@davidfrum Maybe you should re-examine your reflexive reactionary impulses here, David.
We need to stop somewhere between tearing down monuments to secession and cancelling Abraham Lincoln, but some of those monuments need to be toppled.
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BAKidd
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Just somebody on the internet. Mostly here to check if it’s Scorigami.
Sarnath, that is no more Katılım Ekim 2019
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Donald Trump doesn't believe Canada should exist. Neither do those who topple its monuments and malign its founders. Trump and Canada's ultra-progressives may not like each other much. But they share the same project of Canadian annihilation. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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The reason you stand up to liars who falsely accuse a good and generous country of genocide is because someday you may need to rally that good and generous country against a thug and bully who traffics in lies of his own.
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@Quizzit @dungeoncraft Their current policy is correct (spin off WotC and/or digital from toy-making Hasbro), but did they come to it from clear reasoning or endemic short-termism?
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@dungeoncraft That's fair when talking about a business, I suppose.
I guess my question is, do we want them to succeed?
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@BruceBartlett With long distance rates, it actually cost real money to harass someone in a different area code, though.
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I wonder how many people upset about "doxxing" know that not too many years ago the name, address, and phone number of practically everyone was printed annually in a book that was delivered for free to every household. Same information was available for a phone call.
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@_raypeterson @briangaither @RadioFreeTom If Russia didn’t have nukes, they would lose to Ukraine the minute Poland and Finland decided to directly re-litigate their historical grievances with Russia.
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@briangaither @RadioFreeTom Besides their nuclear arsenal, I wonder how hollowed out Russia’s military is after two years of fighting? Does Putin have the manpower and equipment to make a move on NATO?
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@ErikLoomis So open minded our brains fall out, unwilling to take our own side in a fight.
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See, now this is where the Democratic Party completely fails.
There's no downside to attacking the Federal Reserve!!!!
Jeff Stein@jstein_star
New - Ron Klain, former chief of staff, wanted President Biden to acknowledge the pain the Fed’s high interest rates were causing families and businesses through higher costs The push was met with resistance from a White House wary of even the appearance of criticizing the Fed
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@dieworkwear Why wouldn’t I get fashion advice from a petite Asian man?
Like, that’s the first place I would look!
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I don’t think Democrats and their allies appreciate the damage these voters have done with Black people, the most loyal voters in the Democratic coalition.
Jack Herrera@jherrerx
I don't think Democrats and their allies appreciate the damage these sorts of takes are doing to them with Latinos
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@PATRICKHENRY97 @ElieNYC Your real issue with black people and elementary schools is that they don’t want to send their kids to ones named after Civil War generals anymore.
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@ElieNYC Did you even graduate elementary school? Asking for all of America.
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The temperature high was 81 degrees in New York on Wednesday NOVEMBER 6, by the way.
But America elected a climate change denier because the black lady didn’t have the right message for people who never went to college.
We are very close to watering our crops with Gatorade.
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To put this is context: black people were NOT saying this shit in 2016.
I haven’t seen this level of this stuff before. We all know you don’t care about us… but I don’t think the Dem party has thought through what happens when we stop caring about y’all.
2RawTooReal@2RawTooReal
Yall are on your own
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@ErikLoomis Biden not putting his name on the damn Covid checks after Trump *did* is emblematic of Democrats ignoring vibes.
Plus, the checks stopped on the Democrats’ watch because of Manchin.
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I think people--liberals and leftists--need to realize that no one cares about policy. It is indeed all vibes. The policy has to reflect the vibes.
Jacquie@LAjacq123
@ErikLoomis Democrats did many things to help the working class and it didn’t matter bc vibes and culture are more important.
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@ElieNYC @Mikey5Aces Cuban has actual rich guy populist cred with Cost-Plus Drugs.
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@Mikey5Aces Beshear is a politician. He’s a good one, but a politician. That’s not what we need.
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I can’t because I’m not white. White boys are never gonna listen to me.
And if they did, me telling them that they are stupid and need to educate themselves and read a statute… would not go over well!!
As Senator Draccus said in Gladiator “I am not *of* the people, I just try to be *for* them.”
ED Malik@edmundmalik1
@ElieNYC Elie,Why don’t you be the Joe Rogan for Democrats?
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@charlescwcooke Defending the filibuster is absurd. Republicans will discard it the instant it gets in their way, probably with tailored “exemptions” that allow them to cater to their billionaire donors while maintaining the kayfabe for culture war BS they don’t particularly care about.
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Back in 2021, when I was vigorously defending the filibuster, I got ten million responses saying, “if the GOP wins a trifecta you’ll change your mind.” I won’t. I didn’t in 2017, and I won’t next time. Laying that down for the record, too.
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Just to lay down a marker by which you can judge me, in case everyone does indeed switch sides: The electoral college is an excellent institution, and my arguments for it are wholly independent of who it temporarily benefits. Same with the filibuster, Senate, and Supreme Court.
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@YoDanno It’s still a dumb, statistically suspect and utterly clunky mechanic.
If your numeric scale needs more notches, you re-scale it, you don’t add six notches between 18 and 19 without changing the scale!
#mathcrimes
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Rolling an 18/00 Strength in AD&D is quite posiibly the most difficult roll to achieve in the entire game.
I said what I said 💪
#DnD
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@Gingerblast @pearsesd @TheCompleatDM Your odds of winning are only 2.5 percentage points higher with a d20 than the tens place die, though.
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@pearsesd @TheCompleatDM If you're taking d6, I'll take the % dice. Higher number wins!
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@Sensei_Suplex @dungeoncraft Villain-driven plotting and timetables are surprisingly old school techniques, although clocks and faction stats let you do it in a less heavy-handed way than Dragons of Despair.
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@dungeoncraft I absolutely love this! I think even just the wording alone shifts my brain to think of things a lot differently!
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Player Driven Experiences or Linear...
Which is better?
youtu.be/CBJwMoENXOs?si…
#gaming #players #ttrpg #videogames
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Now he’s closing on challenging Liz Cheney to a duel?
Focused like a laser on people’s problems
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: Liz Cheney would not fight. I will go with her, wherever she wants, and we will fight. She doesn't have the guts to fight. She's all talk and no action.
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@richeisen Thank goodness. It would have been too cruel for them to Jets it up after that insane catch.
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@DyingStylishly @MoseyDm The great part of the OSR is that when you yell “burn the heretic!” everyone looks in a different direction but they all grab their matches.
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I may be welling up a bit this was included.
Table arguments should be down about 61% now.
I feel OSR folks hate this for some reason.
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@Aloyalpedocrat @WWATMD To repel pirates, sure. What I want to see is Bezos take out Zuck in the mid-Atlantic with a Wave Motion Gun.
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