No, I would say it is the “minimum evil” framing, as in at minimum they failed to stop it and that is already damning enough to disband the whole thing regardless of how much more evil the reality is.

which is saying a lot!

UK are you high?

What made you look at the FBI and think “yeah, we need that”!!?

Let me remind everyone because the haze of chaos has made it easy to forget, January 6th was organized IN PUBLIC ON FACEBOOK and the FBI still completely failed to stop it.

There is no failing bigger than that, and that was before children’s book author Kash Patel took over.

yes this is real, I am sorry to say…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/trump-fbi-pick-kash-patel-childrens-books

I mean holy shit pick any other entity to compare yourself too, have some damn standards!

The DNC and corporate Democrats would rather have a fascist takeover than empower actual leftwing policies, so I don’t think that eventuality really bothers them as much as the possibility of losing control over the power structures of the Democratic party does.

For the leaders of the Democratic party, if they complete the parties transition to an entirely controlled opposition party if anything that makes the jobs of dumpsterfires like Chuck Shumer and Hakeem Jeffries easier, whenever their job gets hard they can just threaten anybody left of them that they will get hurt by their Republican colleagues and their violent thugs if they keep talking like that. They don’t have to campaign on doing or accomplishing anything since the fascist regime is in relative terms so horrific people will feel forced to vote against it for “opposition party” politicians who are worse than useless but still technically better.

I think it makes perfect sense for the power structures of the DNC to act like this will be a fair election, the best outcome for them is it won’t be and it will thus make the job of leaders in the DNC far easier. Then they can just work as an advertising campaign for something that doesn’t exist and nobody will have any expectations for them to actually be able to accomplish anything material. This is the dream job description for both Chuck Shumer and Hakeem Jeffries.

We banish you from this plane of reality, AI bubble!

waves wand

Begone evil beast!

Finance people are honestly so willfully stupid and blinded by their beliefs about economics, the writing has been on the wall for awhile now for AI.

Not really though I get how the game seems like it might be like that, in fact what I like about Farm Together 1 and 2 is that they are very focused on the actual moment to moment process of a running an arcadey farm. It is almost like a realtime boardgame or simple economy simulator, which makes the core gameplay loop immediately salient to anybody. You can pick up a controller, jump in and start helping out on the farm, it is a very simple, relaxed and rewarding gameplay loop and it makes the perfect co-op game because of it. There aren’t long cutscenes and lots of stuff and context you have to explain, it is a pick up and play experience.

It isn’t a shallow game either, while the game by no means “hard” in the sense that there aren’t really fail states, figuring out how to create an economy with your farm is a really interesting challenge and the wide variety of unlocks encourage and reward strategizing. The graphics are deceptive, there is a genuine engine building game at the heart of Farm Together 2.

Will you die already Ubisoft!??!?!

I don’t wish for game developers at Ubisoft to lose their jobs, I want them to be employed somewhere that doesn’t torpedo the end product of their talent.

Farm Together 2 is AWESOME

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2418520/Farm_Together_2/

The graphics are nice but don’t make the game stand out which is a minor shame since this is by far my favorite “build a farm” type game.

Splitscreen co-op and multiplayer is a blast and the game flow is very chill but rewarding.

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This is exactly why the DNC and Democratic establishment was so incredibly hostile to Mamdani, figures like Newsom can only win in an extremely cynical environment where people openly accept corrupted, empty figureheads because there are no better options.

Newsom can only win if the DNC’s corporate centrist thesis that progressive politics and socialist policies are just too scary for the US public to understand and this is an unchangable fact of nature remains unchallenged and becomes reified as common knowledge.

All it takes is one example to disprove a rule, and Mamadani just did exactly that. This is an extinction level event for corporate centrist Democrats and Gavin is just too dumbly deferential to the status quo of the past to realize he is already a dinosaur and has been left behind in the dust by a new era.

Look I want kids to grow up and be able to pursue any passion they want, but we have to ask serious real world questions here about Austerity and I am starting to think we should entirely cut MBA programs and in general business education.

I know that sounds extreme, but we have to focus on training kids on skills that will actually be productive, useful and lead to new breakthroughs. We clearly need to fund the hard stuff like art, music and theater or we are going to collapse as a society and continue to fall behind more competitive nations because we got distracted by fluff and empty ideologies masquerading as knowledge, MBAs being exhibit A.

Nah, no way in hell that cardboard cutout of a human will win.

His job is to distract centrists with a candidate both the rightwing and leftwing hate and can tell is full of shit in order to doom Democrats to losing the next election by positioning a centrist, morally bankrupt politician to split the party and in the end only represent the interests of the rich.

It would honestly be hilarious seeing center “left” liberals getting openly played like this if the consequences weren’t so legitimately scary.

This would make Trump panic in the best way, it would directly undermine his aesthetic of Rich Asshole Who Other Rich Assholes Like.

Go Away Gavin - is my new slogan

Buy it now! You will not regret it I promise. As I said in my other comment, the included albums are absolutely fantastic too!

HELL YES Brigador is so freakin good.

I once described Brigador as the side project to a darkwave/synthwave cyberpunk concept album that does perfect justice to the album in every moment, every interaction and every gameplay beat and if anything with time I have only come to agree with that conclusion more. Don’t get me wrong, this is a fully fleshed out highly replayable game, it is just the vision of this game is so inspired that the whole thing levitates, even when you are browsing menus looking up information about various tanks and hovercrafts, it still oozes style in a way that is extremely impressive.

Brigador’s soundtrack is by Makeup And Vanity Set, it is absolute fire and so is Brigador.

https://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/album/brigador-vol-i

https://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/album/brigador-vol-ii

warning - please do not listen to these albums while piloting a mech, otherwise you may wake up in a haze of explosions to realize you overthrew the world government to allow an offworld corporation to enter the domestic market and now you are racing to a rocket to get off the planet before the local militia subdues your walking battlehulk of destruction.

They listen if you listen

In a fantasy world version of the US conservatives do that, in the real world US the minute you start doing that you have abandoned what it means to be a conservative.

What ICE is doing is way worse than what happens on the internet…? Most of the stuff on the internet is words, ICE is actually kidnapping, killing and deporting people.

You can put a clause in the license saying the software cannot be used for the dissemination of hate speech. The open source community has discussed this and decided it goes against the principles of free software and open source.

Says who? How can you authoritatively say the open source community has decided something collectively on this subject? That categorically doesn’t make sense on multiple different dimensions.