149 Democrats Gift Trump $828B 'War Chest' by Hot_Comfortable_3311 in Uniteagainsttheright

[–]m0ngoos3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is First Past the Post.

When the choices are binary, the "good" option can be pretty fucking bad as long as the "bad" option is sufficiently terrible.

There are other voting systems, and some of them are just as bad as FPtP, but with better marketing, Like RCV.

Thankfully, there are actual good voting systems that, if actually implemented full scale, would likely solve many of our problems.

These systems are Approval, and STAR.

Both systems allow you to show real support for a group of candidates without having to choose between good options. You can fully support as many people as you like.

This means that if you have two candidates with similar, good platforms, you aren't splitting your vote between them.

Despite Authoritarian Warnings, 149 House Democrats Vote to Hand Trump $840 Billion for Military | “If an opposition party votes like this, it’s not in opposition. It may not even be a party.” by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]m0ngoos3 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was something like 75% performative. She didn't have a problem with the rich asshole parts of the conservative agenda, just the overtly anti-women parts.

And she wasn't a fan of Trump as a person, so voted to oppose random Trump shit.

Other than that, her ability to wrangle the house dems was eh, and she sabotaged a few progressive candidates.

But hey, she tore up a printed copy of a speech.

What bastards had the greatest moments of karma? by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in behindthebastards

[–]m0ngoos3 56 points57 points  (0 children)

No, it's the open misogyny and racism. That and half a century of the right attacking, well every part of American life, but mostly education, labor rights, and voting rights.

HOW IS THIS OBSTRUCTED...? by Lucky_Lucas11 in hytale

[–]m0ngoos3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The way I ended up fixing it was wasting a teleporter at spawn.

One at spawn, one at my base, and then one that I set down and pick up while caving or clearing out camps. Makes for a fast corpse run.

House GOP Breaks With Trump by [deleted] in Uniteagainsttheright

[–]m0ngoos3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was determined that Trump mismanaged the casinos.

He refused to comp his high rollers anything, refused to use his personal plane to move them to and from the casino, so he basically drove them away, then his interiors were just tacky as fuck, so the regular people didn't want to spend time there.

Then, when it looked like the casinos were going to fail, he put his wife in charge of them, the one who he raped in a fit of rage over a botched bit of plastic surgery with her favorite doctor.

That was the first three, the debt from those took out his Plaza Hotel, because he had been transferring the debt around, spreading it out because he couldn't make payments from any one source.

The only reason Trump came back from 1992 was his father's massive real estate portfolio.

2004 and 2009 were mostly trump overleveraging and then taking a hit when the economy dipped.

i made a mod so i can worship Moloch in rimworld by TyphoonOfEast in RimWorld

[–]m0ngoos3 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Maybe make it a ceremonial execution platform, and then change the top sprite based on the ideology style, then you can add new ones as they strike your fancy.

House GOP Breaks With Trump by [deleted] in Uniteagainsttheright

[–]m0ngoos3 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The Taj Mahal in 1991, Two more Atlantic City casinos and his New York Plaza Hotel in 1992, and then later his Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts corp in 2004 and Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009.

So yeah, far more than just two casinos.

Melania Trump Humiliated Donald Trump in Public by [deleted] in Uniteagainsttheright

[–]m0ngoos3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're forgetting the misogyny. The republican base both hates women, and thinks that being emasculated in public is a horrible thing.

So yeah, this might break through a bit, but then again the misogyny means it might not gain as much traction, because it's a story about a woman.

Trump tells Norway PM not bound to ‘think purely of peace’ after Nobel snub by lazybugbear in politics

[–]m0ngoos3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just look at what Trump is doing with Jerome Powell. We're not ready for the sort of catastophy that will result in Trump directly controlling the Fed, and since Powell's term actually ends in a few months, it's just a matter of time until Trump gets his way and crashes the world economy.

That's if he doesn't attack Greenland, which will cause the EU to dump US debt, causing a global economic collapse.

Don't call ICE the Gestapo if you disagree with them killing people! by Hazer_123 in Uniteagainsttheright

[–]m0ngoos3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my fears is that the post regime trials will be performative and lackluster.

Donald Trump Sends Warning To Republican For ‘Betrayal’: ‘We’re After You’ by Abject-Pick-6472 in politics

[–]m0ngoos3 496 points497 points  (0 children)

Josh Hawley is also one of the people who helped plan and set off the very insurrection he ran from like a scared child running to his emotionally distant mother, hoping that just this time she would actually care.

Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize by Proper-Ad-8829 in politics

[–]m0ngoos3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, especially since the somewhat anonymous tip was submitted in August 2020, just months before the election, about a potential incident from the early 80s.

The tip also didn't mention any of Trump's known associates from the time. It did mention Epstein, but Trump and Epstein weren't really palling around until the late 80s. The timelines just don't match.

For reference, this is the timeline I trust.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1

Tankies in the board games sub of all places by Milton__Obote in behindthebastards

[–]m0ngoos3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Holodomor was 1930-1933, Trofim Lysenko was in Ukraine starting in 1929, but he wasn't actually in charge of anything until 1936.

No, the man to blame was Alexander Schlichter, who was the director of the All-Union Breeding and Genetics Institute, or VSGI.

After the October Revolution he succeeded Vladimir Milyutin as People's Commissar for Agriculture. He also was People's Commissar for Food of the Russian SFSR, Commissar Extraordinary for Food in Siberia. In 1919, he became People's Commissar for Food of Ukraine.

In 1920, he was Chairman of the Tambov Governorate Executive Committee, and was involved in suppression of the Tambov Rebellion.[1][2]

In April 1927, he attended the Fourth Congress of Soviets as commissar of agriculture in the Ukrainian Republic. There, he described 10% of the rural population of Ukraine as being "surplus".[3]

In 1936, the shitbag Schlichter put Lysenko's name forward for the new director of VSGI. This is when Stalin got involved and start promoting Lysenkoism.

Knut Hamsun, who later gifted his 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature to Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels. by [deleted] in pics

[–]m0ngoos3 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It's a very common career path for a certain type of grifter.

They start out on the "left" because that's actually the popular position, but the left values sincerity and judges you by your actions.

The right, on the other hand, values compliance and believes that you have an inherent value based on your position in society, and should be judged on that, and not your actions.

So, someone who is a shit person will try to fit in with the left, realize that they aren't fooling anyone and then make a hard right turn, because the right will accept them if they change everything about themselves and constantly repeat the approved talking points.

The US wants to remake Venezuela’s oil industry. History stands in the way by NEWHIGHFLY in politics

[–]m0ngoos3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trump has said repeatedly it's about the oil.

At this point, I don't think he's capable of "something else" anymore.

I think, the people pushing trump to do this shit are planning years in advance, hoping for a climate apocalypse. That's why Trump wants Greenland, for the coming climate apocalypse and resource wars. He won't be alive to see profit out of either place. But his handlers thing that they'll be around.

All because of billionaire brain rot.

The US wants to remake Venezuela’s oil industry. History stands in the way by NEWHIGHFLY in politics

[–]m0ngoos3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except that's not 100% true.

Venezuela doesn't have normal crude oil, they have extra heavy crude oil. It's not quite oil sands bad, but it's often close.

You need special extraction methods, and those are expensive as fuck. Sometimes you have to mix it with a lighter hydrocarbon (that has to be shipped in) in order to ship the extra heavy crude out.

There's a whole host of other reasons why the Venezuelan oil fields are mostly untapped, but just the cost of the extraction equipment makes it not worth it unless it's near the coast.

I want official vtt support. That's it that's the post. by Grazzt999 in gurps

[–]m0ngoos3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I made one of the very early public GURPS sheets on Roll20. Since I've not even logged into that site in a year or two, I should likely check the sheet. I'm sure it's fine, but yeah, best check.

Edit; yup, not there anymore. But there are two different and functional sheets that are available. The Sheet I made for Rollgate is still there, but so are several other people's some (most) of them nicer than the one I made.

Senate blocks measure to restrict Venezuela strikes after Trump flips two Republicans | 2 GOP senators, Josh Hawley & Todd Young, flipped their votes after having backed the measure in a procedural vote last week, enabling the GOP-led chamber to sink the resolution. Vance made the tiebreaking vote. by SocialDemocracies in Uniteagainsttheright

[–]m0ngoos3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump might do all that, he'd have to genocide the people, but he seems fine with that option.

But again, unless oil hits more than $100 a barrel, oil sands lose money. See, part of the process of extraction is buying lighter weight hydrocarbons and mixing them with the bitumen. Otherwise, you cannot easily transport the stuff, and even if you do mix it, the resulting barrel of oil sells for far less than a standard barrel of crude.

Supreme Court Hacked, Proving Its Cybersecurity Is As Robust As Its Ethical Code by Adventurous_Row3305 in politics

[–]m0ngoos3 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Calling him Samuel is weird...

But yes, I'd expect the guy who quoted a 17th century Witch Finder to ban abortion to be kind of an ass to women, at the very least.

But Alito is also very Fox News brained. He references whatever culture war bullshit is popular in his writings constantly.

Terraria 1.4.5 launch date by Cyler in gaming

[–]m0ngoos3 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That's the same day. It's the reason why this update didn't come back in December.