AOC is fearing retaliation, justifiably so given her colleagues. Just about anyone else? good. honestly a bit of fear of the masses might do good

Oohh looking forward to this one

Oh I can only fucking hope. Poetic in just about every possible way

A video game that I’ll get around to playing in like a decade after I get through the other games in my back log but hey it was on sale lmao

Can’t they, meaning Dems, just read them on the Senate or House floor to make them part of public record with no barriers?

is something actually stopping them or are they just protecting pedophiles while doing a bit of theater about it?

I’m sure the sort of was cuz he knew he’d get in trouble for stating the obvious and was trying to hedge his language. Like “I didn’t def say x cause y, just that it maybe kind of did”.

I mean political violence has always been a feature of American history. We don’t need this to show it

Always has been. Whenever someone says “this is not who we are” they are willfully lying or have had a very poor history education. We can aspire to be better but for all of American history, political violence has been a feature.

Fair enough. I think lots of people talk about it like they were expecting that it’s suddenly open season on em all, but yeah true. This could be a trend. Well have to see.

Idk. Lot of people hoped Luigi would spark a trend and that never materialized. Don’t fret too much

Switzerland requires training courses and other regulations we don’t have have afaik, though not an expert, which likely helps a lot.

America as a non homogenous society, and always has been rife with divisions as well. These divisions easily, even subconsciously stoke fear into people, prompting a bigger draw towards self defense.

Early pioneer spirit also drilled it into the American consciousness. Needed a gun to defend your farm/animals from predators or other people when law enforcement didn’t exist or was hours away back in the day. Also leads to guns being in the family, needing back ups, a gun for every able bodied person etc …

So a big culture of self defense being the only viable defense for much of American history, consistent concerns about the “others” (for a large chunk of time also includes slave revolts), and relatively lax requirements (stemming from the other reasons mentioned) and boom. Crazy gun obsessed culture.

Yeah. Carotid or maybe jugular? Point is dude just had a tap open up in his neck going full blast. Modern medicine is good but it ain’t that good

Yeah morbid curiosity got the better of me. You are making the smarter choice

Well damn. That’s some effective magic lol

Both fantastic but special props to Ace Combat Zero for giving the PC one of the most bad ass titles in gaming and then giving you awesome dogfights that double down on earning the title Demon Lord of the Round Table

Ooh that is one I vehemently disagree with lol. It was a ok movie if it was its own thing, but it wasn’t a good star wars movie, it was worse for being in the sequel trilogy as opposed to a stand alone star wars movie, and it was even worse for being the middle of that trilogy. The more context you add the worse it is imo

Of course. It would require them to actually be on the people’s side.

Of course it was. A substantial, but not the only, piece of idiocy she and Biden displayed. Whole bunch of fucking idiots the lot of em.

I mean sexualized movies with skimpy ladies and jacked dudes, and smut books are not harmful broadly speaking, so I don’t really see why video games would be different.