Fascism doesn’t exist in a binary state. It isn’t a switch you turn on. I have this conversation with people often, they don’t think what’s happening now is too big a deal because DeSantis isn’t rounding people off into camps. That’s not how it starts, that how it ends. It starts with little changes, then progresses…

I was thinking about how exactly Blizzard was planning to “fix” the issue. Based on what you said here, which makes sense, the only fix is for them to match massively over-geared players with other players that have no chance of beating them. This seems like a solution that will backfire very quickly.

These arent half bad:

I can’t keep track of how many times I hear people use this same argument. This idea is not based on reality. Most people don’t have the luxury of just quitting and finding another job, even in high-skilled positions. From your comments, it seems like you are misunderstanding what crunch actually is. Crunch is not…

I have a version the rage-quit table flip that I do when I’m utterly defeated and frustrated by a game. I started doing this as a joke while my daughters were watching me fail miserably at killing a boss in Bloodborne and one of them said “Are you going to rage quit now?” so I made a play on rage quitting, but it…

Thank you for saying this. Their point of view is that of the person that doesn’t vote because “it doesn’t really matter”. The problem with that kind of thinking is that you can expand that to everything, why bother doing anything, we’re all going to die eventually so what’s the point? I know that voting or writing my…

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As is the case with most regulated industries in the US, what is legal and what actually happens can differ greatly. The letter I received informed me that my new loan servicer is a company called Ascendium. I looked them up and it seems they are part of a group of companies that have been buying out student loan…

I received a letter last week informing me of the change effective September 1st. One thing I found very curious is that the letter listed my new servicer but said they would not be handling payments. Instead the letter listed 3 LLCs that I know for a fact are debt collection agencies. I spent a few hours on the phone…

I don’t know if I’ve already lost all hope but I honestly think nothing will happen. Our government is too broken already. The only reason Trump is still President is because the Senate GOP formed a defense wall around him the moment he took office. Trump could go on TV tomorrow and admit to working with Russia, admit…

Because giving up your rights today makes it that much harder to hold on to them tomorrow. The biggest problem is that too many people think it’s no big deal. That’s how we get people thinking that Stop and Frisk is OK. We do not live in a police state but if the average citizen folds when their rights are being…

My problem was also with the execution. It would not have been that hard to get to the same narrative conclusion in a manner that made sense. This is how I ran it by the wife:

Very good point. I’ve heard the same things from friends and just quickly remind them that that’s not how math works. Technically speaking, Thanos could have gotten rid of half of all living creatures in the universe and there would have been entire planets snapped to dust, but I’m pretty sure his entire premise was…

It might be a show, but having 5k+ troops at the border will make an already tense situation worse. I can see poorly trained CBP officers with itchy trigger fingers getting big heads knowing they have the US Military at their backs. All it takes is for one person on this side of the border to fire a shot and all hell…

I don’t think its bullshit. All the credentials he gave might be 100% spot on. It speaks more to the decline in educational standards in the US than the breadth of his vocabulary. 

100% agree with you on that point. I guess some people run into a word they don’t know the meaning of and immediately feel talked down to and get all huffy about it. Others take it as a learning opportunity and look up the word in the dictionary and, BOOM! They now know a new word! 

It seems to me that Ford is telling the truth and Kavanaugh is telling what he recalls as the truth. It is entirely possible that Kavanaugh just doesn’t remember doing what Ford says he did. High school kids aren’t exactly known for being sophisticated moderate social drinkers. I don’t buy the picture he’s trying to…

This is still very heavy-handed and a result of too much unchecked authority given to ICE & CBP. A clerical error should not result in 11hrs of detainment and being handcuffed. If it was determined that they were entering under an improperly filed visa application, I don’t see a problem with returning them to their…

This is a major part of the problem. There is a reason why the NRA has these people go out to the media, pretend to be there to listen, then say very thinly veiled remarks that outrage anyone with half a heart. The NRA does not protect the 2nd Amendment, the NRA does not represent most responsible gun owners. The…

This is no surprise. When the markets eventually collapse thanks to this orange pile of sentient raw sewage, he’s going trot in front of reporters and proclaim how he predicted that ACA would fail and it was all Obama and the Democrats fault. When someone asks him about his sabotage of the payments that were part of…