Pronell @ Pronell @lemmy.world

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Amusingly, the phrase Crypto Fascist does and does not apply here.

You are absolutely correct, and my snarky reply leads toward this tendency to call an organization as a monolithic entity that has agendas when the actual issue could be any number of other things, probably all of them, in a quagmire together:

Resistance to change and outside pressure, factionialization within the group that leads to the request being impeded, corruption, organized crime, institutional failure, racism, nationalism, cronyism, outdated training, lack of training in general...

There could be a good number of people trying to comply with the policy and simply failing. We just don't know the full truth.

But it's probably all of the above.

Absolutely too easy on the RCMP as it mainly came down to "We don't want to."

One could also parse the longer answer as "We don't do that at all. Well, not very much. And it's better when we do. But we can't prove that."

Agreed. It isn't really a protest unless it inconveniences people into paying attention and, maybe, taking action.

I think it's a demonstration where you gather to raise awareness but not disrupt.

And they are so damned short sighted.

Trump wants to be Putin.

He wants his half of the US economy. Including half of what they have now.

And they fund him while being obsessed with the pennies he will save them.

Sure, but a corrupt government can fabricate evidence to keep their enemies silenced.

Look at Russia and their treatment of Alexei Navalny.

Actually the thought is if the government can just imprison you to stop your candidacy, they have too much power.

Thus they can continue to run.

When I was in high school I was up way too late playing D&D and dreamt I was the general of an army.

In the shower I was questioning how we'd all get clean in time for school.

I like the self expression they allow, but have never gotten a tattoo myself.

The reason? Money.

I cannot comprehend how so many young people afford their sleeve tattoos. (I know they're usually done over time to spread out the cost but still.)

I will have to try and use it. I am running Curse of Strahd now so cursed money would be spectacular!

You are older than me, I suppose. I was playing it at 11 years old or so. My first CRPG, although my dad had run a D&D game for the family a few years prior so I had a reference point.

I remember my cousin telling us about the Creeping Coins and my imagination went wild, assuming you could loot them and they'd attack you later from your inventory.

Nope. Just normal randomly spawning encounter.

I did that and my wife got annoyed... then started wearing my socks. Now we buy more and just use athletic socks

She's still got her colorful, playful ones that are a pain in the ass to match up.

Thank you, that was a long standing problem for me, and it got a lot easier to just put myself out there and see what would happen. Not just romantically but socially in general.

It served me well.

Click on all the squares that contain YOU.

While tripping on a large dose of LSD, I decided to practice with my new and incredibly sharp wood chisels on a block of pine.

Amazingly I didn't cut myself at all.

My friend found a stop motion animated clay Don Quixote, where the clay work was rough and you could see thumbprints. It was the perfect vibe for tripping and carving, the gouges I was making in the wood looked like the clay, and bit by bit I made that block into a volcano.

In order to do that I kept twisting my right arm (I'm left handed) clockwise, and when I came down from the hallucinogens, the nerves in my arm went dead. Hand just slid off the keyboard.

It was fine twenty minutes later. And that's my story, the best acid trip I ever had. Worked through my obsessions a bit and let go of them.

In the following weeks I asked three women out and got shot down each time instead of thinking about doing so for a month and being a creep.

It meant my Dad never played Scrabble with my mom ever again, that's what it meant.

Across two Triple Word tiles, no less.

No, it's another example of dog whistling to his base while denying he is doing so.

Why the hell else was that video even considered? It was exactly what they wanted.

When you're in that deep, a honeypot is just getting laid. Why overthink it?

Someone else on here - might've been you - turned me on to them and now I've been alternating between Pinon and Chocolate Pinon. So tasty!

I appreciate you trying to attribute the artist. That's a good instinct to have, glad to see it in practice!