The DNC absolutely cannot condone assassination attempts, and it’s absurd to think otherwise. The second they actually claim that it’s a shame the gunman missed, it would be open season on every politician in office. The GOP would see a DNC acceptance of violence as a declaration of war, every last one of them would jump on the conspiracy that the Biden administration must have hired a truly inept gunman to make the hit, and before you can say “The GOP already condones violence” you’d have a dozen more assassination attempts on as many targets.

Republicans WANT a reason to pull the trigger. They WANT excuses to start taking shots at people they don’t like. The last godamn thing you want to do is give them a reason to justify it. So no, the DNC denouncing political violence doesn’t make them look like they don’t care, it makes them look like they’re the only ones fit to actually govern a nation.

“Confirmed what I already knew.” I’m sure that was with some detailed research into the breadth of the subject involving the reinforcement of a robust understanding, right? Surely it wasn’t something like… finding a couple legal sounding books, and finding a few words in those books they understood, before taking some pictures they thought suggested research and calling it good!

Obviously the Pharaohs were literal giants. The reason discovered mummies are all human sized is because their divine alien essence was bled away after death to be channeled into the stars by the divine shape of the pyramids, leaving only a human-sized husk behind which modern “science” thinks is just some kind of dried out human. _/s

Surely this will make more people take vegans seriously!

Of course it doesn’t. The GOP plan regarding the climate is “Ignore it and the problem that doesn’t exist in the first place will go away.” This plan is deeply unpopular with anyone who sees climate change as a problem, and for those who don’t simply not mentioning it at all is in keeping with their values anyway. “Ignore it.”

no.

I miss the days when I was surprised to hear that Russia probably deliberately blew up a hospital.

They just think he’ll surely only go after Other people, that they’ll be safe, part of the “In” group.

I dunno, I only have 3417 hours played in Rimworld, I’m not sure that qualifies as infinitely replayable. _/s

Most of the people who think Trump should drop out have been loudly opposing him for a long time. There isn’t just one single thing they object to, no great unifying theme they can point at and say “This is why he should not run,” because Everything about him is a reason why he should absolutely not be president. Even his Felony conviction is, while perhaps more than a drop, just a splash in the bucket of what should be utterly career ending circumstances.

The people who still support Trump don’t care about any of that. They’re not going to suddenly see one particular turn-off and decide that’s it, that’s why Trump should back out. They’re committed, in too deep, they can’t back down now because it would mean the Libs were actually right all along, and that presents, to them, an existential threat. And in the end, it’s the Republican way.

When Democrats, even popular ones, fuck up, other Democrats are much more likely to turn on them, to call for and get resignations. With Republicans, that’s almost unheard of. Republicans take Part Unity to an extreme, circling the wagons and assuming a full defensive position no matter how incredibly abhorrent the crime, no matter how blatant the evidence. Today we’re seeing the perfect example. Biden fucked up a debate, stumbling over his own words like an old man well past his prime, and the party is calling for him to step down. Trump has built his whole political career on stumbling over his own words, with the only cogent statements he manages being blatant lies, and his people would rather murder their neighbors than see him lose.

People who have sex with people just because they enjoy it already exist. It’s not new and it won’t meaningfully increase just because a society becomes currencyless.

Without an economic incentive, sex workers will stop existing entirely. It won’t be work, and they won’t have any need to do it. They won’t be compelled to have sex with you just because you have money now. There will still be people at a bar, club, or whatever who will have sex with someone they like for little or no reason, but again, that’s not new.

For a second there I was so sure this was gonna be Loss.

What, it wasn’t enough to just gesture meaningfully at the state of the entire godamn planet when looking for reasons why aliens might want to avoid us?

With dev plans like these, who can be surprised that their games weren’t immediately runaway successes? This sort of shit is why nobody trusts new Tribes games. It’s barely even into Early Access and they’ve all but abandoned it.

Yeah I’m sure that’ll… help? Israel is the one dropping airstrikes on refugee camps, what makes anyone think they actually want any aid in Gaza at all?

The technical reasons including but not limited to “Nintendo told us to go fuck ourselves.”

Meanwhile: “Good isn’t perfect, so fuck that and fuck you.”

Too many people are all too ready to say that improvement isn’t enough, it has to be a perfect and complete solution or else what was the point.

It’s only a good way to hurt him in the way that anyone ever giving Trump the chance to speak is a weapon against his campaign. He’ll manage to fuck it up in some way every chance he gets, but the only people who will ever care already have a laundry list of reasons to hate him.

Kinda depends for me, super situational. The right kind of pressure and yeah I’ll do it, something like an imminent non-negotiable deadline works for me. I’m the guy who files my taxes in the last possible week, I’ll slam out a report a night or two before it’s due.

But someone forcing me to do it? They just get flagged as an asshole who doesn’t have any authority here, even if I’ve asked them to do this, I know they’re trying to help, whatever. It’s the same situation when I try to set deadlines, or rewards, for myself. I know the guy who made those rules, he’s full of shit.

He was also pro injecting yourself with bleach.