I think Platner isn’t as skilled at avoiding establishment Democrat smear campaigns as Mamdani is.

That’s what the right inevitably does.

They lie constantly. They invariably lie to others and in many cases (the ones who at least have some hint of principles and a conscience) they lie to themselves. They have to, because their ideology is really nothing more than hate and selfishness.

So of course they see bias everywhere. They’ve invested all this time and effort in their media bubbles having apologists convince them that they’re moral and upright and honorable, then as soon as they step out of their bubbles, they’re hit with the truth that they’re just selfish and hateful, and since that truth runs counter to their carefully cultivated delusions, they can only see it as “bias.”

And since their delusions are just that, the only way they can ensure that that’s what they see instead of the truth they don’t want to face is to introduce real bias.

And that’s exactly what they do, over and over and over again.

Maybe a “subsidence” - it’s not so much that it collapsed as that it settled to its natural level.

The game that Stardew Valley blatantly copied - Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.

It was made for the GBA, so has straightforward and precise controls, with none of the irritating camera or targeting complications that come with making the game 3D.

There are other later games in the Harvest Moon franchise with better graphics, but like Stardew Valley with a gamepad, they tend to have irritatingly imprecise controls. Friends of Mineral Town, with its isometric 2D, doesn’t have that problem.

Oh look - it’s the Toddler-in-chief throwing another tantrum.

One of the many things I’ll never really understand about this whole Trump thing is how he manages to get so much support from the right-wing choad demographic when he’s such a gross, flabby, pathetic, whiney manbaby.

Wait, what?

DeSantis taking a stand against governmental abuse of authority, and against the Trump regime specifically?

How the hell did that happen?

More accurate headline:

White House announces blatantly unconstitutional plan to allocate tariff revenue without Congress

But since the Supreme Court no longer enforces the Constitution, it’s anybody’s guess what will come of it.

I think ATProtocol is doomed, so no.

Bluesky got too big too fast and has too many greedy corporate weasels already involved. For the time being, they’re pretending to actually prefer an open protocol, but I think that’s just a marketing ploy and it will never last. They’re going to EEE it sooner or later.

Which is why I remind people at every opportunity that he really, sincerely, is unhinged.

This goes way beyond political rhetoric and hyperbole - he’s bludgeoningly obviously profoundly mentally ill.

Much is unsurprisingly made of the march to fascism under his administration, but the thing is that that’s really being accomplished by the people around him. He isn’t leading the country to fascism or to any other thing. He’s just sitting there in the Oval Office, surrounded by bright shinies, doing whatever his warped perceptions and stunted emotions compel him to do, And it’s just convenient for the fascists that the natural instincts of a fragile, delusional, sociopathic egomaniac, toxic narcissist and craven bully with the emotional development of a toddler lend themselves so well to fascism.

That too.

Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a deranged lunatic.

Of course he can, though it"s exceedingly unlikely that he will be, since it’s a process that would require integrity, courage and determination, all of which are virtually non-existent qualities in Washington today.

Which is unfortunate too, since as I have cause to point out daily, the man is quite obviously a deranged lunatic.

I really don’t think he’s ever been particularly attached to reality, but the combination of losing the 2020 election and stewing and lying for four years then lying his way to winning the 2024 election appears to have completely broken his mind. And the upshot of that is that the world in which he now lives and makes important decisions is not the real one - it’s entirely a product of his own warped perceptions, as filtered through an emotionally stunted mind that’s slaved to the task of protecting his grotesquely bloated and fragile ego and has completely lost any ability it might once have had to distinguish between reality and delusion.

That’s my reaction broadly to hate.

Even beyond the fact that it’s destructive and ugly, it just seems like a pointless waste of time and energy. I don’t get why anyone invests that much time and energy into being miserable, and especially over something that can’t possibly really matter in their lives.

Alternate headline: “Supreme Court Yet Again Just Hands Trump What He Wants Without Even Bothering to Try to Justify It.”

And that will also serve as the alternate headline for every Trump regime ruling yet and for all future ones as well

We actually live in a world now in which the President of the United States explicitly states his intent to overtly violate the first amendment and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.

If Miller had his way about it, they’d already be bulldozing leftists into mass graves.

Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a deranged lunatic.

It’s sort of funny to me to see people treating the claims that he’s something of a groyper and the claims that he was romantically involved with a transexual as if they’re mutually exclusive.

All that says to me is that he was not only terminally online, but terminally online on 4chan specifically.

In fact, the only odd part of it really is the “romantically involved” part.

ETA: it just struck me that “It’s a trap!” could well be an insider nod to just that likelihood…

as political violence becomes normalized online, particularly among ideologically extreme left in America

https://meidasnews.com/news/mass-shootings-at-two-homeless-camps-after-fox-host-called-for-homeless-to-be-killed

It’s not intended as a pejorative, so its perceived weakness is irrelevant.

It’s a precise term with a very specific definition in international law, and that’s the point.