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Despite the "lock her up" rhetoric, Trump didn't actually try to lock Hilary up. That's just off the top of my head. In, I don't remember any anti-Democrat lawfare from his administration, although I'm sure we can dig something up.
Why does your worldview rely so strongly on Trump being vindictive.
He's awful in many ways, but that doesn't seem to be one of them. His nature is impulsive, not cold-blooded.
Southkraut
Rise, ramble, rest, repeat.
8m ago
I'll grant you it's been a while, but this game does exist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/19900/Far_Cry_2/
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
12m ago
Imagine if they added in some reverse diversity and allowed you to play as a white dude running around killing exclusively black people. The volume of seethe generated would probably be considered by engineers as a novel energy source for electricity production.
jeroboam
14m ago
The respectable class of Boomercons have already migrated to the left.
Trump's bombastic style actually appeals quite a bit to young blacks and Hispanics, and the Democrats are having a hard time keeping them onsides. Biden is being forced to defend the black vote, and it's going badly.
Witness Biden's commencement speech at Morehouse yesterday in which students turned their back on him.
What style is going to appeal to young voters? This or... this? Whatever the issues, one of these people has rizz. And the other doesn't.
I have Trump at 60% odds right now, but much higher if he is jailed. Personally, I plan to vote RFK this time around, but would probably go for Trump as a protest vote if he his jailed, despite his obvious awfulness.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
15m ago
but Odyssey first told you how sexist the Olympics were and then let you participate in them as a woman anyway
LMAO. Funnily enough there were Ancient Greek Panhellenic games where women could compete in their own events: the Pythian games held at Delphi two years after the Olympic games allowed women to compete in athletic (and artistic) events.
Regardless even ignoring the Pythian games and restricting to just Olympia there were the Heraean Games held every four years where women ran the footrace against each other.
A company that prided itself on historical accuracy really should have known better, espeically when historically accurate alternatives existed.
4doorsmorewhores
17m ago
Yes it was this. Thank you so much!
Azeltir
18m ago
I literally cannot conceive of Trump going for option one. If he did, it'd completely rock my worldview and my trust of all of the political voices around me. Is there any time you can point to where he's behaved with such magnanimity?
Tenaz
20m ago
I have it on mobile (chrome) but only when I scroll up. No idea how to remove it, sorry.
jeroboam
27m ago
When you are weak it is best to avoid antagonizing your enemy.
The worst case scenario is that the bureacracy would just say "no" to Trump's orders, precipitating a constitutional crisis. More likely they'll just slow play his demands until the clock is run out. Then the lawfare against him can begin anew.
The only way he doesn't die in jail is if a Republican is elected in 2028. For that reason, he needs to remain popular with the people which means not triggering a crisis.
hydroacetylene
29m ago
And again, the secret to making money off of wind farms is to have preexisting land that the wind farming company leases from you. It’s pure rental income, not an investment.
theory
30m ago
Okay, but Yasuke kicks ass.
Less than any of the associates of his owner for one year, but they weren't Africans so they all meld together in the minds of non-Japanese due to outgroup homogeneity bias. The Japanese have a slight reason to care about the Black guy in question, since they already know most of the more important people of that time and place. American obsession with Yosuke is elevating bar quiz trivia to the level of actual history.
hydroacetylene
30m ago
Rental companies don’t pay for fuel(that’s on the customer), but if electric cars really do take no maintenance, as is indicated upthread, that’s a pretty big cost saving- mechanics are paid by the job and fleet managers are almost never people who know anything about auto work, so rental companies get fleeced on maintenance costs. Same as how the conventional wisdom is not to have a woman go to the auto shop alone, but applied to an absentee landlord.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
32m ago
Go after voter fraud and ballot harvesting.
To be clear, this is not a corrupt policy choice and shouldn't be lumped in as some malicious attack motivated by revenge-getting. It is just actually bad that elections are insecure and political operatives collection ballots.
hydroacetylene
34m ago
Or consumer protection?
Consumer protection is one of the few things Biden has at least tried to deliver.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
36m ago
To confirm you aren't crazy: I get the bar too, although I don't mind it all that much.
RegularlyExpressed
38m ago
How multi-lingual are these guys really? My impression was that they achieve very basic conversational aptitude in the languages they study i.e. enough to play the role of white guy who "stuns" native speaker of X by order noodles in X, rather than reaching genuine fluency.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
39m ago
If I were Trump, I'd go with option 1.
Why? What successes have come from previous iterations of this option? Why do you believe it would deliver superior results versus prosecuting the culture war to the greatest extent possible?
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
42m ago
I'm for "Trump smash". Breaking the current environment that any tactic is OK for the left but none (including ordinary political rallies, which as you may recall the left liked to disrupt in 2016) for the right is necessary for the right.
But I suspect that a Trump in Sing Sing for putting an expense in the wrong ledger category(with the correct one determined retroactively, natch) will have trouble doing any of those. The boomercons will desert him as a criminal and he'll lose, and the left will be emboldened.
Of course if they put Trump in Sing Sing and he wins, he'll almost certainly at least TRY "Trump smash".
RegularlyExpressed
43m ago
I don't think even RFK supporters think he's going to win? He's interesting to discuss because of votes he'll take away from either of the other two candidates.
SteveKirk
57m ago
People really need to study the rise of the crits in academia. On the CRT wiki page it's of course described as a "right wing maga conspiracy theory", but if you go to Derrick Bell's bio it explains how his fringe group used threats and backstabbing to take over departments and get their allies hired, their enemies fired, and infinite money for their programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bell
Liberalism can't beat leninist vanguard party organizing. And Conservatism can't beat it without nuking the whole battlefield.
Tangentially related...
How much should Trump get even, if he is elected? Either choice he makes seems pretty fraught.
Option 1) Play the bigger man. Pardon himself, obviously, and a few limited other people. Beyond that do nothing. This will prevent a wider conflagration in the culture war. Downside: without a tit-for-tat, the left will be emboldened for much greater tats in the future.
Option 2) Do unto him as he hath done unto me. Pursue corruption investigations against his pursuers (many of whom quite deserve them). Go after voter fraud and ballot harvesting. Turn the executive branch against the left in the same ways it has been turned against the right thus far. Upside: When both sides are armed, the chance for peace is higher than when only one side is armed. Downside: The system will probably resist him, and it could provoke a bigger backlash.
If I were Trump, I'd go with option 1. In reality, I expect him to just do whatever he wakes up feeling like he should do that day with little follow through.
RegularlyExpressed
1hr ago
I'm less cynical; I think it's likelier that the people who came up with the story are true believers in the progressive cause. Insofar as it's about optics I would imagine it's more about looking good to the professional media class than it is about pre-emptively shielding themselves from public criticism. I don't know how effective it would be against criticism anyway, mechanically it'll probably be fine, and things like micro-transactions are hated by the left as well so accusations of racism won't do much to defend them in their eyes.
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