I’m not knowledge about the strategies behind politics, so I’m not sure what would be lost (besides good will from mainstay Democrats for daring to give voters more choices in a primary) by having Ossé run. I can’t tell if Mamdani explains that in the full address that the article picked quotes from. The article doesn’t even pretend to have the idea that more context might be wanted.

It feels like this article was formulated to make it seem like Mamdani is singularly and proactively trying squash other upstarts in the Democratic Party. But the article goes on to say that AOC also spoke out against the primary (still unsure why).

I know some of it is the SEO of Mamdani trending but you can’t do media and pretend to be ignorant of optics. Especially when you churn out such an insufficient piece of writing.

Not a fan of the headline or the article.

Yeah, every country that is a world power now is looking down from a mountain of ravaged bodies.

America is only the latest, and doing so in an era where the victims can livestream back the atrocities committed in the name of the country’s “empire”.

Throughout history? Whose?

The USA’s international opinion has been on the downtrend for like 20 years, with its precipitous drop like 10 years ago.

It’s not the '90s anymore; the only people pushing American exceptionalism are ignoramuses and jingoists who will do that regardless of any facts, not normal citizens.

You also didn’t hear about it because it’s not great. I watched a stream of it: the gameplay looks uninspired, like a student project to mimic Burnout, and the visuals would have looked dated in 2010.

But it was functional. So it’s neither good nor bad enough to rave about. You just say “huh”, flip a coin, and either uninstall forever or play every 7 months when you remember it’s on your hard drive.

You got sources for that?

These are house sales, not rentals.

“Tiktok” is when people use media old people can’t be arsed to learn about.

This is all media, new and old, that they aren’t already using.

The only way to salvage it is to have the next comic criticize the name “vibe spelling” only to find out the AI-vian also suggested the name.

I think I understand this position, such that you don’t want people focusing on removing the oligarchs without also dismantling the machine that makes them.

But the machine doesn’t have to crush orphans. It gives you a pat on the head and hands you a cookie each time you do crush an orphan but it has other settings. They aren’t getting punished for not exploiting the system, they just don’t get as much of a reward as they could. No one gets to say “I had no choice but to crush that 99th orphan, so I could get that 99th cookie.” You could’ve stopped at 90, or 50, or 1.

They are exploiting a broken machine, to the detriment of others, for their own benefit. That is nothing but greed.

Don’t worry I don’t expect Democrats to do anything even vaguely resembling vertebrate work. Just keep inching along, you worms, and get replaced by a functional, good government.

I’m just so tired…

There is a functional product. I played it years ago.

But it ain’t finished yet, which is the insane bit given the breadth of funds and length of time.

Obviously you hide the gross fungi under a nice silvery façade. You don’t compromise aesthetics in space or all the other stellar societies will laugh at us, and uninvite us from the quasar parties.

Unless the kid was planning on a single spoot per partner, he would need more than 3 condoms. Pharmacist should have warned him smh, lost business opportunity.

Fuck you, Bibi.

Who’s pushing facts? People are expressing doubt at the narrative pushed by an openly mendacious administration.

And what’s the percentage of non-white shooters captured alive? US law enforcement doesn’t expend much effort in bringing non-white suspects in warm. In fact, they seem to prefer it cold.

It’s not “hard to believe” per se, it’s just uncharacteristic for how law enforcement in this country tends to work. There are a lot of shootings here for data points, so it’d be interesting to see alive arrest rates for active shooters across all metrics/demographics.

You are in essence gatekeeping enjoying a video game as a concept. Like people must enjoy them the way you envision.

What an incredibly inaccurate statement. I love modding video games, I spend more time modding video games than I spend playing video games. I understand that the vision developers have doesn’t often align with what I want from their product.

I don’t agree that developers should be spending dev cycles making a game functional for a user that turns off any configuration of gameplay mechanics.

Saying you can just set a variable from “true to false” is so laughably misunderstanding what goes into software development much less game development that it sounds entitled. What gameplay mechanics are you even saying should be configurable? All of them? Just turn off the combat in a fighting game? At what point is a gameplay mechanic integral to the genre/experience? And who is the person or persons that decide?

Developers should be free to create what they want, and the end user is free to mod it however they want. That includes, for the devs, not purposefully obfuscating things so that modding is more diffcult.

I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of “electronic commodity” and outright despises a development group’s artistry.

Sure, not every game is trying to be art. But games have long gone beyond the realm of simply “entertain me”. That opinion is like saying “books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want.” It is something you can do but there’s no imperative to cater to it.

Presumably, the state stops kicking up the federal government’s share. And hopefully stops collecting it from state residents during tax season, instead of just pocketing it.

Edit: it’s probably obvious but this comment is made without any knowledge about how taxes are collected and funneled through government.