I’d always narrate what I was building with legos.

They already banned a swathe of pro-palestinian political streamers in the run up to the US election, so this is likely retroactive reasoning.

There are a whole lot of folk that plain demand full support of genocide as the cost of doing business/having rights. Reluctance to support genocide is viewed as eroding the foundation to their very way of life.

Asheron’s Call hit up player housing early on too.

Compare to Brazil. They had a similar scenario play out with Bolsanaro. He was prosecuted and barred from office until I think 2030 for his stunt. It doesn’t seem controversial.

There was a whole era of gaming from the late 90s to like 2010 where like a couple developers made something special, left, and then the company coasted on the code for a decade.

For me it was the Company of Heroes series.

All I ever saw were ads of Obama asking for five dollars. Everytime I saw it all I could think was “Damn this is going to piss people off.”

The final days and weeks the Trump campaign hit the swing districts saying all the things people had been asking Biden and Harris to say.

Biden made sure there was no question there would be 0% chance of course change. Trump, being Trump, could shrug his shoulders one day and decide to change course. Higher than 0% but still probably 0%.

Dishonest politics, but that’s how campaigns use issues to win elections. It sucks and we’re all in for the very preventable ride now.

Here are some details to the context of why the ban went into effect:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/10/israeli-football-fans-pro-palestinians-attacked-in-amsterdam-what-we-know

Essentially Israelis did a bunch of racist violence and got their way out of it.

There’s a classic greek play, Lysistrata, that tells a tale of women refusing sex to get the men to end a war. It is notably a fictional account.

Essentially the reference resonates most with college educated (white) women.

Unemployment is typically measured by people seeking unemployment benefits, not by volume of people out of work.

Similarly job creation is usually measured by job offerings and not positions filled.

As a result you can get what has been happening: low unemployment and high job creation where people aren’t getting jobs and jobs aren’t being filled.

Ah the first 40 minutes of The Princess Bride countless times through K-12.

But that would be gud politik.

Monopolistic competition makes a lot of wild assumptions that can result in such ideas.

Biden had claimed he would be a transition president, a bridge to the next generation-- an allusion to being a one-term president.

This is from June, just before his debate:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4718993-did-biden-break-his-one-term-pledge/

The tone of that article, with the clarity of hindsight, should be obvious to anyone.

I did this as a teen with my learner’s permit and my dad. It was him playing the Eaglea and Bob Dylan while I learned to figure out driving on the highway in NJ through the indiana turnpike until the glorious open road out west where i was stuck behind semis and 1 lane road work across the midwest until montana.

I have remained driving on the west coast only since.

Where are all the passionate leftist politicians.

Systematically removed from office and primaried from power anywhere and everywhere they appear.

Bernie is an Independent and as a senator is mostly the exception to this rule. The remaining progressive House members are isolated and picked off in primaries each cycle.

The Democratic Party repeatedly expressed the need for a strong Republican Party. They sure got it.

I am not sure you remember but the media reaction to Bernie doing well initially was major outlets like CNN reacting with fear, loathing, and uncertainty. And it impacted rhe course of an election. You had anchors yelling about how Sanders will result in public executions in central park during the primary.

No disagreement that the campaign is, in fact, doing the campaigning thing.

A good campaign presents their intended policies consistently and favorably. It sells the electorate on casting their vote.

A poor campaign favorably presents inconsistent policies in a vague manner. It erodes faith in what the electorate is voting for.