I dare you to put up a national monument to Trump. We as a nation don’t have enough public toilets.

I mean I have two toddlers. It’s not hard. Granted my oldest hasn’t started school yet and she’s still more coherent and consistent and infinitely less hateful and dangerous than the president...

Belonging is definitely one of the tools cults use. I had a sociology professor who actually traveled with the cult that eventually became Heaven’s Gate and that was one of the most consistent things the new brainwash-ees had in common, they were welcomed by these people like nowhere else in their lives.

It’s true and upsetting when you really internalize it and start looking around.

Yes... That’s true? I’m not sure the relevance, but you are correct that Jim Jones was not a nuclear power.

No kidding. I can’t even imagine a way back to civility and politics governed by reason but I can hope. And thank you :) I wonder if he owns property in any non extradition countries...

Because Jonestown was south of oh you got it thank you :)

Yes! I keep forgetting the RICO case in NY. Thank you.

There are a LOT of ways for this to go south (eh? Eeeeeeeeh?) but my money is on the calm, measured toned of Mueller coupled with a massive stack of warrants... At least I hope so. Frankly I’m shocked the GOP hasn’t impeached him yet. If they ousted him on a charge that was his and his alone they could argue Mueller…

Exactly! It is why his political opponents fell away like normal politicians but he seems immune. How the hell did Jim Jones con thousands of people for so long? Who the f knows! From the outside it is deeply confusing. They tend to collapse from death by a thousand cuts rather than how politicians get stuck with a…

No that would be the point: his whole con went off the rails and he got locked up. Shut in or no he ran a con game worth billions. His methods may be different from Jim Jones but the template is very similar.

I’ve ordered the “political prepper special” popcorn from Amazon for that day. They have to deliver it on a flatbed and use a forklift to unload it. I’m not sure it’ll be enough...

Look at the trajectory of cults of personality, like Madoff and Jim Jones. This is spot on for that sort of thing: grift to power on personality somehow, baffle outside experts who underestimate his appeal because he’s a transparent narcissist and con man, and then reach dizzying heights of power. Then overreach due…

I think you nailed it: he’s got too much screen time. His developing brain can’t really process everything and it makes him irritable and oppositional. I think if we give him some more creative activities, like crayons or blocks to build with, we might see an improvement in his temperament.

I think immediate containment is preferable when you’ve got violent extremists on the loose. You’re right that prison does funnel them into recidivism, but it also gives us the chance to educate them and expose them to other forms of thought. Breaking them out of the echo chamber would be good, though prison isn’t…

Excellent advice! Weeding out problem players is the hardest one to grasp for us nerds I think but it’s so key. We tend to avoid thinking about lot of the social and frankly HR aspects of this hobby but you’ll never look back once you jettison that one asshole that ruins every game.

Yes I can imagine a worse Trump shaped pill fate...

Yeah I know it still made chuckle. I suppose it’s more like...hmm who is legit terrible and unrepentant and not just a victim of the patriarchy?

The hottest take I saw on Twitter, and I sadly can’t locate it right now, was that rant “is what it would look like if Marie Antoinette was on Facebook”.

It’s a good point, and I agree with you, we can’t be held responsible. I sure as hell did everything short of physically dragging voters to the polls myself and my stupid state still went red. Hell my stupid county went red though it was close. No, my point was more from the outside looking in: like it or not, the…