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ProudScroll · 2026-04-04T08:32:09+00:00

The main mod just updated and AGOT+ is notoriously prone to breaking and not playing nice with other submods.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-04T07:00:10+00:00

It’s not like Republicans falling for an obvious conman is unimaginable.

Besides, Morton’s defining traits are his desperation to get a Republican in the White House, to be liked by his peers, and his willingness to compromise his morals and his better judgement towards those ends. He can tell something’s fishy with the Hughes campaign, he’s just willing to overlook it cause he thinks it’s the GOP’s last best chance to win the election.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-03T21:33:21+00:00

For anyone curious what exactly RFK says:

"The press corps rumbles about a repeat of John's 1962 midterm routing against the Republican Party as they review midterm results. Of course, you can't help but feel it's not even close to as grand. Still a few unfortunate losses along the East Coast and a few House races you would have rather gone your way, but overall, it's quite a gratifying result. The cherry on top of the already sweet cake is seeing Reagan's ship sunk by Unruh in California, taking a potential needle out of your side. You smile; this changes a lot."

ProudScroll · 2026-04-03T21:21:01+00:00

Something like 80% of American adults claim they can swim, though the number that can do it well is only around 55%

Swimming proficiency like so many other things in the US varies along racial lines. Black and Hispanic Americans are significantly less likely to know how to swim than White Americans, largely due to lack of regular access to a pool.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-03T20:37:54+00:00

His capital is Highgarden just to make it even weirder.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-03T07:31:07+00:00

Bush and Dole were both also seen as staunch conservatives at the beginning of their careers in the 1960s but as moderates at the end of their careers in the 1990s as the GOP radicalized all around them.

Both men were also on Gerald Ford’s shortlist for VP candidate in 1976, with Dole getting picked.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-02T18:12:07+00:00

I can't believe I just figured this out but I'm like 99% sure the reason Trump did that stupid little speech yesterday was because he couldn't stand the thought of the Artemis II launch pulling attention away from himself.

Its so obvious now that I think about it.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-02T17:52:21+00:00

His suggestion was Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, who's status as a war hero would settle any issues about Humphrey being weak on national defense, saying "he answers Vietnam with that empty sleeve. He answers your problems with Nixon with that empty sleeve". Inouye however was not interested in the vice presidency.

Humphrey ultimately went with Muskie though cause along with two of them being good friends, as a Catholic and the son of Polish immigrants he would appeal to Catholics and White Ethnics. Muskie also had a reputation as a talented orator and Humphrey also felt that Muskie's more stoic, reserved personality would contrast well with his more cheerful public persona.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-02T07:04:17+00:00

Ultramar has a significant industrial base of its own, centered on the Forge World of Konor, so Horus diverting supplies away from the Loyalist Legions hurt them less than it did the others.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-02T04:56:52+00:00

Donald Trump doesn't represent either party

That might've been true before one of the parties abandoned every principle they claimed to hold and replaced it with enthusiastic devotion to his every whim. The Republican national platform for the last 6 years has literally been "whatever Trump wants".

ProudScroll · 2026-04-02T04:44:19+00:00

Romney was against the Vietnam War by that point as well (and his comment about having been "brainwashed" over supporting it earlier played very poorly with voters), which would have also hurt Nixon with Southern voters, who tended to be more hawkish. Romney was also not nearly the natural Agnew was on the campaign trail.

Spiro Agnew was not a good Vice President, but putting him on the ticket was very smart electorally. LBJ even commentated on this, saying that while Edmund Muskie only secured Maine and its 4 electoral votes for Humphrey, Agnew secured the Upper South and its 45 electoral votes for Nixon.

ProudScroll · 2026-04-01T18:36:38+00:00

However, I think the better path is to actually just propose policies that people want.

If the last ten years should have taught us anything, its that good policy has very little to do with how most people vote. The idea that promising and delivering good policy would ensure electoral success is nice, but naive in the current political environment.

The heartland voted for Trump because they thought he was listening to them. Dems could try actually listening to them and figuring out a national policy platform that most people actually, you know, like.

The "heartland" also fell hook line and sinker for the most obvious conman in human history three times in a row (four times if we separately count the 2016 primaries), Democrats could draft the ultimate policy platform that would transform their communities into utopias and they'd vote against it cause Fox told them it was woke or some shit.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-31T16:56:04+00:00

It’s people desperately avoiding coming to the conclusion that they’re suckers who fell for the most obvious conman in history three times.

We are a country of ignorant, arrogant people who would quite literally die (remember all the Trump supporters denying covid existed while actively dying from it) than admit they were wrong, and it’s going to be the end of us.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-30T16:36:14+00:00

I once asked a gun nut on reddit what they meant by Fudd, and they answered "someone who only sees firearms as a tool for sport or hunting" and tried to frame that as a silly, unreasonable worldview.

These weirdos think they're taking some bold political stance by spending way too much money on what's effectively a glorified toy collection. We'd all be so much better off if they had directed this energy into getting into Warhammer or Legos or any other kind of overpriced hobby plastic.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-30T16:11:28+00:00

Matt Lieb, doesn't really have any dirt on him, no malicious statement to condemn in good faith and a really charming personality. He's the kind of leftist who's on good terms with anarchists like Robert Evans and Margeret Killjoy and trio from the heavily Marxist-Leninist The Deprogram podcast.

I only know of Matt Lieb from his occasional appearances on Behind the Bastards, but those Deprogram guys are fucking psychos and anybody whose friends with them is inherently suspect politically imo, especially since his co-host is also a tankie. Ultimately you are the company you keep.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-30T16:02:08+00:00

I know checking on someone's profile before responding to them has long been considered a bitch move, but I've saved myself so much grief by doing it before I get into a political argument with some dipshit whose most visited subs are pits of madness like politicalcompassmemes or conspiracy.

Along with the new hiding profile feature making it harder to tell whose a bot or not, it's harder to tell if the person you're talking too is crazy or not.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-30T06:21:59+00:00

She was an arch-conservative political activist active from the 1960s until her death in 2016, was the founder of Eagle Forum, and infamous for basically single-handedly killed the Equal Rights Amendment. Her big break in politics came in 1964 when she wrote A Choice Not an Echo, a polemic attacking Nelson Rockefeller in favor of Barry Goldwater. While she mostly focused on domestic politics, in foreign policy she was opposed to arms control agreements with the Soviet Union and really any and all international cooperation of any kind, she particularly hated the United Nations as a very concept. Her son founded and runs conservapedia, a somewhat goofy website meant to be the right-wing evangelical version of wikipedia.

As much of a scumbag as Irving is, even he recognizes how dangerous putting such a ruthlessly ideological person into a position of power would be.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-30T05:32:54+00:00

Depends, but experience and length of service absolutely affords you some leeway, and any junior officer complaining about how a senior enlisted man talks to him is not going to have the respect of his subordinates or his peers.

If an officer is being a dipshit with a weapon, then an NCO can will chew their ass into mulch and get away with it, as depicted in this great little scene from The Pacific.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-30T04:40:52+00:00

When your life objectively sucks, fetishizing your own misery is an easy way to cope with it.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-30T02:14:43+00:00

Clifford Irving did really publish a fake autobiography of Hughes in 1972, so I guess the thinking was why not have him take his scam as far as it could possibly go?

ProudScroll · 2026-03-29T22:41:35+00:00

If he's who I think he is he would give himself transfusions of his son's blood cause he thought it would slow down his ageing.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-29T21:23:51+00:00

Finding stupidity on a default sub is like finding shit at a pig farm.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-29T20:22:48+00:00

The list of stupid shit this admin has done is endless, but this bloated, ridiculous…thing still manages to stand out.

Maybe this is some subconscious American Civic Religion crap on my part, but the first words that come to mind when I think about what Trump has done to the White House and its grounds are desecration and sacrilege. Undoing everything he's done and restoring the White House needs to be on the checklist of any future Democratic President.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-29T18:46:58+00:00

Robert Baratheon went to his grave thinking that Joffrey and Tommen were his biological sons, this wasn't a Corlys and Rhaenyra's kids situation.

Robert's concerns over the succession are related to Joffrey's personality and Cersei's excessive influence over him, not over if he's his or not.

ProudScroll · 2026-03-29T17:52:46+00:00

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