…always? It was “comparable to living as a British colonial subject” prior to decolonization. It’s certainly worse now but always is a weird one.

If a transmissions company tried to spend money preparing for a disaster like this, their shareholders would sue them into the ground and lobby to make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of the sun.

…betting on who wins a chess match? A thing that absolutely happens in the betting community?

Honestly, the list of things people don’t bet on is probably shorter.

Why are heroes so important? Role models are one thing, but hero worship is an incredibly problematic concept especially at a young age. The idea of an unquestionably good person is a myth that lends itself to authoritarianism, and that should die a slow agonizing death. It’s a little much to get deep into stuff like that for a kids game, but I’m certainly not sad to see “blindly good” characters go - it’s why Bluey is nice for how imperfect the parents are, even if they’re still an unrealistic ideal with how much time and energy the parents have.

A link doesn’t mean every single person did - maybe each concussion is rolling a die on the gullible idiot check and you got lucky.

solving the whole issue

Trump’s inevitable death won’t solve the issues that caused him. I don’t know what will. We’d have to go pretty far down the chain of succession to hit “not a fascist”.

I’m… sorry they had decent taste in boots?

I don’t think you get to play the “well you started ww2 card” when you’re trying your damndest to start ww3 lmao

It is never not going to be funny, being derided for doing nothing by an internet comment.

I’ll gladly eat shit for a controversial opinion, but I mentally put chess pros in the same basket as those guys that would queue solely for Office in counterstrike and reach global elite. Like sure, it’s still an impressive time commitment, I just feel like there were better things to put that into. I hate MOBAs and yet I’d respect a professional DOTA player more? But I’m more than familiar with the fanbase of Chess and how defensive they get.

Remind me how many times Biden violated the constitution?

Don’t get me wrong champ, shit needed to change, but you do see how the situation now is a lot fuckin worse? Right?

Ooo, someone learned a new vocab word.

I hope your empathy feels great when the fascist boot presses against your neck. I have zero empathy for the confidently incorrect.

So true bestie, glad we voted in a fascist so we don’t have to worry about elections at all anymore. Really stuck it to those pesky libs.

It can simultaneously be true that the democrats did a god awful job campaigning, and that people are fucking idiots for not voting for them.

And back down again in 3… 2…

Buddy, you have to be vaguely part of the conversation to troll effectively.

I would love to be proven wrong, and to be just another overreacting fool.

Hasn’t happened yet.

That’s all well and good, and you certainly shouldn’t be sharing details about “what you do” online. But I can’t exactly blame the rest of the world for lumping us all together until the tumor is excised.

If there’s a table of ten people talking to a Nazi, you have a table of eleven Nazis. It originates from Germany, who I would consider an authoritative source on the subject.

I hate this reality, as a fellow american, but there is a popular saying about sitting at a table with Nazis.