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A better idea is to do to the Democratic Party what the Tea Party and MAGA did to the Republicans.
Primary out corporate candidates and push for progressive ones at every level. President, congressional rep, school board trustee, dog-catcher: it doesn't matter.
The problem progressive voters have is that they don't show up, and the especially don't show up during off years, in primaries and in down-ballot races. The polticial right, by comparison, has been getting people in place on small races for years.
Sanders did more for progressivism by enthusing Democratic members to vote in primaries and down-ballot races than Stein or any third party has ever done, and we're seeing results. It needs to continue.
If you thought Viagra and Ozempic had a market, just wait...
This will be huge amongst the wealthy.
Jesus Christ, if that's real, the WaPo editorial board needs a slap upside the head.
Stop. Rationalizing. Trump.
What I am really unsure about is if there's even a market for Halo anymore.
I'd like to think that a plot-heavy, dialogue-heavy game has a place in the modern era, at least after God of War and Ragnarök, but I don't know if that's what the kids want, and I really don't think the industry wants it because it's expensive and the ROI is low compared to PvP extraction shooters, which are cheaper to make an easier to monetize.
I want to play a story through, and I want to care about the story and the characters and the dialogue. I cut my FPS teeth playing Marathon (Bungie's predecessaor to Halo) and never got into the shallow-plotted shooters that id Software was pushing at the time, but I think the market has largely passed me by.
This focus on the engine and the focus on company structure does not give me hope.
It's nice to see private-sector management practices have made their way to the public sector.
Everyone says "run government like a business", and there's nothing more "like a business" than scapegoating someone because management failed to follow process.
He didn't really talk to the nation. He played a role: sunny, shiny, happy, rainbow-painted park benches pride parades, but underneath it's the same champagne-sipping Laurentian neoliberal wankery.*
I'd say the mask was off with either electoral reform or, and this is my theory, the lightning-fucking-quick move to sell TMX.
(as opposed to the tall-hat, cowboy-cosplaying Calgarian elite that's the CPC)
This should be automatic vehicle seizure and at least a decade-long license suspension.
That nice little BMW you clocked at 230+? It's going to fund the next OPP picnic.
The problem is that we're now forty years into neoliberal orthodoxy. There's been two or three generations of policymakers, politicians and bureaucrats who cannot even conceive of publicly-funded, publicly-run services and solutions. I've been in meetings where this gets suggested and people look at you like you're pants-on-head crazy for suggesting government just do it, soup to nuts.
Think about it: when was the last, realy, fully-public solution delivered? Not one where the private sector was bribed to do it, not one where the government gave tax breaks, not one where some douchebag got their name on the door.
You have to go back to the 1970s, at least. Anything good, anything we built, was before 1980.
Politicians have had almost 15 years since the drug crisis started in earnest to do something.
What they did was implement a "let'er rip!" non-enforcement strategy that, without supports, housing or healthcare, was basically pouring gasoline on the pre-existing fire. Addicts weren't going to get help, but they were going to get even fewer speedbumps on the road to letting addiction ruin everything for them and around them.
And politicians did this because choosing not to enforce anything while simultaneously not providing supports was the cheapest option. It required doing even less than they were doing at the time, and it let them get kudos for being so progressive and forward looking.
Jump forward fifteen years or so and the toxic fruits have come to bear.
Clamping down on SCS is just another way to avoid spending money fixing the problem.
Yup, Ron Jr.
He’s actually very progressive, especially given his upbringing.
The only reason I don't use KDE is because it doesn't do the super-key expose/dash/overview like Gnome.