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Ukraine's fall without US support is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. That would assume Russian offensives are sustainable, which they are not. They're involved in a surge of their warfighting potential, which is steadily depleting their arsenals and straining their economy.

It remains to be seen how long they can keep it up.

Y'know, I was of the opinion that destroying vodka factories would be a good way to apply more discomfort to the Russian people, helping turn them against the war.

On the other hand, though, maybe just let them drink.

Clearly you wouldn't want gauntlets, as that would deprive the cat of his main weapons, but at least give him some vambraces or something. 7/10

Much more defensible during a zombie apocalypse. While the zombies probably wouldn't be bringing 17th century cannons to bear against your walls, you'd still get superior firing angles for your defenders.

Let's not ignore that there's a real, policy-based disagreement here. Tech companies like to be able to import top talent from wherever they can get it (and are generally correct that this is overall beneficial), while white nationalists are dead set against the idea, as it strikes directly against the very core of their values.

It's a legit disagreement, and pretty foundational.

That said, I do overall agree that we're kinda beaten at the moment, and too busy licking our wounds and regrouping to care that much about this.

In 2008, Obama pulled off a surprising victory against establishment favorite Hilary Clinton, mainly off the back of a swell of online, small dollar donations. In his first term, among other things like stabilizing the economy in the midst of what we called The Great Recession (dumb name, I know, though a lot of people did lose their houses and jobs), he gave everyone health insurance subsidized by the government via taxes on health insurance and pharma companies, as well as Medicaid expansion. While not ideal, this was both realistically doable with the degree of Congressional support at the time, and a massive improvement over the previous system.

For some reason people have forgotten this in their zeal to pressure the dem party. I do get that, though I think it's important to retain a degree of memory of what actually happened and why. Anyway, are we really sure a third party is necessary, when it is possible to simply win this one?

Or even that great of an idea? Because unless you pulled all the dems with you, you're just leaving a dominant repub party by helping them divide and conquer. This is very frustrating, no question, but so is life sometimes.

You know how you can put salt and pepper on most things? Salt comes from just about everywhere, but pepper does not.

Finding 9 repubs willing to stand up to Trump these days is easier said than done. You're aware, I assume, of what happened to the last batch.

Regarding work, how about a whole bunch of judicial appointments? He already broke Trump's record.

General reminder that we do not hold the House, greatly impacting our ability to pass the laws we'd like.

A very brief one, sure, I could agree with that. Most assholes aren't worth more than a few words from a mod though. This is the internet after all, trolls abound.

Check the modlog, they usually cite which rule was broken. I think "evil" is a pretty strong word, unfair maybe, but lots of things are unfair without being evil.

Awhile ago they released mod support, and I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about a mod that made it real time with pause.

I ended up dropping it too, but it's more that I'm just not as into rpgs as I was in the past. I can recognize how good it is, but the genre just doesn't do it for me anymore.