I mean the “trade” is just the implicit alignment of platform, really. Kamala offers stances that are not entirely disagreeable to moderate Republicans who feel more alienated by the neofascist shift the GOP has taken now.

I wish Kamala was further to the left in general, but I can’t confidently say she’d gain more leftist votes than she’d lose centrist votes.

So…because things were worse once, we should be okay with them getting worse now?

That’s bunk. You know it’s bunk. What kind of callous person do you have to be to even come to a conversation and say “we had it worse before…we managed to survive”?

Not everyone did.

There’s probably a reason why people apparently like her. Or two, actually.

I bought a PS4 pro back in the day but am giving this one a pass.

I’m all for incremental mid-gen upgrades, but not at that price point. If it can’t be priced competitively with the prices people have been paying, then it should not be made until the hardware they want meets that price point.

Should have made it $499 and drop the base price of the PS5 to $399.

at a minimum; give a stronger argument than “trump is worse”.

Kamala has campaigned to protect the bodily autonomy of women and to protect gay marriage, which are very much at stake in this election.

That should be enough, if you’re sincere in only seeking an argument that isn’t just “Trump is worse.”

You keep saying that, as if the people with more sense who live around you excuse your poor decisionmaking.

I voted third-party out of protest in 2016, in a solidly blue state, and it was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done. I’d love to convince you somehow to not repeat the same mistake I did, but I can’t say anything that others in this thread haven’t already, and you seem very unwilling to listen to any of it.

It shouldn’t be but it is, and it’s terrifying.

Gotta get that daily login bonus in [insert live service game here].

Maybe that other guy had his own “Oh no what have I done” moment when he thought harder about why the person next to him on the bus was being weird about cycle paths.

There’s often a lot of overlap between ethnicity and nationality, but they’re not mutually exclusive. In this case, Russian can apply as both. There are a lot of non-ethnic Russians (non-Slavic, even) who are native to Russia, and there are linguistic/cultural/genealogical differences which separate Russians from other Slavic groups.

It’s definitely an ethnicity, at least. The distinction between what counts as one race or another is often incredibly arbitrary, and there’s not really much difference between hatred for a “race” and hatred for any given ethnic group.

As an example, people in Japan are generally discriminatory against Chinese people, which I’d still describe that as racism even if both have the same “race” of Asian.

I can buy the statistic. Republicans spent the last 4 years barely facing the consequence of their actions. They either win and everything is fine, or they keep eroding the democratic process and try again in 4 more years.

That and the right generally doesn’t believe in mental health concerns, so they just repress their anxiety, say they don’t have any, and then use that to invalidate the mental health concerns of others.

Two separate issues with different Seuss books.

IIRC Dr. Seuss was “canceled” because one of his books (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street) contained a racist caricature of Asian people. And apparently a few others, according to the article, for similar reasons. But these books weren’t banned per se, the publisher voluntarily opted to stop printing them.

The book in this article (Wacky Wednesday) is being banned from public schools in Tennessee because it contains an illustration of a kid’s naked butt, which does violate a Republican-drafted law for content inappropriate for children.

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I think the intentionally hideous face is the top of a pie, not meat.

Surprised it’s not higher. I would have thought more than 2% of people on Steam were using Steam Deck.

Agreed. I remember there being some controversy around including figures in the game like Poundmaker, whose major mark in history was advocating against the colonial practices his people were submitted to.

Forcing anti-colonial figures to compete in the colonial model of success just doesn’t seem right.

Surely this will be the movie to break Lionsgate’s streak of complete flops.

I wasn’t around for Reagan, I was a Bush Sr. Baby.

I grew up thinking George W. Bush was fucked up as soon as I was old enough to have some semblance of political consciousness.