Absolutely 100% right.

The media was reporting that he thought ICE was being gestapo-like, and he didn’t say that at all.

The way it was reported was legitimate journalistic negligence; this guy is a full-on reactionary.

“You see, we have to torture people because we’re really bad at our jobs.”

Fuckin’ prison guards.

ICE aren’t police. Didn’t I already tell you that?

They’re fascist pricks on an ego trip who break the law every day. Fuck ICE. The fact that you got triggered like that tells me all I need to know about you.

ICE isn’t police though. They’re a fascist paramilitary.

Fuck ICE and anyone who defends their fascist bullshit.

Guitar, bass, ukulele, and renaissance lute. They’re all fairly similarly tuned, so there’s some skill transfer among them. Guitar is my strongest instrument, I’ve been playing that for about 30 years.

I play a bit of hand percussion, too.

I also play soprano and tenor recorder, they’re good to know for early music and tuned the same except an octave apart. I’m decent enough at them, and they’re especially fun when played in a consort. I picked them up about 4 years ago now.

They’re not police officers.

You’d be surprised how many people I’ve talked to who think that if someone was picked up by the cops they were doing something to deserve it.

It’s staggering how many people blame the victim for the police being incompetent.

He looks like a GI-Joe that got half melted in a fondue pot.

Everyone who likes couch co-op should play this one. It’s fantastic.

That does sound interesting, kind of like you build your own class. I’ll check it out, thanks!

Oh yeah! I got that as another pack-in game, probably for a voodoo card if I’m not mistaken.

I really should check it out again, I remember it being good. Thanks for the rec.

The pitcher does matter, this one is harder to read than it needs to be.

Republicans have learned to disguise their intentions so well, in other words, that the disguise has seeped into and transformed the intention. Even without directly engaging the progressive argument, conservatives may absorb, by some elusive osmosis, the deeper categories and idioms of the left, even when those idioms run directly counter to their official stance.

After years of opposing the women’s movement, for example, Phyllis Schlafly seemed genuinely incapable of conjuring the prefeminist view of women as deferential wives and mothers. Instead, she celebrated the activist “power of the positive woman.” And then, as if borrowing a page from The Feminine Mystique, she railed against the meaninglessness and lack of fulfillment among American women; the difference was that she blamed these ills on feminism rather than on sexism. When she spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), she didn’t claim that it introduced a radical new language of rights. Her argument was the opposite. The ERA, she told the Washington Star, “is a takeaway of women’s rights.” It will “take away the right of the wife in an ongoing marriage, the wife in the home.” Schlafly was obviously using the language of rights in a way that was opposed to the aims of the feminist movement; she was using rights talk to put women back into the home, to keep them as wives and mothers. But that is the point: conservatism adapts and adopts, often unconsciously, the language of democratic reform to the cause of hierarchy.

-Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind

This is one of the discs I’ve held onto over the years. I’m considering getting an optical drive just so I can play it and a few others I’ve got.

It wasn’t a great game iirc, but mostly because it was so far ahead of its time. I really do want to give it another go, and not just for nostalgia.

There’s no shortage of dipshits in the world who see machismo posturing and threats as a projection of power.

They think they’re safe from the reactionary tide because they fly the same colors, but the thing about fascists is that they always eat their own.

Granted this one got bit sooner than most, but I guarantee he’s not going to stop being a reactionary chud.

I have it on Steam, and I think I tried without luck. Is he very interested if you’re able to get it working though.

I got that as a pack-in game for something, probably a CD-ROM drive, and was impressed. I bet it has aged very well, good rec.

I should try it on my Steam Deck, I wonder if it’s any different with Proton?