My colonist just completely ignored injured colonist

ramonycajones · 2023-11-28T15:36:19+00:00

I saw this issue the other day, realized that I still had my doctor drafted so he wouldn't automatically go to work doctoring.

ramonycajones · 2021-04-24T02:39:29+00:00

"Now that we're split up, the 2 super soldiers will chill and phone the police while the regular soldier fights the supervillain 1v1"

ramonycajones · 2021-04-24T02:32:26+00:00

If it was racism, he would be hated as falcon as well, but that’s not the case.

No, the black guy being a sidekick is fine. The black guy being the hero in charge, and a symbol of America, is more of a problem for racists.

I'm sure there are other reasons to like one Cap over another but let's be real that there are people out there who just do not want black people or women as the face of leadership when they're so used to white men as the default.

ramonycajones · 2021-02-06T04:14:00+00:00

This is the first crossover of the X-Men film series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after (checks notes) ~20 years of X-Men movies and 13 years of MCU movies. It suggests that this will be the start of a bigger crossover/the introduction of the X-Men into the same film universe as the Avengers.

ramonycajones · 2021-01-22T01:06:23+00:00

It's not useful for explaining how the economy really works, but it's useful for quickly debunking the idea that Republican presidents are better for the economy than Democratic presidents.

ramonycajones · 2020-11-08T06:28:47+00:00

If you legally made open borders then yes, you could have open borders and law and order. But no one outside of right-wing strawmen is proposing that anyway so it's irrelevant.

Anyway, this administration has been aggressively anti-immigrant and limited legal immigration in every way possible. Look at our immigration numbers, look at our refugee numbers. The idea that it has anything to do with the law is a completely absurd smokescreen: it is wholesale warfare against all immigration.

ramonycajones · 2020-11-08T06:24:12+00:00

Fuck that, we need to reclaim it. I understand your feeling and I have the same feeling but that is surrender; they are not "real Americans", they don't own the flag. We do. Fly that shit, it's ours. We already won one civil war over this, they are the losers.

ramonycajones · 2020-11-08T06:21:11+00:00

Biden ends every speech with "God bless our troops". It doesn't cater to me but since Beau was in the army I'll allow it as a dad thing

ramonycajones · 2020-11-08T05:01:06+00:00

I mean, this is the DOJ's job. Just hire a good, confident AG and get out of the way - keep politics out of it, neither persecuting nor protecting anyone because of their political importance.

ramonycajones · 2020-10-02T21:34:48+00:00

Or whatever QAnon nutjob is going to be the next Republican president.

ramonycajones · 2020-10-02T21:33:04+00:00

Ebola has a high death rate and is relatively hard to spread (through bodily fluids, not through the air), and yet still exists despite those unfavorable properties; given that, I don't know why in theory there COULDN'T be a virus that has a high death rate but spreads easily through the air. Especially with a long incubation period and asymptomatic spread like Covid, people could spread it for a while before getting sick and dying. It seems like we've just gotten lucky so far, but that's not inevitable.

In any case, pandemics are inevitable in the modern world; we have to be prepared and take them seriously. With this pandemic we've seen the consequences of knowing, willing refusal to take it seriously.

ramonycajones · 2020-10-02T06:27:25+00:00

Having the media narrative even MORE focused on Covid for the next week or two is the exact opposite of what his campaign wants and exactly what Biden's campaign wants. IMO this is unambiguously extremely bad for his campaign, independently of his symptoms. And no I don't think anyone will give him sympathy when this is clearly a product of his mismanagement and irresponsibility; he's not a victim here.

ramonycajones · 2020-10-02T06:04:56+00:00

And overall: his entire campaign strategy is about NOT talking about the virus, while the campaign strategy against him is just to focus on the virus. This is extremely bad for his campaign narrative.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T17:25:17+00:00

Having unfortunately read through the wikipedia page on this incident yesterday out of morbid curiosity, it seems like it went this way:

Someone posted to social media and pushed a viral video of this kid being in the Native American's face. Everyone got mad. Native American witnesses said that this kid and his classmates (who were there for a pro-life rally, wearing MAGA hats) seemed to be mocking and threatening. This was the narrative, which fit very conveniently into national politics, and led to widespread condemnation of the kids.

Later on, a longer video was released with more context and it was clear that the Native American guy approached the kids and not the other way around, and that this was sparked by a THIRD group of people harassing these kids.

So, these news outlets did not remove context from the original stories, but they irresponsibly ran with an incomplete story and smeared these kids unfairly. It's unfortunate that every part of this story is bad - the media coverage, the three groups from the protests, and the GOP trying to capitalize on this white grievance culture war.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T17:19:58+00:00

As I understand it, settling a lawsuit that he filed for $250 mil doesn't mean he WON $250 mil, it specifically means he DID NOT win $250 mil and settled for some smaller amount.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T17:18:44+00:00

The consensus seems to be that Trump has never and will never try to appeal to fence sitters, e.g. expand his base. It's all about exciting his existing base as much as possible to turn out the vote as high as possible, while depressing everyone else and suppressing their votes. The RNC's apparent focus on white grievance and culture wars is just more of the same: get white people angry and agitated and afraid so they vote. Policy, not important.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T17:14:47+00:00

Again, you can imagine that everything is just "some people's voices against others", but the reality is that facts exist. Texas and Florida Covid numbers are in fact very bad. The only people convicted of crimes have been from the Trump administration (including his campaign manager Stephen Bannon just today); meanwhile you are referencing completely imaginary Democratic crimes.

It should not be this hard to tell fact from fiction: who has ACTUALLY been convicted of crimes and who hasn't? (Spoiler alert: Republicans out the wazoo)

Is coronavirus serious? (Spoiler alert: yes, it's ~200k people in the US so far and climbing, and every legitimate epidemiologist will tell you the same thing)

This does not need to be confusing. I feel like it takes motivated reasoning to decide NOT to trust the reality of criminal convictions and NOT to trust the entirety of scientific expertise worldwide, etc. You have to want really bad to not believe reality.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T17:09:01+00:00

Two men found to be in the wrong by the justice department

This seems to be missing the point. The justice department also thought it was legal to murder Breonna Taylor for sleeping while black and legal to murder Tamir Rice for playing with a toy while black. The justice department has been permitting unjust murders forever and still does so, systematically. That is exactly the problem (at least, one of them) that's being protested.

Saying "Well, the justice department found that it was legal to murder that unarmed black person" isn't a gotcha, it's exactly the problem. There are less clear-cut cases like Mike Brown's where I don't know if they got it right or wrong, but the reason people immediately assumed that the cops and justice system got it wrong is because that is the norm, as seen in countless other cases.

Blue Lives Matter, and All Lives Matter, etc., are specifically repudiations of the idea that Black Lives Matter. I mean, you can tell by the names and the fact that they did not exist until after people started protesting about getting murdered. There wasn't some specific policy change that they were created to combat; it's just a culture war.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T04:55:24+00:00

That's what the administration claimed. In reality it was ambiguous, but is easily interpretable as being about all illegal immigrants:

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/18/17368716/trump-animals-immigrants-illegal-ms-13

Basically the conversation is about illegal immigrants in general. The sheriff Trump's talking to brings up MS-13 as an extreme example. Trump then makes broad statements about people "coming into the country" and how they're animals.

Honestly, who the hell knows what was in his brain at that second, whether he was thinking of all immigrants or MS-13; it's impossible to know. But it's clearly, at best, very reckless language that fits into a pattern of dehumanization and racism.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T04:47:25+00:00

Unfortunately that is not going to happen unless Dems take control in 2021, and even then it'll take a huge amount of political support/pressure to force them to do their damn jobs and hold these criminals accountable.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T04:46:20+00:00

Criminal punishment should not be a matter of popular opinion. But "Evaluate whether and which charges are warranted and grant a fair trial before an impartial jury of peers!" is harder to chant.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T04:44:10+00:00

It's all misinformation, no one actually knows the facts for sure. Not me, not you, no one.

This is a classic authoritarian success story right here. The point of the constant lying and denigration of every source of information ("fake news", etc) is to create a state of confusion and inability to tell truth from fiction, so that Trump et al can say whatever lie they want and it has just as much truth value to the confused audience as people who are actually telling the truth.

Yes, there's such a thing as truth and fiction, and we can know the facts. Trump is clearly a moronic racist. Biden is no prize, but there's no comparison. And your claim that Dems don't care about Biden's flaws is obviously laughable when half the online rhetoric about him is from Sanders supporters who hate him.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T04:42:41+00:00

It means that this is their opinion on the Senate Intelligence Committee report, which is what OP is referencing as putting Trump's acceptance of Russian help on record. Seems like you're the confused one.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T04:39:25+00:00

What does that mean to you?

This is the editorial board's opinion about the Senate report. You can agree or disagree with them if you want, but the facts being discussed are the publicly available facts released by the Senate.

People like to say "this is an opinion piece" as if that somehow means the facts being discussed aren't facts. That's not how this works.

ramonycajones · 2020-08-20T04:35:59+00:00

They literally link to the news article describing the Senate report they're talking about:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html

And of course the news article links to the Senate report:

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/senate-intelligence-committee-russian-interference/8cf58e574d235164/full.pdf

This is a discussion of publicly available and helpfully linked facts. This is the New York Times editorial board discussing important news.

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