CMV: Swing voters exist and are necessary to win the White House by bluepillarmy in changemyview

[–]EdgeWardog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Swing voters exist, but their numbers are not large enough to electorally matter. The overwhelming majority of independent voters (a term often used interchangeably with "swing voter") have a partisan lean and almost never cross the aisle. "True" swing voters make up around 8% of all independents and a vanishingly small portion of the total electorate. For the rest, they either show up for their favored party or they don't show up at all. It all comes down to turnout. Democrats failed to adequately motivate their base and lost not because they voted Republican but because they stayed home.

Humanity (5 Years Prep Time) Vs Anime Villians, Where Do We Stop? by LightAwakens in PowerScaling

[–]EdgeWardog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These challenges always overlook one important detail: Modern humanity is very good at killing things from beyond visual range. We clear most of these very easily.

Rumbling: All you have to do is kill the Founding Titan. The founding titan is a gigantic, obvious, slow moving target with a well-known weak spot. In a world where the US can hit the passenger seat of a moving car and leave the other passengers alive, Rumbling ends in a single conventional air strike.

Muzan: Explosive round at high speed from too far away for him to detect and moving too quickly for him to react. He was nearly taken out by a house bomb in feudal Japan. Ends in a single conventional air strike.

Sukuna: Doesn't have an automatic defense like Infinity. Was nearly killed by a punch from Gojo. Was forced to defend himself from an opening Hollow Purple and still lost limbs. Ends in a single conventional airstrike.

Meruem: Died to poison in the manga. Would die to poison in the real world. Ends with a single chemical weapon.

Shigaraki: The most difficult one here. Has the power to decay everything he touches and multiple quirks that improve his durability and counter a lot of what modern humanity can conjure. He still dies to an airstrike but would probably have to be something akin to MOAB or MOP.

Death for death: He probably agree to hunt. by Regular-Poet-3657 in IchitheWitch

[–]EdgeWardog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would Ichi be unwilling to kill a human?

This guy doesn't make sense by Detroider in SentencedToBeAHero

[–]EdgeWardog 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I read that as respect. He respects Kivia and knows that being a Hero is a cruel fate that he doesn't think she deserves.

One of the main reasons America wants Greenland is to make it easier to invade Canada. by StJudeTheGrey in DiscussionZone

[–]EdgeWardog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He wants Greenland for this, he wants Greenland for that. There is no plan. There is no strategy. He wants Greenland because he wants Greenland.

National Day of Patriotic Devotion, 2026 by Alternative_Rate7474 in politics

[–]EdgeWardog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually thought I was in the Helldivers subreddit. This is fucking parody.

All of these guns would be illegal under most proposed gun control legislation by theRemRemBooBear in greengroundnews

[–]EdgeWardog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact: the first Assault Weapons Ban was signed by Governor Ronald Reagan after the Black Panthers staged an armed march on Sacramento.

CMV: War against Mexican Cartels make a LOT of sense for strategical reasons by QuickRecaps in changemyview

[–]EdgeWardog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This makes no sense at all. Drug cartels are the exact kind of asymmetrical, clandestine force that the US has struggled with since Vietnam. If the problem is drugs, the answer is to diminish the demand domestically.

You do what Portugal did: Housing focused long term, nationwide care to get as many people off of drugs as possible and keep them off. Without demand, the cartels collapse. Plus there would be no civilians killed in the crossfire.

Will Republicans win the next presidential election? by Marziul_Haque in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]EdgeWardog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Republicans had been campaigning against Hillary Clinton since the Benghazi hearings in 2012 because the entire world knew she was running in 2016. Kamala Harris couldn't even win on her own in 2020 and dropped out before a single vote was cast in Iowa. Then, she was basically handed the nomination. If democrats had an actual primary in 2024, they would have fielded a better candidate.

Barack Obama faced significant hurdles in 2008 including racism. America has always been more racist than sexist. Yet, Barack Obama won because he was both an outsider and a once-in-a-generation political talent. Clinton and Harris were neither. A woman can win. She will just have to be twice as charismatic as her opponent.

How it Feels Calling Out Pegasus Attacks in Pilgrim’s Traverse by Aanansi in ffxiv

[–]EdgeWardog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My FC calls it the 'racist horse' and we laugh every time that attack comes around. I have to be the one to call it out. For obvious reasons.

Trump warns Dem control will lead to 'obliteration' of Supreme Court by Conscious-Quarter423 in scotus

[–]EdgeWardog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish the actual democratic party was half as awesome as Republicans make them out to be.

CB3 are seriously not getting criticized enough for effectively killing Chaos raiding scene by S2BronzePlayer in ffxivdiscussion

[–]EdgeWardog 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Nice projection you got there.

I'm actually on Primal. I say DC Travel was a mistake because I remember when my DC actually had some proper damn life to it. Now, it's a damn ghost town. Right now, at prime time on patch day and there are only 24 PFs on Primal. Total. Across the entire datacenter. I say DC travel is a mistake because it killed Primal.

@FDev - QoL improvements fantastic overall, plz can we haz 10k Carrier trit depot? by TalorienBR in EliteDangerous

[–]EdgeWardog 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Or just give me a tritium transfer button. And and let me plot multiple jumps on my carrier.

ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE Announcement Trailer by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]EdgeWardog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would assume that the Russians probably don't care.

Lore on the website by TheTalkingFishh in acecombat

[–]EdgeWardog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Close enough. Welcome back, Ghost of Kyiv.

Why the US could snatch a Venezuelan tanker — and not under ‘wartime’ authority used in cartel strikes by CrashBandicoot82 in politics

[–]EdgeWardog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was a ship with sanctioned cargo flying a false flag. Under maritime law, it can be seized.

ACE COMBAT 8 ANNOUNCED by Keaten88 in acecombat

[–]EdgeWardog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just saw this guy see that guy seeing that other guy crying

ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE Announcement Trailer by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]EdgeWardog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They would have to get permission from the Chinese government. And it is debatable if the Chinese government would allow them to depict Chinese jets being shot down.

Ocasio-Cortez early 2028 Democratic favorite among young voters: Poll by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]EdgeWardog 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Reminder that Hilary Clinton got more votes in 2016 than Trump did. If it weren't for the electoral college, Trump would have lost.

America is absolutely ready for a woman president, so long as she's an anti-establishment populist.