agent53.bsky.social
Gamer enthusiast, lover of fantasy, Sci-fi, historical fiction, and good stories in general. Anti-MAGA. Progressive pragmatist.
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Well, they're necessary to stop a tyrannical government.
So, hopefully they'll fulfill their intended purpose soon. Any time now . . .
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The closest thing I know of is President Andrew Jackson (not a founder) saying, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."
Which is the flaw in any democracy. Checks and balances only work until someone stops playing by the rules.
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Cops would have made sure he never made it to a courtroom.
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Just pretend he's in the military and the CEO was actually a person of color in a country with oil, and I'm sure you'll get over it.
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Unless Republicans wake up, impeach the administration and we hold a Constitutional Convention and rewrite the whole thing from the ground up.
So yeah, it's probably going to be violence.
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The President can't just throw out a Supreme Court ruling. The only way to get around it would be Congress passing a law, which SCOTUS could still challenge as unconstitutional.
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Not sure, but I know a number of them have been arrested for state-level child sex crimes.
Just in case all of those "we're trying to protect the kids" Republicans actually care about child sex offenders.
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That's right @politico.com bend that knee.
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Let them go in their bunkers.
And then make sure they can't come out.
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One the one hand, I have mixed opinions about congestion pricing.
On the other hand, I'm not a New Yorker and I respect their right to run the roads in their state the way they want to.
I guess Republicans never really cared about state's rights. Not surprised.
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That's because we aren't FDR in this situation.
Ironically, we're on the Stalin side of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
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You can see it in the way they try to explain tariffs and gas prices.
"Tariffs will make us produce everything here instead." Sure, if you have a century-old grasp of economics.
"If we drill more oil, gas prices will go down." Sure, if oil wasn't sold on a global market.
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Talking on the job, that's the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse we should be getting rid of!
/sarcasm
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They'll more than likely say something like "I see now hiring signs everywhere, get a real job!"
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Then the mouthbreathing MAGA voters run around saying "they cut so much waste, fraud, and abuse they were able to pass a huge tax cut!"
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Exactly.
One guy literally paid a porn star for sex so he could cheat on his wife who just had a baby.
And no one in the party of "family values" gave a fuck.
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It's worth a shot.
But Trump would probably just declare Tesla and SpaceX vital to National Security and move the funds from some other department as he did with DOD funding to use for his wall. And, according to SCOTUS, that's all legal.
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When fantasy-fiction turns into books set in 1990-2016.
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Let's also not forget AP being kicked out of the White House and practically every news organization left of fascism rotated out of the Pentagon.
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Pointless but necessary?
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I never said option 1 had a good chance.
Unfortunately, I'm increasingly convinced that all of this ends violently. Especially with Trump and Co. prepping their supporters for when the administration defies court orders.
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Who? The CEO of United?
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Honestly? I see two.
1. Survive until the mid-terms, flood Congress with Democrats and impeach him.
2. Violence.
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Unfortunately, between the trade wars, the threats to leave NATO, threats to annex fellow NATO countries the abandonment of Ukraine, and the buddying up to Russia.
NATO might leave us.
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Tell that to the federal employees who have been fired based on DOGE recommendations.
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We're a pretty "woke" and diverse household, and we don't care about any of the words mentioned.
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LOL, Republicans aren't going to do that. Some of them may not like the authoritarian side of what's happening, but everything Trump is doing has been part of the GOP agenda for decades. They aren't going to vote to stop him.
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Yep, a train crash.
With zero deaths.
And Republicans turned it into the worst disaster since Chernobyl.
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Imagine posting this, and then trying to defend the UI and game mechanics to me. What a clown.
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Ah yes, in my towns with one resource slot (which are full btw), I'm going to counter -13 unhappiness with one altar. Because that's the only happiness building I haven't built yet.
I'm sure that my own experience, 50% of Steam reviews and almost every game reviewer on the planet must be wrong.
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Even if I built every happiness building available to me, my cities would still be rebelling. It's basic math you can do by using the screenshots I shared. But that might mean admitting it's just a poorly implemented, unbalanced mechanic and a bad UI. So you won't do that.
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That city is only affected by one of those policies, it's a town so that's -6. But the resource slot is filled, so the other one doesn't apply. The city has -13 unhappiness, so where is the other -7 coming from?
No idea, because the UI doesn't tell you that.
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When these are your crisis policy options in the ancient era and the UI won't even tell you what's causing unhappiness, yeah, not so easy to just fix.
All of my towns are like this, -13 happiness, and the one altar I can build won't save me. Everything was fine 10 turns ago.
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My gf stans Stray Kids and constantly ships the members with men/women from other groups and talks about how cute it would be if one of them dated so-and-so.
She always looks surprised when she sees some unhinged angry stan ranting about stuff like this.
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Yeah, the UK does look primed to possibly just sit on the sidelines if Russia invades the EU nations.
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Don't worry. The guy who caved to Iran and Russia in the Middle East would never cave to Russia in Ukraine. That's crazy talk.
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It's not good, and I currently don't recommend it. The UI sucks, the ages system sucks, the civs/leaders are pretty boring.
That's coming from someone who bought the Founder's Edition because I really enjoy Civ games.
Wait for updates and a sale.
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Eh, I had a crisis and literally every crisis policy was unhappiness in cities, straight up. Every single city was instantly on the verge of rebellion for no reason. What's the counterplay for "all 6 cities/towns hate you because reasons."
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New to Costco but so far.
Pom pomegranate juice.
Hazelnut crepes.
Some bacon chicken ranch wrap in the deli.
Just Bare chicken everything.
Bibigo chicken.
Bao buns.
Soup dumplings.
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We got our membership about 1.5 weeks ago. They didn't have some of the new-member pamphlets you get because they ran out. "We've had a ton of people sign up recently," she said. Lmao.
I just wish they would get some of the Monster Ultra packs.
Bye bye Sam's Club.
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The fact that Matt Gaetz has a show and people actually watch it says everything.
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This is something I'd like to see more info on. Most reports I've seen just describe firing everyone on a new-hire probationary period. But no demographics on who, if any, are being left on the payroll.
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I see we're at the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact part of repeating history.
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Thank goodness Trump is here to fix it all!
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I'm muting this thread because there is almost zero rational, adult discussion to be had here.
You're all free to keep virtue signaling about how you didn't vote for Kamala for some moral high ground. But I won't be reading it.
You owned the libs just like MAGA, good job. Hope you're happy.
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It's exactly the same if you put zero brain power into figuring out the differences. Hope that works out for you.
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I'm sure the Palestinian people sleep easier knowing you owned the libs. Keep up the good work!