Discworld, no contest.

He probably meant to.

A notable intrinsic dodge bonus.

Decent but not great healing, blessing, persuasion, rally, calm, etc.

More or less neitral disposition with virtually everyone, save only the most extreme pro- or anti-religious.

Surprisingly good hand-to-hand combat, but only under duress and/or drunk.

It’s those roughly squared off, dirty, slushy heaps of packed snow that were plowed out of the way after the snowfall and are the only thing left after the rest of the snow has melted.

By design.

And the 1% are going to ride it out in their purpose-built private enclaves, then buy the world at disaster auction prices and make themslves into feudal lords.

I can’t see any situation in which I would.

Mostly I have zero interest in sucking any dick (other than maybe my own, and I’m not that flexible).

But beyond that, $20 just seems wrong no matter what - if I wanted to do it, $20 would be pointless and if I didn’t, it wouldn’t be near enough.

The timing here is what makes this move particularly baffling…

It’s only baffling if you cling to the ever-more-laughable belief that the Democrats are any sort of meaningful opposition.

If you instead simply shift to the ever-more-supported belief that they are in fact essentially oligarchic co-conspirators, then the timing makes perfect sense.

That whole family is just rich white trash, aren’t they?

Trump isn’t into much of anything other than feeding his ego, his greed and his lust. That’s another aspect of his fundamental childishness - his desires and motivations are very simple and sybaritic.

However, he’s surrounded by people who are stroking hisxegovand whispering in his ear and trying to get him to focus his wandering attention on things they want, and some of them certainly are very much into eugenics. That is in fact an obvious and deliberate implication of replacement theory and pro-natalism - people like Musk see reproduction as a contest between races, and one that they’re afraid they’re going to lose and are determined to win, by whatever means might serve.

I suspect more strongly all the time that not just a likely consequence but an explicit goal of the coming autocracy is to kill a large number of people.

It’s essentially passive eugenics. The idea is to make life as difficult as possible for everyone but the wealthiest few, and again, not just as a consequence of shallow self-interest but deliberately, so that as many people as possible die, and with the idea that the deaths will be most concentrated among the most disadvantaged.

Part of the idea then behind MAGA’s obsession with identity politics is to try to arrange things so that groups they don’t like are overrepresented among the disadvantaged who will die.

That’s also a lot of the reason then behind Musk’s creepy pro-natalism - they’re trying to get a head start on breeding white fascist replacements for all of the undesirables they intend to kill.

Yes.

If you qualify, they’ll contact you.

To paraphrase the Narcissist’s Prayer, he’s currently moving from “That won’t happen” to “And if it does, it won’t be that bad” and on to “And if it is, that’s not a big deal.”

So expect “And if it is, that’s not my fault” in the not terribly distant future.

And so on, and so on…

If my government the government that’s managed to weasel its way into power over the land on which I happened to be born proposed an initiative to tackle fraud, I would look for the catch, because it’s guaranteed there would be one.

Connolly is an accomplice in the coup d’etat.

“Lefties keep calling us Nazis but they don’t even know what Nazis are, and oh yeah, by the way, all of these people over here should be killed because they’re an inferior race.”

Even setting aside the staggering psychopathy of the modern right - their complete and utter disregard for the lives of other human beings - I don’t even begin to understand how any human being could have so little self-awareness.

Preach.

It’s not a coincidence that it was Democrats who coined the term “flyover country.”

And it’s not a coincidence that “flyover country” won’t vote for them.

And they’re okay with that. They’d rather lose than lower themselves so far as to associate with the unwashed masses.

This isn’t ignorance or missing the point - they know exactly what they’re doing.

lol

It’s like when you’re literally trying to point something out to someone - standing there pointing with your finger - and they just can’t see it, so you’re stuck just jabbing with your finger and saying, “Right there! Right where I’m pointing! Can’t you see it?! It’s right there!”

That is and always has been the exact and only point of tariffs.

I don’t think there’s been a clearer indicator of the profound ignorance of all too many Americans than the fact that Trump actually managed to get them to believe that he could institute tariffs and lower prices.

The exact and only purpose of tariffs is to RAISE prices - specifically prices for imported goods that are lower than those of their overpriced domestic counterparts.

And that’s exactly what they will do, deliberately and by design.