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THIS IS WARHAMMER!! WE VISUAL NOISE IN THIS MF SINCE DAY ONE YOU BETTA TAKE YO SENSITIVE ASS BACK TO BATTLETECH!!!
The fact that Dan Moraff played an outsized role in Platner’s rise and fall explains a lot. We were both involved in the early stages of PghDSA. The bulk of my organizing at the time was aimed at ensuring that the General Assembly had robust mechanisms to keep Moraff in check.
The “ambitious, corner-cutting” Berniecrat political strategists cracking up when asked how they vetted Platner have a history of unprincipled, reckless, rushed recruitment and campaigning. The dangers of left-slopulism. https://t.co/PtGUiZ4U6S
people thought (including me to some extent) that platner represented the new woke 2.0 style politics but in reality he’s a relic of the 2018 Joshua for Congress/Lee Carter era of left wing candidates
Just ocurred to me that given enough time and a civilizational collapse or two, America being born in a conflict between two men both named "George" could produce some really wonky mythology.
every time i meet a mechanical engineer the quality of their work seems to relate in a generally proportional manner to how badly they wish they could fuck the machine
I need leftists to understand that for conservatives, the punishment *is* the point. Conservatives believe homelessness is a failure of character, and that the remedy is disincentive. They *want* to pay more for jails. They believe free housing creates perverse incentives.
Too expansive to summarize but so much of American myth-making rests on sentimental yokel localism as a major reserve of mass fantasy, perpetually both under threat and enduring, yet never really existing in the first place
I've been playing that Mad Max game. It is an adorable time capsule of 2015 videogaming. Yellow paint everywhere. Fog of war map. Destroying enemy camps. A million upgrade menus.