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I wholly agree with you. And I say this next part as an ally living in Louisiana:

I don't see the courts being able to stop this from happening. Inevitably, it will get challenged and end up at the Supreme Court, which will rule 6-3 "states rights".

Conservative justices have shown time and again that unless the constitution literally says the words "shall not infringe upon trans care for minors" they will not interpret it as such.

The only thing stopping this law in the last few years was a veto from the democratic governor, and now that that has flipped republican, the only thing that will stop it is enough people turning out to vote in 2027.

All the likes of Zelda, Mario, Halo, Pokemon, etc. are going to get forgotten

I disagree. The reason being that video games and gaming of this caliber are completely unheard of in all of human history. We've come further in gaming tech over the last couple decades than the grand majority of all humans that have ever existed could even dream.

That being said, as long as emulation exists, there will be fans of big ips. The problem with saying "it'll get forgotten as soon as the last person stops playing" is that the specific circumstance of modern gaming is unprecedented. People are still out there emulating games that came out in the 80's. There's really no rule saying this kind of technology won't last hundreds or thousands of years like more classical games do.

SDV hardly gets snubbed as one of the best games of all time. It's constantly in the top sellers. I say this as a loving fan.

*Guerilla Marketing

I forget they're separate words

Texas politicians use illegal immigration as a wedge issue to fire up voters. Despite the fact that immigration across the Texas/Mexico border goes in both directions and generally hasn't changed in several decades, Texas politicians have increasingly used the fact that illegal immigration exists to distract their racist and xenophobic conservative voters from seeing how shitty their policies actually are.

It's rage bait for conservative voters. Just like how republican politicians have been sending bus loads of immigrants to Northern cities. There's no purpose except to stroke the hate boners of their voters.

Now Texas authorities have illegally issued orders to stop border patrol (a federal agency) from intervening on the increasingly hostile and deadly measures to keep immigrants from crossing the border. Despite the fact that seeking asylum is in fact a legal act. In a recent case, Texas authorities stopped border patrol from rescuing a mother and her drowning children, all of which are now presumed dead.

Gov. Abbot said only a few days ago that he would order Texas authorities to shoot immigrants but he can't because "Biden would charge him with murder"

Republicans expect this issue to be the double whammy of "look see we're doing something about immigrants" and "big bad Biden is trying to stop us!" and look great to their racist, xenophobic base

For what it's worth, this isn't the original comic. In the original, the last panel said "because blue m&ms come with nuts" insinuating she's got a dick. You can even see the bulge in the first panel. It's a little vulgar for a company to commission directly. But it still could have been

I know this is a joke, but advertising doesn't try to make you buy something immediately. The goal of all advertising is to put the brand name into your memory, because when you do want something, you are statistically more likely to make a decision to buy from a brand you recognize or have seen more recently. It's a subconscious thing.

Like, if you did go to the store for chocolate, seeing m&ms in an ad shortly before increases the likelihood you will choose that over some other chocolate you haven't heard of or know of but don't hear often.

That being said, this absolutely is a type of ad for m&ms, called gorilla marketing, where product names are present in otherwise unrelated content. Though it may not be intentionally placed by Mars themselves, it's still a type of ad.

IRS would like to know your location

My guy, the border is a boogeyman issue republicans push to win elections and try to make democrats look bad. For all the bloviating they do, republicans don't do anything about the border either.

Likewise.

That addiction sucks. Two cups of coffee still makes my skin crawl, but the difference is that one cup doesn't help me anymore and now I also have blood pressure problems.

The animation was raw and unrefined but the story was ahead of its time

No ads whatsoever on voyager. Maybe give that a shot?

That sentence doesn't make sense addressed to people in general. No one says, "I didn't mean to antagonize you" to a large group of undefined people. Antagonize is pretty specific to a single subject.

Also, what clarification? The only response you made was to dutifully inform me that my challenge to your logic was beneath replying to.

Lastly, it's pretty clear what you were trying to say. That if only people realized that being un-American isn't the end of the world, maybe systemic changes could start happening.

What I'm saying to you is, about 150 million of us are so brainwashed and vehemently against opening their minds to that sort of change that they regularly float the idea of rounding up the rest of us to execute.

That's what our media does to us. And by "media", I don't mean the boogie man you decided that I meant, I mean conservative outlets like Fox News that captivate millions of our population and constantly send the message that the people actually trying to change things are evil and corrupt. That advocate for locking up the poor and shooting the protesters.

If you really think that can be overcome by a plurality of us "asking ourselves the hard questions", you're woefully naive about the actual situation.

If you want to paint me as the type to be offended at a perceived slight, understand that the slight in question is proposing an overly simplistic solution to a gargantuanly complex problem half a century in the making like we just "forgot" we can change the system.

I don't mean to antagonise you but I think you should ask yourself some tough questions once in a while.

You wouldn't consider this addressing me in particular? Looks a little like you're avoiding a response because you don't have a good answer.

In any case, have fun preaching to people who live in a complex system about changes you don't really understand. For what it's worth, entertaining the naive notion of

well why don't you just ask yourself some hard questions and it'll all be better

Isn't really worth my time either.

Great argument. Now instead of preaching to the choir, which is to say someone who already understands and agrees with you, why don't you elevate your message to all 400 million of us? You know, really get to the ones who don't understand they're being manipulated?

No? You won't do that? Don't you care about our right to vote and this democracy? Maybe you feel like it's just not your job. I don't know, sounds like another way to say you're just too lazy.

I don't mean to antagonize you, but you're the one insinuating that it just takes one person being unhappy about the system to change it. So you should ask yourself the same questions about why you can't do it yourself. Even if you don't live in the US, you have about the same resources as I do.

The media has done a pretty good job convincing the vast majority of Americans that we are the pinnacle of democracy and any change to that is either fascism or communism. Wanting a better system is intentionally painted as un-American.

None of us, not even the furthest-right conservatives, think this is okay

Aguably, conservatives may not think it's ok but they're so scared of losing their guns (because their politicians say dems will take them so they can get elected) that conservatives consider dead kids an acceptable loss. If they didn't, more of them would vote for the party that wants to control who can obtain them.

"I shoot dogs when they get upset"

Yeah, we know buddy

Never thought I'd encounter someone who seriously proposed the "well little dogs might deserve to die too" argument. So congrats on that.

I hope you never serve on a force that encounters animals, because you're the type to justify shooting a dog after you've done it.