Lurker > Antifar

Is her birthday February 29?
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Schenectady, New York
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The closest thing to a shooter I've enjoyed is Sniper Elite, but that game gives you a lot of assists on the lower difficulties, and is really a much slower pace to begin with.
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Mike Pence would probably be worse from a policy perspective, but there's less evidence that he personally took part in crimes, so
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Cool to see Hitman 2 getting love though
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They don't have to
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A lot of these weren't 2018 releases, what's the basis for inclusion here?
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Kiss*
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Nominate up to three games for each category, and sometime in the near future I'll either tally up the nominations and run polls or just forget about this idea entirely.

2018 releases only

Game of the Year
Best Multiplayer Game
Biggest Disappointment
Best Indie Game
Best Story

I'm not gonna go genre by genre but I'm open to other category ideas
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Vertania posted...

Anti-245 posted...

There's nothing left wing about the eu.

He's right; the EU is an engine for economic austerity.
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ROBANN_88 posted...

i guess i'm also not quite sure what alt-right is.
is it just another word for far-right?

No; it implies a specific set of beliefs, distinct from ordinary conservatism. Where conservatives might talk about small government or religious values, the alt-right is motivated largely by nationalism and the enforcement of racial and sexual hierarchies. The alt-right also tends to be less concerned about "free market" and traditional right wing economic beliefs.
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These are not mutually exclusive
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WhinyZach posted...

imagine being having political beliefs so insane you rather be called far left, than alt left, as if it's any different.

idgi

The term "alt-left" is specifically designed to draw a comparison or equivalence between these people and white supremacists.
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scar the 1 posted...

ROBANN_88 posted...

is alt-left another word for communists?

No, it's a less "intellectual" word for post-modernist cultural Marxists

Nobody calls themselves that, though.
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https://twitter.com/noininnic/status/770356104572305409
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darkphoenix181 posted...

Infact, I believe you have done so before as you don't share ideals with the center left Antifar?

The center left are not leftists. They're the center left. Liberals, if you will.
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Deadpool_18 posted...

Then what are we calling the extremists on the left side?

Socialists, communists, leftists. They already have labels that are working just fine.
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Alt-right is a term coined by white nationalists so as to clean up their image, and readily adopted by many of them.

Alt-left is a term designed to draw a comparison between white nationalists and people who want universal healthcare. Basically nobody identifies as alt-left.
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https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1075084581588602880/video/1
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Whom amongst us is partaking in some fine gaming?
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The law has to draw a hard line somewhere, lest the system be left to the whims or interpretations of judges.
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I'm not sure Chris Matthews should be treated as someone with unique knowledge on this subject!
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Annihilated posted...

Plus look at the "great recession" dip in 2008. In only a couple of years the stock market recovered to twice its pre-recession highs.

And everything was okay
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Like, the only thing people learn in high school about Warren Harding is the Teapot Dome scandal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

There are about a half-dozen stories like this from the Trump administration.
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s0nicfan posted...

Antifar posted...

Hard to imagine anything topping it

The Trail of Tears? Japanese internment? Starting multiple wars?

We're talking about corruption, not just wrongdoing. The Trump administration is filled with obvious grifters and conflicts of interest that, if not for all the other problems with his administration, would be the subject of non-stop scandal-style coverage.

Is that stuff as bad as the Iraq War? No. But that's not what we're measuring here.
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https://wapo.st/2EuHCva

President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit and to give away its remaining money, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday.

Underwood said that the Donald J. Trump Foundation is dissolving as her office pursues its lawsuit against the charity, Trump and his three eldest children.

The suit, filed in June, alleged persistently illegal conduct at the foundation and sought to have it shut down. Underwood is continuing to seek more than $2.8 million in restitution and has asked a judge to ban the Trumps temporarily from serving on the boards of other New York nonprofit organizations.

Underwood said Tuesday that her investigation found a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.

This is an important victory for the rule of law, making clear that there is one set of rules for everyone, she added in a statement.

The shuttering comes after The Washington Post documented apparent lapses at the foundation. Trump used the charitys money to pay legal settlements for his private business, to purchase art for one of his clubs and to make a prohibited political donation.

Trump denied that the organization had done anything wrong. In late 2016, he said he wanted to close the foundation, but the New York attorney general blocked that move while it investigated.

The settlement with Underwoods office represents a concession by Trump to a state investigation he decried as a partisan attack. The case is one of numerous legal investigations of Trump organizations that have proliferated during his presidency.

Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a court filing in New York, Underwood said that the foundations remaining $1.75 million would be distributed to other charities approved by her office and a state judge.

The attorney generals suit alleges that Trump used his charitys money as his own piggy bank including to help his presidential campaign by paying for giveaways at Iowa rallies.

The Foundation was little more than a checkbook for payments to not-for-profits from Mr. Trump or the Trump Organization, Underwood wrote in the initial suit.

The Trump Foundation was never the most impressive part of Trumps portfolio: At its peak, in 2009, it had only about $3.2 million in the bank, a small sum for a billionaires charity.

The real estate mogul used other peoples donations to build up the foundations assets. In recent years, the largest gifts came from pro-wrestling moguls Vince and Linda McMahon, not Trump.

Trump gave away the money in his name and also used the foundation to pay his businesss legal settlements. Federal law prohibits using charity money for personal gain.

The Posts reporting showed that, for years, Trump appeared to treat the foundation which was, by law, an independent entity as a checkbook for gifts that bolstered his interests.

The largest donation in the foundations history a $264,231 gift to the Central Park Conservancy in 1989 appeared to benefit Trumps business: it paid to restore a fountain outside Trumps Plaza Hotel. The smallest, a $7 foundation gift to the Boy Scouts that same year, appeared to benefit Trumps family. It matched the amount required to enroll a boy in the Scouts the year that his son Donald Trump Jr. was 11.

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Hard to imagine anything topping it
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Polling suggests that a healthy majority is in favor of taking stronger action towards addressing climate change
https://twitter.com/KateAronoff/status/1074760404176396288
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Because I realized the article was from three weeks ago; I had posted it thinking it was current.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

Philoktetes posted...

libertarians are just edgy kids who want to break the law and smoke weed

they're actual conservatives, unlike the GOP who love big government when it suits their needs.

No, they're libertarians. "Small government" is not the animating force of conservatism, nor has it ever been.
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NibeIungsnarf posted...

They say its a nice friendship group and you can leave if you want,

I don't actually think that's the pitch they make
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Own a house
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God bless
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What part of global don't you understand?
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MaverickXeo posted...

She is publicly taking 'time off' due to needing self care for a job she hasn't even started yet. How will she be able to cope with the stress of the actual job when times get tough?

There are octogenarians in Congress. I think she'll manage.
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See, this would have been the perfect topic for that "Occasional Cortez" joke
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I'm upset that I knew what song this was before clicking
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SArm
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Embedding
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Questionmarktarius posted...

The left is currently the "reactionary" side, so maybe?

Please look words up before using them
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When he's right, he's right

Note: the same holds true for obvious crook Mick Mulvaney
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There are not 20 Republican Senators willing to vote to remove him from office.
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Doesn't seem great
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There is a point at which reasonable skepticism becomes pretending nothing is real.
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Please do not murder the homeless because you can't get laid.
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/youtubes-biggest-personality-promoted-an-anti-semite/
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Now, see, to me, those tweets read like jokes.
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What is a Pete Davidson?
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jumi posted...

sobergermanguy posted...

https://mobile.twitter.com/theintercept/status/1074641421502574593

Damn SJWs

How is this SJWs? Texas is run by Republicans, and SJWs don't support Israel because of Palestine.

The joke is that Republicans are behaving in the way they accuse "SJWs" of doing
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