Before reading the article: “They’re just going to start directly donating to the Heritage Foundation, aren’t they?”

After reading the article: “They’re juet going to help their local church which will then directly support the Heritage Foundation, aren’t they…”

I am guessing Monday will have more dedicated articles coming out from larger orgs. It is usually the way of these weekend events.

Ah, the brush and scraper are flipped. That’s a warding circle… shape.

How deep you want to go down the rabbit hole?

https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/posts/voyager-kicked-off-a-butterfly-effect-that-ended-with-obama-becoming-president-01hn8tvncaya

Mandani’s opposition has been tireless in trying to get him into making stances on wedge issues, especially on things like foreign policy, to deflect from his popular intended policies as mayor.

So recently like after months of being burned by his own party for supporting Palestinians, he made a statement that called Oct 7 a war crime. So now the job is to paint him as a secret zionist.

Which again, is not an issue for a NYC mayor. His plans to tax the rich, however, is.

If Mamdani backed down from free busses and rent freezes, then we’d have cause for concern.

I would just casually read the rule books for fun. I had binders of Palladium NPCs with mapped towns and cities.

No campaign ever got off the ground, but it did develop my love of worldbuilding.

Palladium was foundational to everything in RIFTS and it was clear the overlap was just supposed to be implied knowledge, especially from the later rulebooks.

It works though because compared to XP, I’d pick XP every time.

keep telling yourself anarchists hate stalin because of his virtues and not because of his other characteristics.

To be clear, those weren’t the folks I was referring to in my comment. But:

if I may ask you a question - if marxism and anarchism are fundamentally enemies, as stalin himself argued, why would any anarchist support the modern day ML penchant for rehabilitating stalin’s reputation?

Absolutely welcome to ask, and I’ll give it a shot nonetheless.

I would ask the anarchist (and the modern day ML too) if they agree with this part of Stalin’s theory.

I don’t, and would venture to say a modern day ML may also disagree with Stalin in this but even also have a penchant for his rehabilitation, for other reasons.

More tangentally I think anarchism and marxism are not fundamentally enemies, (so, in disagreement with Stalin here), and would suggest they primarily diverge on the role a state plays in mediating conflicts of private and public interests.

But if I were to try and find common ground with the bit from Stalin you’re citing, just for argument’s sake, it would be that this divergence is a fundamental relationship between the two, but I’d still maintain the differences are not incompatible or irreconcileable.

But again, for the record, I was being more snarky about people who pivot from talking about how Hitler could’ve won to how Stalin could’ve lost.

There was an episode I remember where they explored Mexican cuisine and a contestant said ‘Gacky-molo’ for ‘Guacamole’ and that has stuck with me since.

The Young Republicans weren’t lying when they said calling their opposition candidates white supremacists might work against them.

Regardless I don’t think they’re lamenting Germany’s defeat.

And his brother Bret. Pompous ass. I can’t believe I have college credits from his ivermectin ass.

We are living in space. On a giant spaceship.

I suspect for some folks Stalin is bad because anyone else would have let the USSR capitulate to the wehrmacht invasion.

Or like the Memorial to Victims of Communism in Canada that was mostly Nazis and collaborators on it.

I thought it was George Santos in the thumbnail for a moment. And was not surprised.

It appears those are specifically problems China is on the trajectory of solving/improving for itself.

The American CEOs going to China are returning to find those issues getting worse everyday with no solution in sight.

It felt a bit implied and would seem really contrived to reassure the reader China has those problems.

They need to report when it’s not Massie. He’s the ideological libertarian that’s less shit than Rand. It’s expected to see our Junkyard Wars star break from ranks when there’s no threat or risk to the policy.

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