I've heard some on Reddit complain about Potent Dragonmark being powerful. On one hand, it kind of is. On the other hand, you need to get a Dragonmark feat to get it, and there's oh so many spell slots you can have...

Anyway...

Has nobody learned anything from Don't Breathe 2 and Torchwood: Miracle Day? You don't make a rapist or a pedophile one of the more sympathetic character among the cast!

Not from what I've heard. Besides, I don't trust Vivziepop to make the right call.

*Enabling them

Rapists in real life get away with this kind of crap all because of too many sympathetic people vouching for them and blame the victim for what the rapist did to them.

Ah.

Just Trump being an old, kayfabing idiot.

The thing about Trump is that he’s a totally unreliable partner who is also dumb, impulsive, and easily manipulated. So it makes sense to play nice with him, but only if you don’t cede ideological or political ground, because you know he’s going to screw you over later.

"look at how much this first world country doesnt spend on defense and instead dopes my politcal hobby horse" yeah its cuz Big Pappa America has them on a protection plan

the non US west does not have that dog in them and would rather if we just showed ours in perpituity please

IMO this is a major reason why China is frequently significantly overrated in terms of relative global economic strength during various parts of its history. On paper it is 1st in GDP in the late 1800s, but in practice most of that is subsistence and very little of it is true economic activity.