The Gaming Den

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...

Fucking incredible, thanks for sharing that. I love seeing effective bipartisanship where the Democrats give the Republicans things and get nothing in return.

Do you have a source (or sources) for that last post? Too much news has happened lately, I am struggling to catch up. My WaPo and NYT news bubble often leaves out details on why Biden goes the headass shit he is constantly doing.

I like to describe the US parties as the following. Two main parties that can actually win elections: Democrats - Neoliberal imperialist party. Knows how to run a capitalist economy reasonably well, are socially liberal, but still anti-labor and anti-welfare. Hugely into privatization, and very hawk...

My governor (MA here) has also announced that the state government is forbidden from helping anyone seeking to punish people who got an abortion. I believe states are required to let the feds take people out of their states, but the state has no obligation to help the feds locate or extradite the pe...

The solution is obviously to vote for Joe Biden again so Joe Biden can do the things Joe Biden is saying that Joe Biden will not do. This is a reference to Biden complaining about how lots of Democrats don't want him to run a second time, because Biden is the oldest baby alive. In response to the cu...

I did not know those things about the Bengal famine or Irish famine, I thought they were purely mismanagement. Well, shit, I can't wait for Hyz to talk about how we need to destroy the UK.

According to most scholars of famine, you'd have to list literally every recorded famine, ever. The general consensus is that death by famine should always be considered "man-made" insofar as there is generally food somewhere that could have been transported to where it was needed and sum...

You need to stretch the definition of genocide a lot to make the Holodomor fit. Here are some things I believe you'd need to consider genocides if you want to call the Holodomor a genocide: US sanctions against Afghanistan (and really any US sanctions that involve food and medicine, as they are an a...

Hyz is also bringing up things that are flatly not true, like saying Russia is killing all the Ukranian teachers. Russia is having teachers be retrained so they teach Russian language courses and follow other Russian teaching standards. This is not good, as Ukraine deserves to have its own teaching ...

I truly don't understand how someone can watch a war go on for three fucking months and somehow think the war continuing indefinitely isn't worse for the country the war is happening in than a negotiated peace. Ukraine could let Russia take the areas it's currently occupying and have the war end (as...

If I had to guess based on my experiences it's mostly wealthy dipshits who support the war, which is the same group of people who own all of our media, and so if you run in certain social circles you might actually think destroying Russia is a popular opinion. I don't think it's actually a popular o...

I don't think the main point or even all the individual facts (the US did bomb hospitals in Iraq [and Afghanistan], but I'm not sure if any were post-facto described as military targets or we just did the usual thing where we say it was unintentional and nobody gets punished) of Tussock's post are w...

The US invasion of Iraq (major nuclear power invading nation of ~40 million) was wall to wall news for like six months, the main difference was the treated the US side as truth and the minor Iraqi successes along their steady defeat as propaganda so weak as to be laughed at. I'm not going to try an...

Ukraine is basically a football, I feel bad for regular Ukranians who just want to live their fucking lives and can't stop being coup'd and manipulated by two different imperialist powers. Anyone who thinks the removal of Yanukovych didn't have coup written all over it is stupid, because the incitin...

When two countries run by people the US helped put into power fight, especially after the US sabre rattled and began sending a fuckton of weapons and ammo to one, it's very unfair to blame the US even a little bit. Stop being fascist.

That sabre rattling did give me a sinking feeling, and this war is so fucking awful. I hope it ends quickly and without too much bloodshed.

I'm not sure how anyone could think the US has the right to take stuff from people who are not US citizens. Do the people who think this believe the US is somehow the arbiter of morality and law? Do they think that if you get arrested in another country for doing something that is legal in the US th...

In 3e it was stats all over the place, literally +8 strength, for being taller. This leaves no variation for "tall but lanky" or "wide but tough without actually being stronger". This is in addition to the +4 to combat tricks such as grapple, trip, and disarm, yet again assuming...

Saber rattling with Russia continues, we've got 8,500 troops on high alert now and have sent over 200,000 pounds of "lethal aid" to Ukraine. However, the term "lethal aid" is amazing. I can't tell if they're trying to hide that it's a handout to the military industrial complex or...

Less has been done than I expected to be done with Biden, and I expected virtually nothing. Build back better failed because the very good moderates the Democrats pushed are, and try not to be shocked here, less than useless. Lots of Trump-era policies are still in place. We haven't done shit about ...

That's unfortunate, I hope it was an amicable split. I went through a divorce (or am still technically going through it) and it's a pain in the ass, but if you're both still friends it's a only a pain in the ass from a paperwork and living situation perspective.

I can't speak to why someone would be on Twitter and following a bunch of liberals, but a lot of people use Facebook to stay in touch with the minion memes their parents post and are thus exposed to a lot of liberal opinions. The once or so a week I log into facebook is always an interesting time. I...

Minor point, because the problem is that he was shot and not the results of the shooting, but Jacob Blake is alive (he was paralyzed). The decontextualization of everything in the legal system is so strange. It makes sense once you consider that it's made to protect people (wealthy ones) who can obf...