It was kinda like having KOtOR 3 but with multiple storylines, obviously some quest lines are shared but I think it’s worth playing through a few characters.

You underestimate the news cycle hitting regular folk who so far didn’t know alternatives existed to twitter.

Yes I am sure not being hypocrites is high on their list of concerns

Maybe I am too european but I have seen two people lose to Trump and one overwhelming win against him and only one of those had a penis.

My favorite lemmy bubble is the smug woke ( idiot leftists, who think they are smart but aren’t) who think Kamala lost because she didn’t take a stance on Gaza and people abstained in protest and not because of sexism and racism.

I didn’t go to many classes during University, but I remember one class very well, on of the Cryptography classes, the professor spent the entire 2 hours explaining point by point why voting machines are a bad fucking idea and how many new problems it introduces over having to count paper ballots, which is literally the only issue with paper ballots, you need more people, time to count them. They are very hard to fake and if you manage to do it, you can only fake a few votes, compare it with voting machines which are still hard to breach, but if you do you can change election results, this is just the one of many issues.

That’s how I read it and made it funny

Pretty sure the blob restraining the powers of president in power is the obstructionist senate, mainly for a democrat president.

Yes I know the EU forced it’s will on Apple, that’s my exact fucking point.

It’s almost as if you don’t let capitalism completely rampant and create new age oligarchs then democracy works.

I guess also should watch an almost 2 hour podcast to find out it’s easier to call things the blob than Super PACs, lobbyist groups and think thanks. Thanks for the link.

No offense but this reads like an edgy teenager’s take on politics, was it the blob who prevented the 10 million people who showed for biden to not show up for Harris? Or was it their selfishness, sexism, racism, misguided idiotic leftism (like you see in lemmy comments about how this is revenge for not taking a stance on gaza)

How come the EU can force change on US companies yet the US fails to do so? Is the blob in the Us, just like alien attacks and pandemics and serial killers in movies?

It’s the dems fault thinking a PoC woman can succeed as the presidential candidate in the current political climate in America

This is what happens when someone can’t put themselves into their user’s shoes and then wonder why a product isn’t doing as well as it is.

They proclaim the product is great, it’s everyone else that’s the problem

The duty to vote in Belgium belongs to all adult Belgians. EU citizens can vote in European and municipal elections. Other foreigners have local voting rights when they have lived in the country for more than five years. Attendance is compulsory for Belgians in Belgium, not doing so results in a fine, 3 fines equals the loss of civil rights.

It can be done, but I was also part of an election oversight or whatever committee, we counted votes and stuff. One of the things we did was we took a vote urn to the local retirement home and well I witnessed what happened when voting is mandatory. In the past It was mandatory in our country as it was part of the eastern bloc and this man just took the first paper, not even reading which party he voted for and just put it in the envelope and voted that way.

So there are definitely downsides to trying to encourage voting too.

Because any sort of goodwill attempt to eliminate people from voting will just increase the chance of it being abused by said nazis, well fascists, because nazis were the fascists from germany.

Also fun fact, like many things IQ tests have a history rooted in racism, so if your plan was to use that then bad luck.

Fun fact number #2 the likes of Trump, Orbán (HUN), Fico (SVK) almost always win because of a low voter turnout.

The previous US election had what, 20 million more voters and surprise surprise, Trump lost.

Extremists are always a passionate vocal minority the more you restrict who can vote the easier time they have to take over the election.

If anything suggesting fines for not voting is a far less dumb idea than the shit you just said.

It’s been a long time I got as visceral of a feeling as I got when watching that film and Leo’s character’s meltdown as the impending doom is happening an noone seems to be giving a fuck

That’s what I saw on reddit only for a week later to see someone argue that it’s not about climate change because it’s literally about a meteor.

So there you go, you probably weren’t the target audience

Trump won because the DNC underestimated the sexists, racists and the idiot woke who think they somehow did something with this for palestine.

Editorial note:

i know woke is a poisoned word but I like to use to describe idiots who think they are so smart and better than others that they would rather let trump elected than admit that voting for the lesser evil is the right thing to do

I think being a “her” and not being white took away more votes from her than anyone would like to admit.

Bruh, people are dying from lack of abortion access, thats already a cause of the first trump term. Excess deaths from mishandling covid by the trump administration is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands

At least now there is a good chance we will see some live-action adaptation of the 2024 Civil War movie

Do we really need an explanation as to why capitalists are okay with supporting fascists?