Kazuma doesn't cheat and has no special powers apart from his charisma and high tolerance for insane chicks. Mostly. That a goddess argued him back to life, that happened too. He has the writer on his side which isn't a reliable cheat - it depends on the genre.
@Griffith@BowsacNoodle@LukeAlmighty@Shadowbroker2135 people will certainly vote blue because this is such an obvious opportunity to freely genocide white Christian boomers, that there will be an enormous wave of propaganda in support of voting blue. You don't want other people to die, do you?
@captainslow@CleverMoniker@Hoss@Nudhul on that, I believe you: he believed that the decapitation would instantly win the war and that any further action would be easy support for a public uprising, with no real American involvement or risk. He cancelled a speech that was a few hours into the war because Iran launching massive attacks on US bases was already not in the plan. At the start of the 12 day war Iran was much slower to respond.
It's just a very dumb belief to have, and it betrays how little attention anyone was paying and how little pushback anyone was permitted. Clearly nobody brought it up that Trump blew up the entire point of the war when he delayed it by a full month. Everyone saying "protesters" "protesters" "protesters" in western media isn't enough to create a revolution.
@Hoss@professionalbigot69 BioClandestine is even saying that Trump has Iran right where he wants it with no trade passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
So when the GOP is swept out of office, and then Trump is swiftly removed from office, I think there are still pretty good odds that this will all be part of the plan.
Ah, yes, Trump is still secretly the President. There's a huge number of sealed indictments. Haven't you heard of "rope a dope"? The American people are suffering from a century of propaganda so need to be led very carefully to the truth, and sometimes this requires that Hegseth go to federal prison. He's not REALLY in prison, but we need the APPEARANCE of that to lure out the very last of the deep state rats. You can't just prosecute your enemies one at a time, you have to let them win for a decade or two so that you can prosecute all of them at once.
@captainslow@Hoss@CleverMoniker@Nudhul there was, a MONTH PRIOR TO THE WAR when Trump aborted the attack, when Iran shut its internet down and rolled up all of Mossad's terror cells trying to drive the fake color revolution.
This was all dead and gone when Trump started this war anyway. But people clearly believed in it because it was only three weeks later that Israeli sources assessed that the public uprising hopes were truly dead. Yeah, shock of shocks that murdering a bunch of children and killing a "brutal tyrant" [religious leader with broad support who tweets about how women are like flowers] and absolutely enraging the IRGC and putting the country entirely in their hands, would be incompatible with gay ops.
@Hoss@freemayonnaise@CleverMoniker@Nudhul if it were drama, it'd be a challenge to make it believable, and readers would curse the author's laziness for always reaching for easy explanations: >demetia >blackmail >Jewish networks
@ins0mniak >doordash grandma what's the messaging here? The economy's doing so great that everyone can count on a retirement plan of perpetual unpleasant gig work that high gas prices eat into?
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of nothingTrump's immediate problem: the Strait is closed and this is is giving Iran incredible leverage. Trump: blocking it gives leverage? OK! We should block it then! >Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz. this is so breathtaking stupid that I don't think it's real at all. This is 1. an expression of Trump's contempt for you, the reader 2. an obviously stupid distraction so you don't notice >I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. MORE DISGUSTING PIRACY THIS TIME AGAINST FRIENDLY NATIONS
People are probably restraining Trump from stupid actions, not through persuasion, but through deception and information hiding. So the only smart thing the US has done the entire war, of allowing *some* oil to keep flowing, was probably done tough someone just not explaining how dumb and self-destructive any alternative would be to Trump.
People didn't talk to Biden because he wasn't present to talk with. People aren't talking to Trump because if you disagree with him, even about specific means to achieve ends that he wants you to help him meet, he rages out.
That Trump is compromised is not even the biggest problem with him.
Q: could this also be a distraction? A: it can't get worse than >We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits >Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! ... nah, that's normal, unironically. If he were setting something up he'd have larger threats. Note: it is "Any Iranian" who the statement concerns, and it's folowed by >Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti AIrcrat and Radar are useless, Khomeini, and most of their "Leaders" are dead, What happened here is simply that someone tried to discourage Trump from dropping a bunch of useless nukes, by explaining that even civilian megadeath and collapse of the country would not prevent small vengeful groups from a blockade. If we want ships to move here we actually need the cooperation of the locals, it's so easy to deny the ships! So Trump's response is: aha, then I need to threaten to kill some small vengeful groups.
@whirly I've done this plenty of times. Why aren't you carrying the box? Listen to an audiobook or music and leave the phone in a pocket, to free up a hand.
@vii the worst trend right now is people being too lazy even to type plain English, and getting AI to 'fix it up', with a result that has all of these random AI-isms in the text, that are so jarring that the result is like an ad-break in a professional conversation. It's like waiting at a bus stop and casually talking to another guy that's also waiting, and mid-sentence he turns into an aggressive car salesman. It's like splicing LinkedIn into the fediverse. I can't even imagine being so lazy that you'd let an irritating robot speak out of your mouth like this.
@cjd@JoeBravo77 pre-war situation: the SOCIALIST Strait of Hormuz had ships passing through it for free, as a public good. post-war situation: the LIBERTARIAN CAPITALIST Strait of Hormuz has ships passing through it while paying a toll. For more on this, visit mises.org and read up on Anarcho-Capitalist literature that explains how goods such as roads are actually much better produced by private enterprise!
Deep Cover Austrian Economist Trump is privatizing waterways while simultaneously destroying the prestige of the tyrannical US empire, under which Americans are the first victims!
@p@vii@Alex1488@graf ridgecoin status: FORGOTTEN appears in a meme for once - still unacknowledged! if you have a roll of "quarters", it's almost all ridgecoin! There's more ridgecoin visible than anything else! But the BANKS design the rolls to cover the ridges entirely.
@Inginsub it's possible, because you can start rushing at any point. "Release That Witch" abbreviated an entire enemy campaign to nothing after the writer got told to wrap it up.
@georgia a player that just wants to kill things. The DM brings in farmer with a lot of dialogue planned and the murder hobo says "I stab him and take his pitchfork." Doesn't really make sense for Angband
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.Splitting words so as to break the force of the laws; confounding names so as to change what had been definitely settled; practising corrupt ways so as to throw the government into confusion: all guilty of these things were put to death.Keep your safety in mind and don't make loud statements for which you might go to the places not-so-far-from-here, because there you will help no one.