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My question is, if it's sad and shameful, why is Trump still so popular in polls?

Sure, they may say it's "sad and shameful", but it's clearly not bad enough for them to not want to vote for Trump anyhow.

If Trump was just a normal businessman, he never would have gotten elected. His base likes the horribleness. They think he will be horrible only to people they feel deserve it.

So many on the left seem to think that deep down people are good, and that if they just knew all the horrible shit conservatives are saying and planning they wouldn't vote for them. There's just this near-total refusal to acknowledge that for a scarily large proportion of the population, that horrible shit is their reason for voting for conservatives, and not only will pointing it out not help, trying to educate them generally just won't work.

Unlike what some people have been claiming, looks like doubling down on the fascist rhetoric and bigotry hasn't made Trump any less popular.

If anything it's made him more popular.

Unhinged orange turd's Nazi wankfest now worth more than Spacecunt's Nazi wankfest, yay.

Almost like fascists didn't want people to know all the fascist shit they get up to

Huge surprise that a social media platform run by a billionaire cryptofascist who hired a Project 2025 member to run the site's public policy in the Southern US would let anti-government militias do whatever they want.

This meme is the funniest Napoleon Dynamite scene

Will have the "mature tone of the original trilogy".

Did we play a completely different original trilogy? Eg. framing Miranda's ass in every shot was super duper mature, y'all

My main nit is that Rogue Incursion is hamstrung by how well one can tolerate existing in a tense VR setting for extended periods of time. (For me, I felt insane after taking my headset off, like I hadn’t blinked once in 30 minutes.)

Yyyyeeeaaaahhh, I probably couldn't go 3 minutes 😅 I'm a big 'ol wuss and I just can't do horror games, even though I absolutely love horror movies and the Alien franchise – I get so immersed in games that survival horror stuff is just a nope for me

Literally the foundation of conservative "political ideology".

100% guaranteed she believes in a white Jesus and would go into apoplectic conservative rage if you pointed out good 'ol Jebus was brown

Requiring people to use their real name would take out a lot of the noise, the false and misleading info, and the unqualified opinions that people are blasting out into the ether, and then other people who don’t know any better find it and feel with their ape brains that their own malformed opinions and emotions are validated.

But requiring all internet users to identify (somehow, let's leave the implementation aside for now) would also mean that anyone living in a repressive regime would be even more fucked than they are now, and it'd mean that even people living in at least nominally democratic countries but with a nonzero amount of violent conservatives would be an easier target, since there'd be no pseudonymity.

As to your last point, we are definitely not cognitively equipped for what we have. Can we equip ourselves now, after the fact?

Frankly I doubt it. The cat is out of the bag, and I really don't know how we can unfuck this situation – at least without significant amounts of social upheaval and bloodshed in the interim