ZombiFrancis

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ZombiFrancis,

…Did they just figure this out now?

ZombiFrancis,

They’ll never get to proper crushing depths with that though. I say we provide them with exact replicas down to the Logitech F1350s.

ZombiFrancis,

Seriously. The original Washington Post article went to lengths not to identify anyone. FFS.

ZombiFrancis,

“The peasants will be a bother and bring up that genocide business.”

ZombiFrancis,

Those strokes were unfortunate.

ZombiFrancis,

I dunno Manchin was always pretty upfront a conservative beholden to the coal industry.

ZombiFrancis,

Not just that: people who campaigned for him were wary of the risk he might turn right once elected. So he went out early to really convince the leftist coalitions backing him he was legit and definitely not going to do exactly what he did.

ZombiFrancis,

It was more of a “You’re management material” type situation.

A Polling Risk for Trump (www.nytimes.com)

The polls have shown Donald Trump with an edge for eight straight months, but there’s a sign his advantage might not be quite as stable as it looks: His lead is built on gains among voters who aren’t paying close attention to politics, who don’t follow traditional news and who don’t regularly vote....

ZombiFrancis,

The polls have shown Donald Trump with an edge for eight straight months

Hm… did something unpopular start about eight months ago?

ZombiFrancis,

So fucked it is even happening but at least we should get a good picture over which members of Congress are devotees to a foreign power so we can never vote for them again.

ZombiFrancis,

I think Miami or just Florida as a whole has the highest concentration of deposed dictators in the world.

ZombiFrancis,

Game recognize game.

ZombiFrancis,

The actual arguments SCOTUS makes on some of their worst decisions are insane.

Like Dobbs: their argument was Roe was based on weak logic that shouldn’t form the basis of a ruling decision, and then proceeds to use the same logical argument they called weak for Roe to rule in favor of Dobbs.

ZombiFrancis,

The most predictable result to the point this was arguably the intended result?

No way!

ZombiFrancis,

It is the most wizarding friendly game FromSoftware has made.

Through their other games the pattern was for wizards: the level getting to the boss was tough managing your spell uses, but then the boss was easy if you reserved enough.

In Elden Ring there are less ‘levels’ and almost none of the classic ‘runback’ to a boss if you die. So you almost always can full power a boss.

Which feels easier in comparison. Though the Elden Ring bosses were designed around that more.

Imminent DLC will shake things up too.

ZombiFrancis,

Sekiro, like Bloodborne, is different from the Dark Souls series. The mechanics, story, and atmosphere of each are distinct, with Elden Ring falling most closely with the Dark Soul series in mechanics and ‘feel’.

Dark Souls 1 has the best atmosphere and environmental storytelling, in my opinion. It really is clear how innovative and influential a game it was.

Sekiro is hard to play from a Dark Souls foundational playstyle. Sekiro players, I find, seem to have an easier time adapting to Dark Souls. So it may very well be a good start for a FromSoft game.

ZombiFrancis,

Pure unadulterated opportunism.

ZombiFrancis,

FDR’s threat to add a justice every year a justice failed to retire after the age of 70 was pretty well targeted though. It sent the intended message.

ZombiFrancis,

The United States and Israel are probably the two entities least able to criticize China’s response to Islamist terrorist attacks.

Everyone else? Uh sure, go nuts.

ZombiFrancis,

Regardless of the technicalities and nuances in the reporting: this is a good thing.

ZombiFrancis,

The proposed State of Liberty and the proposed State of Lincoln have been longtime efforts to get themselves two senators and some electoral college votes of their own.

Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him. (theintercept.com)

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC has launched its first ads attacking Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The ads claim that Bowman “has his own agenda” and refuses to work with President Joe Biden....

ZombiFrancis,

Thanks 2010 SCOTUS for determining unrestricted SuperPAC money is 100% okay and unrestricted donations to a SuperPAC is 100% okay.

Citizens United and SpeechNow solidified how fucked American elections are.

ZombiFrancis,

MAH BOI.

ZombiFrancis,

I am really hoping a solid heat wave this summer takes down the presidential ticket.

ZombiFrancis,

I still got my skins saved somewhere…

ZombiFrancis,

You mean Hypeman Lil KC?

ZombiFrancis,

I tend to see the derogatory ‘Liberal’ and moreso ‘Lib’ used for Neo-liberals and those supporting the neoliberal policies that have dominated the last few generations.

I otherwise see it used in the context of the phrase “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds” which is pithy but tracks with history and typically the more antagonistic usage. It is almost entirely used to provoke a reaction from the ‘libs’ it is directed at, accuracy notwithstanding.

With context it is almost always pretty self explanatory which is being used.

ZombiFrancis,

The context is typically pretty important for how it is being used. The user of the term often provides more than enough context I find.

If ‘liberal’ is being used in a derogatory sense, which isn’t going to be captured by an academic definition, it’s often aimed at neoliberalism in a pretty broad sense.

Which is probably what this meme is referring to: the shared rejection of neoliberalism. The motivations are different but that’s immaterial to these things. I mean: it is specifically referencing an American political party here: so I wouldn’t be looking for a political science definition on ‘liberal’.

ZombiFrancis,

In the US political media ‘Liberal’ is deliberately used to reference the policies of the Democratic Party, which is demonstrably Neoliberal. This confusion is working as intended.

Thanks Rush Limbaugh and all the hellspawn you’ve enabled.

ZombiFrancis,

It doesn’t even need to be an insult. It was and is an inherently anti-left strategy to correlate ‘Liberal’ to the Democratic Party and it is exactly what American political media does. (Hence my reference to Rush Limbaugh.) The goal is to inject confusion into the terminology to the point where your average low information voter/liberal can’t differentiate between the left and the right: or a tankie and a fascist.

ZombiFrancis,

Those statements are both true, but: Neoliberalism dominates both political parties in the United States and has for generations. The Democratic Party is also neoliberal, (often in spite of their voters.)

The Republican Party’s neoliberalism has fostered fascist and christian nationalist factions to the point they may take over.

The Democratic Party’s stance has been to try and absorb disaffected Republican neoliberal voters from the above.

Which leaves ‘non-neoliberal American liberals’ with the choice of supporting… well it is and has been a successful right wing strategy to say the least.

ZombiFrancis,

Dems do like capturing centrists,

Doesn’t always work, but that’s the play.

Sure doesn’t. Very strong arguments to my point.

ZombiFrancis,

It doesn’t seem like you’re grasping that I wasn’t or haven’t really been refuting you.

The Democratic Party’s appeal to centrism by passing right wing policies is against their progressive base. The strategy doesn’t always work and it hasn’t been working.

So why you working yourself up?

ZombiFrancis,

Strictly CBT congress.

ZombiFrancis,

I have one of these on my fridge from Myanmar. (or Cambodia, I don’t remember now.)

Point is, those ice lollys gonna getcha.

ZombiFrancis,

They believe themselves to be large and dominant enough to control the market itself, so it would be impossible for themselves to become irrelevant.

That’s the strategy it seems at least.

ZombiFrancis,

Some people seem way too okay with there being two bad choices for president.

Others seem way too resistent to any attempt to make one of those choices not bad.

ZombiFrancis,

It is a reference to the two party system that constrains the election to what is often considered the picking the lesser of two evils.

ZombiFrancis,

Begrudgingly working with circumstances and giving up because things aren’t perfect can easily be the same thing. That criticism has got to come with some cognitive dissonance.

ZombiFrancis,

Right, so I wouldn’t equivocate students protesting staunch support for a genocide as ‘giving up’. These are specifically people trying to move the needle of a deeply flawed system.

To quote old song, they’re ‘young people speaking their minds getting so much resistance from behind.’

ZombiFrancis,

“Canadian Bestseller”

ZombiFrancis,

Crazy enough I am actually familiar with the story from a college class that seminared on the evolution of non-reproductive sex. One group talked about interspecies intercourse with various other stories and mythologies where characters transform into animals and fuck, and used Bear as a modern example.

I remember it because it was the more audacious presentation until the guy after me argued dinosaurs were gay and physically challenged disagreement.

ZombiFrancis,

If I remember the argument: homosexual behavior can be identified in both species descended from dinosaurs as well as in species that appear to have evolved significantly separately from them, indicating if homosexuality is an inheritable trait then dinosaurs were a gay common ancestor.

I can’t quite remember the link they made but I remember I found the argument more valid for obligate nonreproductive members of a species evolving but not necessary homosexuality in and of itself.

Alex Jones would’ve liked that class to be honest.

ZombiFrancis,

That’s a heavy sentence. I am curious if she is the most sympathetic case or what are the situations with those other 12 who appear to have received lesser sentences?

The court also announced sentences of between four and 14 years for 12 other participants in the demonstration for the same crimes.

ZombiFrancis,

Well, yes. The planners and engineers are the ones subject to all the political hands of local governments.

Certainly not implicating the construction teams themselves. (Though arguably still if one firm were building both sides they may have noticed sooner.)

Now I admit I say this from both personal experience and a tinge of disgruntlement. But my remarks regard government serving private interests over public ones, not government itself. The system that these planners operate under is one rife with regulatory capture.

Point is: there’s going to be significant administrative bleed at best.

ZombiFrancis,

A lot of projects get a lot bigger and become a lot more work without doing much or other things.

Like a local decision to build a new police station, including shooting range requiring land clearing, versus utilizing that funding for the addressing the homeless population. It wasn’t what the money was originally for, but it got moved around legally enough.

ZombiFrancis,

Being the leader of the nation that defeated the Nazis gets you a lot of credit. Moreso when Nazis start cropping up again.

I think these days his iconography tends to just trigger those who would ultimately roll with fascism over communism.

ZombiFrancis,

Brotherhood of Steel is usually omitted but it deserves to be mentioned. It is a good game in its own right, even if it lacks some of the staple lore and story building of 1 and 2.

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