Votes come into 2 groups:

1. Partisans, who follow politics to a degree, informed, and already know who they are going to vote.

2. The Masses, they don’t follow politics. They may watch the debate and probably going to decide who to vote on either one issue or on “vibes”.

As we all know, bio-warfare is completely not evil.

I’m calling the DNC technique of wrapping Reaganomics in a friendly identity politics outer shell “woke-washing” because of how similar it is to “green-washing”.

Some More News did a segment on how Regan forced the Democrat Party to go further right in order to achieve power. Same thing happened in the UK after Thatcher. The Labour Party swung right to get votes.

I don’t have the data however I would imagine, that after the the conservative 80s, a lot left wing parties moved to the right to capture votes.

Also Regan elevated Jerry Falwall and the Christian Religious Right.

Coverage naturally gravitated toward Lynchburg, Virginia, preacher Jerry Falwell, who had supported Anita Bryant’s 1977 anti-gay-rights crusade, and Virginia Beach television mogul Pat Robertson, who was involved with the Washington for Jesus rally of April 1980 (scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of the first landing at Jamestown).

Falwell, head of the Moral Majority (another nod to Nixon), was more eager to enter the political arena. He thus became the first anointed spokesperson of what was then commonly called the “Religious New Right.”

During the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan and the evangelical conservatives engaged in a very public courting ritual. Evangelicals had entertained possible GOP alternatives to Carter since at least 1979. Options abounded— ranging from right-wing purist Philip Crane of Illinois to early front-runner John Connally of Texas—but Reagan, long a darling of conservatives in general, was an especially compelling choice. By the time Moral Majority executive director Robert Billings signed on as a Reagan campaign adviser, the deal was pretty much sealed.

Truly Regan was a piece of shit.

This sounds awesome! The Black and White series is one of the most requested games on GoG.

Hopefully, the devs can work out some the wonkiness in the orginal.

It’s more like we didn’t like pay2win on online games, so they started making it “just cosmetic” in those, and somehow now people think it’s acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?

Warhammer: Total War really annoyed me on it’s DLC. Some the DLC factions were already in the base game. I would be paying to unlock factions that were part of the dev cycle.

I could at least understand it, if the factions were released after the base game.

What is the different between Tories and demons? What about Thatcher looking like the Spiderdemon?

Who uses a poop knife? You’ll be surprised.

For an interest free loan!*

*If the loan is not repaid back by the end of the term, we will crush your country in debt and seize all natural resources to pay it back.

Is there a silently sobbing in your pillow before a rousing round of sleep paralysis position?

We really like porn. It doesn’t how freaky the porn is, we all love it.

Pregnant Sonic banging Tails. Porn. Morticia going down on Cousin It. Porn. A step-sibling getting stuck. Porn.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

You can do everything right and still lose, still face heart break, and still face setbacks.

I always remember when I went to underground rave and our bar tenders were this old couple. Everyone was digging it.

Everyone keeps tell me to go fuck myself. Inonly need the one copy to live out that wish.

Write to your MP. If there’s enough support for it maybe we can get a referendum for it.

Why write to them when you can start an official petition and get the House to debate abolishing the monarchy. Only need 10,000 signatures to force the issue to be debated.

But, but, but…I am winning everything. Can’t let those marginalized communities beat me. I’ve been told everything is a zero sum game! I say in the most whiny, navel voice. The kind of the voice that makes your soul shiver up and die

For those who you are wondering, the above comment was dripping in sarcasm. Human Rights are not a zero sum game. When marginalized communities prosper, we all better off as a society.

“wHy dOeSn’t aNyOnE WaNt tO WoRk, AnYmOrE?”

One of the most vivid arithmetic failings displayed by Americans occurred in the early 1980s, when the A&W restaurant chain released a new hamburger to rival the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder. With a third-pound of beef, the A&W burger had more meat than the Quarter Pounder; in taste tests, customers preferred A&W’s burger. And it was less expensive. A lavish A&W television and radio marketing campaign cited these benefits. Yet instead of leaping at the great value, customers snubbed it.

Only when the company held customer focus groups did it become clear why. The Third Pounder presented the American public with a test in fractions. And we failed. Misunderstanding the value of one-third, customers believed they were being overcharged. Why, they asked the researchers, should they pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as they did for a quarter-pound of meat at McDonald’s. The “4” in “¼,” larger than the “3” in “⅓,” led them astray.

Did Third-of-a-Pound Burger Fail Because People Didn’t Understand Fractions? by Snopes, June 17, 2022

I’m extremely hesitant when it comes to “Why won’t people think of the children” arguments. This kind of argument generally leads to removing rights.

This is the argument that anti-trans/anti-sex education group use to push their agenda.

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It all goes into one pile. Steak knives, paring knives, forks, spoons, butter knives, etc.

Gotta make getting cutlery spicy.