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I am currently at a town hall in a "safe" red district.
Everyone here is an angry liberal.
The Republicans should be afraid.
On the original subject, there's a world of difference between "gg" and "gg ez", ferex.
Dark satire of what exactly?
WH40k's inspiration and aspiration seem to be pretty much entirely to be as overblown, overdramatic, and grim as a metal album cover. It's space metal opera. It's grimdark in such a larger-than-life way that you can't really feel emotionally invested in anything but the spectacle of it. it has fun with the grimdark because it keeps trying to outdo itself in just how big and overblown it is and has just tons of silly shit in it (the entirety of orks as a race).
I was going to reply to Tack, but then went with a PM, but then this response happened and :I
Guys, stop fighting over assumptions. One side is annoyed by the unspoken context and assumed a rather bland intent. The other DID THAT for reasons unveiled now.
How does that change anything about it being quite dubious to rank candidates on their ability to win the election?
I was very specifically limiting that qualification to the issue of candidacy and yes, if you win the election, by definition you are the best candidate, that being someone standing for election and then actually winning an election.
In a functioning democracy, that also has some loose connection to being actually good at the office.
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That has to be some pretty darn loose connection. I seriously doubt Al Gore would have messed up the United States foreign affairs the way Bush did.
12 of them were killed by the 16 year old Hammerlord named "The Somber Lessons of Virginity".
I don't see it as a rational thing, but it doesn't stop me from discussing it. They'd have to get it paid for first and other than that starter downpayment thing Trump did do, I don't see it getting paid for anytime soon.
The environmental and cultural mitigation survey thing is definetly going to delay it for quite a while, years probably. So, it'll be a while before it even gets started.And yeah, I read somewhere of him saying that allies owe vast sums to NATO. It seems to be more of pandering to his base, even though it appears like backstabbing Merkel after meeting with her.Pretty sure he was saying this kind of stuff back before he even ran for office? I don't remember it coming up during he's actual campaign, though I might of missed it in amongst the mass of other nonsense. I was wondering if/when it'd rear it's ugly head again.
He may not have said that word for word during the campaign, but he's definetly said things along the lines of that. Which is why I said it's just pandering to his base, even though it really does look like he's backstabbing Merkel.
How does that change anything about it being quite dubious to rank candidates on their ability to win the election?
Muldrake's point has little to do with the quality of the candidate as leader or human being, his point was that last year's candidate were the two worse candidates in his memory in terms of electability. Not sure I agree, but that's all he said.
More persistently peddled lie than caricature, but I guess that works, too. FTFE, etc., etc.Now I may be mistaken on this, I know the whole email thing wasn't a big deal, but I recall a quote from Hillary Clinton saying that she got confused about which email to use and that she didn't know how to use the email was her defense against the claims at first. Despite whatever the actual explanation was. (If I understand correctly now it wasn't actually an unusual practice) Was I misled about her explaining the emails away by essentially saying they were too complicated for her? That's my biggest sticking point against her, that she supposedly pled innocent due to stupidity.
Like, what kind of comparison could you use to portray the absolute unacceptability of this behavior?
I just read 'autism' and skipped over the rest of his post because I assumed he was an EL who popped over from the -chan's.
If we define candidates by their ability to win, then Adolf Hitler and Erdogan are examples of good candidates......
Do you just define good canidate by ability to win?
Again, the problem isn't in the presence of dark elements or "gritty elements" or whatever. The problem is that there's often nothing else to it. Nobody seems to have a sense of humour or have something good or funny happen to them. It's just constant misery and pain and darkness and at some point, constant tragedy ceases to be tragic and just becomes boring.
You need some ups to balance the downs because that makes the downs much more emotionally resonant. Without moments of levity in Dwarf Fortress, the game would be a miserable slog to play.
What are you talking about is basically grimderp (Warning! Very addictive and kinda NSFW), it was one of the reasons Batman: AK sucked. It was trying to be "gritty and dark" so much that I didn't give a shit about anything.
