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Enthusiast of the arts, mostly popular ones these days.
They/them. Reposts usually mean "take a look at this."
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First 25-50 hours of Honkai Star Rail are pretty good, though, and if you want a high-production-value, goes-down-easy experience, it's an excellent free game for a while. Just gotta be willing to put it down when it gets boring or frustrating.
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The recent HSR developments really make me appreciate Destiny's combat evolution so much more - Bungie did a good job of building "verbs" that interact in sometimes unexpected ways, where HSR just railroads you with boss fights and constantly adds new mechanics for gacha reasons.
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Exactly right - if you HAVE to agree with Khalil to defend him you're defending the one guy, not the rights at issue, and you say "I don't agree with him" to highlight that it's a rights issue.
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I will say I think Schumer is in a tough spot on this one - he probably doesn't have his caucus fully on-board with a shutdown over "DOGE must go" so whats the ask? What's the legislative solution for the threat DOGE & Musk represent?
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Yeah all these "no position yet" answers read to me like Senate Dems don't think (or don't know) that this gets out of the House. Only Trump gives away his entire posture before he gets to the table...
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I think it's different and more visible in some ways - I was thinking, social status anxiety that used to be expressed by buying a car might now be expressed by taking steroids because that's a more viable dominance display on Insta, say.
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Without disagreeing with anything you say above, I don't believe that "men are going insane on the internet" in proportions that are meaningfully different than women. Generational differences more important here IMHO.
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I'm saying, who is "they" and why do some people get identified as "The Democrats"? Multiple Mayors, all POC Democrats, stood up in Congress this week to defend their cities welcoming attitude to immigrants - we could celebrate them, or focus on Gavin Newsom.
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Al Green got kicked out of Trumps speech! Why does Gavin Newsom got to be "the Democrats" but Al Green doesn't?
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I do think that US corporate media can fall into a kind of "Diversity-bingo" writing that feels deeply artificial. But even at it's worst, it does normalize the existence of difference in a way that I think is important especially for young people.
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The US and Canada should pursue this strategy to "reduce tensions". Just have a giant brawl in southern Alberta, winner gets the tar sands.
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I get this and I sympathize but if you look at who actually makes up the Democratic party, writ large, people are fooling themselves to believe it's even possible. But, uh, the 2024 presidential election tells me it doesn't matter anyway.
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Anyway, DA: Veilguard is in that category with Suicide Squad where I wouldn't pay full price but I think there's enough there to make it worth trying on a subscription service, so if you like the game and want it to have an audience this is probably great news.
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Really gotta appreciate the intellectual labyrinth you have to have wandered into to reach for 2006, halfway through Bush's second term and 5 years into the GWOT, as the relevant comparison for Dem electoral success in 2026.
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Educating women changes SO much, across every aspect of society, but it happens over decades so it mostly gets talked about in terms of fertility rates or economic activity. Lots of data on this now and it's a pretty dramatic signal, I think.
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The challenge is - I have no doubt that if Ds had the votes impeachment would be done in a week. But does saying that help to get those votes? I don't know.
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Ha, Bluesky in the invite code days ...
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If you have any of a number of social anxiety or other neurodivergences, the modern market system is a huge blessing, and I think a lot of folks don't realize how beneficial it is because they've never operated outside it.
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As time passes, "DOGE gone" could become a political benefit to Trump, if it comes in a budget deal, and for that reason might even happen. He'll be under increasing pressure to cut Elon loose, and gets to blame it on congress/Ds if they do a budget deal.
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We've done this, like, 3 or 4 times already since Johnson became speaker! He always caves after acting like he won't (like Trump, natch) and House Ds always stick together until he caves. Only question is whether its easier to work something out with his own caucus ...
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Musk, whose entire fortune is dependent on the full legal and economic stack maintained by the US government, perhaps more than most.
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But this is the OPs point - megachurches having ... let's say ethics issues ... may be as routine and impact larger communities relative to "college students protest" and yet we get wildly disproportionate coverage of the latter for structural reasons.
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Yes, a few weeks in I am far less worried about state power/authoritarianism and far more worried about the destruction of state capacity to handle the problems that they are actively creating.
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It's been really noticeable that the things people hated about COVID (lockdown) they tend to blame on Biden/Democrats, and the things they liked (stimmy checks) they credit Trump. As so often, getting things exactly backwards.