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He won't actually, like, listen to them. But he'll be in the room when they're happening. Sometimes. If he didn't decide to play golf instead.

Also I really think the key thing to pay attention to here is "multiyear period". As in, it takes years for companies to reconstruct their entire production and supply chain. Imposing harsh tariffs on goods made outside the US could theoretically boost domestic production, but only if there's actually the skills and infrastructure available domestically to make that cost-effective... And even then, the gains would take years to decades to realise. And Trump sure as shit isn't making the kinds of education and infrastructure investments needed to actually make any of that worthwhile.

First thing that comes to mind is Warframe. It's a co-op third person looter-shooter, with full crossplay, so you can all party up across your platforms. It's all very controller friendly, with lots of shotguns, SMGs, melee weapons and space magic that are all really forgiving of imprecise aim. It cares less about twitch reflexes and more about movement.

The scifi setting and "space ninja" aesthetic may or may not be to your taste, although I promise if you take the time really sink into the world it's actually one of the most refreshingly different and unique scifi settings out there. There's a lot of weirdness, but as you dig deeper into the story that weirdness all makes sense. And, like, it's the good kind of weird if you get me? Stuff that makes you go "Holy fuck I want to know what the deal with that is!"

It does have a lot of MMO elements, so it can get grindy at times, but in my experience it's a really solid game for hanging out and chilling on Discord together. Plus the game itself is free, with no paid DLC or add-ons, and for an adult with an income a few bucks here and there skips a LOT of grind, especially if you check out the third party market website where players will sell you a lot of the rare drops you'll want for less than a dollar.

Added bonus, it's made by the original developers of Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes (there are actually a bunch of UT references squirelled away in the game).

Easily one of the most braindead takes I've seen.

"Oh but he didn't mention voter fraud."

Yeah, because he won. There's no value in questioning the ref's call when it's in your favour.

Crypto is a revolutionary product because it enables users to possess their own units of account.

By this reasoning, so is Monopoly money.

I think my next step is going to be to sign up for NDP membership, so that I can use my voting power to push that party into a more explicitly progressive direction.

That and, as you said, getting involved in local advocacy and education. That part is going to be trickier since I just moved to a new province so I'm basically starting from scratch.

You're wrong and you're right.

I have a very direct knowledge of military marksmanship - much moreso than probably 90% of the people in this thread - but in all fairness my hands on knowledge is with the Canadian military, and I'd forgotten that since we're talking about zombie movies, we are of course talking about US soldiers. So not really the same thing.

The war on drugs only failed if you truly believe its goal was getting rid of drugs.

To quote John Erlichman, one of its architects:

“The Nixon Campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

By the strandards of what it was created to do, the war on drugs was fantastically successful.

The war on porn will be successful in exactly the same way, because Republicans have already spent decades redefining all LGBTQ content as "pornographic". This is will be a tool for disrupting queer and trans communities, for erasing queer and trans resources and tearing down queer and trans rights activists. Stopping porn isn't the point, and it never was.

And to be clear, this isn't supposition, it's already literally happening in Florida.

Florida is the model for what they want to do everywhere.

Two years.

No, they didn't. And when you tell yourself that, you make yourself a sucker.

Because when we tell ourselves that people who do terrible things cannot be human, we forget the logical implications of that; that only the inhuman are capable of doing terrible things.

And we're human. We know this for sure. So therefore whatever we do, cannot be terrible. Because we'd know if we crossed that line, right? Our friends, our family, our coworkers... None of these people are inhuman. We know them, we talk to them, we care about them. So, logically, they could never be capable of anything truly monstrous. Because only monsters can be monstrous.

The Nazis were human. That's the worst, and by far the most important lesson of the Holocaust. That humans did those things. That every single person you know is, under the right circumstances, capable of the most monstrous acts imaginable.

That's why so many people cannot bring themselves to believe that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide; because they believe that only inhuman monsters can commit genocide, and they cannot call every person in Isreal an inhuman monster, can they?

It's not our humanity that keeps us good. Goodness is not inherent, or God given, or born into us. It's a choice we have to make, every single moment of every single day.

Every time you tell yourself that the worst people in the world aren't really people, you make it just a little bit easier to cross those lines. To do something truly monstrous. Because the one thing you know for sure is that you are not a monster.

Never underestimate the "fuckton of playtime" option. Some people just get really into a game.