Electric element. Team Yellow vs Team Blue, FIGHT!

I enjoy the idea that we’re basically feral neighborhood cats to them.

Found Johnathan Swift’s username 😉

So your plan is to give up, or try to change the Democrat party to move further left? A new party couldn’t place a member on the Presidential ballot by 2028. They have to hold positions in multiple states of lower positions to do so, and that would split the possible centrists from the leftists and guarantee another Republican win.

All excellent points against things I didn’t say.

Hating on individual Democrat members who drive the party Congress/Senate to the right makes sense.

There are “individual” members driving the party right in much the same way there are “isolated bad apples” causing the police to abuse their powers. I can count on fingers the number of prominent Congressional Democrats pushing left. Even the party leadership is pushing “right, but slower” instead of left at all.

Hating on the entire party just helps lose support for their party and thereby support the “true” villains as you labeled them.

If someone sees a post online saying “Democrats should do more to fight against Evil Republicans when they eat orphans for fuel” and their takeaway is “But I don’t know which Democrat specifically should have done more! Guess I’m voting for the orphan-eaters. 🤷”… then I would argue the post was not the problem.

Because if the Democrats had done those things, these people would be swinging at the end of ropes right now instead of ripping said copper.

The Republicans have been telling us basically my entire life (and I’m at the “joints no longer work” phase of old) They Were Gonna and the Democrats (who, due to the perverse structure of our government, were the people in the best position to head it off) have Charlie Browned the football that entire time. Are we supposed to just ignore that now that they’ve squandered whatever leverage they might once have had?

I get that the “true” villains are the Republicans, but the number of people left in this country who don’t already know that AND will listen when told is vanishingly small.

TFW someone tells the waitstaff at the restaurant that it’s your birthday and they start singing out of nowhere

Another option is Ballotpedia.

If you’d like to see how your rep voted: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h175

“Eight? Who taught you math!?”

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Introversion made another game I almost posted here: Uplink. Hacking-themed game that I used to love.

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Even just the soundtrack is worth the price of admission.

Is there a list of IP ranges to block?

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Not sure where you’re pulling that from. Neither the original post nor my response said anything about legality. OP said these assassinations were the “logical sequel” to the CEO attack, without any evidence the two are directly related at all.

I look at it like this: if you’ve accumulated that much money AND have had time to use it to help others, and haven’t? Glub glub time.

If you’ve suddenly stumbled into ludicrous wealth because a psychotic demigod drowned one of your forebears? Well, it’ll take at least 48 hours for you to put that money to more philanthropic use. I figure we can give those folks at least that much of a grace period to decide to be better.

The next Superman can handle them if that’s not enough to change their attitude.

And realistically, this would create so many power vacuums all at once that civilization would probably collapse overnight, but you can only get so realistic with superpower hypotheticals.

Relocate anyone with a net worth of >$500 mil to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

This sounds great in a general handwavey sort of way except for the fact that (at least to my knowledge) there’s no evidence tying the alleged Minnesota assassin’s motive in any way to the death of Brian Thompson.

He does appear to consider women’s healthcare a form of “violence”, however. Should we examine our consciences and outlaw women’s healthcare in case people like this take offense and start a civil war?

We can wring our hands and try to find ways to make everything our own fault or we can accept that anyone under enough pressure can become violent, regardless of whether they believe themselves to have righteous intentions when they do it.

If you want to see how your Senators voted on this: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00318.htm#state

I misread that as “state police” and had almost the same thought.