's fully accepted by the country's elites and now he wants to protect his status. A candidate who challenges the status quo(even one who does so in a relatively mild way, like Warren: Obama's old people apparently don't like her much either) is a threat to his personal influence and prestige in a way that Trump isn't.

Paradox games on are sale at the standard -75% base games and -50% off expansions.
I remember a time when expansions regularly went for -75%.

AlecSkorpio posted...

Didnt he tell someone to vote for trump after they criticized Obama's deportation policy just last week?

Jesus Christ Biden.

Yes.
The criticism was that Obama deported too many people.

ThyCorndog posted...

wonder if it'll end up as brokered convention

That would certainly be one way to lose to Trump.

MrToothHasYou posted...

coh posted...

Does anyone even like Pete Booty? What stands out about him compared to the other democrats running?

Hes young, he speaks relatively well, he isnt too far to the left for the centrist Dems. Those are basically his qualifications. Oh, and he was a troop.

I saw him described as what Boomers want Millennials to be like somewhere.
But really, Mayor Pete being racist shouldnt be news: his involvement with South Bends police department and general indifference towards black people and their concerns were compelling evidence on their own.

Who would've guessed klan hood/blackface guy was garbage?

Hexenherz posted...

whitelytning posted...

I didn't say the point was to destroy them completely. Not sure where you got that from.

The point is obviously to put pressure on the government to stop developing nuclear weapons. Domestic instability seems like pressure to me.

Yeah, domestic instability worked for Syria, too *rolls eyes*

I mean, Assad all but created ISIS by intentionally emptying his prisons of jihadis while viciously cracking down on literally everyone else.

The Iranian establishment, what with the cloak of moral authority lent to it by the clerics and its more numerous, more competent arms( the Revolutionary Guard, the army, the informal basiji thugs) is, if anything, much more stable than Assad. Our sanctions have helped create unrest which will likely result in increased repression and the hardening of Iran's anti-democratic elements alongside the weakening of its democratic elements.

Wax Fang - Repetition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fitZ9mnMgTE

Oh hey, my favorite band just dropped a quartet of tracks this morning randomly. Have the eponymous one. Though I almost put up California instead...

McKinley is interesting, because he took a long time to die. He appeared relatively okay in the immediate aftermath, exhorting both the crowd and the police not to harm his assailant, and assuring everyone he was fine. He received care for a few days and people thought he was recovering well, so well that Teddy Roosevelt left to go hunting in the Adirondacks, but McKinley's abdomen had become gangrenous and he suddenly took a fatal turn for the worse, and TR needed to be hunted down by a park ranger so he could be sworn in.

He was certainly a business Republican, the like of which had governed previously and would govern in throughout the '20s until 1932. Roosevelt and Taft were decidedly interventionist, but framed their actions as preserving the integrity of the market.

sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

I've only finished the pilot and the first epiosde of SU. It seems aite.

Yeah, it'll be like that for a while. It doesn't get really good for a bit, but the slow burn start really pays off in terms of familiarizing you with everyone and what their deal is.

sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

What is the order of release for all these recommended cartoons

Adventure Time came first, in April 2010. Then Regular Show aired in September 2010. Finally, Steven Universe first aired May 21, 2013.

They were specifically protesting their respective universities investing parts of their massive endowments in fossil fuel companies and want them to divest.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/23/harvard-yale-football-game-protest-fossil-fuels

The Guardian
Both schools have massive endowments invested across the economy, including in fossil fuels. Harvards is worth $39bn, Yales $29bn. Activists believe that if the universities divest, hundreds of institutions will follow them.

boxington posted...

I've only seen some of Adventure Time and Regular Show, and between the two, I prefer Regular Show just because it has the kind of humor and situations that an older audience can relate to while being absurd enough for younger viewers

but from what I've gathered, AT's backstory is apparently pretty expansive and interesting.

Adventure Time and Steven Universe are mostly just fun, silly shows in the beginning, they just kind of slowly pull back the curtain on their respective worlds to reveal much more complex situations(and plot lines).
It bears noting that there's a lot of overlap as far as writing staff of both shows. Rebecca Sugar, SU's creator, worked on AT first(for example, she wrote Marceline's songs) and a lot of AT people migrated over to SU after AT ended.
SU is the only one of the three shows that's still going(in the form of Steven Universe Future, which is meant to wrap things up and set after the movie).

I honestly never watched a lot of Regular Show, but it seemed pretty good.

The Bills are my team. They are fraudulent, Josh Allen just wins games, please don't run the ball.

Power, once gained, is seldom relinquished.

They're all garbage, it's just that Fox is also fascist.

Bjork - I Miss You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDX_5hQ6So

Feeling lovelorn. Bonus points if you can name the animator without opening the link.

Just cut off the topic title after "MtFs" and you've nailed it.

Todds big problem is that he cant focus or follow through on anything, and it led to all of his clown dentists becoming rabid, entirely due to his neglect
Season 5 is basically the first time he takes responsibility for his own actions and actually confronts and corrects his mistake.

epik_fail1 posted...

But to answer TC about Diane...

Diane is supposed to be a girl that want to change the world. After hanging out with Bojack, she realised that she is way more like him than she wants. She knows she is not the person she wants to be.

I think it's more that Diane really wants to be a good person and change the world for the better, but she lacks the confidence and support structure to act on those impulses. Just look at how quickly she falls apart when goes to report on Sebastian: she lasts all of a day before breaking down(Sebastian himself is interesting: he's a self-absorbed twit, but the show seems to be suggesting that that's what enables him to do aid work in an active war zone at all). She wants to be this great investigative journalist, but encounters the reality that journalistic outlets don't want to do that, because it's expensive and disruptive and shallow click-bait is more profitable.
And, of course, her relationship with Mr. Peanutbutter is (mutually) toxic.

I do identify with Diane a bit, because her internal monologue is familiar to me(Am I a good person? Shouldn't I be happier? Can I be happy? Does being happy in this garbage world make me a bad person?)

Cao Cao's definitely the most compelling single character. Dude was brilliant and surrounded himself with people as smart or smarter than him, governed well, met with great success, but never finished the job*.
He could also be cruel, vengeful, conceited, lustful, and overconfident, which is how we always seemed to stumble into those really crushing defeats that held him back.

*This is part of why he gets played up as a villain: the fact that he failed to unite the Empire is post-facto proof he didn't possess the Mandate of Heaven and was thus illegitimate. Only winners are legit, you see.

I mean, it's an important point to make that Obama sucked on immigration. Part of the reason he didn't get "credit" for it at the time is because Republicans wouldn't give him credit for it, because they view it as politically advantageous to paint every Democrat as an open-borders fringe hippie who loves immigrants more than "real" Americans.
As for Obama's logic, it has long been orthodox in professional Democratic circles that brutal enforcement of existing law is crucial for convincing Republicans you're serious so they'll agree to do immigration reform. And, of course, Obama shows no signs of caring about the immense human cost of such policies(unless some one else is doing them).

Yeah, people are too quick to equate "highly intelligent, well-reasoned, and philosophical" with "logical". Smart people are extremely good at justifying themselves, even when they're wrong.
Though it's worth noting that Endgame Thanos isn't wiping out life: he's replacing it with life programmed to be grateful to him, which serves to expose how egotistical he is.

It probably won't affect his poll numbers, because we live in the dumb, bad universe.

Joe Biden is dumb, old, and bad. Joe Rogan is just dumb and kind of bad, but definitely right in this instance.

I was at work, but I wouldn't have watched it. These debates suck and never lead to much of anything.

cjs28 posted...

I like prototype Carnival Night more and Knuckles's prototype theme is really cool, but final Genesis release is better everywhere else

Yeah, I think I prefer this version of Knuckles theme too.
But otherwise? The MJ tracks are better. Insane to think he threw them together in about a month using sound fonts he never encountered before(and, apparently, didnt like). These tracks at least get the benefit of the genuine Genesis sound fonts though: apparently the PC version used them as MIDIs.