Some people like that trump is a freak, they excuse the most heinous shit for the people that think he’s a freak, but he’s a necessary evil to take down the deep state or necessary to fulfil biblical prophecy, who in turn provide excuses for those who think he’s kind of bad but will help the economy who in turn provide excuses for the “centrists” who didn’t vote for him but think the accusations are blown out of proportion.

China is capitalist and authoritarian. Their investment in their people is done with the goal of neo-colonialism as they use their wealth and influence to indebt growing nations to China. They invest in their people, but only enough to stave off mass protests. We see a lot of wealth come out of China, but remember that we could witness China uplift an equivalent amount of people to the entire population of the U.S. and they would still be oppressing a larger percentage of their population.

It looks like it’s working in contrast to the U.S. right now because we are currently crashing out as a nation, rewarding cash-grabbing opportunists even more than we have for all of U.S. history. Idk, there is a chance we fully burn up in this shit show going on right now and that would de-facto make China’s system technically better, but I think that’s the only way. I mean the atrocities China has committed against its own people and people around the world in recent decades is ridiculous. I know you weren’t going to bat for China don’t worry.

Blades in the dark and other forged in the dark systems are famous for being an early breakout in RPG game design. I’ve run a blades in the dark campaign and it was awesome.

Check out the YouTube channel “Quinns Quest” and I’m confident you can comfortably try any game he has reviewed to get a better roleplaying experience than D&D.

Maybe people should just stop playing D&D. It’s a game mired in ancient game design and forced through a cheese grater of updates over the years to try and make it OK.

Also it’s owned by Hasbro.

There are dozens of better role playing games. Some identical to D&D with better rules, others excellent with imaginative worlds that aren’t just rehashes of lord of the rings and Arthurian legends.

This is the mot and bailey that’s pulled. Catastrophize autism so people only think of the non-verbal/non-functioning types of autism but reference the statistics of the full autism spectrum to make it seem like the first cohort is growing.

Wow I didn’t know there was specific beef against Kirk to back it up. That’s crazy

No dig-dawg. People in the past have only been more wrong about reality that with the exception of parts of the right wing compared to a decade ago.

I mean the type of shit being suggested makes bombing the middle east seem reasonable and makes “4” seem like a win because at least they picked an integer. Quit romanticizing the past. It’s literally what gets us into this mess.

They’re trying to synthesize the two Republican fetishes: children, and blonde-haired blue-eyed Aryans.

If you’re none of those things, trying to look like that artificially leads to some wacky results.

SpongeBob is a pedophile?

Yeah unironically a western-centric take by OP.

Remember: the United States and your precious media is on the same periphery in non-english speaking countries as they are to us.

The US influence on other places is outsized, sure, but only when compared to other cultures influence on us, not compared to local culture.

Yeah, man, let’s get back to talking about it. Like we were doing. Just sittin around, talking about it, while more and more of this list happened. And then we just kept on talkin. That’s what we need to get back to, suddenly, no one’s talking about it. That’s the problem.

The time has come… For two sternly worded letters!

They literally hire people just to make up these scenarios to hire more people to make up contingency plans for them. I feel like once a year an article comes out that’s like “the US has a contingency plan in case Sweden falls to communism and arms itself with nuclear weapons” and it’s like: yeah, ok.

Hot take: but this is going to suck. The tariffs were guaranteed to tank the economy and would be someone that no one who supported trump could staunchly defend. Now we’re going to get a decade of fascists saying “but the tariffs we wanted were never actually instituted so we’ll never know how good they would have been. That’s why I want to do this worse thing.”

Like, I understand that the liberation day tariffs were about to send the US into depression mode and I still kind of think them being blocked is a net good just cause of how bad we would have been fucked.

But God damn it’s going to be exhausting.

“It happens on both sides! you don’t condemn it on your side, isnt that hypocritical?!”

“I… Actually condemn everyone doing it and I think me and you should look for and support people who don’t support this heinous thing.”

“…”

“So, do you condemn the people on your side doing it as wel-”

“But look at this person who has done it on your side!”

Solution? Store 8 booleans in 1 byte.

This is just absurdism using the fact that there’s a new pope as the basis of the meme.

It could just as easily be him saying God says it’s ok to throw car batteries into the ocean.

Schrodinger’s immigrant: they’re both lazy moochers and taking all our jobs.

Well, I can think of at least one famous Jewish carpenter.

This is actually very funny and telling. Mike Pence is on the side of the maga Republican elite who thinks Trump is just a misguided megalomaniac like all of them who’s just taking his turn at power and all he’s looking for is a little grease in the wheels to see reason.

What Pence doesn’t realize is that Trump moved on from him long ago after dropping him like a soggy sandwich for crossing him even once.