How Beautiful the Stars Are

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Hell, about once a day on this site we get "burn the South to the waterline" takes that either ignore that there's a lot of libs in the South, view them as acceptable casualties, or view them as tainted by proximity.

It is extremely funny to see posts like this, because in my personal experience the valences of this are more likely to be reversed, with the addition that blue state libs don't believe it's possible to be a former conservative.

If someone’s response to the statement that “90% of the country is sunny today” with “it’s raining where I am so your chart is worthless” they are in fact stupid. Hope this helps.

If I understand the Bloomberg story correctly -- and if they have it right -- Ferritor and DOGE killed USAID contracts on their own after State Dept leadership and the White House had ruled in favor of keeping those specific programs. I have no problem sending them to jail

I'm pretty sure that in the last poll I saw, live-firing on immigration boats had bipartisan support.

A British Reform government would have a nonzero chance of just straight-up refusing to acknowledge a Democratic President and have a psychic try to contact Trump's ghost. They're fucking feral.

"No, no, it's not *fair*, *we're* supposed to shit all over you and say that your leftmost politician is to the right of our rightmost and you're supposed to *believe* that!"

Look, folks, Haru Urara's owners ran her for 113 races and never won even once. A quarter through her career she'd lost more races than the average racehorse ever runs and they kept going. What's your damn excuse for giving up?

Ranger Brimley, the talking bush hat, is the *only* character who smells primarily of tobacco.

Probably won't live as long as them, but I'll enjoy it more.

You see, when *I* start feeling doubts and despair about the future creeping in, I get drunk and stare at the ceiling while I listen to ambient drone until my brain turns off, but that's just me.

>Making Schneider recruitable in the beta to hide the fact she gets killed in Chapter 2
Absolutely diabolical.

Love 2 see two people actively egg each other on into a doom spiral in real time, really makes me think I should listen to either of them on a single god damn thing.

Also- lots of confident projection of the 2028 Democratic campaign platform here in August of 2025.

People are very confident this is just The Floor and he'll bounce back by magic when things get worse, and they could be right but I wouldn't be betting the farm on that.

"Trump is God" is cope, and "MAGA policies are going to be so unbreakably durable that the Democrats will adopt them wholesale despite all of them being somewhere around the mesopelagic zone on a *good* day" is "Trump is God" *sotto voce*.

Jimmy fucking Carter led directly to Reagan with his ZBB bullshit and he did a third of what Trump is doing. He lost the Mandate of Heaven so hard a rabbit went out if its way to attack him in a *swamp*.

You don't need "eschatological political events" to have party realignment. Sometimes you just need a President to shoot himself and the whole country in the dick by, say, pursuing austerity policies that cause a cost-of-living crisis while also having hugely unpopular social policy.

After his gang pulled up on Santos's spot and fucked them up he *absolutely* went to his safehouse and smoked an aged Cuban while drinking brandy and staring out over the Billings Reservoir and processing all that shit.

(You just *know* Duncan smokes some absolutely ratty hand-rolleds on the regular, but saves up enough of his pension so he can have a *quality* cigar for special occasions.)

Mr. Duncan, allegedly, smells of leather, pink peppers, vetiver, sage, and benzoin, and I can believe that's his *cologne*, but the *man* primarily smells of sweat, motor oil, red wine, and tobacco smoke and you can't tell me otherwise.

Voyager smells of violet, lavender, and lily-of-the-valley, with "amber" (formerly Oriental) accents.
Kiperina, meanwhile, has a woody, aromatic aroma, with red apple, hearth smoke, sandalwood, and honey being the dominant notes.

Crazy piece of Reverse lore- every Suitcase character has a distinct perfume scent listed for them. Yes, even Pickles (he smells of birch, cedar, and patchouli).

In many cases it is cheaper to buy a finished product from another country than an American product made using imported raw material because the raw material is taxed at an exponentially higher rate than the finished product.

Like, *even if* you are a Protectionist these are very bad, no-good tariffs because several of them literally damage domestic industries to the benefit of foreign ones, which is literally the opposite of how tariff rafts are supposed to work.

I mean, I do, but it involves SCOTUS striking down the global tariffs (something I still think is quite possible because FedSoc doesn't want to blow up the US's global economic standing for literally no benefit).

Do, if you played at 1.0 the translation has gotten meteorically better.

Yeah, the attitude is very much "Oh, yeah, 37 is hyperfixated on math and Balloon Party has pretty obvious brain damage and Regulus can't focus on anything besides music for more than three minutes, but that's just who they are."

Then fucking smash the mask.
"Oh, but what if, maybe, how about, I might be wrong" stop being the stereotype of a liberal being a person who can't take their own side in an argument.