You’re not supposed to be friends with incels, and that’s the idea; that’s their idea.

If there’s a problem with violence in games, I think it’s the violence that doesn’t mean anything. The ability to kill hundreds upon hundreds of faceless mooks, who die cleanly or comically, and whose bodies somehow disappear into the ether, is objectively a perverse exercise. It’s sanitizing murder to make it fun and…

I think having the gore is important. As games become more advanced, with better graphics, they’ve had to reconcile a particularly uncomfortable point: how do we handle the fact that our protagonist is (usually) killing literally hundreds of people in the course of the game?

From a purely “diplomacy 101" standpoint, this is a rolling clusterfuck.

They can claim victory, but people aren’t that dumb. They’ve claimed victory on taxes too. And unlike this case, they did actually get a concrete and definite tax plan passed that did exactly what Republicans said they would do.

I’m curious how they actually did this. The article makes it sound like they just collected evidence and said “this points to T.D.” As in like, they picked up a piece of chewed gum and were like “hmm, the brand, color and bite pattern are consistent with a known juvenile delinquent in this area.”

In case it was hard to figure out from the name, it’s a Humvee with a giant Howitzer on the back.

Sure it is. A) I always write ridiculously long posts. That’s my problem. B) It aligns well with Splinter if the point is to argue that we should focus on running good progressive candidates who can win Democratic votes, instead of falling into conspiracy theories and back biting about mysterious dark cabals of…

Of course I know who Fulop and Baraka are. What was a mystery to me was this claim that they were scared to run because The Machine was going to crush them and end their careers. That’s what I Googled. Because you’d figure there’d be a news story or two on that . . . if it happened. But it didn’t. Your claim boils…

Michael Starr Hopkins wasn’t discouraged from running. He ran. His campaign foundered. That’s how most campaigns end. Trying and failing is a big part of all politics. It doesn’t make him the victim of of a corrupt conspiracy to silence and eliminate dissent. And nobody is claiming that his career is over because he…

I hear this conspiracy theory a lot. But I’ve yet to see even just one person who was willing to admit that they were ordered to steer clear of the chosen one or THE CABAL would end their career.

Of course it is. But that’s not the point. Arguing we need to get money of out of politics is not a new thing, and it’s not a unique argument to progressives. Most people agree we should get money out of politics. Maybe we could even have public financing for elections! That’d be neat!

I’m curious how they stopped you from doing that. What happened? When Corey Booker made his endorsement, that flipped off your free will chip and compelled you OBEY AND CONSUME?

One of the things I love about Paul Verhoven is that he has this unique ability to create these dystopian hellscapes, and then tell the audience “yeah, but the story isn’t about that.”

Senator Robert Menendez, who not along ago was a hung jury away from a federal corruption conviction, won his primary election Tuesday, after the New Jersey Democratic machine, with an assist from national Democratic Party leaders, cleared the field for him.

He won’t now because Ali’s family would reject the pardon and make Trump look foolish.

Agreed.

The more realistic problem is that Trump is going to do the same thing he does in any face-to-face sit down we’ve seen (like with Democrats on immigration).

You could maybe say Republicans were single issue on guns but for abortion. Abortion is the Republican single issue if ever there was one. In Alabama, when Republicans tried to get voters to pull the lever for lifelong child predator, abortion was the reason they gave, not guns. Tomi (Tammy) Lahren sucked from the…

I’m hesitant to think he’ll “run circles” around Trump. Remember, Kim Jong-Un is a 34 year old man-kid who by any reputable accounts was a modest and unassuming student who liked American basketball, drawing and computer games.