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Maybe a "subsidence" - it's not so much that it collapsed as that it settled to its natural level.

Martial law.

The game that Stardew Valley blatantly copied - Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.

It was made for the GBA, so has straightforward and precise controls, with none of the irritating camera or targeting complications that come with making the game 3D.

There are other later games in the Harvest Moon franchise with better graphics, but like Stardew Valley with a gamepad, they tend to have irritatingly imprecise controls. Friends of Mineral Town, with its isometric 2D, doesn't have that problem.

In keeping with the renaming of federal agencies to better reflect their roles, like the Department of Defense becoming the Department of War, I propose that the Federal Emergency Management Agency be renamed the Federal Emergency Fuck You You're On Your Own Agency.

They will.

They have no principles, no integrity and no honor. They're just craven, corrupt and conpromised tools of the oligarchs.

Future histories of the collapse of a the US will of course focus on Trump as the figurehead for those who destroyed the country from within, but probably not very far behind Trump, they're going to focus on the Roberts court and the loathsome scum who made it all possible by betraying the trust placed in them and violating the standards expected of them.

Oh look - it's the Toddler-in-chief throwing another tantrum.

One of the many things I'll never really understand about this whole Trump thing is how he manages to get so much support from the right-wing choad demographic when he's such a gross, flabby, pathetic, whiney manbaby.

Let's say I agree with you - it should've been enough.

So ? How does that make a fucking bit of difference? Everybody with a working brain knew already, after 2016 and 2020, that there was some notable chance that, like it or not, it wasn't going to be enough.

And the solution was easy - the whole thing could've been avoided just by offering up a candidate who wasn't a pro-zionist, pro-corporate, pro-billionaire slimeball. Yes - maybe the case can be made that people should vote for a pro-zionist pro-corporate pro-billionaire slimeball when the alternative is a deranged fascist, but the simple fact is that there's some number of people who, in that situation, are just going to say "fuck it" and stay home instead.

And anybody with a working brain who even briefly considered the matter had to know that that was the case.

Which means that anyone who thought that was a good strategy anyway is a fucking moron at best, and they and nobody else deserve the blame for following such a dumbass strategy.

"both sides"

lol

What is that - the Democrat apologist all-purpose strawman? You just call every point of view you desperately want to dismiss out of hand a "both sides" position?

I didn't "both sides" anything.

My point is very simple - if the Democrats want people to vote for their candidate, they have to offer a candidate people want to vote for.

It's really just that simple.

And if they can't be bothered to even do that, then that's their fault and nobody else's.

And yes - if course you believe that people who didn't vote for the somewhat less objectionsble pro-genocide, pro-corporate, pro-billionaire slimeball are awful, stupid fuck-ups - that's the official Democratic spologist line that gets trotted out just like clockwork every time the subject comes up, and the exact spin I was talking about.

But here's a bit of news for you and the DNC and the rest of their apologists - it doesn't fucking matter what you think. The simple fact is that, for whatever reason and entirely regardless of your views on the matter, some significant number of people who would otherwise have voted for the Democrat candidate if they'd been an actual leftist are going to say "fuck it" and stay home if you try to push a sleazy neo-lib hack on them instead. It doesn't matter what you think about it - that's what they're going to do.

They might well be just as ignorant and short-sighted and awful as you self-affirmingly want to believe them to be, and it still doesn't matter in the slightest, because that's how they are and that's what they're going to do and that's just the way it is.

And if you go ahead and try to pish a sleazy neo-lib hack on them anyway, then you're a fucking moron ar best.

Rather than "ties to," I think that "leash they have him on" would be a more accurate phrase.

Even with as patently cruel and destructive as they've shown themselves to be recently, it's still sort of astonishing the lengths the Republicans will go to to deny poor people healthcare.

You wish.

Which is exactly why the Democrat establishment should've done a better job of appealing to voters.