We don’t call it genocide because words mean things and that does not constitute genocide, whereas China’s attempts to wipe out the Uighurs do.

Well, the rule at the shop is you need to DM a game open to everyone to get to reserve a spot for your own stuff.

They’re not being subjected to a genocide.

Ruining a piece of art does not force people to do something about Global Warming. The reason everyone shits on activist types is because these stunts are clearly cries for attention and the supposed cause is just an excuse for college kids whose parents gave them money instead of love.

You don’t suppose there might be reason people don’t trust the news coming from a country with no freedom of speech or press?

Tell it to the Uyghurs.

I finished up a Mutants and Masterminds campaign last month, now I run two DnD games weekly, one for my particular party and one open to all comers.

Not even going to attempt to defend your point?

Zoning is one of the biggest issues facing major urban areas. Cutting down on it will be integral to facing the cost of living crisis.

Pissing people off does not make your cause palatable. Especially when there is no obvious correlation between what you’re doing to piss them off and the goal you mean to achieve.

They kicked him out after he led Labour to it’s biggest loss in ninety years.

Not only is there no evidence they’re following her order, there is proactive evidence of them defying her order.

Watching how quickly all these companies crumble, it really is astonishing the Obama and Clinton didn’t take on Fox News for all it’s bullshit.

The best measure of how unelectable a politician is how much Lemmy likes them.

In fairness to Katy Perry, it’s not her fault women at NASA are getting sacked and deleted from history.

“May” nothing, I don’t.

So it’s okay to try and kill Americans so long as they aren’t in America?

You are still arguing that we shouldn’t be bombing them, despite the fact they’re bombing us and arguing that their bombing us is understandable because we’re bombing them, even though we’re only bombing them because they’re bombing us.

Didn’t this happen last time? Less dramatically, but still.

He puts in a bunch of tariffs. China reciprocates. The market is thrown into chaos. He shouts and screams. China ignores him. He backtracks. China ends the tariffs but doesn’t do anything to try and appease him. He claims it’s a victory. His fluffers say the tariffs were just to bring China to the table, which justifies the hit to the market, despite the fact China didn’t come to the table and President Pigshit didn’t articulate what China could actually give him to end the tariffs.

Whenever I see this argument, I am stunned by the lack of self awareness.

We bomb them, so it’s natural that they want to bomb us.

They bomb us and we need to accept it and self-flagellate over past wrongs.

You hold a double standard and a stupid one at that, considering how much more we can do to them than they can do to us.

The premise is, frankly, racist. You treat the Arabs as if they’re too stupid to think in the long term, to look beyond short term retaliation.

McCarthy was in fact backed in 1946 in the Republican primary against progressive Robert M. La Follette Jr. by the Wisconsin Communist Party because they felt that La Follette would be more effective in opposing communism.