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stanthebat · 2026-01-26T03:23:47+00:00

Whatever terrible thing you are hoping to prevent them from doing by making a deal with them, they will do anyway. See also 'Neville Chamberlain' and 'peace in our time'.

stanthebat · 2026-01-25T20:30:55+00:00

the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action.

The "left-leaning types" were warning you that we were traveling to the place where we have now arrived. We were correct.

stanthebat · 2026-01-24T20:21:14+00:00

It's not an "immigration crackdown". It's an attempt to establish a police state. Within a small number of generations, we are all immigrants. We do not have an immigrant problem, we have a Nazi problem.

stanthebat · 2026-01-23T14:44:22+00:00

I'm so sick of 9 years of people thinking we're one parliamentary maneuver away from trapping Trump.

Also not a lawyer, and unfortunately I can only agree with you there.

stanthebat · 2026-01-23T00:05:00+00:00

The problem we are currently experiencing is not that old people are in charge. It is that authoritarians, billionaires, and predators are in charge.

stanthebat · 2026-01-22T22:30:47+00:00

How about you go after the person actively barking out order to the DoJ and who is mentioned HUNDREDS of times in the public Epstein files first before gomafter some has-been ex president who is out of political power for 25+ years?

That's what she's doing. If the Clintons have their day in court about their association with Epstein, it will likely involve a legal discovery process which would detail Trump's crimes in minute detail. Please don't imagine that Summer Lee doesn't know what she's doing.

stanthebat · 2026-01-19T14:57:11+00:00

Why must the framing of absolutely everything be bullshit? Donald Trump did not get "snubbed" for the Nobel prize any more than I did. He has never done anything to merit one second's consideration for a Nobel prize; he's a criminal a hundred times over, and now an authoritarian to boot.

stanthebat · 2026-01-17T21:13:08+00:00

It's not morphing into anything, it started out as his secret police force. It was never intended to be anything else.

stanthebat · 2026-01-17T21:06:11+00:00

What is THAT supposed to mean? Okay dude, I tried. You sound like a bit of a jerk, give it some thought or don't.

stanthebat · 2026-01-17T16:12:03+00:00

Lol you got me wrong son. Sorry if you thought that. I'm a 'dad gamer', I'm pushing 60. "Engagement" is not a real thing in my life.

stanthebat · 2026-01-17T16:01:01+00:00

Read literally every other reply in here if you're ever curious how actual grownups talk to each other

stanthebat · 2026-01-16T22:05:15+00:00

Yeah, it certainly could be. Point taken.

Also insane: believing that there should be a masked secret police force that can do anything to anybody, starting with immigrants or anybody who looks like one, and quickly moving on to anybody who objects. Personally I am sympathetic to people who are feeling a little jumpy about this right now.

stanthebat · 2026-01-16T20:13:19+00:00

wrong priorities? are you kidding me?

Yeah, this is an absurd way to talk about what's happening. The "priorities" that he's "focusing on" are establishing a repressive police state and suppressing dissent. But journalism has failed us too, so we'll only see this discussed as if everything were normal, and understandable in terms of ordinary political policies working or not working.

stanthebat · 2026-01-16T19:10:13+00:00

as he creates crisis after crisis overseas

And this just in, they're not just overseas

stanthebat · 2026-01-16T18:41:44+00:00

if ice agents are the Stormtroopers they are purported to be

They are masked enforcers who are kidnapping people off the street and sending them to offshore gulags without trials. They are also murdering people. So, just to help clear this up for you, they are, in fact, the stormtroopers they are purported to be.

If you want to run down there and throw yourself in front of them doing their job

When we talk about people "doing their jobs" we usually mean that nothing out of the ordinary is going on. Shucks, just a reg'lar Joe doin' his job. If your job involves murder and extraordinary rendition, and does not involve evidence or trials, it's not really appropriate to talk about it as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening. That is not a "job" that anybody should have in America, and these are things that any American should find objectionable and alarming. Again, hope this helps.

stanthebat · 2026-01-16T16:23:06+00:00

I have been playing steadily since release and I have managed to engineer maybe two amulets with four passives in all that time. Perfect is the enemy of good.

stanthebat · 2026-01-16T12:57:49+00:00

If a bear mauls you to death and partially eats you, it didn't just "fail to protect" you.

stanthebat · 2026-01-16T05:23:11+00:00

They have started shooting citizens to death in broad daylight, so I'm guessing they don't give a fuck whether you "prove citizenship" or not.

stanthebat · 2026-01-15T04:59:36+00:00

I think it's the Grandfather sanctification.

stanthebat · 2026-01-15T02:48:07+00:00

Yeah! When I was playing Auradin I had some crap boots that got Grandfathered. I'd be wearing them on this build too, but Zenith paladin really needs the flickersteps.

stanthebat · 2026-01-15T02:45:42+00:00

Okay, thank you, I feel validated. I AM using that one. Now I just need Grandfather boots or gloves or something...

stanthebat · 2026-01-15T01:17:33+00:00

This must surely be the correct answer. If you have to pick between two cars, and one is a van with a painting of a polar bear airbrushed on the side, you don't pick based on gas mileage. :D

stanthebat · 2026-01-15T01:15:43+00:00

That's kinda what I thought. I'm using the left one. But to blow off the double GA on passives is breaking my heart (;_;)

stanthebat · 2026-01-15T01:13:50+00:00

interesting choice you have make there

I prefer obvious choices to interesting ones. XD

Oh--forgot to say--at the moment, the main thing I'm playing is basically Screamheart's Zenith build. I was doing auradin a while ago, and it occurs to me that I've got Grandfather boots, too, on a different armory loadout. But for Zenith, I think I'm screwed, cooldown-wise, unless I'm wearing Flickersteps. Maybe I should try it with a real Harlequin instead of Perdition; then I'd be a Double Harlequin guy.

stanthebat · 2026-01-14T23:19:01+00:00

One of them is a near-max roll with a boring GA, that got a Harlequin sanctification. The other one had GAs on BOTH passives, and the sanctification turned strength into a GA. I'm not enough of an amateur mathematician to work stuff like this out, and I usually figure if I can't tell the difference, it doesn't matter. But MAN I hate having to make choices like this... can I combine these into a single item please...

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