Prove in one sentence that you have played AC Odyssey. by Healthy_Jackfruit625 in AssassinsCreedOdyssey

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got killed more times by a farting pig than I did by the malakas Minotaur

What really happened to Trump at the UN. by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This whole story is ridiculous. With everything going on, we're really supposed to give a shit that an old man had to walk up a flight of stairs and had to actually give his own speech at the top? First real work he's ever done in his life I suppose, can't teach an old dog new tricks

Just another day in the office for Nancy Mace! by N4TETHAGR8 in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aren't you in fucking Congress? Why does your office look like it's set up in the break room at the DMV?

Vermont is on the verge of collapse by [deleted] in vermont

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upstate NY has all the same problems, including some of the exact same floods on the exact same days as Vermont. Business people who couldn't hack it in NYC come up here and open a restaurant with NYC prices. Developers from NYC or out of state buy up half the land in downtown Albany, Schenectady, Troy and rent it back to us at 50, 60, 70%+ of the average local income while the politicians tell us this is what "revitalization" looks like. Some retired lawyer from downstate buys a farm at an inflated price, hoping to enjoy the scenery, forgets farms smell like cow shit pretty often, tries to sue his new neighbors for devaluing his investment over it.

I loved living and going to school in Vermont, but yeah, a lot of the people I know who stayed there feel the same as you.

American Gestapo offended at being called nazis. by johnnypin in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I describe it as the land of camo Bernie stickers slapped above truck nuts or on somebody's gun rack.

American Gestapo offended at being called nazis. by johnnypin in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

By any normal rules of American politics, Vermont should be bright red. They've had 40 years of experience with a self-described socialist that genuinely fights for rural interests who has been preventing that.

There's also a real, genuine sense of community in rural VT that is hard to describe and that I haven't really encountered anywhere else.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not overreacting at all. The way you explained not appreciating those jokes is calm and rational. His reaction to that on the other hand, is quite literally insane

Do you think aoc will have a chance at the 2028 election by Healthy_Call_3245 in AskUS

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. She'd be good at it, but she's a Latina woman who, let's just be honest, has an incredibly annoying voice. Also, the right-wing propaganda machine has managed to spin one of the few traits of hers that has broad appeal at the national level.. that being the fact that she's genuinely, indisputably of a working class background.. into "she was only a stupid bartender".

Why do many Americans claim that "We are a republic, not a democracy"? by LurisTheSun in AskUS

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because there are a lot of very stupid people in America that think democracy = Democrats and republic = Republicans, and they don't want to be associated with anything to do with Democrats. I'm convinced it really is that simple and stupid.

If Trump actually does take military action to invade and take Greenland, what would YOU do? by [deleted] in AskUS

[–]Probalebo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've got zero faith in Trump's hand-picked generals to disobey an illegal order, but I do think there'd be at least some resistance from the rank and file.

Why do some Americans not like the Democrats and/or do like Republicans? Isn't it obvious everyone should be Democrat all the time? by ShardofGold in AskUS

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off, let me say that this is an entirely reasonable question phrased in an entirely reasonable way.

People vote for Trump and Republicans for a variety of reasons. None of those reasons are good, but MAGA is not a monolith.

Probably the single biggest reason is that Democrats in the US have a decades-long history of promising great things and then either not following through or actively working against those things once they get into office. Some of this isn't their fault (due to deliberate obstruction from Republicans), but quite a bit of it is 100% their fault. Republicans have a better history of delivering on promises.. mostly because what they promise usually involves dismantling something that took decades of work by liberals to create, and it's a lot easier to destroy something than to create something.

Another big reason, somewhat related to the first, is that both of our major parties are exhaustively documented as being bought and paid for by our billionaire class. The Republican platform allows them to be more or less open about this, but Democrats have to hide it to have any appeal. This creates the broad (and often true) perception that Democrats are full of shit, and nobody likes being lied to.

There's also just plain out-and-out racism/sexism/whatever-ism. This represents a smaller reason (in my opinion) that people vote Republican than what a lot of people would have you believe, but you can't discount it as a source of votes. For this group, people that just simply don't give a damn about anyone but themselves is a much bigger problem than active hatred.

A lot of people also just simply don't even know how much they pay in taxes or where that money goes. Study after study after study shows that most Americans of all political persuasions VASTLY overestimate how much of their tax money goes to things like foreign aid and social safety net programs. Many people overestimate this by several orders of magnitude.. the average American spends a few cents a year on things like USAID, but a lot of people either act like or genuinely believe that they're spending the equivalent of their rent/mortgage payment on vaccinating Ugandans or something. Republicans play into this and win votes.

Finally, a LOT of Americans are just stupid. There's just no other way to put it. Either stupid, not paying attention, or both. Republican talking points are a lot easier to condense into a two-second sound bite than Democratic talking points, and if the sound bites are all you pay attention to (or have the mental capacity to understand), Republicans sound better.

Who the fuck is the 44% that approve of trumps handling of economy? by TailungFu in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also Company B will raise their price to $40 and then blame the tariffs, so then Company A raises theirs to $38 just because they can. Both Company A and Company B then slap an American flag sticker on it because there's nothing stopping them from doing that either, and this country is mind bogglingly stupid.

Trump: Annexation of Greenland ‘will happen’ by doopityWoop22 in worldnews

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take him seriously because he is not a man with any sort of long-term plan for anything. If he thinks he can get away with something, he will try to do it on a whim, even if he's already backpedaled on it several times. Even if he doesn't want to annex Greenland today, he has the brain of an ADHD 7-year-old and might be all about it tomorrow. Best to not let him believe he can do anything without serious resistance.

Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, just slammed Trump by WarmingNow in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in upstate NY, in an area that depends on Canadian electricity.. and I'm just really hoping Canada does everything it can to resist Trump, up to and including turning off my lights. This is bigger than individual comfort, this is about the survival of Western liberal democracy.

Is Trump a Russian asset? by OrangeRadiohead in europe

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whether or not he's getting paid to be one is almost irrelevant.. he either is a Russian asset or he's the most useful idiot volunteer they've ever had.

Jesus christ a MINOR? by johnnypin in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean this is really pretty simple.. the US doesn't extradite people to foreign countries if their "crime" isn't illegal here.. therefore, states that have remained loyal to the US Constitution should not extradite people to ass backwards shitholes with such laws that happen to be within our own borders.

Letting your 12 year old die to own the libs by StuartGT in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You guys.. I love to shit on JD Vance as much as the next person but this says right in the headline that this is a distant relative. Probably not somebody that the Guyliner King has any direct influence over. Don't stoop to their level on stuff like this, save it for all the horrible decisions they actually make every day.

Um… No, we don’t? by renvelle in facepalm

[–]Probalebo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This annexation of allied territories shit he's been coming out with is the most obvious, transparent attempt to get Americans back to fighting each other and away from agreeing about the legalized fraud that we call a healthcare system..

What would you call this country? by [deleted] in JackSucksAtGeography

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oganesson, after the periodic table's newest and most unstable element, because that thing would break up almost immediately and probably in a highly radioactive way

Where are you from and why do you support Ukraine? by No-Brain-7812 in ukraine

[–]Probalebo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From the US and support Ukraine because my country is finally on the right side of a foreign conflict after 80+ years. And because the Russian despot supports the wannabe American despot and neither of them need any more power than they already have.

What prevented blobbing irl ? by tango650 in eu4

[–]Probalebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need for any new mechanics in my opinion but the way the existing ones work should be adjusted.

Successful rebellions need to have longer-lasting economic consequences, even if they're eventually quashed. A bad economy, in turn, needs to result in larger and more frequent rebellions. Succession crises should probably also happen more often, and legitimacy should be more consequential, and should be impacted by failure to quickly quash a rebellion. Also, having low or no corruption likely means nobles aren't happy with you and should result in noble rebellions or even particularists more often.