Weird, but you know, I support radical reinvention of personal spaces. Go for it! Just be prepared to run if the pants start getting delusions of grandeur.

I don't understand. How do you hang something on the floor? Hook the hanger around the leg of the bed?

Agreed. If you're a minority Republican in this party, then you've already self-selected as being likely to have some very unusual beliefs that are likely to have a very low correlation with reality, and Holocaust denialism just goes along with that.

The Murdaughs of South Carolina are more the rule than the exception, and "free and fair" can be hard to come by in local, rural elections.

Heck, if people vote for someone the local power structure doesn't want, the power structure will fight back, to absurd and dangerous degrees.

Eh.

It's more complicated than that. In these rural areas, power is often concentrated into particular, corrupt families who basically run the place like neo-feudal fiefdoms. Judges, mayors, city council, sheriff, all somebody's cousins or nephews. And there are consequences for pushing back.

Double post all you like. They're cute! I like them on my timeline!

I started playing D&D, scrounging together rules with a friend from a few old Dungeon and Dragon mags in the early 80s. Even then, we decided the idea of inherently evil intelligent species was dumb and immediately started playing around with it.

1) Find an interesting conflict within the campaign premise to lean into. (INTERESTING, not 'will make everyone else miserable')
2) Make someone who works in a fun-for-everyone way with the rest of the group.
3) Make someone who has some sort of ability/power/skill that delights you.