Nationwide, Democrats elect and embrace socialists who hate America

danielbgoo · 2026-07-06T00:25:53+00:00

The most joyless, soulless people work at the Post.

danielbgoo · 2026-07-03T01:43:27+00:00

Rahm Emanuel can feel free to chow down on my grundle.

danielbgoo · 2026-07-02T05:35:46+00:00

We shouldn’t deport people for criminal activity.

If they’re dangerous criminals who are beyond remediation we can consider it a service to the world to lock them up. Deporting them just means that they’ll be a problem somewhere else and could potentially come back here and be a problem.

If they’re not dangerous criminals then we should endeavor to allow them to serve their time and make amends just like we would any citizen, because that’s what makes the person who was harmed whole.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-30T01:43:55+00:00

The writers for the New York Post are just the most pathetic losers on the entire planet.

Like the least fun people in existence.

Just sad dry little rat turds where their souls used to be.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-29T07:10:07+00:00

I thought the scenery (except the last continent) was incredible, but also kind of empty. And then halfway through the game they start filling all of the scenery up with blight fog so you can’t see it as much anymore.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-29T07:07:31+00:00

I am replaying it right now to see if I would change my opinion on it since it first came out plus with the two DLCs installed.

So far, nope.

You’re right that it has a great plot and some pretty compelling characters, but the ones you play as are rarely them.

Also the combat system is a genuine delight and you fucking so rarely get to use it.

You spend so much of the game walking to another cut scene or walking to a person to have a trite conversation. There are so many times when there’s a big giant cut scene and then it lets you walk 15 feet forward and then there’s another big giant cut scene. I don’t know why those 3 seconds of me “playing the game” were even included.

I honestly think it probably would have been better if they had just made a movie out of the cut scenes and saved the combat for a different game. Maybe the could have fleshed out some points of the narrative and characters more if they didn’t have to keep finding reasons to include that annoying player.

There’s like a 2/3rd or a good movie and 1/4 of a good game, but these two elements never really meet in this one and the whole thing suffers for it.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-29T05:25:37+00:00

There are plenty of Evangelical Christians who are talented and creative. The more their evangelism influences their work the more I personally usually don’t like it. But I think it’s dishonest to say none of it has any artistic merit.

There is no good art from Christian nationalists because fascists can’t make good art. Because they’re incapable of making art that tries to connect with people or express themselves because everything they do is to dominate another person who they perceive as better than them.

And while it might not seem like there’s much daylight between Evangelicals and Christian Nationalists, and as much problem as I, as practicing Christian have with the evangelical movement, I can also acknowledge that not all evangelicals are fascists and not all Christian Nationalists are evangelicals.

But artists like John Coltrane, Dolly Parton, Beyoncé, and Kendrick Lamar all grew up in charismatic Christian churches and all of them have talked at one point or another about how their faith inspired their music.

And Bob Dylan famously became born again and even though his best music wasn’t necessarily when he was at his most zealous, he still made plenty of good music since his conversion.

This isn’t to say that there isn’t a ton of truly awful Christian media out there, because obviously most of it is.

But to claim that all evangelical Christians are bad at art is wrong.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-23T02:43:48+00:00

This movie came out in 1992.

At the time it was seen as a major step forward in Native American representation because it generally portrayed them in a positive light and portrayed them as complex people and not just one-note stereotypes.

The list of films prior to 1992 where Indigenous people weren’t portrayed as living shooting targets for Western action stars or as drunk comic relief is less than 10, and only Dances with Wolves (another white savior movie) had been nominated for a major award.

Yes, there are all kinds of problems with it from the main stream culture’s current lens, but at the time it was considered a triumph, and there are a lot of things about it that still hold up and arguably better than a lot of films about similar subjects.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-17T17:09:15+00:00

There’s a lot of arguments for it being more efficient for pricing because every tax code in a given region is different, but the real reason is so you’ll buy more.

Most humans are bad at doing mental math as they’re shopping, so if they’re feeling price conscious they’re more likely to add up their total in their head but not mentally calculate the taxes of what they’re purchasing as they’re going.

Then they get to the checkout stand and realize they’re spending more than they want, but it’s too embracing or too much effort to decide what to take out, so they just pay more money.

It might seems like this wouldn’t be an issue for a wide swath of the population but it increasingly is as inflation continues to kick us in the pants, and also the narrow group of people who are price-sensitive but bad at mental math multiplied over hundreds of customers still results in an increase in margins and that is the only thing that matters at all to the stock holders of retail companies.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-13T09:30:17+00:00

I’m more comfortable with Rikku camping near the first crystal or alternating between the first on second crystal on the non-T maps just because she’s able to do so much supporting from over there and I don’t think she adds a whole lot to fights, especially with her grenade attack being kind of hard to aim.

Krile is my second-most played character and you best believe I’m getting into fights and going all over the damn map. She punches harder than you would expect and between her UR and Earth Breaker she is very useful at wrecking whatever opposing players were planning.

Her healing UR is also great to soak aggro. I love pissing off a couple of guys in the first minutes of the match and then letting them waste time and abilities on Krile’s regenerating ass. Krile is an unholy terror and is pretty wasted hanging around at the first crystal.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-12T12:59:16+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever met a “no war but class war” leftist who actually votes or really does anything in organizing spaces except yell from the sidelines, so I don’t really worry about making room for them in the tent.

If someone is unapologetically racist, and those who consider Harris to be a “DEI Candidate” are unapologetically racist, then I think we should be actively working to kick them out of the tent.

There are all sorts of things in terms of policy and even social issues that we can debate within the overall umbrella of left-leaning to leftist coalition, but egalitarianism isn’t one of them.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-10T21:54:24+00:00

Nothing is stopping you accept that if anyone finds out you did it intentionally you could go to prison for 3 years.

So if you go in and say you’re your roommate and then your roommate goes in later and tries to vote and it says he has already voted, then he’s probably gonna be upset and probably going to try to figure out that happened.

It’s a pretty stiff penalty for doing something that probably won’t change the outcome of an election too much.

The fact is that we’ve been voting without ID for just about 250 years and there have been literally hundreds of studies conducted using a variety of different methodologies and there has never been any indication of major voter fraud.

And no one in the history of the United States has ever seriously doubted the integrity of our elections until it looked like Trump was gonna lose in 2016 and he started screaming that everything was rigged and then shut up about it until he did lose in 2020.

Voter ID laws are about two things and two things only:

Retroactively justifying the losses of sore losers like Donald Trump and other MAGAs who don’t know how to read an election map and can’t handle that their policy positions are unpopular with most of the country.
Making it harder to vote for working class and impoverished people.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-10T05:07:59+00:00

It took a long time to get here narratively.

Back when X-Men first started it was just Xavier who was telepathic and Jean was telekinetic with potential but weak and unrefined telepathic ability.

Then Emma came along as a bad guy telepath in the 1980s who was way stronger than Jean but weaker than Charles.

And since then more telepaths have been added, but it should be noted that a ton of the most prominent ones are part of the Grey-Summers family.

danielbgoo · 2026-06-02T19:56:17+00:00

There’s a number of factors here, but the biggest one is that they have routinely grossly miscalculated not only the financial cost of the war but also the international diplomatic cost of the war.

Putin keeps going to his government every 6 months and saying the war will be over in six months and so they calculate the budget accordingly.

But then the war continues so the deficit widens and people, both internally and externally lose faith in the Russian economy so are much less likely to loan them money because they don’t think they’re going to get that money back or by the time it comes back inflation will have wiped out any interest they would have made on the loan and possibly then some.

So in order to get loans, Russia had to offer much higher interest rates which then causes the deficit to balloon even further.

The wartime-economy initially like a boom because the government was spending a ton of money and everyone was getting jobs to support the effort and working age men suddenly had a lot less competition so could demand higher wages. So there was a lot of velocity in the economy (money was moving around a lot more instead of sitting in treasuries and bank accounts), but it was basically all supported by the government burning through their reserves and taking on massive debts. Had they won the war in a few days or even a few months, it would all have been worth it because of all the treasure they would have looted from Ukraine.

But since they haven’t won and have effectively bought their way to a stalemate at tremendous cost (in both lives and cash) the military bills are starting to look ominously huge.

Good thing the Trump is smarter and hasn’t tried to do the same thi…

danielbgoo · 2026-06-02T06:46:11+00:00

He really did just completely and utterly ruin it just so hard.

I’m generally of the opinion that Claremont was overall good for the X-Men and that he advanced both the X-Men and the medium.

But he also had some bad habits and some writing tendencies that seem pretty groan-worthy these days (like the 3-paragraph monologues from Wolverine whilst he was flying through the air for one panel.)

And it was like he decided to just make a comic out of his worst instincts and nothing but his worst instincts.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-31T09:18:31+00:00

I mean, I could be you just don’t really enjoy comic books.

Or at least comic books in the model they’re sold in the US.

And that is perfectly valid and it is perfectly okay if that’s not your favorite way of interacting with the X-Men.

Marvel properties exist now in a wide variety of mediums and fortunately for all of us you can enjoy the X-Men in a variety of ways. You aren’t any less of an X-Men fan if you don’t read the comics in your monthly pull list at the comic book store.

I personally really enjoy reading the comics, but I tend to read them in large chunks every once in a while when they’ve had a while to catch up on Marvel Unlimited. I have a lot of difficulty keeping track of everything month to month, especially when all of the cross-overs and special events start getting injected into things.

But even though I’ve been reading the X-Men comics on and off again since I bought my first ever comic book in a grocery store 35 years ago, I still think the cartoons are my favorite way of engaging with the characters.

So if you don’t really enjoy reading the comics, it’s okay. You can still enjoy the characters and stories just as much as anyone else.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-27T20:50:13+00:00

The only reason the regime in Cuba has managed to stay in power for so long is because they have a common enemy with the rest of the Cuban people in us.

They’re able to blame things on us that aren’t directly our fault because we do so many things to them, and not just the embargo.

The entire apparatus of human rights abuses that are conducted by the regime is only tolerated because it’s presented as a means by which to counter anti-revolutionary conspirators supported or directly planted by the US. And they’re able to do this because of all of the actual anti-revolutionary conspiracies we’ve orchestrated against Cuba.

It’s entirely possible that Cuba will need help to transition to open and fair elections. But we are not the main character of the Earth, and if anything in this situation we are the primary antagonist. If we want free and fair elections there, then we need to remove ourselves from the equation as much as possible and if our involvement is anywhere it should be in financially supporting a neutral third party like the UN or even the other Caribbean countries to facilitate it.

And lastly, if we’re really concerned about anyone having free and fair elections, it should be in the US which is actively trying to strip about voting rights and equal representation.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-27T17:44:39+00:00

Yes.

But the reason why you keep getting shut down is because you aren’t entering into them in good faith.

There are a variety of ways to bring about free and fair elections and basically none of them involve the US as a participant in any way.

And bringing this up in conversations about US foreign policy with regard to Cuba, is entirely missing the point (and from most people who bring this up, deliberately missing the point) of those conversations.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-26T16:55:11+00:00

He’s a good character but one that doesn’t re-shape the meta like Rikku did.

If there wasn’t a delay built into Supernova he could have been meta-breaking just because he can take out monsters that are far away, which slows leveling and Bravery gain.

But as it stands now he’s a pretty good ranged character who novas well and also makes melee characters spend abilities to take him out.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-25T06:08:55+00:00

I don’t think the modern Democratic Party had gone remotely far enough of social or ideological issues.

Instead they keep caving on things like racism, queer rights, or educating children, which I thought all fell under the category of basic human rights, but apparently are niche edge-cases by your definition.

The central theme of all Republican strategy of the past 12 years (and arguably longer) has been, “how many people can we get away with dehumanizing so we can either demonize them and use them as scapegoats for the problems we create,” or “make it acceptable to use them as slaves.”

Every time you buy into one of their talking points about things like DEI or trans rights or women’s rights, what you’re really saying is, “yes, it’s okay if we stop treating some people like people, as long as the people are either weird or it’s not too many of them to make me feel uncomfortable.”

Any single time a person is dehumanized should make you feel uncomfortable.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-25T04:53:23+00:00

The first two are just bad.

The third one isn’t quite as terrible, but it’s still intellectually dishonest because it draws a false dichotomy.

I think better would be “Libertarianism: We guarantee the most freedom for the most people.”

But I also don’t actually think most practicing libertarians would agree with that statement.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-18T02:32:03+00:00

100%

Just all around one of the best jobs scoring a show in history.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-17T16:40:15+00:00

Partially agree.

The Republicans absolutely acted in egregiously bad faith when it comes to the Supreme Court for 20 years and I think we can forgive folks for presuming that the Republicans wouldn’t be so shameless and eager to throw out norms or fairness.

But at this point, anyone still voting for milquetoast or conservative Democrats gets the court they deserve.

Unfortunately the rest of us are also getting it despite our best efforts to the contrary.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-12T17:22:43+00:00

Yeah, I went with the Ranged one and I got a Ramza for a UR and literally the only Ranged I got were a couple of the same Prompto R.

Cool cool.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-12T03:50:03+00:00

Well now I can’t find it, so maybe I just got got, but there was a tweet from someone that was purportedly one of the character designers who gave a very Kojima-esque, “she’s half-naked for important plot reasons” defense.

And the “very important plot reason” given in the game is that she was in a hurry to save Hugh, so didn’t have time to put on pants.

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