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LOL - like... I am a fan of both franchises, but I get the voting for Lara Croft to be contrarian and sticking it to the big Nintendo boy.

It would be like saying Spongebob is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse... and yeah... Spongebob is huge and beloved but it's not more recognizable, probably not even among millenials who are the core audience for Spongebob.

So... yeah that's cute and go Lara! - but nah.

Tommorow: House republicans use Baltimore to fear monger about crime and poverty while denying federal funds to fix a shipping and transportation accident bridge disaster.

andel posted...

liberals aren't the ones using it as a catchall term for things they don't like. the morons insurrection supporters are the ones doing that

This is like that god-awful Roseanne special they gave her as a reward for making racist tweets...

She asks "What is a woman, people are asking what is a woman!?"

Roseanne... YOUR side is asking that! Your transphobic thought leaders and social media pariahs are asking that... not us lefties!

This woman is really stupid, and it's a real shame she gets positive feedback from the ghouls and Nazis she serves content to... it's both disgusting and really sad.

Bandit_Keith posted...

Left of far right is too much of them. Hell, ultra right-wing but disagrees with Trump now makes you a RINO.

Liz Cheney is the perfect example, super right wing voting record and part of a legacy conservative political family - but she did the right thing one time and the voters said GTFO.

specialkid8 posted...

Why are you doing this to yourself just to be mad?

Because if I didn't you would immediately accuse me of only getting my opinions from the left or the mainstream media instead of viewing firsthand.

WingsOfGood posted...

that they dislike immigrants

True, but when scaremongering about immigrants they convey a lot of lies and misinformation along with sprinkling in Nazi "great replacement" talking points.

Also they like some immigrants: Melania Trump and Elon Musk... wonder what the difference might be...

Watching some right wing clips and analysis, the mass of broad to specific lies they tell and misinformation they spread seems to encapsulate their entire worldview and existence as media pundits and personalities.

Daily Wire may be the absolute worst as they pepper their misinformation with stochastic terrorism and mask off fascist talking points, but in many ways Fox News is more insidious because they create the appearance of a regular news operation - and not to say the cable new media are great, but there is no sense of journalism at all from Fox and it's more radical online pipeline destinations.

Is there one area where conservative media can support their positions honestly? Just one issue or ideological belief?

GrandConjuraton posted...

Implying Biden could lose because of the Israel situation seems like a low IQ take.

a bit of Dunning Kreuger effect here I think...

Don't underestimate the importance of global conflicts, especially when there are American constituents that have a connection to that conflict like American Jews and Palestinians, anti-war and anti-apartheid leftists, as well as Christian Evangelicals.

All of these groups have voiced serious concerns over the conflict, so to say this isn't going to have impact is pretty short-sighted.

I need to know the deep lore and backstory of every character that becomes mildly popoular, and it must be so overblown while remaining formulaic as to make the events in the original work less impressive or unique.

Homes are one of the few major physical investments a regular person can make that retains or increases in value.

cjsdowg posted...

Because the dems are the only ones trying to convince good ppl to get over dead childern we are funding. Republicans that is the selling point. Republicans being evil is what their base wants. Dems base dont want that. So hell at least Republicans are doing what there base wants.

That may be the worst argument ever. Honestly I hate to do this, but it's an abuse survivor mentality.

Your argument seems to be that at least the republicans really really mean it when they advocate for even more aggressive genocidal policies against Palestinians, so... help them get elected in a shitty two-party paradigm?

Irony posted...

TIL Trump doesn't want to do this.

Trump and his creepy son in law have discussed how they want to develop Gaza as prime real estate once the current inhabitants are cleansed.

theAteam posted...

She was stonewalled by every single policy she tried to pass but you know that was still a massive improvement over the 2nd Trump administration.

That's cute thinking telling these poor fools in 2024 there will be elections post 2nd Trump term.

Also, she was rounded up under the:
"You look like you might be from one of those Chinese or Mexican or some other shit-hole Country"
- Act of 2025 [HR-88]

jumi posted...

That's from prions which are mainly brain stuff. Don't eat brains.

Or...people in general. Don't eat people meat.

Nope, there are other risks associated with consuming your own kind... ever hear of Mad Cow Disease?

Also... even without those risks: nope.

Irony posted...

Do thrift stores accept negative amounts of money?

Seriously, they are happy to practically give away that stuff at my local Goodwills.

Oh I actually prefer them broken up a little. It's fine either way.

Boil them in a wide, low pan. If you must, you can always soften them first, then add it to your normal pot or saucepan whole.

Turbam posted...

I haven't played Baldurs Gate 3.
Have they gotten to the gate yet?

Then you learn there is no actual physical gate named after Baldur in Forgotten Realms... although technically the city of Baldur's Gate has several gates, but those are named after other things, and wouldn't be "Baldur's gates"... but rather: "Baldur's Gate gates"

Smackems posted...

Does her facial expression ever change or is she always brooding

He paid extra for the constant brooding.

Turbam posted...

Any popular FPS series

I recommend Borderlands if you aren't a big FPS guy but like RPG elements, RNG loot, and skill trees - and you still want to try an FPS franchise.

Call of Duty - seriously never played one
most sports franchises
Minecraft

...then donate like half to a charity that helps one of the groups the republicans want to harm.

You can always pull the personal family emergency card.

None of their fucking business honestly, they are trying to find out how desperate you are to need to be working all the time, they want people who will take more hours and be less likely to leave or report abusive or unsafe conditions.

Yes, and yet somehow my respect for women does not require my respect for other men to diminish.

Irony posted...

Bold strategy considering the amount of people that voted for him in 2020 that told him to fuck off after January 6th

Yeah, on Jan 7th... and then they were back at the altar a few weeks later when it turned out the base approved of their terror attack.

C_Pain posted...

Why can't it just be like 20 people? And they can do bad things in public but then even worse things in private, or just in private is where they discuss their plans.

Okay, provide evidence of something like that - and also disprove that so much of this isn't just greed and a rigged system which we can pretty much see in broad daylight.

C_Pain posted...

I mean rich, powerful people certainly do control or have heavy influence in many aspects of society, so I don't see how it's that unreasonable to think that there could be a secret Illuminati

The reason I don't personally believe in a secret cabal that runs everything, is because they don't need to! Maintaining such a secret operation is extremely difficult, and the financial elites can game the system legally in broad daylight since they have the power and the wealth and make the damn rules.

Also, it would be a society run by rich libertarians with massive egos all following orders and working together in a grand conspiracy? Not likely.

Dakimakura posted...

Women's beach volleyball

This ironically

April fools joke?

Yeah for years now.

Tyranthraxus posted...

inb4nerdrage

Hmm, she IS a blonde white woman, so as long as she never talks over the male Silver Surfer, or try to go against his orders, and gets captured and needs to be rescued by the stronger, more competent male heroes... shouldn't be a problem with the usual crowd.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

And she wouldn't be half as famous as she is now without him.

See... this is where we can't tell bad takes from satire.

NOPE.

Dude is just not that charismatic man... you can't make a Dwayne Johnson happen, he's just a natural talent in front of the cameras.

SgtBash posted...

Do people think that everyone who uses 88 is one?

No, just the people complaining really hard about "race swaps" in movies and being super concerned about library books.

Today they are all nepo-babies and industry plants.

Bullshit.

A chunk of his audience that wanted to hear him bitch about games industry stuff were also transphobes and bigots in general, and when he came out as non-binary and started presenting as a woman they fled the channel.

End of fucking story... lol

mistymermaid posted...

What? I said the talking point was news to me.

I envy you being able to be a conservative and also to not hear a decades old, often repeated talking point they trot out every single time wage increases are discussed.

That's pretty amazing luck, especially since everyone else here seems to have heard this talking point over and over directly from conservatives across media repeatedly.

mistymermaid posted...

Blaming the workers is news to me.

Dude... I envy that you can turn off the news so you can never hear these persistent talking points across mainstream media and conservative media, and yet still come here and post as though you follow the news.

mistymermaid posted...

Why would they be responsible for the price hikes?

Well obviously the idea is to claim that paying higher wages would force companies to raise prices in order to continue projected profit growth, because that's our economic model. Massive profits are not enough, the profits must also increase in % continually every quarter.

But Americans would rather cry for the billionaire shareholder possibly making slightly less profit this quarter than thousands and thousands of American workers struggling to pay bills or losing jobs.

mistymermaid posted...

Everyone I know insists Biden is raising food costs.

That's because you are a right winger and those around you blame Biden for everything anyway.

pinky0926 posted...

*hypothesis

And no, because it has already happened. This is discussing about it happening even more.

Thank you.

I am happy you immediately corrected the other poster that confused the colloquial use of theory with the rigorous methodology to which a scientific peer review process is applied in order to establish a scientific theory which is the intermediary step between forming a hypothesis and establishing a law.

Not to go off on too much of a tangent, but this is the sort of word game that grifters and religious people use to confuse the general public on matters of science and how we come to understand the universe.

I would bet the person you replied to genuinely thinks a scientific theory is "just an educated guess" like a detective's hunch... and that's because there are moneyed and entrenched interests that benefit from this scientific illiteracy and the outrage to be generated by politicizing science.

The arrogance and hubris of these team owners.

https://youtu.be/3oU2Af3KFGs

You posted the wrong teams, these are the Flyers.

TC - in the amazingly off chance that all this story is real...

Never show her this thread if you want another date.

WingsOfGood posted...

TRUE!
They have been raising prices every year since 2020 and multiples times are year in some cases. No one really complained about it (I did) but said "oh they HAD to!"

No they give workers a raise, "NO IT WILL RAISE THE PRICE"

Can't fix what wants to be broken I suppose

That's because wealth funded think tanks created an enemy and villain out of fast food workers the same way they did to public school teachers.

Now you aren't mad at nebulous arbitrary price increases - No, now it's those POORS working their miserable jobs they should be getting down on their knees and thanking their corporate overlords for - and also trying to claim these aren't real jobs they're just after school work for high schoolers to build character.

After learning the current price of fast food in California - it makes all the corporate bootlicker arguments even weaker.

The big macs are already ridiculously overpriced, may as well make it so fast food workers can buy fast food on their wages? Also seem these fast food chains make massive profits even if they have to pay their workers a living wage.

Well that's the thing about fan art - it's personal and it's non canon.

Grifters, con men, and crooks tried to cheat each other you say?

Blame Sony

They ruined CrunchyRoll too.