I'd argue he is aware of this, though, which is probably why he is looking towards purging various groups of ideological mismatches.
The corporate world absolutely idolizes the grift. Being able to "produce value" (=make more money while actually not producing anything more) is the only game left. Shareholders look at something like EA that releases the same old Madden year after year while making money hand over fist, and they fucking salivate.
Trump will lower grocery prices the same day he ends the war in Gaza.
And if you believe that, I've got a hat to sell you (*made in China).
You could tell me that the Tik Tok "GigaChad" filter had been applied to that thumbnail, and I'd believe it.
Yeah, in general I am not hearing nearly enough about the high numbers of MAGA people in the police and the military. I'm not sure most folks have considered the gravity of that tendency.
I have seen arguments like "well let's see Trump try X or Y; I'm sure the military would step in". But like, what? If the military steps in it certainly won't be to stop Trump. Quite the opposite.
Grover Cleveland's corpse could run, though
You know, it is kind of interesting (and I know this wasn't the point of your comment). Most of them were not by generals, but assassination attempts on Hitler numbered more than 40, and the first one was the year before he took national office.
The first by a known perpetrator was from Bavarian politician Ludwig Aßner, who sent Hitler a poisoned letter in 1933.
We're at about 1933. Hitler is about to consolidate power, surround himself with only the most loyal, and purge the military of anyone outside of the ideology.
The propaganda machine will need to expand rapidly to support that effort.
Nokia of now is not the Nokia of yesteryear. Their new phones are just cheap Android smartphones.
Regulation? In the US?
Not in this timeline.
Any anti-corporation action has about 60 more days to complete. The US is about to be more of an unregulated runaway capitalism machine than it has ever been.
Lots of stretches of the imagination all over the place about why Harris lost.
The DNC will of course do whatever it needs to make sure the mirror is not placed in front of it.
Bethesda: stealing sweetrolls
I don't think any of that matters. Trump will say what he wants, and everyone's principles and voting records will go out the window. They will fall in line.
The literal VP-elect under Trump is on record as a "never Trump guy". Same principles applied. Trump spoke and everyone grovelled.
Not a joke. There is a ton of this kind of tactic everywhere now. Say a crazy thing, suggest it is a joke. Repeat it. By the time you "say the quiet part out loud", it's been normalized.
It's the same reason why "I'm just asking questions" is a great propaganda tactic. It allows you to normalize whatever wacko shit you want to.
Just wait until they hear about the host of the Apprentice
It's an awful mix of half-assed approaches to things. Awkward syntax on everything and very poor at recognizing what types of data it is handling.
Open a CSV in a fresh Excel install. It will almost certainly mistake something for a date if the CSV is sufficiently large (unless the user is exceedingly explicit at changing settings for that particular CSV). It will reformat that data as a date, and as an added bonus, since Autosave is on by default, it'll save that reformatted data back into your CSV. Yes, settings can be changed to avoid these things. But why isn't it just designed better so as to avoid it altogether?
If that was just a natural side effect of spreadsheet apps, I could understand it. But LibreOffice Calc is a million times better at recognizing what types of data it is handling, so it seems to just be Excel's shittiness.
The fact that it also hasn't really changed beyond aesthetics since 2004 is just... wild.
Are there previous historical examples of cult-like followings of US political candidates?
(This post was intended for [email protected], but as it seems they don't allow text posts, I'm posting it here)
This post will likely not go over well with everyone and some people may not agree with the premise of the question. Mods please remove if not allowed.
I am curious if the MAGA-esque approach to politics is new for the US, or if there have been other examples of similar political movements which may be considered "cult-like". To better define what I mean, here are some examples:
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Large amounts of signs bearing a candidate's name being shown by single individuals (e.g. big trucks covered in Trump signs everywhere)
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Use of a candidate name over the US flag
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Use of a kind of supporter uniform (e.g. the red MAGA hat)
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The "alternative facts" of MAGA, where debate can be impossible because supporters believe anyone who is a detractor must be lying
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In some cases, voter intimidation or coercion from staunch supporters
It seems to me that some of this is new but I'd love to hear other thoughts. I have heard and seen many relatively obvious parallels to German politics in the 20s-40s, but I'm specifically wondering if anything similar has ever been seen in the US before.
Out of everything, I really want to see my helmet in first person
I know a lot of people hate this kind of feature, but there are significant reasons why I think it would make Starfield better.
If I'm not wearing one and I leave my ship, I start taking damage if the planet is dangerous. The only way around that is to be in 3rd person while in the ship (aside from the workaround below). There isn't any indication anywhere as to whether or not you are in a spacesuit, besides your menu and 3rd person view. There is no way to know while maintaining immersion.
Bethesda's workaround is to auto-hide spacesuits and helmets in atmo. This sucks, because I personally like tailoring the look of my character to the environment. But more importantly, I want to know that I am wearing a pressure suit if I'm out in a dangerous environment. I don't want it to feel like I'm a freecam wandering around -- I want to feel like I'm slogging along in a freaking spacesuit.
What's really strange is: if you put on the broken Constellation helmet, you can see the tape piece from the inside. It has an overlay! Sadly this works for no other helmet. Did they just abandon making the textures?
A similar annoyance with a related system: the quick menu does not unequip items. This would make it super easy to change between a spacesuit and regular outfit and not deal with more menus.
I figure there will be a mod at least for helmet overlays eventually, but damn is it frustrating that they definitely thought about it and only implemented it for a piece of masking tape.