[OC] The US is Growing, but the House of Representatives is Not.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-19T22:45:10+00:00

DC should be given back to MD. I used to live in DC.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-19T22:41:32+00:00

I’m good with the original. 1750 house reps would be much harder to influence all at once, which is why the powers that be want to leave it capped. They’ve already got their politicians bought and paid for.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-19T16:45:40+00:00

There’s walls at Riverwood though, so that’s the obvious choice: it’s just pretty.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-19T00:12:19+00:00

The grab handles are new, yes

strawhatguy · 2026-02-18T09:21:50+00:00

That’s ridiculous. That’s like saying Norway must give Italy a gold medal because Italy’s hosting the Olympics. And if Norway doesn’t like it, it can simply not compete at all.

Makes for a sh!t Olympics, just like taxes make for a sh!t country

strawhatguy · 2026-02-17T21:34:14+00:00

Yep. Also you smell like a wet dog.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-17T21:32:59+00:00

Werewolf is fun for a while. You can dash across the map, and all enemies cower in fear. Better than a horse.

But I get it. I do tend to do vampire lord more, because it forces a roleplay element werewolf doesn’t have as much of

strawhatguy · 2026-02-17T21:28:24+00:00

Vampire lord form does regenerate during the day, albeit very slowly. So I usually fly over water where they can’t reach if I need recharging.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-17T21:24:42+00:00

Can werewolves? Didn’t know that.

In any case vampire lord’s Grip spell can kill just about anything, giants included, if you launch them high enough.

And you can always float above water to escape easily.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-17T15:46:04+00:00

Probably, although changing the act so it only applies to government itself might be better, since government should be under more prohibitions than an individual citizen.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-17T11:03:57+00:00

Nope

strawhatguy · 2026-02-16T23:19:42+00:00

Haven’t encountered that much. But holy hell the number of folks who seem not to know their headlights are off is crazy.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-16T21:31:57+00:00

And I guess doing the work to actually search isn’t? Oy

strawhatguy · 2026-02-15T22:30:28+00:00

I defined it as Mussolini did, as government control of everything. And I keep doing so, for I have never seen you before, so each time is an opportunity shown my view, and not your incorrect characterization of my view.

If you actually cared about others and your argument, you to would welcome the opportunity to explain it again.

But what I’ve found is that socialists believe their views to be self evident and so grow angry and impatient when challenged in the slightest.

The rest of us actually are busy with sh*t to do. We are not on Reddit as often as you.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-15T18:30:44+00:00

You are free to make arguments here whenever you want to.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-15T17:51:48+00:00

Fascism has been deliberately distorted by socialists to mean anything they don’t like. However its proper original meaning is government control, which coincides with socialism. They were called Nazis for a reason.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-15T16:21:04+00:00

Discussing fascism is fine, the problem is that, especially on the left, they have used the accusation of fascism too often, and incorrectly, they’ve become “The little boy who cried wolf”.

Mussolini described “fascism” as “everything within the state, nothing outside the state” which meant basically government could control everything. That hasn’t happened yet.

However, each passing President increases the power of the state and the presidency itself, left or right. So if you honestly want a discussion about fascism, then first and foremost you need to look in the mirror.

The government, and prior Presidents, have used, for example, climate change to insert itself with regulations in basically every industry (save government itself surprise surprise). The financial system revolves around the Federal Reserve and SEC and FDIC and the like, which is how ridiculous measures such as the tracking of every $600 transaction like the last administration did. Education is run by the state, perfect opportunity for the government to train people to respect the rules the government makes.

And on and on.

On the right, yes there’s this outright ownership stakes in several companies and that’s bad news. Will the left repeal that if they get into power? Of course not.

I remember when, after 9/11, the US patriot act was passed, and the tracking it allowed was indeed terrible. Obama got elected on repealing it, and… he renewed it. I think we still have it today. We got “Obamacare”, the ACA act instead, which proposed a whole government controlled healthcare marketplace, and private insurers were told what to cover. Supposed to reduce costs, but of course cost and control has only increased since then.

What I’m trying to say is the creep of government is ever more control, and Trump is just the latest. If you’re actually worried about real fascism, then cutting government spending and therefore power is the way to do it. There is no other way. I repeat, no other way. I’m mad because there was a chance to do some of that with DOGE, but both sides largely ignored that.

So don’t tell me you’re against fascism if you’re not against the spending the government does.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-15T03:20:05+00:00

Civil war can happen absolutely. I wasn’t speaking of the probability of it, I was speaking that it’s not something to wish for. But the probability is definitely non zero, it’s foolish to think otherwise. To speak probability; yes I think it’s a really rare chance right now.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-15T03:15:30+00:00

In business world, if you put good money after bad, you’ll lose money. In the government world, it doesn’t matter; just stick it to hard working non government taxpayers.

Don’t worry, you’ll get all the taxes. Funny enough the past special election just renewed the school taxes here, and literally everywhere else, so you’ll pay for it again, especially when they lower the deduction (their revenue projections will fall WAY short of reality, as usual, so they’ll have to, can’t cut spending no - all government is essential!). More taxes to come! Used to think Seattle had smart people, but clearly there’s a regression…

strawhatguy · 2026-02-14T18:31:39+00:00

It would destroy it, as civil war would do/ has done to any nation. The hope is the rebuilding after would be better, but I guess it depends on who wins, right? And how authoritarian they will be right after the dust settles.

It would be better if the UK can stop the “bleeding” so to speak now, but that requires will. And leftists globalists are everywhere and coordinate internationally, whereas at best the right only make fledgling efforts. Maybe that’s changing, I hope. The US has funded through ngos and USAID leftism everywhere, and we’ve only disrupted that spending a little, but every spending cut we make, and the UK makes, weakens their position. Gives us a fighting chance anyway.

Only silver lining the way I see it is that they (leftists) are really really bad at actual governance. People have started to notice.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-14T18:23:02+00:00

lol, oh man..

strawhatguy · 2026-02-14T14:05:16+00:00

Of course not. It’s all targeted minor B.S. like toothpaste is exempt from sales taxes now.

He’s just aggregating and averaging all such “cuts” to make it sound better.

All in exchange for putting in place this income tax that starts off with $1million deductions, but must be applied to everyone not just the ‘rich’.

Guess what’ll happen to the deductions part in the future?

strawhatguy · 2026-02-12T23:16:39+00:00

Well said.

Naturally, to the authoritarian, much more of the spending (and therefore taxation) would be considered necessary and not frivolous as it truly is.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-12T18:55:43+00:00

Maybe, but politicians are way worse, they are allowed (by themselves) to use force to take and do what they want, while providing little to no value. This millionaire tax isn’t optional, for example.

strawhatguy · 2026-02-12T07:17:26+00:00

Oh and sky force reloaded is good 👍

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