America does need to heal but you can't heal from an illness you're unwilling to diagnose. The ghosts of the Confederacy have burrowed into our constitutional system and we have to excise them.

I'm thinking about a metaphor used in Blue Eye Samurai (good show) about tempering steel. You have to strike hard enough to remove most impurities but striving for purity will make the metal brittle. Bidenism didn't strike hard enough at the right moment and now we risk overcompensating.

Yeah the uncomfortable fact for a lot of folks is that the reason you can win politics multiple ways is because most people hold the capacity for good and evil in themselves and can be swayed in a direction by forces of persuasion.

Yeah like that's crazy. We can't have a rules-based society by engaging in the same barbarism we decry. ICE agents should be removed from their jobs and prosecuted if they broke the law, but beyond that is just vengeance against the grunts so we don't have to fight the nobles who commanded them.

I understand the desire for dems to have republicans' sense of conviction but that conviction arises from the simplicity and depravity of their desires. They just want the social order to revolve around a certain type of white man. Broader ambitions and coalitions create more frictions.

Hard to wrap my mind around these people who maintain resentments for *years* over the one time they were socially pressured into getting a miracle cure that helped keep them and other people from dying.

Exactly. The most generous interpretation of that desire is "libs who fight" but the fight you are willing to have is very important. What marks people like Trump is a kind of nihilism, a willingness to burn everything down bc you didn't get your way.

While I sympathize with this on principle I don't think it benefits us to give Trump the inevitable "TRUMP ACQUITTED" headlines the media can't wait to write. Might be better to just maintain a 'rolling impeachment' that keeps layering on and investigating charges.

Oh nice parallel, I hadn't thought about how Wesker of RE5 effectively becomes the tyrant he was so eager to create in RE1.

"The boulder symbolizes the enormity of Chris' struggle, embodying both the inner and outer strength needed to cast the final remnants of Umbrella into the Earth's cleansing flames" y'know I buy this idea, I just think the game presents a high-minded concept in a ridiculous way. Fitting for RE tho.

There's really nothing to stop the ICC from wanting Hegseth brought in for war crimes, is there? Aside from fear of Trump retaliating.

Just here to say that Groyper Cleveland is so funny

lol I need to encourage her to cross post more but I understand a lot of her friend group is still hanging out over there and social media isn't fun enough to treat like a job

Pretty much, in the same way that magas don't really care about all the white christian democrats. Being white is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to being a maga VIP.