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Some of Trump's 'achievements', prior to election and during his tenure: Calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Insulting a prisoner of war for having been captured Implying a journalist attempting to do her job by asking probing questions was PMSing Responding to an act of violence carried out by his supporters in his name not by condemning their actions, but by saying that the people following him are very passionate and love this country. Mocking a reporter about his congenital joint condition Saying a judge was unable to effectively do his job because of his Mexican heritage. Bragging that his celebrity status enables him to sexually assault women. Dismissing bragging about being able to sexually assault women as ‘locker room banter’. Being the subject of at least 25 separate accusations of sexual misconduct. Implying that some of his accusers were not attractive enough for him to sexually assault. Perpetuating the lie that vaccines cause autism. Asking a black reporter if they can set a meeting up with the Congressional Black Caucus, and if they were friends of hers. Labelling any unflattering news story as ‘fake news’ and calling those media outlets ‘enemy of the American People’. Barring those outlets from press conferences. Implying that in a clash between actual Nazis and Klan members yelling slogans such as ‘Jews will not replace us’ and counter protesters, in which a white supremacist killed one person and injured 19 others with their vehicle, both sides are approximately morally equal, and later saying there were very fine people on both sides. Calling athletes who peacefully protested against police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem 'sons of bitches' and suggesting they should be fired. Implying that media outlets who publish what he characterises as ‘fake news’ might lose their media license. Joking that his vice president wants to kill all gay people. Sharing anti Muslim videos posted by a member of a hate group. Suggesting that the USA should accept more refugees from places like Norway or Asia, rather than African nations. Inspiring a white supremacist website to write that he is more or less on the same page as them with regards to race and immigration. Suggesting it was treasonous not to applaud his speeches. Using a school shooting as an opportunity to criticise FBI investigations into himself. Saying that it was great that China’s president was now President for life, and suggesting that the USA should give that a shot someday. Siding with the leader of a foreign nation over the leaders of his own intelligence agencies. Mocking the testimony of a victim of sexual assault. Praising a congressman for assaulting a reporter. Suggesting that several congresswomen of colour who are American citizens, three of whom were born in the USA, should go back to their own country. Repeatedly downplaying the dangers of a global pandemic. Suggesting the use of untested drugs against the advice of medical professionals. Withholding pandemic aid from states with governors that aren’t ‘grateful enough’. Calling on protestors to violate lockdowns. Publicly speculating about the possible effectiveness of eating or injecting disinfectant to fight a virus. Suggesting he has been treated worse than presidents who were assassinated. Calling a congresswoman ‘Shamu’ and suggesting that she visited every buffet restaurant in the state. Suggesting that a 75 year old peace activist, hospitalised after being shoved by police officers, ‘could be an ANTIFA provocateur’. Sharing a video of one of his supporters yelling ‘white power’. Saying he might not accept the results of an election if he loses. Sending well wishes to someone who was arrested on charges of aiding a sex offender. Calling someone pathetic for accurately saying that a pandemic is widespread. Suggesting that a police officer mistakenly using deadly force is similar to a golfer missing a putt. Encouraging people to vote twice. Refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost an election. Ridiculing a political opponent for heeding the advice of scientists. Saying that people who tried to run a campaign bus of his political rival off the road ‘did nothing wrong’. Falsely declaring himself the winner of an election. Falsely claiming that election fraud has been committed. Urging a crowd at a rally to march to the capitol. Telling the crowd, after they commit domestic terrorism by entering the capitol building, erecting a gallows with the apparent intent to hang his Vice President, entering senate chambers and looting several items, ‘We love you. You’re very special’. Continuing, despite his words already having inspired a right wing terrorist attack on the capitol building, to utter the same rhetoric to cause that attack. Trying to have his Vice President overturn the election. Now, the reason I have listed these as 'achievements', is that it is my contention that many of his supporters voted for him in the most recent election not in spite of these things, but because of them. Trump is a terrible human being, and fortunately for him, there are a large number of similarly awful human beings who are excited to be represented by an openly garbage human being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUi926ses94 ?

The first Sonic movie was kinda fun and featured Jim Carrey being the most Jim Carrey I have seen him being in a long time, and I will probs watch the sequel and enjoy it.

One of the worst things about politics is political parties frequently finding themselves in a position of having to choose policies on the basis of whether they can convince people to vote for them with those policies, rather than whether they are good policies. Another of the worst things about politics is political parties.

Personal theory on why this plot point is hidden behind many layers of skill checks etc: Owlcat are based in Russia and don't wanna draw tooooo much attention to it.

Spiderverse rules and is the best Spidermovie imo

Son had a bunch of obvious mental health issues that the parents completely neglected. On multiple occasions they failed their duties as parents, including buying him a gun, not securing it, not taking any kind of action when he was caught searching for ammunition on his phone, or drew a gun and a bullet and wrote 'The thought won't stop - help me.' So on the one hand we have an obviously borderline mentally incompetent child, and on the other hand we have two actual adults whose job it is to parent this child. Adults generally have greater expectations of responsibility placed on them than children do, so yeah, I blame the adults who should know better than to put a pistol in the hands of a mentally unwell child more than I blame the mentally unwell child they 'raised'.

Because it's officially Christmas time I've decided, I've been actively seeking out Christmas movies again. Disney Plus recently released a film called Christmas...Again? which combines two of my favourite movie genres, Christmas and time loop. I dunno if they're official genres but whatevs. The basic premise is some girl whose name I forget atm is having a crummy Christmas and after meeting Santa, wishes she could have Christmas again, and because Santa is magic, it happens and she keeps repeating Christmas again and again, with varying results. I was all right. I'm biased towards time loop movies in general, but I don't think the time loop gimmick was used quite as well as I might've hoped. Still fun tho I guess, and had a great deal of sentimentality which frankly, at this time of year, I'm all for.

Late on this but imo the parents of that teen are more responsible for what happened than the child and should cop an equal or greater sentence.

I enjoy restarting this game but I don't think I'm gonna try a serious playthrough until, like, 2023. Should be fixed by then, right?

Did he actually say 'waivered' or was that just a misquote from PCGamer? EDIT: Also, IMO DA:I and most of ME3 are good.

Little late on this news, but I also haven't been on these forums in months so that makes sense. Little Big Adventure AKA Twinsen's Adventure or Rentless: Twinsen's Adventure or Little Big Adventure: Twinsen's Adventure and Little Big Adventure 2 AKA Twinsen's Odyssey are getting a sequel. It's been over 20 years but it's happening. This is probs my most anticipated game now. https://blog.2point21.com/p/journey-new-lba-game New company involves both the main guys who made the first two. My avatar is current again.

I get the impression the Codex is a cesspool of villainy tbh Which doesn't stop it from being a 'normal' ideological view, but that might not necessarily be a good thing.

Yeah it's cool I guess.

Hey there internet friends Rittenhouse is probs going to see zero legal consequences for being a massive tool. The most that he is probs legally culpable for, in my extremely unprofessional opinion having paid very little attention to the story, is illegally carrying a thing he shouldn't have been carrying or whatever, which he's also not going to see any legal consequences for because the judge appears to be extremely not good. I'd love for him to go to prison except that I think the US prison system sucks and makes slightly awful people into even more awful people, much like ours probs tbh. I'd love even more for him to stop being a terrible person but hey, realistic goals, right?

I watched the following movies on Disney+ over the weekend: Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings or whatever - really liked this one but to be fair I'm a card carrying MCU superfan and intend to still be watching the latest Marvel film on my deathbed. Funny, likeable characters, I like that all the main characters got decent screen time. Jungle Cruise - really liked this one, probs helps that Emily Blunt can do no wrong, and also I just like swashbuckly tales. This was a good time. Home Sweet Home Alone - So here's the thing. In Home Alone and Home Alone 2, it's fun to watch acts of over the top violence happen because the people it's happening to are jerks who in number one are trying to rob a house and then kidnap a child or whatever, I dunno it's been a while but the point is they sucked and it's fun to watch evil Joe Pesci get all kinds of violent comeuppance. In this latest one the people trying to break into the house are actually more sympathetic than the child and I didn't enjoy seeing violence happen to them at all so I guess overall I didn't care for the film. There were a couple moments that made me chuckle I guess but overall my recommendation is don't bother, which is a conclusion I'm sure most of you already came to by yourself.

'Sup nerds. Realised I hadn't been over to the forums for a while, figured I'd come over and check my notifications or whatever. Side note: my avatar is relevant again, LBA3 is coming, I've been waiting since the Black Isle days.

Hey there America What are you doing

Hmmm well I think Trump said he'd concede if the Electoral College voted for Biden so obviously we can all expect a smooth transition from this point forward, with no controversy whatsoever. As an aside, I remember hearing recently that the Proud Boys had a change of leadership because the former leader wasn't quite white supremacist enough for their liking. Weird how BLM, which is more a decentralised political movement like vegetarianism or whatever, than an actual definable group, is the terrorist organisation; would've thought that would be a label that would more closely fit the white supremacist hate group. Anyway, looking forward to the concession speech that Trump said he'd give.

You know what they always say, 51st time's the charm.

I'm not entirely sure about the nuances of voting in the USA; in Australia, if a 'third party' gets a certain number of votes, it means additional funding. Also I guess it may mean that the major parties see where they're losing votes to the third party and try to pander to those votes by adopting some of their policies. So I guess that's a way in which it could be seen as not wasting one's vote. If you're measuring purely by the effect the vote has in the actual election, though, there would've been no difference to the election if every single third party voter stayed home. So in that sense, their votes are wasted.

So like just better schools?

Yeah, no one's surprised that the fascist states are politically united.

Wow, looks like someone's disinvited from the podcast.

Well you're gonna need to do something about that voting system y'all got there.