damnit arthur now i want to go watch SNEAKERS again because that movie remains a banger
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Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail
The funny thing is this is very close to my current political beliefs I would be quite happy to accept a world where things stay *mostly* the same except the Republican Party ceases to exist completely, forever To me, that's the compromise, that's the modest request
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
if you take the long view for even a few seconds it becomes evident that the survival of american democracy requires the extinction of the republican party as it currently exists
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luckily this can probably be accomplished with a series of straightforwardly small-d democratic reforms which would have the net effect of making the gop electorally unviable in most of the country
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Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail
The Democrats have been *begging* to split into two (or more) parties for so long Whichever faction of the Democrats you identify with it's so obvious this is sorely needed They only exist right now to be the "Everyone but the zombies" "faction"
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Like can we just have every election be a Clinton vs Sanders election, or a Sanders vs Buttigieg vs Harris vs Warren election Is that not more than enough "pluralism" and "political diversity" for a multiparty democracy
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Do we need to constantly be having a debate with the Cordyceps itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
unfortunately there are a lot of cordyoceps out there and the structure of the system is currently very pro-parasitic-fungus, so
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Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail
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I seriously have the hot take that, despite how people characterize the factions in SMAC, the fact that all of the faction leaders are supposed to actually be smart and capable means in the US they'd all be some flavor of Democrat if they ran for office
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The only one who'd be a Republican is the Prophet kid who tells everyone to go get eaten by the fungus and even then he'd be a bad fit for the party because he's too articulate
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I feel like there's a joke to be made about Morgan and bitcoin and actually having an economy based on RELIEVING strain on the electrical grid here.
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect and
If my memory serves me right, it's the faction who has the most trouble with the environment when the planet is actually sentient.
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