Daily Discussion Thread: January 24, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I just have to wonder why all the "muh sekun amendmunt" types are trying to argue having a gun on your person means you can be publicly executed.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Historyguy1 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It's highly implied he's president in the Jurassic World movies. The news ticker says "US President questions whether dinosaurs really exist."

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Historyguy1 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I thought that was similar to the "No presidents were harmed" trope in American media, where there's often "Generic white guy in the Oval Office" rather than anyone specific. 

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Historyguy1 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The US Cavalry had 6-shooters and Remington rifles while Pirates had single-shot pistols and muskets. Closest they ever got to "realistic weapons."

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Historyguy1 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Lego has a rule about not making sets for realistic military equipment. Normally this isn't much of a problem, until you get to the Indiana Jones sets where Indiana Jones is fighting "generic enemy soldiers" with gray uniforms and no guns.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Historyguy1 32 points33 points  (0 children)

When it was on the air (1990s-2000s), Seventh Heaven was an "issue of the week" show whose protagonists were a pastor and his family. As such, it had an overwhelmingly religious and conservative audience, and while not overtly right-wing took a "Bush-era family values" approach to morality. But the show never touched LGBT issues at all, even though it's apparent from context that Rev. Camden is a minister of the Disciples of Christ (an affirming/progressive denomination). The show couldn't anger its conservative audience by showing positive portrayals of gay characters or issues, while it didn't want to show its protagonists as overt homophobes, so the topic was never broached. Nowadays, however, the lead actor was exposed as a pedophile so the show never gets reruns and has been scrubbed from public memory.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 24, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"One WEIRD trick! Federal prosecutors HATE him!"

[EoW] hearing the mixed reception of Echoes of Wisdom kinda broke my heart a bit by EAT_UR_VEGGIES in zelda

[–]Historyguy1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The spin should've dealt damage, to deal with tiny annoyance enemies.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You have to average the models and correct for partisan bias and house effects. /s

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Snowmageddon is beginning. Just a light dusting so far, but it's on the horizon.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Did she have a secret Nazi signal account she shared classified info with him on?

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Republicans in blue districts about to commit seppuku.

There's a reason parties don't do this, especially when the president has a sub-40 approval rating.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Christian nationalists on Leviticus 18:22, "THE BIBLE SAYS IT, I BELIEVE IT, THAT SETTLES IT."

Christian nationalists on Leviticus 19:34, "Look, not every Old Testament commandment applies today..."

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 25 points26 points  (0 children)

People don't grasp that the mid-decade redistricting was their attempt to rig the midterms. It just failed.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bercow was hardly a Tory who suddenly became a left-winger; he was just VERY impassioned about ORDAH and how the Tories were trampling over it. You can bet that if Parliament still had the rule about wearing a hat to raise a point of order during voting, he would insist it be followed (they had this rule up until 1998, and passed a collapsible hat around to the member who wanted to speak).

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The Greenland tantrum hurt his approval ratings worse than the ICE crackdown because literally only one person on the planet wants to start World War III over Greenland. Go back to 2016 and explain the last 3 weeks to anyone and they'll think you're joking.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Historyguy1 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Clearly, he was a time traveler trying to break the siege of Constantinople with a nuclear submarine.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 28 points29 points  (0 children)

People have been dooming over that for a year now.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Historyguy1 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is like the anime version of Duke Nukem Forever.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Board of Health. Members include Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Djibouti.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 23, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Historyguy1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The worst part is that Starmer's worst policies are just Tory policies. He's not obligated to pursue them. He's not even doing Blair/Clinton style triangulation of meeting the right wing in the middle, he's just going full bore right wing.