Look, Nintendo is bullshit, bullying innocent creators for stupid, paranoid reasons… but c’mon. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

“You ever gaze into a palantír on weed?”

Contemplating the jorb.

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Trump supported congressional Republican repeal-and-replace efforts, but they ultimately failed. One example is the American Health Care Act, a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act subsidies and regulations that the House passed in May 2017, but failed to pass in the Senate. In June 2020, Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the law, but the court dismissed the case.

The reason he failed in his first term is because the legislation died in the Senate, and the legal challenge died in the Supreme Court – which are both now overwhelmingly Republican.

But you knew that. In which case you’re being disingenuous. Or you didn’t. In which case you are lazy and ignorant. In either case it’s pretty clear that your only goal here is to waste my time. I’m through teaching Civics 101 for the day.

Trump again calls to ‘replace’ Obamacare, reopening a fight Republicans tried to close.

House Speaker Mike Johnson criticizes Obamacare and promises ‘massive reform’ if Trump wins.

Insurance companies aren’t the ones in charge.

You may continue to believe one person’s suffering is more important than another, and you can try to shout down anyone expressing any fears you personally don’t “vibe” with. I’m not going to tone police you. But someday, you might find yourself needing to speak out, and I hope you meet someone like yourself when that happens. I’m sure you’ll feel grateful to them.

You are going to be fine

You can’t know that. If you don’t want to hear people’s despair, that’s fine, block it. But don’t pretend that has anything to do with some supposedly “fine” future – just be upfront about the fact that you don’t care. Might as well; uncaring people are doing pretty well for themselves these days.

My mother and sister will lose access to healthcare after the Republicans repeal Obamacare.

They will lose access to food aid when the federal entitlement programs are gutted.

Suffering is not a competition. Your broken leg doesn’t heal my broken arm.

You find our laments annoying? Hold on sunshine, because we’re just getting started.

Thank you President Seymour!

“I just voted for it!”

The majority has chosen hate. WE are the obstacles.

That’s right. We’re surrounded by +70 million bigots who would rather elect a rapist than a woman.

Maybe. But not for a long time. Probably not in our lifetimes.

It’s okay, everybody gets the day off when the antichrist wins.

Okay fine, no surrender. They’re going to murder us regardless anyway. Might as well die with our teeth in their boots.

Well, given a choice between “self care” and “others’ harm” I suppose…

Later…

For USians with marijuana initiatives on the ballot, at least get out there and vote to decriminalize it!

No ranked-choice voting on Bajor, it seems.

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I grew up in (and eventually left) a conservative Christian church, so I don’t have a good idea of how aware normal people are when it comes to the fears and obsessions of that community. From stories like these I think that there’s hardly any awareness at all – which is totally fine! Those beliefs are erroneous and damaging! But two things worth understanding if you want to know why these complaints of theirs are so common (and wrong of course):

1. Evangelicals believe that if the existence of same-sex attraction is kept secret then no one would ever be gay, and

2. Evangelicals believe that sexy media leads to horniness, which leads to jerking-off, which is a sin – whereas horrifying bloody violence does not.