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Ok bro, don't be leaving us hanging like this. I don't know a single thing you are talking about, would love for you to give some of such examples!

Educate a pleeb here, I've been out of the gaming loop. What's the notable exceptions of great games this year and what two that are not state-of-the-art graphics do you mean?

Yes, I think the 4th stool is shared by the single issue voter crowd - it's sort of an umbrella, but it still in major part are the people who fall for the propaganda; say 2nd amendment issue, or trans bathroom issue, or Critical Race Theory (although that might be more of a 3rd stool strategy), or whatever the next wedge issue the right wing media industrial complex thinks of - these people will fall for it EVERY SINGLE TIME. Just major inability to understand nuance and complete lack of critical thinking, whatever the case may be (I'm sure we can talk about this 4th stool a lot. I would love to find a way to cogently sum them up)

Science and scientific studies help determine what is ineffective or harmful, the problem is the FDA doesn't have authority over shit plenty of things - a person can go on YouTube and say drinking their special bottled water will cure cancer, and they don't fall into FDA guidelines so they are free to claim whatever they want, essentially. These woo-woo type cure-alls have gotten into trouble with the FDA because of their ridiculous and unfactual, unproven claims, but that's usually where the lawyer wordsmiths show up to change the wording just enough to not get into trouble with the FDA.

There is a whole history of pseudoscience as an industry and how it was able to bribe/lobby for its current position in public view (since you even have to ask this question)

Absolutely based post. I've recognized what they truly were 20 years ago. There is a slight distinction - the republican party always had 4 stools (people used to say three stools but I never agreed).

First stool is the wealthy just wanting to make more money (tax cuts, tax welfare, regulation capture, etc). This is the true stool in power pulling the strings of all the other stools. They know they can never win a popular vote (why would the workers vote to lower their own wages?). They ride the Santa sled with the big bag of money, the reigns are connected to the lesser stools, and they ride that sled into the bank

Second stool is the religious vote - really captured by Reagan I believe with the invention of the abortion issue, but they go as far back as Goldwater I believe, because he warned about them. These are the reindeer of the money sled

Third stool is the racists, the KKK types in the south. These are also the reindeer

Fourth stool is what I consider the conspiracy theory crowd - they sort of share the stool with the uneducated morons who can't seem to figure out what their best interests are ("get gobernment off my Medicare, vote republican"). This stool might fall under the "undecided" crowd by some metrics, but they fall victim to the usual right wing lies and propaganda all the fucking time, so I don't see why we can't just label them as they truly are, the useful idiot voters of the republican propaganda arm

As a whole, these groups are the same pieces of shit that love Trump because he's talks to them with a bullhorn, not through dog whistles like previous republicans, that's the difference some of you might not appreciate

Edit - one distinction I think is needed is the people who fell for the dog whistles were usually of the authoritarian/fascist type. For example, There were pretty decent religious people or business people who felt the wrong message was being presented by the republican party, but the authoritarians/fascists always fell in line behind the republicans/conservatives. Still the case today

4 indictments (so far), 94 charges (so far), RICO charges, many of us watched in realtime as all this dumb shit was happening as it was fucking obvious, overwhelming proof, even his own people have turned on him, now law and order is coming for him and his useful idiots.

I'm sure your either a paid troll, or a pol/ edgelord troll, or perhaps someone who has been a victim of the propaganda machine - this post is hoping you have just been a victim of the rightwing outrage and misinformation media industrial complex, and I hope you get better

Maybe there will be a way to bundle all these streaming services into one package and sell it to consumers at a discount? We can call it Cable2k? Sable? Stream-able? CableAI? Cable-blockchain?

Forcing the birth of child rape victims is right on the list of someone showing they are a vile subhuman (where it's also amazing the poor girl didn't die - and let's not forget how the same vile subhumans are all about taking away whatever social services the victim needs). This is not exactly making up stories to paint a group as subhumans - they are demonstrating why they deserve to be considered garbage and viewed as such.

Now here is the funny thing though - find your common conservative and they will probably claim they don't support this - but yet they did and will, because that's what they have been frothing at the mouth for decades already - now they see their handywork, and claim it's not theirs. They are truly lost and broken (until it happens to them, then their daughter or granddaughter absolutely deserves the medical procedure). Utterly broken individuals

I know your shitposting, but I used to run into shit like this all the time back when I used to try to run Loki software games on Linux back in the day. Within 6 months all the games I had were un-fucking-runnable.

It's still a thing now depending how crazy you want to get with your system (let's pretend you don't run Linux on an x86 system for example - good luck lol)

Facts and math don't matter to conservatives /republicans - they ALWAYS fall in line. Look how fast they all fell in line when trump was the nominee.

People have different opinions why rightwingers always fall in line (hatred of libs, to them it's a sports team, fascists gotta fascist, the authoritarians always need a leader, etc etc)

For whatever reason, if a hamster got the republican nomination, rightwingers would fall in line then too

I'll have to watch this review to have a knowledgeable opinion, but from the LTT I've been watching over the past few months, my initial feeling it is must suck to constantly have to come up with new content and to have the it's core business at the whim of the YouTube algorithm (where quality of content doesn't seem to be weighted much anymore). I've read a while ago that a thumbnail with a person's face weighed more than a thumbnail without in the algorithm, that's why all the LTT videos have the stupid face. It's small dumb shit like that (to play by the algorithm's ever changing rules) that can really chip away at a YouTube series

I suppose the fear is we will get a jury, in Georgia, where I suppose there is a high chance to get a MAGA fanatic, and you only need one asshole to sabotage the entire trial. This is always the risk with all jury selections, and the lawyers are very aware of this when they do voir dire

Yeah for sure. I have no idea how to fix the republican side either, which is even more disappointing

Underrated comment - the top is filled with toxic scum. Like if one really looked into it, everything would have to be boycotted (not that it isn't a worthy thing to do, but it gets exhausting and scumbags seem to own everything)

Basically right winger media likes to paint California as the enemy (the right wing puppet masters currently hate the governor to really explain it), and the right wing muppets will not realize when they are out of their echo chamber and they will make some comment about commie Cali and your just supposed to agree and be mad. If you ask them to explain why they hate an entire state, the inability to actually explain why "California bad" is a sign that they don't really know and are victims to the right wing propaganda industrial complex

Shitposting?

Yeah I just saw that. RIP

I'm making a stand and abandoning reddit like digg

It used to really boggle my mind too (I met a young earth creationist for the first time in my life, he was a network engineer), but then I realized a lot of people just look at techy type jobs purely to make money, not because they are science and tech nerds.

Many people go towards software engineer/computer science type stuff because that's where the money is. And honestly there is not much there that really would change someones ideology - nothing about sorting algorithms, processor opcodes, schedulers, etc etc really challenges someone's views - just tools to learn to make that paycheck. So a young earther learns what a packet is and how it gets routed from point a to point b - what exactly would challenge his view that the bible is literal in any of that? Those kinds of people don't really have any curiosity about the world and are not looking for any answers

It's showing a rather funny lack of tact, soft skills and PR skills. Google can take your Gmail account too, but it's rather unheard of (say Google launches a product name "GreatDay" - it's absolutely unheard of for Google to just grab the "GreatDay" handle from Gmail - in fact such a move would sent terror chills up many marketing departments around the world honestly).

I'm not going to blame you for not understanding just how ridiculous this is, but this sends all the wrong messages - i.e. could I pay Elon to grab someone else's Twitter handle because I can make a better business claim for it? That sure is what this seems to imply

Root of the issue is that there is no way to achieve this. People with money hire an army, now what?