Throwing bad money after worse. These approval numbers are cooked. You’re not going to fix them with another barrage of blood libel aimed at Mamdani.

ultimately lead to everyone being called a “Nazi

There’s two kinds of people who post this.

• People who are extremely naive and don’t understand the context of what they’re saying

• Actual fascists

I kiss yours

Check your communities, and what instances they’re on. Not all are created equal. lemmy.ml tends to be pretty wacko

“Hey y’all, anyone feeling hostility on Lemmy”

“Yeah, let me tell you what, fuck those fuckers over there. They fucking suck and I hope they rot.”

Like, how do you not immediately block everyone on lemmy.ca after reading this hate?

I also find lemmy.ca quite friendly,

Sure, if you ignore the assholes who pop into other communities to take a colossal shit on them.

Hey look, actual liberals doing actual liberalism. What a delightful change of pace

It’s alive and thriving, like a colony of magots in the heart of a corpse

The rot isn’t confirmed inside a single party, sadly. Our genocide of Gaza is proof of that

I’ll say that it’s less of an issue, 9 times out of 10, because what they’re going to be good at is weathering repeated encounters.

There’s so many monsters that do poison damage - especially in the mid levels - that you’d be hard pressed to run a campaign where they just stop showing up. Are you just not going to send anyone through the Underdark because a Monk is in the party? Stop using half the demons, aberrations, and magical beasts in the MM?

But for climatic fights, it can add to the drama when the encounter is on disadvantagous terms. Sometimes the cool shit is overcoming the seeming impossible.

I mean, the Monk being immune to poison doesn’t save anyone else in the breath attack.

Part of D&D is building synergy between the classes and operating as a team. At the same time, it’s the group’s biggest vulnerability.

Mind-splort the meat shield, gum up the support, grapple the damage dealer, or backstab the controller. Suddenly, the team is scrambling as their game plan falls apart.

And green dragons have so many tricks up their sleeves! The last thing I’m worried about is the breath weapon. It’s our horny bard falling for her damned come-hither smile that keeps me up at night.

The trails that will happen, that MUST happen, have to be far more swift and harsh than the ones given to the Nazis

Lots of Nazis escaped due process through the Ratlines of the nascent post-war anti-communist movements. Lots more simply joined the Allies as NATO administrators or expendables. The early CIA threw away hundreds of repatriated Nazis trying to recapture Eastern Europe, eventually compelling the Soviets to throw up their Iron Curtain.

Meanwhile, we had Nazis and the KKK co-mingling at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. We had Nazis and Christian Fascists co-mingling in Arizona and Utah and California as part of the modern American police state. We put Nazis into East Coast mafias and organized them into Latin American drug gangs and hit squads.

I don’t think you can ever really expect the current political leadership to hold anyone to account. Too many modern American officials are second, third, and fourth generation fruit of that poisoned tree.

Ffs, Trump’s whole fortune is based on money laundering for the Italian Cartel bosses, who were the inheritors of Mussolini’s fascist party. Putin came up through the cracks in Soviet Communism that authored its downfall. Modi is a product of anti-Communist religious radicalism courted by the CIA in India.

These are all people produced in countries that allowed the Nazis to continue to flourish.

Simultaneously a conspiracy theory and a point of pride.

Langley has an enormous mural dedicated to Operation Cyclone, for instance.

Democrats used to be a fractured coalition of competing activist groups - labor, feminism, black civil rights, environmental, academic, professional. Now you have a uniform block of McKinsey consultants trying to rein in an increasingly insurgent liberal voter base.

The most just army of the world torturing a young, peaceful lady.

They called her Hamas, so now anything goes.

Remember this the next time you hear about Hamas terrorism.

They’re straight up murdering people for no reason other than to drag us into a war, and Americans are completely oblivious.

They’re not oblivious. National Media (particularly FOX’n’Friends) has been screaming about the Venezuelan Menace for years, if not decades. Whether its “Venezuelans Yearn For Freedom” interviews with dissidents or “Venezuelan warmongering threatens all of Latin America” neo-con bait or “Venezuelan Illegals Are Invading Our Borders” slop for the nativists, they’ve been pumping this bilge through every frequency.

This goes back to Trump 1 and “Obama turned us into Venezuela!” anti-health care reform / inflation hawkery reactionary populism.

We’ve just been whipping people up to the point that “Kill all the Venezuelans” is a mainstream talking point.

When they threaten you with this unAmerican “Antifa” bullshit, their goal is to silence you with fear and make you more docile.

Absolutely. And for anyone with something to lose, it tends to work. Just another edition of The Red Scare.

OpenAI is full of shit, as usual. They want engagement and they need revenue. They’ll do whatever it takes to get those things. Political ideology and sociological ramifications are an afterthought.

The truth also should shatter the administration’s already dishonest justifications

Bro. Nobody gives a shit about the justifications anymore. They’re just going to do what they want and we’re going to be forced to watch, Clockwork Orange style.

Liberals surrendered control of the country in 2017 and haven’t really looked back since. Fascists are in command, and if you protest too loudly, then you’re anti-Semitic anti-American Antifa.

Hope all y’all are ready for War On Terror 2: Carribbean Boogaloo

The US Navy is going to keep gunning these people down until someone fights back. And that’ll be the causa belli they’re looking for in order to escalate further. Troops on the ground in Caracas by end of next year, folks. Just in time to whip people up for the mid-terms.

I can’t wait to see real bipartisanship return to DC, now that we’re getting ourselves into another Oil War.

Had a friend who was outed in college for exactly this reason. A couple of the other out folks at the table kinda pulled them aside and insisted they come out clubbing with them. They were fully out of the closet by the end of the semester.

It’s the kind of work that’s handy to add to your CV if you’re looking to try and climb the management ladder. And there’s definitely redeeming virtue in having a voice in the room when its time to select your future coworker.

I’ve had the pleasure of on-boarding a few people at my office who might not have made it if I hadn’t said “This person is great, they actually know the finer points of writing a SQL script and managing a file system”. And I’ve cold-shouldered a few people who knew all the business words to say but had no practical experience in IT.

So, sucks in the moment, but getting to vet the people who are working with you over the next 3-5 years can pay dividends long term.

Sure, its all hypocrisy. But then it’s “Heads I Win / Tails You Lose” with these media hacks. Either your protest is polished and professional and looks white on camera (paid protestors!) or its organic and muddled and has too many brown people in attendance (violent mobs! ugly poor people!)

There’s never going to be an opposition movement that a dictator is going to approve of, unless it’s a fully controlled opposition.

What’s more illustrative than GOP officials complaining that the people who don’t like them aren’t legitimate is the raft of national media institutions that mindlessly regurgitate partisan propaganda.