Can’t access the article because I don’t want to make an account, but playing by the rules hasn’t gotten the Democrats anywhere. If one party doesn’t play by the rules, they will almost always win. The only way to fix things and take any amount of power back is to play dirty. And fuck off to people (possibly like the author of this article but not sure since I can’t read the article) who say that that isn’t the right way to do things.

If democrats had gerrymandered their states just like Republicans, things would have been more fair when it comes to distribution of power. But because Democrats decided to make gerrymandering illegal on the state level for their states, the Republicans benefit because of the better drawn districts in those Democrat states. The only way we should have made gerrymandering illegal was on a federal level, doing it on a state level just fucks over Democrats since republican states will either never pass the ballot initiatives or will have the Republican government ignore it when it is passed.

Fuck playing by the rules.

Missouri voters: Let’s vote to enshrine abortion rights into law and also elect the people who want to make abortion illegal. That totally won’t have any impact on if our ballot measure gets respected.

He wants to eliminate the federal use of “west bank” and instead use the biblical terms Judea and Sumaria.

But don’t worry, republicans will be good for the Palestinians because they’re anti-war.

Ah yes the old “government so small they can drown it in a bathtub” plan. They want all this cut. But also want to police abortion and trans people. Small but only in the areas they want.

A cane, bent glasses, and a SSD filled with movies.

Isn’t it great that the only thing that has caused his nominees to drop out are either because they did something defended/held firm on the lock downstairs during covid, or had sex with a minor? So great.

There actually was a second season with an actual ending but it definitely deserved more.

Interestingly, Tate has been “trans-vestigated” recently. There are a lot of those fuckers saying he’s a trans dude. One picture in particular is of him sitting in a speedo on a chair and the person circled his crotch cause there wasn’t much of a bulge and said “looks like someone forgot to include their falsey” or something like that. Fucking hilarious that they’re investigating everyone they possibly can because they dont know how to tell when someone is trans even though they’re convinced they do.

Fuck Andrew Tate.

If Biden dropped out sooner, and we had a primary, and the candidate was someone from outside the administration who could say things that they would have done differently and had more history of passing progressive policy, maybe things would have been different. But who fucking knows. People would still have thought the candidate was constantly talking about trans people and pronouns even though they wouldn’t have been, would have still wanted to punish the current people in power for inflation which could have extended to any other democratic candidate, and all the other issues the electorate punished the democrats for. Maybe, though, it would have helped democratic turnout at least.

Sadly we will never know and because some people decided to stay home and others decided to embrace fascism because of the economy, we get to deal with the ramifications.

Breaking News: RPG does what all RPGs do but we will compare it to only what one well know RPG does instead of simply saying it’s an RPG that does RPG things.

They could have said any other recent RPG game and it would have applied. Using Baldurs Gate 3 is probably just because Avowed is in the Pillars of Eternity world which was another isometric game, but still it’s just an RPG. It could just be channeling Pillars of Eternity instead of Baldurs Gate 3. Why do we have to use Baldurs Gate 3 for every comparison out there?

X: Old and Busted

BlueSky: New Hotness

Because they’re desperate to recoup some of their money for development and the game hasn’t sold very well. Case in point: Suicide Squad is 3.49 or 4.99 for the deluxe edition. The game sold like trash so they desperately want to make some more money and hope people will go like “well it’s only 5 bucks. I may as well.”

Dude could randomly give 147,000 people 1 million dollars but he’s more likely to just give it to charities that his buds or family will benefit from.

He didn’t threaten to do it. He said he was going to. Threaten has the implication he might choose not too but he directly said he’d be doing it on his first day in office. That is not a threat. It’s a plan.

You can be a truly vile piece of shit without having to resort to prejudice. If anything, resorting to racism to be a piece of shit is cheap, as if the writer didn’t want to think of an actually shitty thing the character could do. For instance, if you could turn one of your companions over to a bounty hunter who wants them because of some gambling debts. But you’ve gotten to know them and understand those debts were only a result of them being blackmailed into gambling by some mobster. Then when the bounty hunter comes a knocking, you say “Don’t care, you shouldn’t have gambled” and turn them over. Mind I’m not a writer so this isn’t the best example. But that’s still being a piece of shit without having to be racist. There are more ways to be a piece of shit and have it be interesting than resorting to prejudice.

Can you treat the women negatively because they are women? Can you treat the Grey Warden Davrin badly because he’s a black elf? Can you treat the Dwarf Harding badly because she’s a Dwarf?

The answer to all of these is no. Why should someone being trans be any different?

Edit: is it purely pushing an agenda because it’s a “controversial” topic for some people? Would the same be said if accepting Black rights in our society was more recent and the game had allowed you to simply accept a black person for who they are? Making your character accept your companions for who they are is a core theme of the game, Taash is no different.

The Steam forums are fucking awful. Filled with bigotry and nazis complaining about gaming be woke. There’s literally a list of “Woke games” for people to avoid, it has thousands of games on there.

When people talk about the new Dragon Age, it’s filled with people calling it woke propaganda and pushing the transgender ideology all because it has a trans character that you can’t not accept.

If you ever wonder “should I go on the steam forums to check this one thing I’m curious about?” The answer is always no.

Welp. Yeah, I’m bad at getting those right. Plus, my phone has started correcting it to the wrong one. Regardless, thanks for pointing it out! I’m gonna leave it just because you’ve pointed it out, and we’ve had this comment chain, though.

Nah, it does. The ICC was created by the Rome Statute, and while we helped negotiate it, in order to join it and recognize it’s jurisdiction we would have to ratify the treaty. We did initially sign it but didn’t ratify it. Then, in 2002, under Bush, we withdrew our signature and said it wouldn’t be ratified. We did this because we committed war crimes during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we didn’t want Americans to be tried for said war crimes.

It has 124 state members, and we aren’t one of them. Some other countries that aren’t members are Indonesia, India, China, and Israel (of course). So it’s not everyone but us that are a part of it, but yeah. We aren’t a part of the ICC even if we are a part of the world.

While we’ve been an “observer” before, we don’t recognize it having jurisdiction over any non-member country.

Edit: unless you mean my usage of apart instead of a part. If so, then this is awkward. I’m always bad at that.

That’s a super short statement. I’m surprised he even commented on it considering we aren’t apart of the ICC. Regardless, Israel is waging a genocide and they needed to be stopped and the current administration needs to be replaced desperately.

“BuT dO YOu COnDeMn HaMAs?” Hamas is shit, they need to be removed from power and a opposition party needs to replace them.

Fuck Israel’s government and Fuck Hamas.