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This is their response to realizing that Trump’s tariffs could cause them to lose the house and the senate for 60 years.

Their response isn’t to maybe reflect on their behaviour and maybe stand up to the orange twat. But instead their response is to make sure that the Judiciary doesn’t have the power to stop him and therefore prevent them ever getting voted out.

“Yeah, about your pamphlet…I’m not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945.”

“Everyone was on vacation.”

“What are you talking about, Germany invaded Poland in 1939.”

“We were invited! Punch was served. Check with Poland!”

“You can’t just ignore those years! Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism’s stranglehold on Germany!”

“Nope…He left to manage a Dairy Queen!”

“A Dairy Queen? That’s preposterous!”

“I will hear NO MORE insinuations about the German people. NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!”

I could see Oregon and Washington State throwing in with Cali, giving all of them a direct line to nice fresh Canadian Rocky BC Springs because we up here in Canada would be an instant ally of any states that broke off.

Half of Paris would already be ash.

There’s no such thing as a “non-harmful” pedofile.

Either you’re actively molesting children (yes…even teens), or you’re consuming the CP that is the result of OTHER people abusing children by forcing them to participate and worse.

You don’t get to say “its not repulsive to consume the product as long as youre not a creator of it”. Consuming the end result is still participating in it.

I can’t believe that even has to be pointed out.

it makes line go down.

You often see the question asked online “What radicalized you?”

For me, I was working for a telecommunications provider as a manager and was told that neither myself nor my staff would see any raises or bonuses that year because “the company didn’t make any money.”

The kicker being that the company made 6 billion that year. But because the money counters had projected them to make 7 Billion, and they didn’t hit it, giving out raises would make the stock price drop even more than it was already going to. Essentially, not enough profit, is the same as NO profit.

But you better believe the CEO and executives got their bonus that year.

it makes line go down.

So he’s basically telling the other billionaires to eat the cost of the tariff themselves and NOT pass them on to the consumer.

Trump really is stupid enough to start biting the hands that gave him his current position, all because Musk tells him to.

I would make one hell of an ugly woman…

I was an archaeology major, hence the history thing. And I’m fascinated by the psychology of crime.

I’m far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc…

Especially in non-fiction content, there’s pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It’s the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.

I seem to recall there being a similar exclave in the east, Ontario or Manitoba or something. I remember it from COVID times but can’t remember its name.

The powers-that-be don’t give a shit about your meaningless protests. March as much as you want. Hold as many signs as you want. That only works when the people making the decisions actually care about what you think of them and actually worry about whether or not you will vote for them in the next election.

Neither of those things is true. They work for the billionaire class and they have no intention of having fair elections ever again. So they can safely say “fuck your protests”.

For all of it’s bullshit, there is one thing you can say about the J6 rioters; no one ignored them.

It’s well past time to learn that lesson. The fact that you all aren’t firebombing government buildings by this point is a disgrace from a population of so-called “don’t tread on me” proud Americans.

Trump is exactly stupid enough to bite the hand that feeds him.

It’s a “block party”! </dadjoke>

I’ll show myself out.

Spending every lunch hour on the library computer with three friends in 1994 playing this is probably why I didn’t have a girlfriend.

After setting up emulators for both the PS2 and PS1, I’m amazed at how little I actually turn on my xbox one S anymore.

Games from that generation just hit differently for me. Especially my favourites like Final Fantasy X and XII. It took me a while to get why I felt that way, but it’s the combat systems in modern games have become to frenetic and button-mashy. How am I supposed to strategize what my team mates are doing at the speed that the combat now wants to take place at.

And that’s not just with the Final Fantasy series. God of War both went down that “let’s make combat as fast and frenetic as possible” route after the PS2 generation.

I’m also going to give an honourable mention on PS2 to the last Stalwart alternative to the EA NHL series; that being NHL 2K10. I really enjoyed the things that it did differently to EA Sports, like the ability to set two of your team-mates to hassle an opposing player. I wish 2K had kept it up. But it seems they gave up the NHL and EA gave up the NBA. Fair trade I guess.

I agree with you.

However…there’s an argument to be made that the post itself is a form of criticism and falls under the free speech rules where it regards political figures. In many ways, it’s not any different than the drawings of Musk holding Trump’s puppet strings, or Putin and Trump riding a horse together. One is drawn and the other is animated, but they’re the same basic concept.

I understand however that that sets a disturbing precedent for what can and cannot be acceptable. But I don’t know where to draw that line. I just know that it has to be drawn somewhere.

I think…and this is my opinion…political figures are fair game for this, while there should be protections in place for private citizens, since political figures by their very ambition put themselves in the public sphere whereas private individuals do not.

I’m currently replaying all of them via emulator the last few weeks, and I have to say I respectfully disagree.

IX’s combat system just feels simplified compared to the depth that VIII had.

Could you absolutely cheese the draw system…of course. But if you avoided the temptation, the almost limitless mechanics of stat pairing was fun to play around with when taking on different enemies.

I don’t expect it. I just hope for it because it would be the most big-dick-energy move Zelensky can pull on Trusk.

I desperately desperately desperately want to read a headline that says “Ukraine signs rare mineral agreement with the European Union. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU and the EU gets large resources of rare minerals to supercharge their own homegrown tech industry and divest it from the United States of Trump”

It makes me feel old to admit it’s retro, but Gran Turismo on Playstation.