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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

https://twitter.com/BlizzJess/status/1430259139071025158?s=20

This seems dumb. I think if you shred documents, the fine should be DOUBLED.

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~Alexandra

Please put in bold where I said only Republicans do it, thanks.

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Reminds me of the response to Black Lives Matter.

"NO! ALL LIVES MATTER!"

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masterplum posted...

If you think it's only republicans getting rich off politics I've got a bridge to sell you.

Where did I say it was ONLY Republicans? Weird defense.

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masterplum posted...

These headlines are often clickbait because senators trade stocks all the time. I would want to see if it was part of a larger stock purchase etc

I mean he reported a year later than he was supposed to. It'd honestly be MORE shocking if this were a harmless stock purchase because Republicans are just that much pieces of shit.

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FFDragon posted...

for something here and now, and this douchenozzle is actively telling everyone to ignore science

And of course he's a "doctor" which will give him credibility, as if any of the pro-covid people listen to any other doctors saying the exact opposite.

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Planet Coaster

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9/10

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masterplum posted...

So what exactly are you proposing that is going to solve the problem

I'm not sure there is a solution, at least not within our current system. The duopoly has zero interest in solving any real crisis because it doesn't make them money. Too many people don't want to fix the system, because to them it's working just fine by not working for other people. Until we change that, anything else we do is putting on duct tape and hoping it holds.

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masterplum posted...

What are you looking for? "Correct! Democracy is bad and we should return to the Monarchy"?

I'm looking for putting the blame where it lies: Address the root causes, rather than the result of root causes.

Or maybe you're totally okay with creating more homeless people, so long as we don't break the rules of the system because the rules are more important than the people.

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xp1337 posted...

Still pushing back on this being a faut of democracy so much as the fact that we are NOT a democracy, just a Frankenstein's monster that calls itself one to make itself seem better and the mask has been stretched to the point where the rips and tears exposing the rot underneath is just impossible to not see unless you choose to be willfully ignorant about our electoral system.

It's a fault of our system not working, however you want to look at it. Centrists will cry and moan anytime you go outside the system -- but then turn around and do fuck all about the problems that people face that cause people to seek going outside the system in the first place.


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masterplum posted...

Stop blaming dictators might be the most inferno hot take I have ever seen.

So you decide not to address my points, and just throw out a stupid comment as usual. Typical, for a centrist who can't FATHOM why people get fed up with democracy when it doesn't work.

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masterplum posted...

Overthrowing democracy because the democracy isn't working has been the playbook of every single dictator that upended democracy since Julius Caesar

You're saying Dictators are the problem. They aren't. The problem is Democracy. When it doesn't work, it allows dictators to rise. Maybe stop blaming dictators, and blame Democracy and demand better from them, instead of allowing dicators to rise in the first place.

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masterplum posted...

Biden extending the eviction moratorium the day after announcing he couldnt because it was illegal immediately after the Supreme Court said it was illegal but the logistics of ending it immediately didnt make it worth it are everything wrong with this country.

Everything wrong with this country is that congress didn't get their sorry asses up and extend the moratorium and instead went on vacation. Not to mention that they won't do anything with healthcare. Or gun violence. Or pretty much anything that doesn't involve enriching politicians and their friends. We could easily have a homelessness crisis on TOP of a pandemic. But Republicans don't give a shit, and moderate democrats don't either. THAT is what is wrong with this country.

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Bombadil?
Holland?
Hiddleston?

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

My understanding is that the problem is NOT "sanctions as a concept" but rather "sanctions for offenses that we are recently and publicly also guilty of"

I mean Sanctions as a concept are problematic. They only serve to cause cruelty, and don't really create change. It's like when you fine a drug company that sells a drug that kills people Millions of dollars, when they made billions off of it. Absolutely worthless.

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masterplum posted...

If they didn't work, then it wouldn't effect the Cuban citizens. You can't have it both ways.

Part of the point of sanctions is riling the populace into uprising

I'm sure any day now Cubans will all rise up and start a revolution against their government. Any day... we've been at it for how long now?

You're essentially endorsing allowing people to suffer in hopes that one day they overthrow their government. How's that working out again? In the meantime people are suffering and we're supposed to be okay with it. This is the conservative mindset in a nutshell.

They don't work. They DO make people suffer. If making people suffer is the point, then congratulations, I guess?

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Sanctions on Cuba don't even work, and aren't intended to work. They're nothing but political theater at the expense of Cuban Citizens. "Look at us! We're doing something!" (accomplishing absolutely nothing. Which is par for the course for American politicians).

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Mitch doesn't have senate majority. She's better.

And, would that suddenly change if we picked literally any other Democrat to replace her worthless sorry ass?

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

lol Sinema is so cartoonishly offensive at this point that Im led to two conclusions: Shes intentionally taking heat for the rest of the party, or shes deadass and the Democrats big tent includes genuine monsters stopping progress on a whim, and I want no part of it.

She MUST be primaried. 100%. And don't tell me we can't do better. We did better in Arizona already. Mark Kelly is better than Martha McSall--err Kyrsten Sinema. It's easy to be confused by the two. I'm not sure they aren't just the same person at this point.

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Weird how with all the vacation time congress gets, there's NO guaranteed paid vacation time for actual people.

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Got a bunch of amiibo cards for a pretty good price. I tried one out to make sure they work, and they did. Building my ideal village is proving tricky though, cause I can't decide which villagers I want. Or which I'm willing to say goodbye to. Maybe I'll just wait until the next person asks to leave.

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She's 17, she should get a long sentence of community service and be put into a mentor program. Doesn't seem to be on a level that requires a jail sentence tbqh.

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"Somebody else's obligations"

Weird, when we bailout wall-street Nancy is silent.

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Blaziken posted...

You don't like it, change the hearts and minds of the moderate majority of voters in the Democratic Party, who you seem more than content to bitch about by trashing their proxies in Congress and the White House, rather than retooling your message to appeal to them.

Ahh yes, blaming progressives. The only play in the moderate dems playbook. "You just haven't won us over yet!" Well, when do they start winning us over? They keep making promises, then get surprised when a lot of us decide "Hey, if they aren't going to keep their promises, maybe we won't show up!" and blame us for losing, when it's THEIR fault they're losing. They aren't winning the hearts and minds of people. They're just using money from special interests like they always do, and enjoying being Republican-Lite by doing absolutely fuck-all. We have every right to trash these people when they make promises, and then don't even BEGIN to keep them. If someone doesn't think every American should have health insurance, and they think it's okay for people to be in enormous debt just to get a college education -- which is practically a necessity these days -- then I'm not sure those people have hearts to change to begin with.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Maybe next time someone with a vision and the will to follow-through will run, who knows?

I mean does it matter for the primaries, when our centrists will tell us how much we need to run a centrist because only they have the ability to beat the big bad Republicans and we can't take a risk because people don't actually like Progressive policies.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

At a certain point if we keep eating shit, theyre going to keep serving us shit. This Pelosi saying literal Libertarian talking points shit has fully black-pilled me.

Yeah, cause 2016 really taught the Dems a lesson! They sure learned.

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Mind you everyone should still vote because this shit is still much better than cartoon villainy. Even if sad

Yeah, it's important to stop the dumpster fire party from destroying everything. I've given up on the idea though that if Dems keep winning elections, eventually the right will move to the left. No. At this point I realize they'll only keep moving further right. I suspect in 8 years, we'll have a Republican presidential candidate who's views are basically the american taliban.

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Funny how she leaves out:

"Suppose at this point your child decided not to go to college because they don't want to be knee deep in debt. Now that debt can be canceled, and they don't have to worry about it. They can get an education, which can in turn lead to them getting a better job."

I just wish Biden would say that. Like just say that to her. He'd get a LOT of points from me if he did (but sadly I suspect he won't)

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We're paying taxes to go to wars I disagree with. I don't think we should be funding Israel. But somehow I manage to go on with it anyway, because I'm not a selfish piece of human waste who cares more about money than policy.

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masterplum posted...

And Newt Gingrich exacerbated it before Mitch McConnell

And Ronald Reagan before Gingrich. Not to mention Joseph McCarthy, and so many others responsible for the anti-poor sentiment in this country. (Not to mention anti-lgbt, with his handling of the AIDs crisis, if you can even call it 'handling')

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i mean, a lot of america's problems did suddenly appear with trump

Did they really though? I'd say Mitch McConnell exacerbated the issue as much as Trump (and before Trump came along). Trump just brought out the worst in everyone. For once, they felt safe talking about their worst inhibitions because Trump always talked about his. That's why they always said he was a 'straight-talker'. What they really meant by that is that he wasn't afraid to say the worst things that were on their minds that they never felt they could say in public, but now they just don't care anymore.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

I think its worse than Trump is bombast and while technically wrong, is the sort of thing where we were told it would be SOO much better, and its not. Being lied to/disappointed hurts more than getting the shit sandwich you expected, basically.

Trump was worse than we expected to be honest. Like, we knew he'd be bad. But he always found a way to make it worse.

And Biden, did we really expect him to be so much better? Like... I think we all knew Biden would be the moderate democrat we knew he was during the primaries.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Shes SUCH a clown

What do you have against Clowns? I mean sure, they can be scary and murdery, but I'm not sure that warrants the comparison.

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Why is designing a decent island so hard?! I thought I had an idea, a crescent moon lake that flows into the main rivers below, but it came out pretty bad so I erased it. Still have no idea how I want to put my villager houses. Or my museum. The entry looks nice, but that's about it.

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It'll be Galeem.

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Watching The Purge in 2013: "No way would this happen. Most people wouldn't even participate in the purge even if it were a thing. People are better than this."

Watching the Purge in 2021: "No way would this happen. There'd be WAY more bodies, especially poor people and minorities. People are worse than this."

Captain Planet pre-2016: "The villains are so over the top ridiculous. I guess that's a given for cartoons though."

Captain Planet post 2016: "Yeah, no. These guys would totally get put in charge of the EPA. And they'd probably, sadly, do a better job than Rick Perry."

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Ten Things I'd like to see them add to New Horizons:

#1. The ability to move your town hall. I've always hated the location of mine, but I don't want to start all over and lose all my stuff, my money and my villagers (especially since they're all villagers I actually like)

#2. The ability to move your River mouths. I hate that we're stuck with the ones we pick at the beginning.

#3. The ability to move your airport. Shouldn't be too hard tbh.

#4. A Scythe for cutting flowers. This would destroy them, and make cleaning up your island much easier.

#5. The ability to move a house a few feet over without moving it twice.

#6. Useful Isabelle announcements. Like "Good morning. It looks like someone washed up on the beach this morning. Again. I think that's the third time in two weeks... I do hope he's okay." and "There's a shady ship docked at the far end of the Island. Just where does Redd get all that art anyway?" Just tell us who our visitor is!

#7. An upgrade to Nook's. C'mon Nintendo. Two upgrades isn't enough.

#8. Villager Tracker. I want to know where I can find villagers, without having to scour the entire island.

#9. Being able to terraform more than one tile at a time.

#10. Replace Leif and the Camel with other visitors, giving them their own shop. They are the most disappointing visitors. (Also bringing back the coffee shop would be great)

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As I say goodbye to Roald, I say Hello to Whitney. My first wolf! Though I have way too many Snooty Villagers. (But they are the best imo)

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paperwarior posted...

I still don't know why anyone wants to eat gold. Moses made people eat gold as a punishment.

Egyptians have long ate Gold, as far back as 5000 years ago, believing it to have divine effects. Paracelsus used it as well in many of his medicines.

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Rich people, not satisfied with screwing up the economy, decide to screw up french fries as well.

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Trying to renovate my Island.They really need some QoL changes. A tool to get rid of flowers faster would be nice.

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FFDragon posted...

Until we get President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho I will say closer, yes.

I mean didn't we have worse?

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masterplum posted...

That is exactly how power dynamics work yes. Otherwise it would be like when a teenager tries to embargo their parents which almost every teenager tries to do at some point

My point is that if you only embargo countries that don't have something you need, you aren't really doing it for any altruistic reasons. You're doing it for political reasons, and it's time we stop pretending otherwise. Nobody cares about cuban refugees. They care about political power over Cuba. If Cuba suddenly had a TON of oil, everyone would gladly look the other way. Just like people look the other way toward our own human rights violations, including our own politicians.

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masterplum posted...

A bit harder considering how dependant we are on OPEC oil. We should morally embargo china and Russia too but have similar problems

So human rights abuses are okay as long as either:
A. They have something we need/want
or
B. We're the ones doing it.

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Weird, there's no embargo on Saudi Arabia. You know, the country most of the 9/11 hijackers were from. Or the country that literally murdered an American Journalist. And has a LOT of human rights abuses.

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I'd buy this if the properties were Villagers. Like Boardwalk and Park Place could be Raymond and Judy.

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Struggling with XC Golf in adventure mode.

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Got my first hole in one in adventure mode. Woo!

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As long as it's on the level of Mario Golf: Toadstool tour, I will be happy.

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