As a political science major (and a history buff), you’re absolutely right: modern day China can be better-characterized as fascist than anything else - it is Communist-in-name-only at this point.

in order to keep the EU from becoming a unified power that could be a global equal to America

“ Trump let it slip that it exists for other nations to protect America”

Trusting the scientists and officials means that you update your trust in as new information emerges and they revise their guidance, not that you trust what they said a year ago as infallible and blunder forward blithely

It’s not that you’re supposed to ignore the scientists. It’s that the delta variant is new information. It’s more transmissible, even amongst vaccinated populations. Those same scientists are the ones now saying “Hold up, we need to go back to being careful because not enough people vaccinated when we needed them to,…

Yep. Something the “drain the swamp” crowd didn’t realize is that refereeing fair play and looking out for the greater good is both helpful for business overall and quite laborious. The system may need to be tuned, as all systems do, but is basically good.

Once a democratically elected leader gets tearfully wistful for the good old days of military dictatorship

Yeah, I’m not so sure about that. They’ve been pretending to diversify, while taking as much profit as possible and staying firmly entrenched in fossil fuels. They should be leaders in renewable energy by now, and could be raking in big bucks from solar and wind installs, etc. Instead they’re on the sidelines and…

Frankly, after the whole China thing, helping out former Trump officials, hiring a torture apologist, and...

I could have sworn that was Jonah Hill.

to me the part that totally flipped it was when turns out the leds on their heads are stickers they can remove at any point, making the whole thing even dumber.

Ugh - just seeing that smug, orange, exceptionally punchable, face on my computer screen is giving me a disquieting sense of nausea and disgust. Sort of like when you vomit, and the mere taste of the residual bile in your mouth makes you run for the toilet again.  Stomach heaving and churning.  

The government determining the value of what items you’re worthy of is exactly the kind of Cold War Communism shit they cry about from liberals. 

From quoting a lot of automotive production parts to all of the OEMs, I now have a nose for vaporware. For instance, I have quoted a ton of Rivian parts - even early on they were prepping the supply chain. Starting to get desperation requests for quote, so they will be on the roads soon. Early on, saw lots of Tesla…

It seemed laughably obvious from the start that Lordstown was almost completely dependent on Trump being president: both for hype and eventually for some sweet, sweet subsidies from the taxpayer kitty. The (former?) leadership of the company was betting heavily upon Trump getting re-elected to keep the con rolling. It…

Local Honda dealer seems to want our 2000 CRV

Northeast, too. They’re an invasive species.

I know a lot of people who drive big trucks, and I don’t trust their skills with those trucks.

I'm gonna level with you if I can't impulse buy your indie game at 2am in the eshop when its 20% off I am probably not going to buy your game.

The missing resolution options suck, there’s no excuse. But for keyboard support, I have to say, that doesn’t bother me too much. It bothers me much more when games that should clearly support controllers don’t support them, or don’t support them well.