EmptySlime @ EmptySlime @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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That would be fantastic, I'd love it if the Democrats would stop doing what they've been doing the last 30+ years of punching left and chasing the "Moderates" rightward. But let's think about this logically for a minute. What are the possible outcomes of what you're proposing?

• Coalition Victory. We install an actual leftist in the White House. Fantastic. No more Genocide. We have a little socialism as a treat maybe? No notes. I love it. But that means we have right now about 7 months to produce or align behind a 3rd party candidate, one who likely won't be allowed on the ballot in several states, Then that candidate has to get enough votes to beat BOTH Biden and Trump meaning they basically have to pull at least like 18% of the vote from both sides in enough states to win the Electoral College.
• Trump Victory. Considerably less fantastic. Democrats blame the Leftists for Biden's loss as usual. Okay, we threatened their power and now maybe we can convince them that they need us to win in 2028 rather than them moving even further right as they have since Clinton. But meanwhile we still haven't stopped the Genocide, Donnie's probably gonna attempt to speedrun it in fact, we've got Project 2025 to worry about. I don't know about you, but I don't think Gaza's going to last until 2028.
• Biden Victory. Not as bad as Trump winning. Genocide is still happening in Gaza, unlike Trump he at least might be able to be convinced to end the genocide in a sense other than the Completionist one. Only now we've proven to the Democrats that they don't need the leftists at all actually and they're free to move as far right as they wish. So maybe we even lose that.

Maybe we get incredibly lucky and Trump gets screwed over by these prosecutions and splits the GOP thus lowering the threshold for us to get an actual Leftist in? I'm not sure we can count on it with how the Judiciary is bending over backwards to try to delay these prosecutions until the election where presumably they'd all "have to get put on hold because it's looks bad to be putting a presidential candidate on trial." Y'know, that old chestnut.

Realistically, we have to reckon with the fact that First Past the Post Winner Take All Voting and the Electoral College screws us here. There's a reason these systems mathematically tend towards a 2 party system. It's incredibly frustratingly difficult, nigh on mathematically impossible to break through the tendency for Strategic Voting that this system breeds. It's the Prisoner's Dilemma, but on a massive scale. A scale where we can only afford what, maybe a hundred thousand people getting scared and bailing on the plan at most for us all to get the worst possible outcome?

Nah, I'm good. I'll continue to vote for Biden because he's infinitely more likely to be swayed to stop the genocide than Trump who if I'm not mistaken has literally expressed a desire to accelerate the genocide on top of all the other heinous shit in Project 2025.

You can hate me all you want for not lining my family up to starve to death in "muh glorious revolution" or to lose our means of continuing to live when Trump tries to gut the Social Security that my family lives off of, or the SNAP benefits that feed us, or however they decide they want to eradicate my disabled trans ass from public life. Call me selfish for wanting myself and my family to continue living in addition to doing what I can to stop the genocide. I really don't care. LARP away my dude.

Ah yes. Direct action. Famously done by checks notes Not doing something. So brave.

He/They and I also dual boot. But I have reproduced so I must have broken something. Just like my Linux bootloader TT

Way too many of these chucklefucks just want to LARP as pure and radical revolutionaries. My wife and I are disabled and live on a fixed income of her disability payments and the SNAP program. If this "revolution" they want so bad does come, then we're among the most likely to just fucking starve in the disruption. I'm also one of the people the GOP declared they want to "Eradicate from Public Life" with Project 2025.

Now, I'm not much of a Genocide Enjoyer. I think it's one of the worst things you can do in fact. But I also don't take too kindly to being effectively told that I specifically should just die because these wannabe revolutionaries refuse to entertain a world where we both vote for Biden to keep Trump from destroying democracy more than the GOP already has (harm reduction), AND engage in direct action to push Biden away from blindly supporting Israel.

What a fantastic development for the Misogynoir% Category! The run had gotten really stale of late what with so much attention being put on the Transphobia% Run and a lot of us thought that the run had basically been solved and there were no big time saves left to be found in the category. This might even change the routing for the run as a whole! What a time to be a part of the Misogynoir% Run community!

This is pretty much the entire reason my wife still uses it at all.

It's too cold in here still. My genderfluid became gendersolid.

More like "Chat, is this real?" imo.

Yeah that seems like a bit of a stretch. That meme read to me like "Oh, you're having problems with the DRM? I don't have that problem," not "Hey guys, here's the GOG installer for X game."

Otherwise, why would the other people in the group chat not like the vibe?

I'm a sucker for characters where what they look like is entirely opposite of what they do. Giant bear men being squishy/cuddly support mages, a girl who's all of 5' -3" effortlessly swinging around a sword bigger than she is, that kind of thing. I like characters that embody the contradiction between my smol bean enby heart and my large bear frame.

So the way this character went in my head was she hated fighting but did so out of a sense of duty that she leaned into in order to quiet the voices in her head telling her something was wrong inside. Then in the years after death the stories of her got exaggerated until when they called on her to save the world again they were expecting someone twice the size that she even was when she was alive. But that's again entirely because I love the idea of them expecting this 2m+ behemoth of a man, getting what looks like a waifish little princess, but still having the strength that caused her image in legend over the years to warp into that behemoth.

Edit: my phone keyboard apparently added trap between 2m and behemoth and I didn't notice it. I also added a bit about my own identity that goes into why I love these characters.

The second is how I'd personally rule True Resurrection recreating a body that no longer exists or is too damaged to use. Same with how you look when Astral Projecting.

My personal take on it is this. Since it requires the body, normal Resurrection rebuilds the body from the body's own blueprint then asks the Soul to return to it. So diseases, missing limbs/organs, body mods, etc. get "fixed" from the body's POV and you're left with what your body would be at that age if nothing prior had happened to it. Then you'd be contacted in your respective afterlife and asked if you want to come back.

True Resurrection contacts you first and then if you agree to come back looks to the Soul to create the appropriate vessel for your return.

So a trans woman would be Resurrected in the man's body she was born in. But would be True Resurrected as the woman she always was inside.

So I'm just picturing a Church of Bahamut using True Resurrection to revive one of their mightiest heroes from a time long passed. Who legends say was a mountain of a man almost seven feet tall and who was so strong he could rip a man in half with his bare hands. Only for an absolutely tiny woman to appear before them because when the hero died in battle and arrived in the afterlife that's when she finally saw her true self that she'd been running from all that time. She absolutely can still rip a man in half with her bare hands of course because her abilities wouldn't change.

Well, the good news is that cancer and appendicitis would be considered diseases which the spell explicitly cures when making the body "whole" for the resurrection.

The bad news is that the Weave does not differentiate between things removed purposefully and things lost in combat. So it is 100% untransing your gender.

But some more good news is that if a mage concentrates on True Polymorph for its full 1-hour duration the effects become permanent unless dispelled. So they can trans your gender so effectively they can actually give you all the fully functional bits and bobs.

In my homebrew setting I have a major band of retired adventurers made up of scrapped character concepts from over the years. One of them actually travels the land among other things transing the genders of people born into the wrong body as they were.

And the one that they put out for if they win later this year is a horror novel. "Project 2025" or whatever it's called.

• Teleport in with person.
• Teleport out without person in original location.
• Move to new location.
• ???
• Profit

Probably meaning the "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself" theory.

It sounds like they're referring more to the bit about the member being able to bring up to two guests maximum into the store. So like if I had a membership and tried to bring my partner, my brother, and my 3 kids to the store with me because I'm disabled and need help shopping at a place like Costco but I'm the only one that drives. Is that me trying to bring 2 guests into the store, or 5? I might have misread but the article really didn't make it clear what constitutes a guest. I know even if it is 5 that my partner could be the secondary cardholder and it sounds like have 2 guests too but like there are families with 5 kids. What about just the two parents and the 5 kids?

Logically you'd think kids wouldn't count, but the article kinda makes it sound like anyone whose name isn't on the membership card is a guest. I think that's where the confusion comes from.

Just remember not to let on that you know about the concept. In a lot of places indicating that you would not indict or convict on a law you believe to be unjust is a very fast way to get dismissed from jury duty.

That's what all the 9th month abortions are for silly goat.

Nah, for the Kpop group it's a shortening of the group's full Korean name Bangtan Sonyeondan which in English translates to "Bulletproof Boy Scouts". Though in recent years they apparently also added "Beyond the Scene" to try to show how they've grown since they first began.