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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

I have only played two games at nut level - ES Daggerfall and BF2 (over 5000hrs). Otherwise I haven't really played for years. Bf2 squad play in a clan was a real highlight for the experiences, people, and admin work I did. So...is it a BF game worth getting back in for?

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

Is it good?

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

The shame it struck in me was the most "anti-social" thing I don't need to imagine because I've lived it.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

The corollary is "shame" is worse than death and can incalculably alter a persons life for the worse, especially when they have done nothing to merit it. My six years at all male boarding school, and the psychological shaming I endured, I am only just getting barely to terms with. 32 yrs later.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

*in the last 40years

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, Vince Foster and Monica Lewisnky plus Kenn Starr have possible been the most important individuals determining the course of world history than anyone else.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

Go Pierre Bourdiue and the long duree of history, but we are currently living in the definition of history by contngency

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

My point! exactly! The path of the GOP was always fascistic. 9/11 plus black president plus post GFC austerity consensus changes everything. Also, Clinton not entering into a failed land deal and none of this happens.....none of it.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

And of course we aren't even at "Gore wins 2000 after full statewide recount from SCOTUS" give Gore a slender victory. Then we are literally at Earth 2.0 where today I am not reading about fascism and the best scenario 25% chance of AMOC collapse in 20 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

And critically a black President. The President who said "we are post-race now" and progressives said , rightfully, "we are just now exploring race and misogyny in our times". Followed by a female candidate who has been the press, and GOP anti-christ for decades.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 17h

Ok. I get where you are at. The through line of modern GOP is fascistic. But it's highly contingent too! No 9/11 we get a (bs) compassionate (lols) conservative Bush. No torture, much! less room for Addington/Cheney unitary executive. But we get 9/11, the GFC, austerity consensus, Tea Part Astroturf

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 18h

Wholeheartedly disagree. Electing a Black President speed run everything. But the processes of coverage - Al Gore inventor of internet, love canal, feminine - was the prototype of "different standards". And that grew out of a press consensus with Clinton that D's were a priori illegitmate

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 18h

It's worse. It's actively enabling fascism.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 18h

If this was happening in Peter Baker's hood, would this make coverage different?

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 18h

I just think we can keep it at inflatable suits and we win.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 18h

Introducing massive short staffing, fatigue, job instability, plus fucking lasers into a system that can't tolerate repeated faults is....bad

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 18h

Between the lasers and the shutdown and DOGE, there are going to be some major incidents. Monkeying with everything that makes planes fly safely is just turning this into a probability question.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 19h

I am mercifully unaware of this culture.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

they're saying that my heart is tastier than any beforehand, folks, that Ammit is licking her lips at the prospect

billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 20h

Could you just imagine the comedy of Trump Weighing his Heart (lols) against The Feather of Ma'at?

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 20h

You'd have to imagine The God's deciding they must convene together to witness this extraordinary spectacle.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 20h

Could you just imagine the comedy of Trump Weighing his Heart (lols) against The Feather of Ma'at?

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 20h

Basically it needs to be humiliated and put very firmly in its place.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 20h

If we ever get a chance to reform the SCOTUS we want to do it in such a way that the shock of reform is so total and through that it sticks in it's institutional DNA that Congress is it's master.

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 21h

just at least give me a hat tip when you mention it

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 21h

I thought about very specific ways to fuck with SCOTUS is a way that would really hurt them in a very visceral way - they fucking LOVE the clerkship racket -and taking this away would really really piss them off.. It's also just good policy for getting more diverse clerks

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