Authoritarians gonna authoritarian regardless of economic model.

So the earliest we have of this kind of saying is from Don Quixote where it is about deflecting hypocritical criticism from the 1600s. The shiny kettle/black pot version is more recent one gaining prominence in the late 1800s.

Trump vs Musk damages is a distinction without a difference. It’s like asking if either Hitler vs Himmler were more responsible for the Holocaust. At the end of the day they were the ones in power, they made the decisions, either had the power to stop, and they didn’t.

It can be all 3 simultaneously. It virtue signals to the phobes, it hurts foreigners and keeps Americans from being exposed to other cultures.

Sure, let’s say they are controlled opposition. What do we do after we burn down the democratic party? What then? Because I do not like the prospect of what comes after a single party takes complete control.

There is a lot of talk about burning and destroying but nothing about what comes after and it’s the “What comes after” that has me most worried.

My point is that we need to have an organized political structure to get progressive people elected who will actually promote progressive policies. Saying “Burn Down the Dems” with literally no plan to put up opposition to Republicans is beyond short sighted strategically.

I appreciate the fervor, democratic leadership is a bunch of spinless cowards, but trying to tear down democrats without a competent actually progressive replacement political organization is handing power directly to Republicans to rule completely unopposed.

Given the reality of political parties in the US, I’d rather spinless corpses filling up space to slow Republicans down rather than letting Republicans take total control in the absence of any marginal opposition.

Unless you’re planning on running for office as a competently progressive candidate.

2 expansions, 6 Frontier Pass Packs, 6 leader packs, scenario DLCs, leader DLCs. There’s a lot more than just Gathering Storm and Rise & Fall.

Domination victory is literally one of the victoru conditions of Civ 6. You’re allowed to go full steamroll and go to war with everyone. Some of the civs are focused on going to war and expanding quickly through warfare like the Aztecs. Just don’t be surprised when you keep attacking other civs and the other players use the other diplomatic strategies to their advantage.

I’m Civ it’s also important to know how the other players perceive you and how to manipulate that perception to your advantage. Manufacture Casus Belli, poke and prod until others make the first attack and you “defend” yourself by taking their cities. You’ll be less of a warmonger.

Opsec is more about the processes of confirming that you know exactly where important information is and knowing there are as few potential leaks and risks to that information getting into unintended hands. Saying you’ve got clean opsec is about confirming that you’ve gone through the proper steps to keep communications secret.

Personally I’ve called for opsec before with different friend groups when different crises have arisen and I need a group of people to help another out who’s in a bad mental state without tipping them off to things that might become dangerous.

They’re morons who don’t have a clue what they’re doing. They likely weren’t thinking.

OPSEC is Operational Security, basically they’re saying that their communication channels are secure. Plot twist, they’re not because they don’t actually know who is on their signal chat.

I’m all for accountability and yes there should have been repercussions for Hilary Clinton for using a private email server but in 2016 Republicans used the emails as a cudgel to keep scoring points and drag out investigation after investigation and hearing after hearing to keep the buttery males in the news cycle and keep constant attention on smearing her and making her seem like the incompetent evil mastermind behind benghazi and the pizza parlor and the adrenochrome.

We go high. They go low. And when they go low, they win elections.

Cool we both agree it’s bad, now can we agree that the dems plans of “ok i guess we’ll slightly slow down the shipment of weapons to Israel but still honor the preexisting treaties we made with them” is not the same as “we’re going to send even more weapons and turn the Gaza Strip into a gilded Trumpland.”

As for why people come out when people people criticize dems who else can even remotely get elected into the presidency? Jill “rubs shoulders with Putin at a fancy dinner” Stein of the deeply unserious “we’re only going to run one candidate for presidency and nowhere else, it’s not like Congress has to pass legislation and the House controls the budget” Green Party? Lmao that’s a good joke.

Whatever “imma deregulated everything and abolish age of consent” joke of a candidate of the libertarians? Lmao the solution to our problems with capitalism is even more capitalism!

The nonexistent leftist party and their imaginary radical leftist candidate who idolized Stalin a bit too much? The jokes keep coming.

Bro trumps team literally made a shitty AI generated “we’re going to raze Gaza and build a gold plated hotel here” commercial. If that’s not “mental gymnastics to paint genocide as a good thing” idk what to say to you.

And it’s not even a good search engine either. It just spits out sarcastic jokes from barely up voted reddit posts.

Distinction without a difference.

Make due with the tools you have at hand.

In other words you don’t have any substantive evidence that democrats have never done anything remotely progressive.

Tragic: You agree with the worst person you know.