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So sort of on topic, starting just today I've seen Josh Marshall, Stephanie Ruhle, and Chris Hayes turn against democratic leadership, so I guess the democratic defense media establishment has made the turn to some kind of contempt/face saving. EDIT: All right, that's not exactly fair. I considered...

I pretty much agree with kaelik. I do not understand how anyone could look at what libs talk about on Twitter and come to the ultimate conclusion that the Dems will collapse and somehow things will work out afterward. Most Dem voters are ok with Biden as a leader even if they are dissatisfied with ...

Because you literally never actually advocate for people to abandon electoralism, and instead spend 100% of your time talking about how you want specific election outcomes. Electoralism is when you vote in elections even when you're doing so to intentionally subvert the system. If you do the ritual...

Yes. Thank you, Omegonthesane. Why was that so hard to understand? Fucking lawyers, man. Why couldn't our liberal overlords be boat dealership owners or quack doctors instead. That said, my wished-for collapse of the Democrats it's not 'paving the way' so much as 'pouring fuel on the fire'. The tren...

For fuck's sake dude, I know you're a lawyer and thus have lawyer-brain but can you PLEASE try to think of politics in terms other than bureaucratic rituals? The fucking END RESULT is what's important, not the process. This is especially so when the process requires an intermediate step that, if the...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/economy/federal-reserve-powell-inflation-taper/index.html?utm_content=2021-12-15T19%3A05%3A45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twcnnbrk&utm_term=link Fed officials now predict the central bank's benchmark interest rate to rise to 0.9% in 2022, up from the 0.3% ...

I have NEVER said (well, I haven't since 2016) electoralism is the path to the future. In fact, I believe quite the opposite. Electoralism, at least as it exists in the United States, must be destroyed or at least discredited and suborned by mass labor politics if humanity is to have a chance of sur...

which I guess is what I'm going to classify Lago as, though I'm sure most people can agree he's incoherent politically, How rude. I'm a pretty orthodox leftcom. Politics largely indistinguishable from pre-2015 FrankTrollman's before he turned into a huge bitch and started begging the Clintons for s...

which I guess is what I'm going to classify Lago as, though I'm sure most people can agree he's incoherent politically, How rude. I'm a pretty orthodox leftcom. Politics largely indistinguishable from pre-2015 FrankTrollman's before he turned into a huge bitch and started begging the Clintons for s...

The vibe I'm getting from Twitter/Facebook is that rank-and-file liberal partisans are starting to freak out about their prospects. And what triggered this freakout is their voter customer base switching from 'do better, Biden, please!' to 'student loans were the last straw, hope your party dies', o...

Implying the current democratic party can exercise power? Absolutely. https://www.dailyposter.com/sanders-tries-to-rescue-dems-from-a-gop-attack/ In a last-ditch attempt to rescue Democrats from their own worst instincts, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind-Vt.) is working to try to limit the party’s politica...

The Democrats won't go anywhere this decade. They have too much money and power to buy people's thoughts, and when they can't buy your thoughts, they will buy your compliance. If they can't buy that, they'll threaten you and your livelihood. They are snakes in suits pretending to be human beings wi...

Any of you other guys received threatening e-mails about restarting student loan payments? If I didn't know better, I'd say that the Democrats were unwittingly taking a dive because they seriously did not understand how precarious a situation they're in. However, I live in a world where Obama left t...

Collapse isn't quite the right word. Quietly smothered in its crib by the Republican Party that has been aware since 2009 that they can't consistently compete fairly with their current coalitional composition. Of course, this smothering will also extend to anything less militant than, say, the Black...

I don't think either party is on the verge of collapse but I do feel like they've repeatedly shown their hand in the time since I first got to vote. The GOP collapse, I've talked about before and my tune is still the same. Structurally speaking? I think they're in a significantly worse spot now tha...

Why can't I shake the feeling that you've been saying that the political parties are about to die any minute now ever since they were created? Is it just me? I have been saying that since about, what, 2010? Actually, I said the GOP was about to fracture due to irreconcilable contradictions in their...

The landlord party successfully defeated the democratic candidate for mayor in Buffalo by uniting Republicans, landlords, and everyone who ever told you to vote for Hillary Clinton. The only correct thing to do from now on is run as third party after every primary. The goal should be for no democra...

If you've survived the 90s you'll survive this. If there's one thing we've learned about President Pigboy, an open Nazi, still managing lower 1st-term deportation and incarceration numbers than Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama, it's that the fascists aren't actually all that more scary than the liberal c...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/business/economy/biden-inflation.html “It is a highly incomplete view to try to assess the economy, and even people’s views about the economy, by looking at inflation alone,” Jared Bernstein, a member of Mr. Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, said in an intervie...

Your premise is false. You cannot wean people off of gnomes and dragonborn by associating them with negative qualities. They will either riot because you are 'ruining them' or, worse, they will adopt those traits and everyone else will riot. That's only half the battle. You have to associate them w...

You have to do a delicate dance. Gamers are stupid and easily misled beasts who don't know what they want, so you have to give them a very specific thing with a definite brand and hard aesthetic limits while tricking their peabrains into thinking that they're getting something wide and generic. This...

The smartest way to monetize D&D would be to go in the exact opposite direction that D&D has been going the past two decades. That is, D&D should be a distinct setting with the 'right' way to play it both aesthetically and rules-wise. You have to be pretty extreme with D&D before som...

If you want to play something different than a usual God Wizard yet still play an A-tier or even S-tier character, I wrote two guides that will help you out. DPR-focused Wizard https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CR2AoDVco5rf_o1KmxH_NOPxTIiX6FA58N_prw8Qzww/edit Bladesinger Wizard https://docs.google...

I won't! I'm a wizard, so I don't suffer anyway. It's still a pain in the ass, though. Depends. It's pretty easy to fuck up your wizard's efficacy in 5E D&D even if you make the correct basic-bitch choices like maxing out your INT ASAP and going for save-or-sucks over other kinds of spells. It'...

Then suffer for your roleplaying choices. Again, you get no sympathy from me, sorry.