I came here to say this exact same thing. Videogames are an art form, and the history of that art should be preserved, both the successes and the failures. People should be able to look back on what was a hit and what was flop, on the ideas that worked and the ones that didn’t, on the well made games and the badly made games. All of it matters, all of it is part of the same story.
They absolutely can. Paradoxically, Republicans actually want everyone to think of gerrymandering as vote rigging, even though they claim its not. That’s because they want Dem voters to feel depressed and stay home. I reality (explanation here for the people that don’t know), while gerrymandering is vote rigging, it’s not ballot stuffing or some other form of blatant cheating like that. Rather, it relies on spreading your voters as thinly as possible to win as many seats as possible, because in first past the past winning a seat by 5% is as good as winning by 25%. But this leaves you vulnerable; if the numbers swing hard against you - say, because you have a staggeringly unpopular president - you can end up losing a lot of seats as all those thin margins shatter at once. This tactic could really blow up in their faces, and people need to know that so they know to get out and vote. Turnout will be critical.
Because of course they’re fucking TERFs.
Rack another one up in the Right Wing Christian Child Molesters column.
Weird, the Queer Trans Child Molesters column is a lot smaller. I wonder why that could be?
I have to support a remote client that uses Starlink. It’s a nightmare. We can deal with slow connections, we can deal with bad ping, but with Starlink what we get is the entire connection dropping every minute or so, and coming back up a short while later. It’s unbelievably bad.
Pardoning Maxwell would be an insanely bad idea. The MAGA world love two things more than anything else; conspiracy theories, and imagining themselves in an endless war against a cabal of powerful pedophiles.
Maxwell directly aided and abetted one of those powerful pedophiles. To MAGA, there is no possible justification for pardoning her. It would be tantamount to a full admission from Trump, and it would send their conspiracy addled minds into overdrive. At best (for him), they’d wonder what kind of leverage she has over Trump in order to buy herself a pardon. If not evidence of pedophilia, then surely something else, right?
Is Maxwell angling for a pardon? Almost certainly. But giving her one would be a suicidal move for the administration right now.
It’s very strange to see people repeatedly make this assertion that, having yelled “Fire” one single time with no response, the moral and practical choice is now to sit down and quietly burn to death with everyone else.
This is, in fact, exactly the reaction fascists want. One of the most effective strategies of fascism is exhaustion. They want people to give up and choose silence over repeating the assertion that “This is wrong” for the hundredth time, and thus “Wrong” becomes “the new normal.” We must never let them redefine what is acceptable. The first time or the thousandth time, we need people to continue to shout that this not acceptable.
Doesn’t this guy regularly stream from a laptop in a desperate attempt to seem cool?
So are you contending that gay people should be openly supportive of Isreal, a country actively engaged in a genocide?
You see the problem here, right? These aren’t black and white, one side good, one side bad situations.
Iran is a terrible country. My partner and I would both be stoned to death there. But there are also queer people living in Iran, in spite of their intolerant regime, many of whom would likely suffer greatly if Isreal manages to force Iran into a war.
Reality is more complicated than just assigning “good guys” and “bad guys”. That shit is for Star Wars.
In this specific situation, there is no justification for what Isreal has done. Their attacks on Iran have been unprovoked, and in clear violation of international law. These must recent attacks, by Israel’s own admission, include non-military targets which makes them war crimes. Iran on the other hand has responded carefully and proportionally. Does it feel weird to be giving props to such a horrific regime for their behaviour? Absolutely. But it’s impossible not to recognize that in this specific situation they are being the adult in the room.
Isreal is actively trying to provoke a war with Iran precisely because they believe it will turn international opinion in their favour, distract from the holocaust they are enacting in Gaza and shore up domestic support for their government. I’m not a fan of anyone involved in this situation, but I sure as hell am not going to express support for the country trying to start a war to distract from their genocide.
You’re absolutely correct, and it’s important to point this out because people need to understand that Trump is not behaving in ways that are unusual for Republicans. He’s just an extreme manifestation of the mindset they all share.
What a lot of people forget is that for the vast majority of people, this is a progression. The reason petitions work is because they get awareness out there, which leads to more people showing up to the protest. The reason protests work is because that’s where you sign people up to the orgs. And the reason all of these things work is because the people on the other end understand that if there are enough people petitioning or protesting, some percentage of those people will, if pushed hard enough, resort to more direct action. A petition isn’t a plea, it’s a threat. A protest isn’t a complaint, its a show of strength. If people show up, those people can then be called upon for the next step, and the next. And when things go right, the steps further down the chain aren’t needed, because the threat is enough.