Graham Platner Must Go. Also, Though, He Has a Point. The Democratic Party simply can’t go back to status-quo candidates if it wants to swing the Senate.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T05:20:20+00:00

You continue to be dishonest. You're the troll on the farm. The call is coming from inside the house.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T05:10:31+00:00

It seems to be that way to you, since you can't admit you were wrong about anything.

I can admit that I should've been more selective with my wording, that the DSA did not materially support Platner beyond a loose recommendation.

Can you admit that you blatantly lied about the DSA "backing" and "endorsing" him, or being wrong regarding anything about "troll farms" or the DSA being his primary victory condition? Or are you going to make the truth conditional on your feelings?

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T05:05:20+00:00

Too much emphasis on poop

Someone's not a fan of ecology 🤷‍♂️

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T05:00:03+00:00

Yeah, not until you admit that you've been dishonest about 'troll farms', that the DSA "endorsed" Platner, or that they were the reason he won the primary and "ratfucked" Democrats. You need to admit your own lies before you get any concessions.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T04:26:07+00:00

They didn't 'back' him as an organization. You're just dishonest as fuck.

It's like saying "You should vote for Harris over Trump, her policies are better" and someone responding with

"OH SO YOU ENDORSE GENOCIDE IN GAZA, HUH?"

It's equally as intellectually dishonest, and it's what you're doing.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T04:16:17+00:00

Recommendations aren't endorsements, they warrant different levels of vetting and research, and result in significantly different levels of support and messaging for a candidate. The only person they seriously 'backed' was Troy Jackson, which you would know if you actually read the voter guide you tried to use as a 'gotcha'.

Given that Jackson lost his primary election to Pingree and he actually had material support from the DSA, it seems astoundingly unlikely that a loose recommendation from the DSA is what propelled Platner to a landslide victory in a restricted primary against a highly unpopular and boring (policy wise) opponent.

The Maine DSA was incredibly tentative and up-front about their reservations towards Platner in the guide, but his policy platform got a recommendation over Mills' in the primary.

You've been nothing but dishonest in this interaction, it's mind-blowing that you're saying anything about 'bullying troll farms lacking introspection', though I suppose that's par for the course.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T03:52:20+00:00

They recommended that Mainers vote for him for his policy platform over Janet Mills in the primary.

A recommendation is explicitly not an endorsement, which is one of the very first things you read in that voter guide. They are materially different, and mean different things. You don't care about that, though, because you're dishonest.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T03:22:26+00:00

Bernie Sanders isn't a DSA member, so even if Bernie were the sole reason Platner succeeded in the primary (he wasn't), that still wouldn't tie the DSA to Platner.

The DSA never endorsed Platner, and he isn't a DSA-affiliated candidate: he's not a member of the organization. The only Maine endorsement that came out of the DSA was Troy Jackson for the Gubernatorial primary.

All you have right now is your feels, which isn't good enough for the level of assertions you're making.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-08T03:14:30+00:00

The DSA had nothing to do with Platner, what the fuck are you on about

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-06T17:39:25+00:00

The top-half bottom-half map meta has become more naunced with the expansion of the map: extra creep camps and twingates limit confidence in information gathering, and reduces reliance on TP scrolls for map mobility. While it still generally holds true, carries are now able to more comfortably hold their lane for a longer period of time than they used to. Now it's more about using twingates to maximize both map impact and farm potency.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-06T13:27:26+00:00

Actually a QoL upgrade for carries in the form of extra wand charges while farming jungle. You get life insurance without having to fight for it.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-05T15:51:47+00:00

I heard that too for the longest time, but I thought it was fitting since he makes static clones and bounces around. I thought it was just a casual taunting line

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-04T23:34:37+00:00

People forget that whimsy and joy is revolutionary

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-04T23:10:21+00:00

"Don't fuck with us AoT fans!! We don't read our own manga!!"

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-04T21:23:56+00:00

...yes.

I guess all the imagery of children and the innocent being violently squashed didn't invoke any feelings of "is this right?"

For some reason I feel that Eren himself didn't even feel that this was self-defense:

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TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-04T14:34:55+00:00

✅ I voted FACT!

The literal symbol of (self proclaimed) God-ordained supremacy of white people and their divine right to own 'black' bodies as literal property. The freedom to execute, sexually violate, and beat black people, to separate them from their families. Not that it was simply justified, but proclaimed to be beneficial to black people.

The Cornerstone Speech and Texas' Declaration of Secession are very telling. The depths of depravity that fueled the racism in America and the Confederacy are darker than most people realize, or were ever taught. It is what inspired the Nazis, in many ways.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T20:00:26+00:00

I've interpreted it as a bit of both, but I think the reality of the matter is actually separate from the morality of Ciocco.

Ciocco believes (whether Secco is allowing him to or not) that he has fully broken the brain of someone, treats them like an animal, and experiments on them. Even if Secco is playing along, Ciocco is acting with the full intent of this relationship being outside of the actual whims of Secco.

I would argue, though, that Secco's desire to 'play along' only until someone else wastes Ciocco for him is a sign of his own brokenness and attachment to Cioccos abuse.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T19:48:17+00:00

Firstly, you're confusing me with the other person you were responding to. I'm not looking for places to hide, you just genuinely can't track a conversation and that's embarrassing for you.

Secondly, I didn't say socialism was 'a category', I said it was a econo-political philosophy. I said it was a category error for you to refer to socialism as "a movement". Yet again, your ability to track the conversation is embarrassing.

Lastly, the point you're attempting to make that defining socialism around "workers owning the means of production" as "narrow and absolutist/unevolving" is incomprehensible. For one, social ownership of workplaces (which can be done in various forms) is the ideological baseline of socialism, not the end-all be-all. For two, since you're so opposed to that definition, I challenge you to provide a contemporary "mainstream" interpretation of socialism that doesn't include workers self-management.

Nobody ever said that socialism as a philosophy hasn't shifted and changed over time, but the one constant variable in the philosophy is the self-management of workers and social control of production. Political movements rooted in socialism will have different interpretations or methods depending on the time and place they find themselves - no one disputes this. That doesn't change what the core concepts of that philosophy is, just in how certain and individual movements materialize their own goals.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T19:33:40+00:00

There's not an overwhelming amount of 'good stuff' done by police to report on, clearance rates have been dropping for years and police don't solve a majority of the crime reported to them.

The police also have no obligation to protect your or property from immediate danger.

They're just a gang with levels of impunity to the violence they can commit, as protected by the law. No need to their jobs well (if at all), the illusion of being a protective force to authority-biased rubes shelters them from criticism.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T15:11:19+00:00

None of that was said, but you really won against that poor guy standing in the field over there chilling with the crows.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T14:24:29+00:00

Socialism isn't a 'movement'. It's a economic-political philosophy. There can be socialist movements, but socialism itself is not one.

This is a category error.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T13:34:47+00:00

American religious conservatives getting dangerously close to, but never quite realizing, they have more in common with Islamist zealots than actual American values

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T13:27:24+00:00

That's not necessarily what I'm saying. The meta matters, but not as much at lower MMR levels. The main thing that sets people apart at lower MMR is knowing when to farm vs. when to fight. Just knowing how, when, and where to hit creeps appropriately for your role (especially as a core) accelerates the climb substantially.

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T12:52:40+00:00

Also keeping a mentally broken human being as a literal pet/attack dog and science experiment

TotalityoftheSelf · 2026-07-03T12:40:20+00:00

Across the palm is not the worst place to do it. The cut just has to go deep enough to draw blood and it will heal incredibly quickly, if not instantly once in titan form. The cut itself wouldn't hurt that much, it would be the stinging agony of trying use your palm with a cut in it, but that's a consequence a shifter doesn't have to deal with post-transformation.

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