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We didn’t learn our lesson all the years Trump was president last time. We ignored the Proud Boys, the Nazis in Charlottesville with their tiki torches, the bible photo op after beating aside protestors. None of this mattered to most of us outside the moment they happened. We’re all quickly absorbing the news in these small increments and consider it all to be a normal part of life in America.

I don’t think there’s an easy way to convince ourselves that we shouldn’t put up with this, especially now that the orange fascist is reelected. People want comforting lies and violent rhetoric because they’re used to it. They want to be told the US is the best country in the world and if we just got rid of the undesirables we’ll be back to our glory days, whatever they think that may be.

Ayreon is so damn theatrical that they made and filmed an opera called “The Theater Equation” and it’s pretty damn glorious. Check out Dream Theater’s “The Astonishing” if you want to hear a more dramatic story as well. If you want something more symphonic with mostly traditional orchestral instruments, Blind Guardian’s “Twilight Orchestra - Legacy of the Badlands” will scratch that itch. Shadow Gallery, Symphony X, and Threshold are also honorable mentions.

The idea is to deliberately give them a small amount of money so they won’t dispute the inheritance by saying they were overlooked.

Boomers were drawn in to MAGA to protect their wealth. Gen Z kids were attracted by the promise of lifting them out of poverty and change of the status quo on this. Fascists are really good at convincing people on all parts of the economic spectrum.

That’s an uncomfortable yet valid question. A significant portion of Gen Z kids were exposed to the MAGA shit through Rogan or Tate. I’m not a parent, but I’d put some serious thought into limiting their inheritance on the down low.

Branch Davidians shit.

I don’t know most of these mascots or what they’re for and that makes me happy.

195 million Americans could have voted. I’ll be generous and assume 40% were unwillingly removed from the voting registrations or couldn’t vote by mail. That still leaves 117 million Americans who simply did not care about who was going to win. They were just as fine with having a neoliberal president with feeble, token acts of progress, or a fucking fascist. The apathy in this country is rampant and I find it horrifying. It means they feel isolated from whatever consequences come next.

It’d be nice if JRPGs would go back to the old school overworld design like in Star Ocean 2. It’s a good compromise between sense of scale and interactivity with the world.

That’s no excuse. The results are still the same. They still voted for it by abstaining. It’s better to rip that bandaid off now and come to terms with it.

Desk jobs can be nice but depending on the role, they can haunt your waking moments when you leave for vacation and know there are things that need to get done. Almost everyone I know who works this way end up logging in on their free time because of it.

This community’s gonna be really busy for at least the next four years.

If your VPN lets you jump between servers in the same region, try it. You might find they can’t ID every IP address out there.

Bernie’s more of an outsider rather than establishment. He’s cool to stay.

Cal III was fun it was just a bunch of multivariable differentials. Cal II though sucked thanks to all the integration processes.

What… What’s the difference from regular holy water?

I can kinda see how Mexico is a “hybrid regime.” Its current president won with approximately 60% of the vote. Its federal government is enjoying unprecedented approval from its citizens. OTOH dozens of mayoral candidates have been assassinated by cartels over the past few years.

Assuming Democrats are still around to campaign expect the same milquetoast, center-right bullshit platform of getting things “back to normal” to kill any kind of enthusiasm from their base. Don’t get me wrong I voted for Harris but I’m getting really tired of voting against having evil men in power over someone I actually like. I want Bernie Sanders, not Margaret Thatcher Lite.

So what are the spiders there for?