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I mean lets be real, none of these charities are pushing to ban guns, more like simple things like universal background checks etc... Point is if the goal is to give a middle finger to conservatives while describing it as honoring kirk, gun control would be the ideal, as that's litterally the cause of his death.

To me my biggest hope is that he takes their calls to donate to TurningPointUSA... and flips them.

"So, some asked me to donate to TurningPointUSA as an apology, I've decided it's more appropriate to donate to (pick a gun control charity here),

anyone know what the claim is to even count as defamation?. That to me seems like what should be the crux.

IE if the claim was "X's voice clearly shows he's dying of cancer." I could see that as defamation. On the other hand "X is summoning demons" that clearly would be fan-fiction.

I mean, the declarations are often intended to basically satirize trump, and no it's not as horrific because quite simply the intent is obvious. Anyone with 2 brain cells knows newsom isn't going to put pressure on, concert venues or whatever the hell would make the choice to allow kid rock to play.

So no it's not the same thing, at bare minimum because it's super obvious that I cannot do it. If me random dude on the internet makes the declaration that I'm going to drop a nuke on turkey, you can pretty easilly tell I'm joking. If trump talks about dropping a nuke on greenland... that's a very different thing because he can do so.

unfortunately I don't think so...

I don't think they actually care about Charlie Kirk at all... half of maga hated kirk. Laura Loomer was bashing kirk while he was alive (obviously for very different reasons than us).

His value to maga just went up massively BECAUSE HE'S DEAD. They've wanted to crack down on free speach in the left for ages, but they've lacked the right hook. They wanted to do it with Luigi and Brian Thompson... but sadly they realized that average american's were very familiar with the predatory nature of the health insurance industry, and even brainwashed right wing maniacs have horror stories involving health insurance.

Kirk is a pawn, they aren't trading their values of free speech to protect Kirk. Removing free speech was their values, and Kirks assassination is an excuse to make it happen. If we gave trump a time machine to go back and save Kirk, he'd absolutely turn down the opportunity.

Ah damn, my arguement must have completely come apart, because that's absolutely a scottsman, and he is falling for the marketing. I don't think there's any comeback for that.

Thank goodness for the red circle, I'd have been sure the focus was the 2 guys in the water.

Also could just be a general concept of investments... IE we lose 10 million here for canceling this show, we make 100 million in the merger we want to do next year.

Yeah, I think scottsman are the ones that are actually immune to marketing.

With regards to taletells implimentation of it, I found it pretty badly done. IE namely they used it for choice based story games... but I felt them pretty damn weak in that area. (in the sense that 99.9% of the story is pretty set in stone, and usually based on the most common choice, you go back and do the opposite, and everything plays out pretty much identically except maybe one or 2 one liners will change).

IE I remember the walking dead... Kenny was a mostly cool guy, who was always in conflict with a hot head old man, obviously the natural way most people play is to take kenny's side in the conflicts. In the end the hothead leaves you for dead and kenny saves you.

then replaying it... basically with constantly taking hotheads side, being a jerk to kenny at every juncture along the way. so you get the alternate ending, where hothead punches you out, and kenny saves you... but adds in the comment "even if you are an asshole". while rescuing you.

and honestly the episodes just branch that further in story, largely they clearly didn't have the resources to make a wide ever branching story that you think it is... so you just get little bits that all merge back into the same path overall.

Trying to figure out if you are joking, or you are from a nicer country that getting paid sick leave is something everyone gets. Good chunk of the american work force, has to negotiate with their boss, go to a doctor that's going to charge them between $50-$200 so they can tell you "yep you have a cold, here's a note so you can prove it to your boss", so you can give that note to your boss and hopefully not get fired for taking some UNPAID days off. (of course as most states are "at will" if you do that too often you still run the risk of getting fired for "no reason" later).

Yeah I think the real thing is just not understanding how bad a cold without an immune system would be. IE only real way to put it in context is, read up on what an immune-comprimised individual goes through when they get a cold.

It's a bit like saying

"why is my countries missile defense so crappy, whenever we're attacked there's chunks of metal all over the ground, so much smoke and noise it makes it hard to sleep, why are we so bad at defending from missiles".