Ertebolle @ Ertebolle @kbin.social

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Republicans: "Ha ha ha, now the tables have turned! Vengeance is ours!"

Democrats: "Cool, whatever"

Good. Nobody cares. Send him to ADX Florence and throw away the key and I doubt even his dad will shed more than a few tears over him.

How many times are developers going to put up with being used as sticks for one group of rich assholes to whack a different group of rich assholes with before we start supporting open platforms?

Gamers: pointlessly sacrificing the moral high ground since 2014.

Yeah, this could be a whole theme, giving nice things they don't like to nice people they don't like: Target gift cards for drag queens, banned books for migrant children, electric cars for teachers, etc.

Wikipedia:

In 2020, he changed his position and said that a government led by him would never introduce a bill on the topic, and no private ones would be adopted. In 2021, Poilievre opposed a private member bill prohibiting sex-selective abortion.

Poilievre supports same-sex marriage; in a 2020 interview, he called it a "success" and stated "I voted against it 15 years ago. But I learned a lot".

And yeah, he wants to produce more oil, but so does Biden. And for that matter, Trudeau also wants to build more oil pipelines. I wish there were more mainstream politicians who were genuinely anti-fossil-fuel but those are, unfortunately, few and far between.

I'm honestly kind of shocked that you could visit China and come back with the conclusion that we aren't a bunch of lazy idiots.

Yeah, their timing on this is pretty stupid - whatever headlines they're hoping to generate with this impeachment business are going to be drowned out by the shutdown anyway.

I've lived in China and I can assure you that by comparison our domestic spying and propaganda are as laughable as our attempts at manufacturing consumer electronics. (and indeed the reasons for our failures at both of those things are somewhat related)

He supports Ukraine, climate change targets, new housing construction, abortion rights, immigration, legal weed, and gay marriage. He has plenty of other extremely problematic positions and I hope he loses badly, but nevertheless, the gap between him and basically any Republican is pretty substantial.

I'm not all that worried about authoritarianism in America, for this reason: America is a big country full of lazy, entitled fucks who hate their jobs. And our police are the most lazy / entitled / job-hating of them all.

You are never, ever going to get the number of dedicated spies / censors / secret police you would need to pull off authoritarianism in America; they'll absolutely cut taxes and cut social services, fuck up the economy seven ways to Sunday, and let overseas strongmen run roughshod over smaller countries, but that's what they're about. Even on the limited occasions where Americans do dabble in policing thoughtcrime - the recent spate of book censorship for example - it's half-assed and sloppy and only ever meant as a means to some other end (in the case of book bans, destroying public schools), never something people are actually that excited about in its own right.

So yes, we certainly have to worry about Republicans winning things because they're going to make everybody's lives miserable in a hundred different ways if they do, but authoritarianism is beyond their power to pull off.

Adding 40% to 0 is still 0 - we need to add, like, a million %.

“My god, this is an outrage… I was going to eat that mummy!”

It may have been more like:

Unity: "We love money and hate our customers, who can we hire to realize that vision?"

EA CEO: "Finally, a job that understands me"

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "deadname"

I don't think the risk-reward really works out there, a 23-in-24 chance of dying just for the chance to spend your life attending endless boring ceremonies?

He should go work for Epic, they're really just begging to be run into the ground by a shitty CEO

I don't think it'll hurt her much; though there certainly is some degree of difference between a private video being leaked and a public livestream being saved / leaked, they're still both illegal invasions of privacy and hence this will be viewed by most reasonable people as Republican skullduggery rather than any moral failing on her part.

Most of the original voices have left. The remaining can’t voice characters outside their ethnicity.

What? The 6 of them are all still there. Hank Azaria gave up Apu/Lou/Carl and Harry Shearer gave up Dr. Hibbert, but the vast, vast majority of characters are still being voiced by the same actors.

I do think that the fact that The Simpsons has been on so long that they had to go ahead and do that is strong evidence that the show has run its course + ought to end, but the re-casting is a symptom, not a cause.