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I'm aware it's highly likely that might be his position again, but I would still be curious to see his thought process, in the face of evidence in front of his eyes.

This would be a good time for Guard Dog to visit the forums. Really curious to hear how he's reacting to current events.

Sal Buscema. Comic book artist who mostly worked for Marvel. Very prolific, he worked for Marvel between 1968 and 2019. He was 89.

The problem is that all the second amendment bros joined ICE, so they don't care about gun rights anymore.

In Portugal a neonazi organization was recently found to be heavily armed, doing military training, and planning operations to goad Muslims into violence. Over ten members of the organisation were found to also be members of Chega, the Portuguese Conservative party totally not right wing fascist.

An affidavit from a witness.

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Tim Cain is back at Obsidian!

As has been shown again and again, Trump is very easy to manipulate and he always agrees with the last person he spoke to. Mamdani specifically seems like a particularly charming dude. Trump doesn't really care about NY.

There will be a vote, but it won't pass.

This thread isn't all bad.

I think your system is too old to run OW2, unfortunately. It is definitely under the minimum requirements.

What's your graphics card?

I see that there is a soundtrack only dlc now for avowed, while I have the artbook/avowed dlc. You got the soundtrack dlc with the premium edition?

What are your specs, on which platform are you playing the game?

I have the premium edition and can only access the soundtrack through the app, as far as I know. So far it's the same with OW2.

You have access to the Avowed soundtrack separately?

A little authoritarianism. Just a little.

He is risen!

First both Houses are entirely toothless. Entirely. They will either endorse whatever comes out of this administration, or ah-hum their way to the apocalypse, with vague hand wringing about norms and civility. As for the courts, the system is slow, but the Supreme Court has already clearly shown who it stands with. Congress, lol.

It's very fortunate then that the GOP hasn't been ignoring the constitution with no consequences, so far. We really dodged a bullet here, thanks for the help.

Also don't forget Peter Thiel who names every company he has after evil things in Middle earth.

While my examples were more generic authoritarian than fascist, a significant portion of Eco's list already applies to a tee to current situation in the US. That said, at this point, differentiating between authoritarianism and fascism is at best an interesting rhetorical exercise, at worse a distraction. Also whether the situation now is better or worse than in the Lindberg days, is really not that important. More important is where American political institutions and discourse stand now compared to ten, twenty or forty years ago. I'd argue things are moving in the wrong direction and accelerated dramatically with Trump's accession this year. Regarding your disappointments, I wasn't really surprised myself with either media or tech companies capitulating to Trump. Tech companies especially weren't so much capitulating but rather going mask off in the name of profits. Not all of them are run by complete nutso Peter Thiel, but the Zuckerbergs and Bezos and Musks of the world are not that far removed from Thiel.

Descent into fascism is a process not an end state. Examples: using government regulatory authorities to silence speech the powerful don't like. Plain clothes security forces rounding up people without due process. The Supreme Court using the shadow docket to push through blatantly unconstitutional decisions in favor of the current administration The rule of law being repeatedly ignored with no consequences I'd say that for the midterms to change anything the dems would have to have crushing victories in both the House and the Senate. I'm not sure, but I think in the Senate that's utterly impossible, even with the assumption of entirely free and fair elections. Also that assumption is becoming less and less guaranteed. Additionally, even if the dems win overwhelmingly, if they keep behaving in the same way they did during the Biden mandate, they will, at best, be an hiatus. I don't think Trump is necessary anymore, at this point the GOP seems entirely captured by its far right faction. Still, what happens to the GOP with a dead Trump is a bit of an open question. I sometimes have conversations with a colleague of mine who thinks Vance would be worse than Trump. I think he'd be a lame duck.