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He won't actually, like, listen to them. But he'll be in the room when they're happening. Sometimes. If he didn't decide to play golf instead.

Also I really think the key thing to pay attention to here is "multiyear period". As in, it takes years for companies to reconstruct their entire production and supply chain. Imposing harsh tariffs on goods made outside the US could theoretically boost domestic production, but only if there's actually the skills and infrastructure available domestically to make that cost-effective... And even then, the gains would take years to decades to realise. And Trump sure as shit isn't making the kinds of education and infrastructure investments needed to actually make any of that worthwhile.

First thing that comes to mind is Warframe. It's a co-op third person looter-shooter, with full crossplay, so you can all party up across your platforms. It's all very controller friendly, with lots of shotguns, SMGs, melee weapons and space magic that are all really forgiving of imprecise aim. It cares less about twitch reflexes and more about movement.

The scifi setting and "space ninja" aesthetic may or may not be to your taste, although I promise if you take the time really sink into the world it's actually one of the most refreshingly different and unique scifi settings out there. There's a lot of weirdness, but as you dig deeper into the story that weirdness all makes sense. And, like, it's the good kind of weird if you get me? Stuff that makes you go "Holy fuck I want to know what the deal with that is!"

It does have a lot of MMO elements, so it can get grindy at times, but in my experience it's a really solid game for hanging out and chilling on Discord together. Plus the game itself is free, with no paid DLC or add-ons, and for an adult with an income a few bucks here and there skips a LOT of grind, especially if you check out the third party market website where players will sell you a lot of the rare drops you'll want for less than a dollar.

Added bonus, it's made by the original developers of Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes (there are actually a bunch of UT references squirelled away in the game).

Easily one of the most braindead takes I've seen.

"Oh but he didn't mention voter fraud."

Yeah, because he won. There's no value in questioning the ref's call when it's in your favour.

I too am old enough to remember Bush, and honestly... I think this person is seriously underestimating how much more dangerous the Republicans have gotten in the intervening time.

Bush had nothing remotely close to the project 2025 agenda, and Bush didn't have a supreme court willing to tell him that he was literally above the law.

Bush was terrible, no doubt about it, and the people who've been trying to rehabilitate him can fuck off forever. But Trump, and the version of the Republican party behind him, are so much worse.

Crypto is a revolutionary product because it enables users to possess their own units of account.

By this reasoning, so is Monopoly money.

No, the cinammon taste will be softer (cooked out) but it will be have some smoke and burnt notes that will give the guest the v feeling that they're drinking it next to a roaring fire.

I think my next step is going to be to sign up for NDP membership, so that I can use my voting power to push that party into a more explicitly progressive direction.

That and, as you said, getting involved in local advocacy and education. That part is going to be trickier since I just moved to a new province so I'm basically starting from scratch.

You're wrong and you're right.

I have a very direct knowledge of military marksmanship - much moreso than probably 90% of the people in this thread - but in all fairness my hands on knowledge is with the Canadian military, and I'd forgotten that since we're talking about zombie movies, we are of course talking about US soldiers. So not really the same thing.

The war on drugs only failed if you truly believe its goal was getting rid of drugs.

To quote John Erlichman, one of its architects:

“The Nixon Campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

By the strandards of what it was created to do, the war on drugs was fantastically successful.

The war on porn will be successful in exactly the same way, because Republicans have already spent decades redefining all LGBTQ content as "pornographic". This is will be a tool for disrupting queer and trans communities, for erasing queer and trans resources and tearing down queer and trans rights activists. Stopping porn isn't the point, and it never was.

And to be clear, this isn't supposition, it's already literally happening in Florida.

Florida is the model for what they want to do everywhere.