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No, voting for Trump is voting for Trump. Blaming alternative parties for Trump splits the left.

We can selfishly brow-beat them into voting for Biden.

Shaming people into voting for your candidate doesn't work, but Dems will do it anyway. It splits the left and helps Republicans, but they either aren't aware of this or don't care.

There's no way you could honestly interpret what I wrote that way. I'm responding to the fans of Joe who are openly saying "Who cares about genocide when Trump is worse?"

I do care about genocide, and that's (one of many reasons) why I'll be voting for Jill Stein, not Joe Biden.

you will be electing someone who openly admits to wanting a purge program here:

Understood. You're okay with that stuff happening in Palestine, but not the USA, because you live in the USA. Supporting tyranny abroad is a-okay because you don't think it affects you.

I heard that same song and dance 20 years ago. Just replace "Trump" with "Bush". At the end of the day, no Democrat is ever going to say "Hey, you know what? This election actually isn't very important, so vote for whoever you want!"

If Biden wants my vote, he has to earn it, and that starts with not endorsing genocide.

But if we ever want ranked choice voting, it's going to be implemented by democrats, not republicans.

Democrats don't want to lose power, either. It's only going to be implemented by a popular movement, regardless of who's in power.

If voting "strategically" means voting for genocide... What is the strategy, exactly?

This is gonna do to Biden what COVID-19 did to Trump.

It's in the title.

What's exciting about Plasma 6?

I'm a Plasma user, and I can't think of anything I want them to change.

Okay, it would be cool if there were more plasmoids. That's about it.

I think this whole thread is some awesome guerilla marketing for Tarkov.

It's worth studying even things that seem obvious, because sometimes what seems obvious is wrong. And the only way you're going to find out is if you study it.

I don't know how to counteract that.

Simple. You don't. When I'm debating, I'm usually not trying to convince the person I'm debating with. I'm trying to convince a disinterested third party who reads the exchange later.

It is also basically impossible to use a wheelchair while holding something in one hand, so if there's enough magic around to push a wheelchair, there's probably enough to make your legs work.

First, off the top, you can stop your wheelchair, use your hand(s) for something else, and then start moving again.

Second, you're making a lot of assumptions about the magic system. Every magic system has limitations. What if healing is a clerical spell, not a magic spell, and there are no clerics around? Maybe the nearest cleric who can heal is many miles away, perhaps over dangerous terrain inhabited by bandits, monsters, etc. Maybe the spell requires some very specific and difficult-to-obtain materials. Or maybe the spell is very high-level, requiring many years to learn, so clerics or mages charge a very high fee for this service. Any of these, or a combination, could be a reason why a disabled person (or a family member on their behalf) is questing.

Maybe the knowledge of the healing magic was held by some ancient civilization and it was lost when that civilization fell, but the disabled character has found a clue to where some ancient ruins could be unearthed where the secret might be found.

Or maybe the GM just says "Yeah, spells can't do that in this setting."

I don't think I've ever heard vim beep.

Holy shit! Tabs?!

That does it. I'm going back to Windows.

Tabs in a text editor. My mind is blown.

Yeah, but Guake doesn't slide down like a Quake terminal should. Maybe it sounds like a minor thing, but I think that if you're trying to imitate a Quake terminal, it at least has to slide down from the top of the screen.

Yakuake. And you can make it transparent, too!

The Bill Gates microchip is consensual, too. Nobody is talking about forcing people to get microchips. It’s just that people shit a brick when Gates is involved, but not Musk.