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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 05, 2023, 03:57:25 pm »
... it's harder to organize a storming of Congress when you're NOT in the White House.
Not really?

Yes really. Someone else is in control of the National Guard in that case, as well as all the other many executive powers of the President. I mean, it seems common sense?

It’s a publicly accessible building on publicly accessible streets, and the public have the right to protest enshrined in law.

I'm sorry, I don't see your point?

In much the same way I don’t see your own.

People are allowed to be there, and they’re allowed to be there in angry groups. The NG’s presence won’t change that. Biden also is not going to make an executive order saying people aren’t allowed to protest; that would be patently ridiculous.

Beyond that, there was advance knowledge by federal agencies of what may happen on January 6th, to the point there were federal agents in the crowd. That didn’t stop the storming of the capitol, nor did the presence of the capitol police, and I can’t imagine that would be any different should it happen again, with additional agencies present.

Further from that, you have the likes of Fox “News” shitting themselves over losing viewership to other right-wing outlets that they were willing to broadcast what they knew was utter bullshit about elections being stolen to avoid that, stoking further division.

Common sense doesn’t enter the equation because common sense dictates Trump is a selfish narcissistic loon whose only selling point is his name, supported by media outlets owned and anchored by other narcissistic loons trying to make money and maintain relevance in a market with increasing competition.

If you think your country is being stolen, and the only man who is able to stop that is being persecuted by the establishment he says is trying to keep you down, what are you going to do?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 05, 2023, 03:03:28 pm »
... it's harder to organize a storming of Congress when you're NOT in the White House.
Not really?

Yes really. Someone else is in control of the National Guard in that case, as well as all the other many executive powers of the President. I mean, it seems common sense?

It’s a publicly accessible building on publicly accessible streets, and the public have the right to protest enshrined in law.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 04, 2023, 10:07:31 pm »
In other news, it looks like Janet Protasiewicz has won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, instead of the Trump backed anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman, anti-democracy candidate.

Important as this means there is now a 4-3 liberal lean on the body, so hopefully they throw out the gerrymandered to fuck maps the GOP-controlled state senate want, and there likely won’t be any 2020 election related shenanigans afoot.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 04, 2023, 04:06:25 pm »
It depends how you look at it. It may not bother hardcore Republicans, but moderates and undecideds perhaps don’t want to have a convicted criminal as the leader of their country come election time.

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El Loud Whispers

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They arrested… some woman as far as I can tell.

Apparently Navalny is involved, from his prison cell. Somehow?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 03, 2023, 01:46:00 am »
ATM porn? Most ATMs ad far as I know no longer let you make deposits

You have to push its buttons just right.

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According to the BBC the bomb was in a statue that was presented to him at the event.

As martinuzz said, it was at a cafe formerly owned by Prigozhin, in Putin’s home city. Chances are this was for him being critical of the war effort, not by Ukraine, ‘cause they gain nothing from it, militarily or otherwise.

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Mafia / Re: BYOR 16: Now In Pre-Signups - [1 Players Loaded]
« on: April 01, 2023, 10:13:36 pm »
Goddammit webadict I have family visiting soon and probably shouldn’t play mafia whole they’re here so stop making games so interesting looking.

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When you signup, you may choose up to 2 Action types to be added to your role from the following list:  [Super,  Copy,  Hide,  Bus,  Block,  Redirect,  Protect,  Kill,  Recruit,  Inspect,  Learn,  Watch,  Track,  Delay,  Motivate,  Randomize,  Gift,  Auto,  Evolve,  Vote]

D’ya mind giving us a rundown of what to expect from each thing? They’re mostly self-explanatory, but I have learned not to make assumptions in your games, usually after the fact…

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Mafia / Re: Auto-Mafia - Game Over - Mafia Win!
« on: April 01, 2023, 02:29:04 pm »
Don’t do hypnotics and mafia.

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Mafia / Re: Auto-Mafia - Game Over - Mafia Win!
« on: April 01, 2023, 01:27:13 pm »
I thought he was town early, but when he started making his cases I changed my mind ‘cause they didn’t make sense.

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Mafia / Re: Auto-Mafia - Game Over - Mafia Win!
« on: April 01, 2023, 01:20:36 pm »
zemaj was obvscum early doors, did not suspect Jim at all. Thought it was FoU after his weird pivot in the middle of the day, and after that I probably would have went after the lurkers… who were the PRs.

Mafia did quite well NK’ing both power roles on their working nights though.

I think the setup is a good practice area for D1 play, but it does require good activity from everyone to actually work as a game.

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I genuinely have no idea :D

It’s a long way to go if you’re going from the West coast though :o

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Not if you’re going to see the Cubbies it won’t… /pointless sportsball banter

I’ve not paid attention to baseball for a long time. They are fun games to go to though, even though of the three games I went to, two were Single A games, and one major league game. Almost saw a grand slam, but I also thought it was for the other team when the guy hit it ‘cause I apparently wasn’t paying that much attention.

Also, of that series, it was the only game the team I was rooting for lost, go figure.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 30, 2023, 05:39:46 pm »
Of course he did nothing for them it was a false flag attack!

… which is hopefully why they don’t protest this.

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