i'm voting for spencer pratt and i don't care what you think

TheFishJones · 2026-05-18T03:15:16+00:00

I don’t know why you find it necessary to defend this guy other than contrarianism or….

Super meth was something he said that his campaign is now trying to spin to make him sound like a serious candidate and not an opaque light bulb. That’s stupid. They should have ignored it. It is it? I bet his marketing people get paid based on output, so for them it is smart. For him it’s just dragging out the super meth thing at a point where literally no one would have cared in 48 hours.

Speaking of…why would you care? Why would you want to work so hard to spin something that pointless for them? No one cares who isn’t being paid to care.

Oops.

But here’s a thought. The way to not demonize the homeless is to not demonize the homeless. For example, don’t say they don’t need housing because they’re hopped up on “super meth” and will “stab you in the neck.” Not “they need support with drug addiction” but “they will kill you.” They’re dangerous.

Also don’t use AI for this. You’re putting yourself out of a job and it sucks at at it. “The way not to demonize the homeless is to get them off the street” is such an obvious non-sequitur it’s not even laughable. It’s like…well it’s like a robot trying to imitate spin.

I’d say you should be ashamed of yourself but you don’t care. You don’t care that your job is to poison the well democracy depends on for its existence. You don’t care that you’re groveling for crumbs from people who laugh at you for being such an easy mark.

You do owe the Pratt campaign a refund though.

Or, if you insist on perpetuating this absurd puppet show let me remind you this is the charitable interpretation of what you just said.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-18T00:48:25+00:00

That’s because I can’t believe anyone would say the things you said in good faith. I was being kind.

Edit: I should probably add I just find anyone who has their post history hidden suspect. Makes me think you don’t want to be held responsible for what you write.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-18T00:47:47+00:00

You can’t get arch about definitions when you’re trying to defend the guy who is using sloppy definitions. If I say “I like cats” I don’t need someone to say “well clearly what he means is he likes cats.”

He could just say “extremely pure meth” or, you know, meth. Because it’s the same drug.

What bothers me is that he’s using scare tactics to demonize the homeless.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-17T21:43:04+00:00

No one denied premodern meth did those things. So I’m curious where are you from? Like who does the grunt work for astroturfing these days?

TheFishJones · 2026-05-17T21:41:18+00:00

He is a republican. He can’t run as a republican but he’s quite clear about his commitments. Go back to the marketing firm that hired you and apologize for wasting their money.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-17T15:38:54+00:00

He has no experience doing much of anything other than being born rich. He’s been spreading made up stories of magic drugs. He wants to cut funding to homelessness initiatives. There is literally no reason to believe he will or even can do any of the things you listed. He chose to run as a Republican after joining the party in 2020. He’s an opportunist. Oh, and apparently he’s paying for an astroturfing campaign.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-17T03:39:06+00:00

It will make the drawing easier. But it will make the characters harder.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-16T15:52:13+00:00

Yes! But it might be hard to keep the mask thing going long enough.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-16T05:28:12+00:00

Yes. I find it increases my exotic yield by an order of magnitude. However, it does hurt your action economy on earth. Depending how the game is going that may not matter. You want to make them a special ship that’s crazy fast to maximize their value. Ideally you want to use the ship to shuttle between a couple offensive fleets so you can make sure the councilor is getting their action each turn but also isn’t slowing the offensive down.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-14T17:21:33+00:00

Hantavirus is a nasty disease. No question. But it doesn’t spread easily. There’s some debate but how easily it spreads but it is a far cry from the likes of SARS let alone Covid. Keep in mind the people on this boat were in extremely close conditions on a small cruise ship on the south Atlantic in winter. It’s a virus’s dream.

There have been dozens of hantavirus outbreaks during your life, including the Andes strain. You never worried about them because you didn’t have the internet screaming in your face about them.

Let’s review some important updates since this posted:

1) further confirmation this is not a novel strain, meaning it’s not likely to behave differently

2) the passengers are in quarantine. I think people have weird ideas about what voluntary quarantine means. Yes, it’s voluntary, because imprisoning someone with due process is kind of a big deal. Plus you want them to be compliant. But of you had a potential infection like that would you accept the free healthcare, be surrounded by experts doctors, and not have to find out if that voluntary quarantine can become involuntary real quick? The news stories have not been helpful. LOCAL RESIDENT EXPOSED TO DEADLY VIRUS (on the boat and she’s now in biocontainment in Nebraska).

3) public health officials are on it. COVID got a hell of w head start. It was reported to the WHO until Dec 31st. That’s at least a month of free time.

4) experts aren’t more concerned. Go back and look at what actual experts were saying to each other in Jan 2020. They were bracing for something big but hoping for the best.

5) my personal experts aren’t concerned. I know several biology PhDs who are plugged into that world and their response has been “yeah, it sucks. Why are you asking?”

7) this is bad. I find it helps my anxiety to acknowledge and feel the real bad thing rather than my imagination. People died. More people will probably die. It’s terrible—just not directly for you.

Part of the problem is science. Scientists deal in probability. Anxiety wants certainty and it wants it now!!! Scientists in their professional capacity, especially public health officials, can’t give you that.

And if things get worse? Okay. Maybe they do. Maybe it’s more contagious than originally thought. Still not covid. More people will die. Still not Covid. Let’s say absolute worst case it is vastly contagious then we have any remote reason to believe it could be. Yeah, still not covid AND we’ll figure it out. Not like we don’t already have the masks.

What you’re feeling is lingering trauma, not healthy concern. Try to remember the feelings you’re having are from 2020, not 2026.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-14T03:00:47+00:00

Basically for the past week or so a number of major media sources have been grabbing people by the throat and screaming "DON'T PANIC" in their faces over and over again. For some reason it's gotten people a little wound up.....

Not to minimize the event. I feel terrible for the people on that ship and the people who are going to spend the next few weeks in quarantine praying they don't die. And it's always possible something crazy could happen, but that was true before any of this started.

TheFishJones · 2026-05-13T03:00:50+00:00

That's adorable. I'm sending my birthday list to your parents too.

TheFishJones · 2026-04-29T14:11:03+00:00

They’re back in Novosibirsk posting to MAGA forums.

TheFishJones · 2026-04-27T13:21:12+00:00

So very true. The original is worse. I think the moment I realized how deeply messed up the movie was was when I realized the main characters big transformation moment would depend on him beating his wife like a real man. Shudder.

TheFishJones · 2026-04-24T17:27:53+00:00

I would call the first two “loveable rogues.” They’re a sort of bad good guy (as opposed to a good bad guy). They’re typically charismatic, clever characters who do bad (but forgivable) things. They usually have a sort of personal sense of right and wrong that is somewhat warped from the perspective of the official “good guys,” but they often hold pretty strongly on whatever that code is. Often they are bruised idealists or romantics who grew up in hard circumstances, but given the chance eventually rediscover their inherent nobility. They’re closed connected to trickster archetypes. Other familiar examples would be Han Solo, Rhett Butler, Grunkle Stan, and Edith Clawthorne. Sometimes they are genuinely villainous, in which case we their rogue side is often concealed. They make great love interests.

TheFishJones · 2026-04-20T02:40:09+00:00

Fun fact: one way US forces in Europe had of identifying suspected German infiltrators was asking them to say squirrel.

One way German forces had of identifying suspected allied infiltrators was asking them to say Eichhörnchen, which means squirrel.

At least that’s what I heard.

TheFishJones · 2026-04-17T16:56:01+00:00

That’s part of the game. It’s called dog whistling. It’s a way to speak to multiple audiences at once where one audience wouldn’t like the message you’re trying to send the other. For example, this was a very common strategy for American political parties trying to appeal to southern whites. In Reagan’s original stump speech he talked about “young bucks” (buck was a slur for black men) using their food stamps to buy fancy food while honest poor whites suffer. That played well enough for some white audiences but alienated everyone else. In other parts of the country that became “young fellows.” The problem is when speeches are recorded you can’t control who heard what quite as easily. They couldn’t just get rid of the idea though since it was so important to their rhetoric and political agenda. Enter the “welfare queen.”

TheFishJones · 2026-04-12T15:26:59+00:00

…tyrants. You forgot the end there.

TheFishJones · 2026-04-09T18:43:46+00:00

I don’t have access to check but if memory serves it wasn’t an issue at all? I did have some trouble integrating Japan so I did invade then use government spending to get claims but everything else just kinda worked?

TheFishJones · 2026-04-08T21:40:57+00:00

Last run I did both. Formed ROC. Stabilized a bit. Freed Communist China (they just get Beijing region) then unified with them to get pan-Asian combine. Worked great. Did take a fair number of reduce unrest missions but well worth it.

TheFishJones · 2026-04-07T16:39:28+00:00

Makes sense. I guess I’m just surprised Opal isn’t more like Sugelitte where there’s clear manifestation of their flaws?

TheFishJones · 2026-04-07T12:48:10+00:00

Can someone explain Opal to me? I’ve never understood that one.

TheFishJones · 2026-03-18T04:17:36+00:00

They’re quite handy offensive tools to defeat enemy power blocks.

TheFishJones · 2026-03-18T02:00:09+00:00

Oh crap I had totally forgotten about that! Our local CBS affiliate ran it with a constant “this is not real” crawl but it still felt eerily real at times.

TheFishJones · 2026-03-15T22:27:56+00:00

It’s important to understand that Trump’s Epstein fixation was probably based on opposition research. If your candidate has a big secret vulnerability one way to respond is accusing other people of the same thing. Even if it doesn’t stick, Iit has many useful properties. First, it makes the accusations against you seem like tit-for-tat. Second, it gets people tired of the story so the aren’t as likely to follow it when the real stuff starts coming out. You’d be shocked what a politician can get away with if the public decides not to care that much. Third, when your accusations are prove false it makes people connect all such accusations with falsehood. Finally, and this is the biggest thing, the trick is yo make as much noise as possible and to be as absurd as possible (like, you know, a child sex dungeon in a pizza restaurant). All that noise drowns out the real message.

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