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It’s a complex tapestry. They hate Jews in relation to Christians. They hate poor people in relation to first-world nations like Israel. And they hate Muslims in relation to everyone else (aside from a few of the really rich ones, I guess). So no wonder it gets a bit tangled for them.

Reminds me of this Oglaf strip (NSFW, of course - it’s Oglaf).

The winner is a Venezuelan politician, so perhaps Trump will launch that war he wants with Venezuela to go retrieve “his” medal from them.

Could you be a sorcerer if you’re related to the DM?

The cleric version of a lich is a Mummy Lord.

At best I was expecting a few “huh, yeah, that’s a common pattern” responses.

This heap of “you’re racist! Get out!” Rage I got instead illustrated my point better than I could have hoped for. Unfortunately. What a complete lack of self-awareness.

I wonder if anyone would change their mind if I “recanted” and started gushing about how I loved everything about how things were being handled on the left with no reservations or caveats? Or if, once branded an enemy, always an enemy?

In any event not a promising sign for future efforts to take Trump down. Probably for the best I’m not American, I’ll just focus on staying out of the splash zone.

Be careful with insisting on “all or nothing”, you often end up with “nothing.” Like what happened in the 2024 election.

Also, I am not a racist. If you read my other comments you’ll find that I’m in favor of the intent of DEI programs, they’ve just been implemented badly in many cases. But it’s just like the virtue-signalling that Trump himself demands of his followers, the moment I said something that seemed slightly out of step I get ejected into the “enemy” camp. No compromise, no effort to understand nuance.

Well, bold strategy, good luck with your future elections I guess.

This is another perfect example of the point I’m making. The slightest variation from perfect alignment with your complete set of ideals and you’d rather descend into a purity spiral and purge your own supporters than beat Trump.

It’s a tale as old as history, alas.

Yes, the party that is literally the only party that can possibly remove Trump due to America’s two-party system. That party.

You don’t support them removing Trump? Then you’re fine with Trump. That’s the reality of the situation, and your insistence that only some magical fairyland third party that happens to align perfectly with your ideals must be allowed to do it is - as I have repeatedly said - exactly the problem that this thread is about.

You really can stop illustrating it now, we all get it.

Yes, we get it, you don’t want any allies in your fight against Trump that aren’t perfectly aligned with every part of your fight against Trump. You don’t need to keep on driving it home now, you’ve amply demonstrated why Democrats just can’t seem to get it together to oppose him.

You’re really, really intent on driving my point home here, aren’t you?

I oppose Trump. I think he’s the worst president the US has ever had and he needs to be stopped. But I expressed an unrelated view that is mildly in opposition to yours, and now that’s the only thing you can think about. You’re focusing entirely on attacking me on this issue.

Have you forgotten that this is about Trump, and about how the only way to defeat him is to get over these sorts of divisions and diversions?

And here we go, a disagreement over policy balloons instantly into “racism and xenophobia” and an ally gets kicked out of the meeting because everything is black or white and no compromise is possible.

I find DEI policies to be a complicated topic, personally. I don’t oppose the basic idea and motive behind them, but I think they’ve been implemented poorly and often turn into discrimination in their own right. Am I now classed as “Trump supporter” in your eyes? I’ve been called a Trump supporter because I don’t like the recent Star Wars movies, so I’m sure a lot of people would indeed lump me in with him on that basis. And thus is proven the basic point about how Trump’s opponents are destroying themselves without Trump’s supporters having to lift a finger.

If everything is “root” then nothing is.

All well and good, but what happens when someone comes to the meeting and says “we should end corruption and remove Trump, but I don’t like DEI policies.”

I’m guessing that will suddenly be added to the “root” cause and we’re right back into splintering and purity spirals again.

The best part is that that particular Big Bad was responsible for my character’s origin, so my character became quite the Ouroboros out of that. She was epitome of a self-made person.

I can do one better, in a campaign I was in a few years back it turned out that due to some time travel shenanigans and an attempt to find a loophole in some wish-induced immortality, my character literally was one of the Big Bads. I went back in time, killed her before she became immortal, and impersonated her for 1500 years. To maintain the integrity of the timeline I had to do all the stuff the Big Bad had already done up to the present day, but as soon as the clock struck “Now” I (as that Big Bad) flipped sides to join the party.

I brought an army of minions and plenty of intel about the other Big Bads along, too. Quite a fun bit of plot judo.

Yes, for example the Gurkhas are from Nepal.

Or did you mean the regular army? They put down a major Maoist insurgency over the decade of 1996-2006, and have remained a significant force in Nepal. Historically they’ve played a major role in power transitions, such as the Rana era from 1846-1951 when military officer Jung Bahadur Rana overthrew the monarchy and established a hereditary prime ministership, and then again in King Mahendra’s 1960 coup when the monarchy took power until the 1990s.

But fortunately they’ve not been as prominently involved at playing “kingmaker” as the militaries of many other South Asian countries. They tend to act as a stabilizing force for whoever gets power by other means. I guess we’ll see if that pattern continues to the current unrest.

He’s doing it in an attempt to “sabotage” AI training.

It’s also a useful flag to indicate that he doesn’t understand how AIs are trained.

So?

It’s a term people are trying to turn into a slur for either AI or people who use AI, depending on the circumstances. It seems to come from the Clone Wars show where it’s used derisively to refer to battle droids.

Thanks for the heads up, I deleted the duplicate comment.