Grizwald

So, Hades II. I would have been happy with another entry as good as the first game. I was not prepared for "spiritually the same, bigger and better in every other way."

It's only a mech if you pilot it, final ruling. If you wear it, it's armor and is practical.

I completely agree with this, it's just a bit of an eye-roller coming from people who absolutely intend to criminally harass these guys if they ever find out who they are.

The fact that this reaction is 95% of my timeline heartens me greatly.

*rubs temples* we really gotta have an internet-wide HR training that "death threat" is, for very good reasons, a more expansive category than posting "I personally will imminently inflict lethal harm upon you"

no no no you don't understand. it wasn't a death threat. it was a *deniable* death threat. deniable!! why are you banning me!

Okay, but what do you intend to do once you find out their names, bluesky? This kind of discourse is very much spiritually related to the "it was just a small death threat" discourse currently running in parallel on here.

Blessed with the distance of not knowing or caring about anyone involved: the internet is full of people casually making death threats because they think a fig leaf of deniability makes it permissible.

Death threats are evil and it's good to see one treated seriously, with a permaban.

It's not just that he's a decent dude with reasonable political beliefs, he's also articulate, knowledgeable, quick on his feet, and he has the courage to talk to people who disagree with him.

I wish him well and mostly just hope Dem elders don't back another insider with no campaigning chops.

I can't judge whether he's competitive in a general election, but he's remarkably competitive in (very) early primary polling, and IMHO he's one of those candidates where - if he's not ever nationally competitive - it's kind of an indictment of the American soul.

The in-group here would be so, so much happier migrating to a subreddit over which they have mod control.

To which all I can say is, grow or die. Bluesky is a money-losing proposition right now because unlike reddit, this place isn't one of a million forums, it's the entire product, and it's not appealing to a critical mass of social media users.

The most they can do is use block lists to isolate *themselves* from the changing Bluesky culture at large, and rage at people on here who most intensely personify what they hate, and that's exactly what's happening.

As I've said before, Bluesky is basically a subreddit, with the critical difference that the in-group doesn't have the banhammer that they'd normally be using right now to protect the culture they've built.

I think Twitter was big enough, fast enough that the idea of an in-group locking down its culture was faintly ridiculous.

Bluesky was small enough, for long enough, and deliberately built along a sufficiently narrow ideological affinity that an in-group actually did lock it down.

Its not lost on me that the conservative bugaboo for years was federal troops marching in their states and cities and its the first thing Trump reached for once in power

Because if "Trump screaming that there's a problem" is sufficient to earn deference upfront, and "we aren't going to micromanage deployments" shores up the back-end, then there's effectively zero judicial oversight.

Courts are going to be hesitant to second-guess tactical decisions, but, you know, "we gave you some rope when you said there was a crisis on the basis of thin evidence, but since you've been there all you've done is fuck around in high-profile locations looking intimidating. Go home," makes sense.

What interests me is whether at some point evidence of what the troops are actually doing on these deployments feeds back in to the judicial analysis.

That level of insight from somebody who is so generally wrong about the world is fascinating.

It's sophomoric capeshit thinking that four guys, no matter how good they are, will typically be the best tool for a given job when the easily alternative is "okay, me and 399 other guys, several of whom will be driving Bradleys, are going to..."

The other thing about spec ops is, these units are *tiny*. They have a habit of getting into trouble because the plan is always some variant on "okay, me and three other guys are going to parachute..."

Pedantic note: "special forces" refers specifically to the Green Berets, a Tier 2 unit that the Army uses to train indigenous militaries. "Spec ops" refers to the Tier 1 doorkickers (Delta, SEALs, etc.) who do Bin Laden raid/Black Hawk Down stuff.

"Why don't I just let my SUV idle in the garage while I'm at it, woman."

And anybody who's been on this site for more than a week knows that it's very selectively applied.

That's my point, you fucking twit. She rose to fame when she very much wasn't an adult because her parents let her become a tool.

The way people like you would use that tool was to point to a child and say "even she gets it".

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She's been a tool for others for as long as she has because she enables precisely this kind of eye-roller of a statement - one that you would immediately recognize as wrong if she'd been a conservative mouthpiece as a child.

Wennely's cover of Water crushes Tyla's version, and 3Quency's take on Have Mercy crushes Chloe's, to give the two clearest examples.