It’s from Guards! Guards! :)

“Let the other societies take the skilled, the hopefuls, the ambitious, the self-confident. He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and lowgrade paranoia. And stupidity, too. They’ve all sworn the oath, he thought, but not a man jack of ’em has even asked what a figgin is.”

GNU TPratchett.
He certainly knew what’s up!

Damnit this would’ve been my immediate response, too.

Well, this is actually the easy mode. On hard you see lettuce next to a politician’s face.

Brilliant :D

Hey OP, here is some serious DD you might like

Dieses ganze Thema ist so ein verficktes Minenfeld und die zunehmend binäre Richtung jeglichen Diskurses, sowohl in den Medien als auch privat, macht eine erkenntnisgewinnende Diskussion nahezu unmöglich. Warum zum Henker ist es nicht möglich, mehrere Wahrheiten zu akzeptieren?

• Die Geschichte des Nahostkonflikts fing nicht am 07.Oktober 2023 an
• Apartheitsstaaten sind Unrechtregimes
• Die Methoden der Hamas sind inakzeptabel
• Die der Israelis genauso
• Es leiden Menschen wie du und ich unter Entscheidungen der Regimes, auf beiden Seiten
• etc. etc.

Dazu kommen noch so viele andere Faktoren, ich denke zum Beispiel, dass das Interesse des Westens an einem “zuverlässigen Verbündeten” in der Region offensichtlich nach wie vor ungebrochen ist. Oder: die Diskussion auf den evangelikanen Aspekt und die Sehnsucht der modernen US-Republikaner auf den “Doomsday” zu lenken ist völlig ausgeschlossen. Leider.

ZL;NG: Alle saugen.

I do not believe asking questions should be labeled as a crisis.

Very sound advice.

Wake me up when the popover API is in. Might be next version, nice!

some clinical psychologists or psychiatrists (iirc) gave a pretty decent breakdown of how trump is breaking down mentally.

this one here?

“They thought they were free”…

I had time to think for a bit. Please be advised that I’m not an American citizen and the following is purely conjecture.
Basically, I believe the US is FUBAR. There are 4 possible scenarios for the 5th of November:

• Trump gets so demented it’s getting impossible to get him propped up, he has to concede somewhere around that time
• Trump finally gets thrown in jail, before election day
• Biden wins - right now it looks like it would be a close call
• Trump wins

The article mentions, as many have before, that the “conservative” way of “thinking” has become purely emotional. So what do you think will happen if either of the three first will come true? Someone will seize the day and shout some bullshit conspiracy or another and now 20-30% of your emotionally driven population will get set to “angry” and “revenge”.
If he simply wins: Mission accomplished!

Now that I’ve thought a bit more, even (maybe especially?) if Biden wins in a landslide, the conspiracy spin could even be made stronger. Yikes. It might be the time of troubles on a very large scale and I reaaaaaaaaaly hope I’m totally wrong with all this!

Never realized the Penguin of Doom got into coding :o

Been here since Europe got flooded with AOL CDs, same.

The game itself is great, the UI/UX is just on another level. The UI has no ambiguity, is very responsive to input and just feels smooth. The wording on the cards is also excellent and consistent.

StS is a joy to play and I bet it’s also really great on the Steam Deck.

Germany

Hey, at least we are fighting them this time! But sure, if system-wide changes are not coming, more people will fall into the hands of the fascists.

GNU TPratchett

It’s in the revised “wormhole aliens” edition .

OT:
I can’t find the critique of this movie from a classicist viewpoint anymore. That was one interesting read.