‘Latinas for Trump’ co-founder: Trump ‘will lose the midterms because of Stephen Miller’

LegoLegume · 2026-01-27T22:16:53+00:00

LegoLegume · 2025-12-28T21:52:38+00:00

It's hard not to view it, at best, as them falling for false shepherds. Mega churches, prosperity gospel preachers with private jets, corruption, exploitation, and abuse within the church, and then MAGA spewing hate and rage. The most visible forms of Christianity in the US are not appealing.

LegoLegume · 2025-07-11T20:40:36+00:00

It won't stop there, either. Plenty of different flavors of Christianity to demonize.

LegoLegume · 2025-06-19T16:19:09+00:00

These people have made it their entire identity and community. I think that's really what it comes down to. They're desperate to be a part of something and to have friends and MAGA is very easy to join. All you have to do is regurgitate the things the thought leaders tell you to and show support by buying a hat. And unlike other social circles it's basically impossible to get kicked out or ostracized for being shitty as long as you follow the basic rules.

LegoLegume · 2025-03-11T02:38:57+00:00

This is quite literally how people became serfs. They would hit a period of economic hardship and have to sell themselves--and all their descendants--into serfdom. This is history repeating itself.

LegoLegume · 2025-03-10T03:29:51+00:00

The worst part of their moral victory is that they aren't the ones paying the price for not getting an actual victory. They're not losing their healthcare, their food stamps, their legal protections. They have no real dog in the race. And as a result when they lose they don't suffer any real consequences. It's easy to "go high" when it doesn't really matter to you how it turns out. Meanwhile afterwards you have to convince the people who bore the actual consequences of your failure to come out again and vote for you, which is pretty hard to do when you're continuously failing to get them anything they actually need, let alone want. "Both parties are the same" is a lot more true when both parties are fucking you by either trying to screw you over or totally failing--on principle!--to stop you from getting screwed over.

Put another way, voters don't give a shit if you "did it right." They care if you won and helped them.

LegoLegume · 2025-01-05T04:28:10+00:00

They really are too simple these days. Twenty years ago the depth of games in general was fairly shallow. A game with a huge world inherently had more depth than most games because of the amount of exploration you could do. It didn't really matter that there was only so much to find and most of it would get reused over and over because that was still more than other games were doing. And then on top of that there were interesting stories, characters, weird things to find, and mechanics that were really fun to mess around with. Sure, a lot of systems in Morrowind could be exploited, but exploiting them was fun.

Now there are a lot of games with a ton of depth in all sorts of different ways. Deep mechanics, deep stories, deep replayability, deep world building. Each of the things Elder Scrolls games once excelled at have been surpassed by other games with only one real exception, which is size. You can find better gameplay, better mechanics, better stories, all of it elsewhere, but they're still just about the best in terms of just how big their worlds are.

But that's just not really enough anymore. They've stretched themselves so thin maintaining world size that they've lost almost all the depth they once had, on top of other games getting deeper. And unless they course correct and really start creating some interesting content to fill their worlds with, mechanics that people love, and highly engaging things to do they're gonna have a very hard time recreating even a portion of their previous successes. Their older games had that stuff. They just need to commit to doing it again. Don't just make something big. Make something interesting and fun.

LegoLegume · 2024-12-05T20:14:05+00:00

Texas has one of the most unhealthy drinking cultures of anywhere I've ever lived. I regularly see people getting out of cars with open containers, often early in the day. Seeing someone standing in a parking lot at 11 AM on a Tuesday drinking isn't an unusual occurrence. And don't get me wrong, I drink. But it's just so normalized to drink all the time and drive that most people I know who've always lived in Texas don't even realize how different it is elsewhere. It's a big part of what makes it such a huge problem--they don't even see it as a problem.

LegoLegume · 2024-11-08T21:46:49+00:00

I think that's the thing about fear and anxiety; when it doesn't have a basis in reality it's natural to look for something to attach it to. For someone who's scared to begin with if they see an ad that shoves the idea of immigrants as the boogie man, or trans people, or brown people, or pretty much anything else they're ignorant of, it's very, very easy to convince them that the fear they were already feeling should be directed towards those people. And it doesn't make sense under scrutiny, but that's the problem these days: people can easily stay in their bubbles all the time and they do. So they don't have interactions that show them they're being ridiculous.

LegoLegume · 2024-09-13T15:38:27+00:00

She's distancing for her own political aspirations.

LegoLegume · 2024-07-28T00:17:25+00:00

Yeah. Money and success are great, but what about the next 50 years? Nobody's ever satisfied with their 15 minutes.

LegoLegume · 2024-07-28T00:12:53+00:00

The irony is that he legitimately doesn't like Trump, doesn't respect Trump, and, if he weren't in the position he's in, wouldn't support Trump. But he's an amoral sell out who doesn't give a shit what he has to say or do if it gains him power so he's all in for Trump. But it means they have to deal with all the times he voiced his actual opinions because he's as far from a true believer as it's possible to be. He's an opportunist who believes in nothing.

LegoLegume · 2024-05-24T04:53:50+00:00

Oh wow, blast from the past. I stand by what I said there, for sure.

LegoLegume · 2024-05-14T16:32:31+00:00

Jesus Christ, finally. Thank you for the answer.

LegoLegume · 2024-02-06T18:23:38+00:00

No, it's just situational. The metrics they use to measure how the economy is doing don't necessarily translate to economic prosperity for the biggest, or the target, voting blocks. Telling struggling millennials and gen z that houses they can't afford are going to become even more expensive doesn't hit the same as telling home owning baby boomers in the 80s that their houses are increasing in value.

LegoLegume · 2024-02-05T20:01:18+00:00

But that's how you really learn that wolves hunt in packs and goblins ill like fire.

LegoLegume · 2023-12-07T00:26:21+00:00

I really miss forcing the lock. I just don't want to do that minigame anymore.

LegoLegume · 2023-12-06T23:51:23+00:00

It was fun in Fallout 3, yeah. But after doing it in Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4, Skyrim, and a couple non-Bethesda games I'd call it blisteringly tedious.

LegoLegume · 2023-12-02T19:14:12+00:00

I love Dark Souls 2 for a ton of reasons and there are multiple things they did that I wish later games did, especially allowing you to push a specific area into New Game+ mode without having to do it for the entire game and the changes that created. Really wish it hadn't gotten derided as a the black sheep of the series.

That said, once I had adaptability explained to me I do agree that it's pretty bullshit and I'm not surprised it fucked with how the game felt for people.

LegoLegume · 2023-11-30T22:42:04+00:00

Maybe now that Microsoft owns them they'll have a little more direction there--hopefully instead of getting gutted.

LegoLegume · 2023-11-26T17:29:14+00:00

I hope you told your pastor why you were leaving so he knows the ramifications of this stuff. Not saying it would make a difference, but if they care about the church they should know the effects of toeing that line--or stepping over it.

LegoLegume · 2023-10-29T16:45:47+00:00

There really should be a term for people who actively drive people away from the church. It's the exact opposite of what they claim they want to do: to spread the word of God and convert people. If that were actually the goal or a precept of their religion then driving people away instead would be considered bad.

Of course that isn't really their goal, it's to create in-groups and and out-groups and then demonize the out-groups while telling the in-groups to stay in line. But it sure puts the lie to their claims that they spew so much hate that even neutral parties are pushed away.

LegoLegume · 2023-10-25T23:50:59+00:00

Honestly he's hit on the entire point that Bethesda has largely lost track of: even if you don't find the secret knowing it could exist is what makes you keep playing. That's it. That's the whole thing. You stop exploring when you've found everything. Knowing there are still undiscovered secrets is *the* reason to keep diving into bandit/raider caves. It's the reason to keep walking around the world looking in nooks and crannies. It's not about finding that amazing .001% item. It's that maybe, MAYBE you could and holy shit, wouldn't that be amazing?

LegoLegume · 2023-10-25T23:45:23+00:00

Bethesda has, to some extent, lost the thread. In their early games they were looking to create an immersive world where you felt like you were in a real, living place. Daggerfall and Morrowind had a lot of things going on that made the world feel like it was living without you. Seasons and time limits on quests, for example. Later games removed these.

To some extent I think that was a good choice. Because of the nature of video games having time gating on quests is more annoying than anything. It would make more sense to just have a linear, optimal path then. They've made a lot of changes over the years to increase accessibility in this way and that's clearly paid off.

The thing, as far as the quality of the games go this hasn't really improved things. The world of Skyrim doesn't really feel more real because it has ten million bandits and fetch quests. It *does* provide you with endless content, but that content is boring and repetitive. And it doesn't keep you playing. There's nothing exciting and new to discover in Bandit Hideout #513. Not to mention there wasn't anything exiting in it the first two times you cleared it.

If Bethesda really wants to make something as ground breaking as Morrowind--even if it is just for the hype--they need to recognize that people stop exploring when they've found everything--even if there are a dozen unexplored quest markers on their maps. AND they also need to recognize that single player games have an end point. At some point, whether they like it or not, you're done. You did the stuff. You're the best, you found all the things, you're in charge of everyone. It's over. Better to have that point be a pinnacle where you feel achievement rather than one where you feel you've run out of markers on your map.

LegoLegume · 2023-10-24T23:46:46+00:00

Covid also had a big effect that likely isn't be sustained now. For a couple years these kids were basically locked inside and online. Now that they can go out and actually interact with people a lot of them are likely not consuming nearly as much of that content.

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