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The NYT says the Biden administration is considering bringing back family detention on the border. Is Biden still better than Trump on immigration if he literally does the same thing Trump did?

You're an asshole, too, you illiterate fuck. I agreed that $19k is obviously poverty and that ~$50k is probably not . I'm just responding to this insult because it's baffling to me. You posted the following, which I was responding to: The Census Bureau uses $14k for a household that has one adult u...

Jesus fuck imagine thinking 14k as a poverty line could potentially not be too low. Let's establish a few facts so he can't be a dumbass about this: 1. The US is highly urbanized, with more than 80% of the population living in urban areas . 2. The median price to rent a 1-bedroom apartment in one of...

I personally hope the strike happens and the US finally gets a proper understanding that laborers are the ones who do all the work, but I would also hate a strike because of all the harm it does to random fucking people (and the strikers in particular, as they'll probably get arrested in droves or o...

There is something darky hilarious about how the Democrats act when they do evil shit. "I'm sorry, Jack," Biden says as he signs a contract with Beelzebub, enveloping 115,000 rail workers in hellfire. "I wish there was some other way." The furthest left, most pro-labor president ...

The Republican messaging of "The schools are turning your kids LGBT" failed worse than I expected, which is lovely to see. I hope the Republicans don't get the house even though it looks like they will, that would give us a shot in case SCOTUS decides democracy is over. Still worried about...

He's also asking governors to pardon people who are in prison for state-level simple possession charges, which may free some people! His pardon of federal simple possession allows folks with convictions to function better in society as you lose access to a bunch of stuff (like federal assistance pro...

I was not condoning kidnapping governors! I do condone throwing politicians in jail until they fix unjust laws, but doing so legally. Please do not kidnap your governor.

There's so little to say about cash bail that everyone doesn't already agree with (namely that it is bad, and that all bail seems excessive given more people are in debt than actually have a noticeable amount of savings). Not a lot of other countries even have bail it seems, you either wait for tria...

I am finding this review amusing, the (at times confusing) stream of consciousness feels appropriate for a game made by shitmuffin.

Based off your experiences so far, would you rate this game 5 stars or just 4?

Picking out how much of that shit is "the conversation has fucking moved since even May 2020 let alone whenever it was that Stahl actually brought up the video" is beyond my actual interest in the conversation, I said some shit that I regret nearly a decade ago and I would like to think t...

Picking out how much of that shit is "the conversation has fucking moved since even May 2020 let alone whenever it was that Stahl actually brought up the video" is beyond my actual interest in the conversation, I said some shit that I regret nearly a decade ago and I would like to think t...

I don't know if you know this but a lot of normal people aren't politic brained and at the time a lot of sentiments about things being "forced" into media to bad results was extremely common on and off the internet. Transphobia was and still is extremely common not even just among people ...

I don't think anyone has pretended anything. The post you're quoting is in response to your post about "looking into" the guy who made the video. It is a statement about how there's easier ways to tell that a source of information is basically a Nazi outlet or Nazi adjacent that doesn't r...

Anyone or anything uncritically citing it otherwise regurgitating news straight from Fox (or it's affiliates/lookalikes) is either a fascist or fascist aligned. You don't even have to do research beyond that to understand it's very likely to be bullshit. That's true, but that's not really the probl...

Oh right, I did hear about that! Thanks for the info everyone. Another example of the Democrats (who say the Republicans are a threat to democracy) refusing to actually fight the Republicans as if they were a threat to democracy. I wonder when, or if, the Democrats will ever start taking action that...

Wait, what happened in NY? Was this in the NY politics thread and I missed it?

Anyone else check the channel? Stahl, you're posting nazi shit again. Stop it or you'll end up talking about how murdering people in the street to defend racism is good again and get embarrassed again and probably call everyone who explains how you are literally indistinguishable from any other nazi...

I haven't been following midterm speculation too closely lately because it's unlikely to matter. The thing that will determine elections in the future is probably this one SCOTUS case . If the midterms go the way they're expected to (D control of the Senate, R control of the house) we'll probably ju...

Auto-success on a 20 only matters in situations where the DC is so high that bonus+20 would still otherwise fail. Auto-fail on a 1 only matters in situations where the DC is so low that bonus+1 would still otherwise pass. Those strike me as situations where the GM should not be calling for a roll i...

Rumbleverse is a 40-player Battle Royale game, but instead of guns and other weapons you pick up books to learn wrestling moves (choke slam, diamond crusher, sumo slap, etc.) and attempt to Ring Out, Time Out, or KO your opponents. You can also pick up folding chairs, baseball bats, and mailboxes to...

Do you mind if it's a direct link to the PDF? It's unlikely they can track it (outside of hits/downloads) as this isn't an HTML document or anything, just a raw PDF (which I, a person who has no Wizards account, can access): https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/one-dnd/character-origins/CSW...

I saw the 21-page UA playtest doc. It looks like they're keeping Bounded Accuracy, and they have introduced a rule where you fail skill checks on a 1 and succeed on a 20 (I don't remember if that was in 5e). So...fixing none of the problems and seemingly adding some new ones. I do like that they're ...

I found a Biden quote in a recent WaPo article to be very funny. Article: https://web.archive.org/web/20220810231021/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/10/biden-us-historians-democracy-threat/ Quote: “You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy,” Biden told the National Organization...

Wait, you can still sue people for striking in the US? I thought that was only for federal workers, and even then I thought that was only for critical jobs like air traffic control. How the fuck are they suing coal workers for striking!? Edit: I have Googled it and it looks like they are requiring t...