The israeli / generic colonizer accent sounds like when somebody is mocking a stupid person they hate.

Democrats: “We’re defending democracy!”

Democrats when democracy doesn’t favor them 100% of the time and people don’t literally have to vote for them:

"If you don’t vote for the democrats in all elections always and forever, then I fantasize about shaming you and watching you suffer like I’m a creepy, vindictive little wiener. Get these third-party candidates off the ballot, they’re stealing votes from us.

You have to be morally and politically pragmatic and vote for the democrats! No, they do not themselves have to be morally or politically pragmatic and stop arming a genocide to appeal to loony left voters. That would be compromising our values, which is only okay if we’re shit-canning immigrants or dropping death-penalty abolition to appeal to the unicorn ‘moderate republican.’

Not voting for the democrats is to endanger all of the people we haven’t already discarded to maximize centrist appeal. Try not to be so selfish for once, GAWD."

It takes material progress to facilitate for social progress. Thinking of LGBT rights in the US, they were basically total shit “until” the late 90s and 2000s saw some significant improvements (not too long after trying to kill as many as possible by deliberately mishandling the AIDS crisis under Reagan), and are now at risk again as various flavors of gay panic are returning – material conditions get shittier and people look for scapegoats.

Likewise, I think when material conditions improve, they are under less stress and have less reason to create these antipathies in the first place.

Digimon World is fun vibes when things are actually going, but a huge part of the game is training your digimon, which involves sitting and just watching them do repetitive stuff for long periods of time (getting punched by a gigantic boxing glove to level defense, sitting under a waterfall to level focus or whatever the stats were, etc).

You might be doing that for a very long while, only for your digimon to evolve into a literal giant turd.

If you get a good champion evolution you can start breaking out into the broader world, which is actually pretty fun. The game has great vibes, and a fun gameplay loop of journeying out of the main village to find lost villagers and send them back, which in turn upgrades the village (residents return and open up shops or provide special services).

But it always suffers from having to go back to that damn training grounds for long stretches. Maybe if there’s a modded PC version that solves that problem, that would be best.

My core memory of Digimon World is being excited when my digimon evolves, just for it to turn into the shit-eating slug (numemon I think?), or the giant yellow shit-monster that also eats shit.

I forget the exact stats on it, but gambling addiction is especially destructive to people’s lives even compared with other major addictions. Also, on a petty treat-fiend note, it has made sports so much fucking shittier.

Still regret voting for her in 2016. I shamed myself by doing it, and the fucking loser still had the nerve to lose.

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One of the wildest things to me is that they can’t even be bothered to lie for our support. Like, they could literally just lie and get a lot of leftists on their side, but they’d rather tell us to suck their unwashed balls than even pay the slightest lip-service, and then get pissed at us later if they lose.

I drove myself mad last night reading some jackass thread of liberals still invoking 2016, in this particularly gross case, to blame the left (and anyone else who they thought didn’t support Clinton) for the state-murder of Marcellus Williams.

Like jesus fucking Christ, not only is that vile and nonsensical, but it’s stupid in any practical sense not to do something to win the votes of these people who you (wrongly) think cost you everything.

Act like you’re trying to build and maintain a relationship where the other person has the freedom to leave and isn’t a goddamn slave to you!

Pretend that you believe in democracy instead of acting entitled to people’s support when you offer them nothing but blame when an election goes badly for you!

My personal favorite from the Eugene Dabs collection.

Liberals: “It’s not a real problem, you’re just perceiving it incorrectly.” X 4000

If we can economically ruin Europe over Ukraine, maybe we can get a bunch of European immigrants coming to the US for work?

That’s John Mearsheimer’s big case for immigration. He talks about how developed countries get that “inverted pyramid” demographic spread (lots of old people, low birthrate, fewer young people) and how immigration is actually America’s edge over China and Russia in that regard.

America pisses it away, again.

Dumbass country reaps what it sows, continues to be ginormous dumbass country.

For trolling:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/

Mace (technically a brand, the generic term is “OC-spray”) is very good as a non-lethal self-defense option. Don’t let weird myths about “immunity” fool you either, 99% of people are very much not immune to that shit.

Wrestling / BJJ and boxing, with an emphasis on defensive skills (footwork, head movement, stopping takedowns, clearing collar-ties, getting up quickly, etc.).

The value of unarmed self defense in a world with weapons is that you aren’t guaranteed a clean draw of your weapon, so having something to bridge the gap can be helpful. That’s really all though – beyond that weapons are entirely superior, with a little asterisk next to knives because it’s too easy for a stronger person to turn your own knife against you.

I think there’s something to say about people getting lost a bit in the day-to-day stories and details. Whatever the most recent story is, is not always the most important thing in the course of the overall conflict.

It’s happened several times with Ukraine as well. People’s brains are too wired for immediacy when it comes to things that take a (miserably) long time to shake out.

World’s easiest re-paint to just turn each person in the left panels into a chud.