I think it's shocking because declaring an ambition that is in line with our needs is uncommonly sensible electorally for Biden.
I fully recognize that his targets during 2020 were not realistic, but that's appropriate. No goal of this magnitude ever arrives on time, as planned. But if you know that, it means you MUST aim for at least what is appropriate (if not more) because if you scale your ambition to what is sensible, you'll get even less than that.
I didn't bother reading the article. I think Biden and his campaign are stupid. Right now, it's very, very, VERY clear to me that his vulnerability isn't "the middle". The very concept of "The Middle" is a fiction at this point. There are moderate, Democratic leaning independents who may or may not show up, and there exist some persuadable voters who are not insignificant, but they are not the deciders in Georgia and Michigan and Pennsylvania. The real, real, real obvious threat to Biden's reelection is that his base has completely eroded. You can't build a campaign on courting the tiny slice of swing voters if you've got no base for them to add to. The base needs enormous reconstruction. I don't know if it's possible, but Biden is running a campaign which looks currently like a case study in how to ignore expert wisdom and lose massively.
I am not a Democrat. I am a progressive, former Democrat. I am squarely the type of Obama-to-Bernie voters that the party really needs to recapture if they're going to have a future. I want to help Biden, and that means marching in the streets yelling 'Stop committing genocide!' 'We need a Green New Deal!' 'Pass the PRO Act!' 'Raise the minimum wage!' 'Child credits now!'
I'm trying to lead a horse to water, but this old horse really seems determined to die of dehydration out of some misguided sense of spite. C'est la vie, n'est pas? I'll try not to give up hope, though boy, he and his handlers aren't making it easy.
I haven't had a negative experience, so I checked your post history to see if your communities might provide any clues as to why you're having a lot of negative experiences.
It looks like you post a lot to unpopular opinions and politics. Is it possible that maybe you're inviting debate on contentious issues? For comparison, I checked my own history and it looks like I engage primarily with tabletop RPGs, technology, and memes. I also comment on world news, but it's not my primary form of interaction.
Sure. The website is https://fullyautomatedrpg.com. You can see the whole thing there. We discuss development on a Discord server (linked from the website), although we also have an early Lemmy community: !fullyautomatedrpg.slrpnk.net.
I get what you mean. It's tricky. I think what you're observing is that it would be ideal to have a community for RPG stuff that is NOT Dungeons & Dragons. It's tough that most communities are built around a certain game, and there isn't quite enough activity on Lemmy, I think for one just for Shadowrun.
If it's of any use, I moderate a community for discussion of a game myself and friends are getting ready to release. It's a street level sci-fi setting. It's not very active, but if you're looking for another place to look for RPG discussion after the usual ones, it's at least cyberpunk-adjacent.
Incidentally, I just searched for what combat like a dolphin means, and I'm gonna post it over there on. We're at !fullyautomatedrpg@slrpnk.net .
You know, I'm a developer on an open-source tabletop RPG that is meant to be to solarpunk what D&D is to fantasy. We're nearly done, but if you like writing stories in this kind of genre, I think it might interest you, either as a player or contributor to the game modules.
Which book or books did you read? I've read Walkaway, and I'm half way through The Lost Cause, and while I wouldn't say that they're not competence porn, I actually think the story and character work is pretty good in these, imo.
Is this what Vietnam felt like before the Pentagon Papers? I wasn't around, but I have to imagine this is what it felt like being told to remain calm, everything is fully under control, and we're getting closer to an honorable victory with every day.
The ceasefire? The one that was promised on Monday? And that both sides said isn't coming soon? So you're saying that even though you were full of shit before, you want me to believe that a shocking massacre really helped bring the temperature down?
I want to ask how fucking stupid they think we are, but I already know the truth:
A) Completely and
B) This isn't about convincing anyone. It's about trying to keep the constantly shrinking population of Biden apologists from lighting themselves on fire too. This is desperate, desperate PR damage control.
Biden needs to crack. No more "I'm serious", no more "we hope for a ceasefire soon": Call Bibi. Tell him he's got 48 hours to take the best deal on the table, because the war is over. If he wants to fight Hamas, then from now on it's going to be a knife fight, and he can do it alone.
I don't want Trump to win. Despite the oceans of blood on Biden's hands, I still don't want Trump to win. But only Biden can save Biden.
I think we're just more lucid and aware of what our government has been doing since the ink on the Declaration of Independence was signed.
People don't say this often, but the quality of the coverage of this horrifying ordeal is the best I've ever really seen. There's plenty of shortcomings, but the wars in Vietnam and Iraq and even against Isis weren't covered this closely or clearly.
I think Biden et al are operating as they always have, it's just the level of public awareness of it all that makes this so shocking.
Can someone tell me if there's any actual news in this article that justifies a click? It sounds like another of the dozens of articles which have insisted for months that Biden isn't really don't all the things he's clearly doing.
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I appreciate the /s. I was like, 'ARE THEY SERI-oh haha, that's funny.'