It has to be used the right way too. If you just hold a sign and go home then nothing changes. That’s the consensus building and demands phase. When you have critical mass and demands aren’t met you burn down police stations and setup autonomous zones. The problem with both of those wasn’t that they happened it was that the people fell for the media’s demonization of them.

I keep telling people this. To add, armed conflicts have a nasty habit of hardening a country. Getting rights back after it’s over is a pain, even if the “good guys” win. If you can manage change by overwhelming numbers in the street then it’s far better.

This is not normal. He did not commit a crime. Everyone in these borders has first amendment rights specifically to prevent the government from just declaring some people non citizens and oppressing them.

The entire series has some pretty heavy handed messaging. To be clear, I love the series.

Because you apparently missed the parts of Dragon Age 1, 2, and 3 where you are involved in heavily ethical government decisions? And that’s on top of the heavy messaging about abuse of power by mortal leaders that starts literally from the first few minutes of DA1.

Record Homelessness…

Deflation is fine. Plenty of countries have been through deflation and they haven’t exploded. Japan is probably the best example.

He’s known for his fiery rhetoric, especially slamming and blasting his enemies. CNN said so.

Basically she wasn’t willing to throw Biden under the bus even a little, and that was the problem.

They could have handled the Michigan problem in a lower key. Letting them speak at the convention and promising real investigations with paused shipments. That way they get the moral high ground for both sides without taking a side.

And as for the affordability crisis. All they had to do was say, we know we have more work to do, we successfully avoided a recession and more we must make sure we don’t leave everyday Americans behind. Then go on to talk about trust busting, grocery prices, housing prices, car prices.

Instead they chose fear mongering and status quo. It was an out of touch campaign run by out of touch corporate elites.

Here’s an idea. We all just stop. And loudly let them know they fucked up. Because rewarding them for this behavior is just going to get more of it.

We got clear polling and focus groups on this. Voters didn’t believe it was a big deal because the DOJ didn’t arrest him. They know how the justice system operates and seeing it just not operate informed their opinion.

And then there’s stuff like judges revoking the FTC ban on Non Compete Agreements. I can’t imagine why there might be discussions about judicial reform threats

I put this in the other post too. This is literally their description on steam.

Combine valid poker hands with unique Joker cards in order to create varied synergies and builds. Earn enough chips to beat devious blinds, all while uncovering hidden bonus hands and decks as you progress. You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory.

Combined with playing actual poker hands, yeah that’s going to get tagged for gambling. They knew what they were doing and this performative outrage is a viral marketing campaign.

It was imagery of gambling. And yeah, that tracks.

Yup, and I feel it every time. I suspect there’s a few of us who had the chance to actually see Kurdistan who feel the same way. But considering both parties seem intent on throwing them under the bus at every opportunity I don’t have any hope.

Oh they know. As one of them explained it to me 20 years ago, they always knew it was temporary. They accept American help when given but do not make plans to depend on it. They did that once and got slaughtered by Saddam.

I just can’t with him anymore. God forbid HTS, the Remnants, and the Kurds be allowed to form a stable government. Because of course Bibi is also bombing targets inside Syria with no pretense of them being Iranian anymore.

Nah the article makes it clear the Democratic leadership has been captured by corporate executives who have a vested interest in not giving the working class an inch.

They really won’t though. I’m going to believe the body cam footage of them breaking windows and hauling people out of cars over edited YouTube footage.