Giant Bomb |OT8| A Place To Put Your Unrequited Feelings
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Well Trump has irreparably damaged the discourse in the country, insulted our allies and cozied up to dictators, brought about the rise of fake news, and jailed young children and separated them from their parents, which is absolutely horrible and he's a disgusting person with no morals. He's clearly a worse person than Bush. But Bush is a legit war criminal who lied to the entire world and destabilized an entire region for a generation, all because Saddam tried to kill his dad. He also began the GOP's march toward this authoritarian police state the US is moving to, and for as bad as Puerto Rico is, Katrina was worse and that was an official state instead of a territory. And he tanked the global economy and signed off on torture. It's close, but I still think Bush is worse. Trump is horrible but he's incompetent, and aside from the children (which is abhorrent) most of his shit has just been his words. Bush was able to put up a facade while his cabinet actually did truly heinous shit year in and year out
Never forget
And it wasn't even like I grew up in bumfuck nowhere where they actively do everything they can to hamper education. I grew up in an affluent middle class neighborhood, it's just the curriculum was heavily weighted toward America's founding and rise to the world's superpower that there wasn't enough time in the year to cover recent things. It's why the GOP was able to lionize Reagan, since we only really learned about him from the mainstream image of him rehabilitating America after Nixon's disgrace and Carter's ineffectiveness. Shining city on a hill and all that
On top of what you've mentioned, he's disavowing the death of literally thousands of people. Bush and Trump can both be the worst.
we DO know about Caligula so sometimes things do make their way into history as written
Domestically, Blair was easily the best Prime Minister of my lifetime. It's not even slightly close.
It's a shame he's a disgusting war criminal on top of that.
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I suggested this in that thread, as a joke of course (I see you Secret Service): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
Interesting thing, I only remember the Gulf War when it comes to H.W.
I suggested this in that thread, as a joke of course (I see you Secret Service): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
Well, if we want to go that route, we might as well state that every Republican President for the last several decades have been on par for being absolute immoral monsters serving their own wants and not those of the American people, though H.W. might be a little better than Trump, Bush Jr, or Reagan.
Interesting thing, I only remember the Gulf War when it comes to H.W.
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Well he managed to do a lot to patch up the north here. Which is domestic technically, but not really (don't tell the unionists I said that). It's also the main reason Bill and Hillary Clinton are revered in Ireland too, as it happens.
NO NEW TAXES!
Edit: More taxes.
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Removed cuz I'm having a bad day and this shit makes me angry to the point of saying things I'll end up regretting and I don't need to shit on this thread.
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In the grand scheme of things HW was pretty good. He was the last honorable Republican president He raised taxes when he had to even though it goes against everything conservatives stand for, the Gulf War was justified due to Iraq's annexation of Kuwait, and I can't remember anything truly terrible, although I could be missing something. He did let Reagan and everyone off the hook for Iran-Contra, which is a huge minus against him though
That's the first Dan story I immediately rejected as BS. Even Abby seemed pretty skeptical. He's doing the Norm McDonald thing.
The more I know of Dan the more honest he seems. Some of the back and forth on Panning the Stream is pretty illustrative of who he is in particular.
Dan might try to get a rise out of people constantly but I seriously doubt he ever bullshits anyone.
Oh right.
Yeah, I couldn't think of anything else either. I will say that the GOP at the time were some truly batshit people tho. Fuck Newt Gingrich.
What is going on with the front page right now. Its showing Breakfast N' Ben as the thumbnail but the real video links to yesterday's play date. Also when I click "Join Chat" it leads to "There's currently no show".
I think the site is having some issues. For the past couple days I get a "server not found" issue when trying to go there, before it randomly works.
The Trials/Besieged play date from yesterday.
The trailer for that new Sabrina show looks fucking incredible.
Didn't they say the site update would come soon? Maybe they are working on some background stuff.
Probably Harding. Reading about the Teapot Dome scandal and it's a better analogy to what's going on now, compared to the Watergate scandal.
I see you are a lip reader as well.
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That's pretty good. Stranger has really stuck around, huh.
Where is this Dan candle story?
Also, it's been weird playing through Divinity: OS2 and Dragon Quest 11 at the same time, because Divinity is so unforgiving and flexible and Dragon Quest is basically baby's first JRPG. They're both great games, just pretty much polar opposites.
Also, it's been weird playing through Divinity: OS2 and Dragon Quest 11 at the same time, because Divinity is so unforgiving and flexible and Dragon Quest is basically baby's first JRPG. They're both great games, just pretty much polar opposites.
A little bit into the playdate from yesterday. But you should watch the entire thing.
It's on the Trials/Besiege playdate. Basically it was Dan's wife's birthday, so he got a small slice of carrot cake for her. He loaded it up with like 30 candles and thought they burned slow like Yankee candles. So he lit them all when she was walking home from work, and naturally they all started burning quickly, melting wax all over the cake and all the little flames joined together into a big flame. He also happened to set this big flaming cake down below a vase of flowers, so naturally it started lighting and he tried to blow out the candles, which sent embers everywhere. He nearly had to get a fire extinguisher but handled it himself
Definitely watch tho, if only to see Alex while he's telling the story
Edit: 27:25 is the timestamp for the story
Oh no way. That's awesome - I bought it a while back on sale through Steam but hadn't had a chance to play. Its reputation has me curious.
If he manages to go all 24 hours, I don't know how he could top that.
I mean that kind of surface level history has always been such a small snapshot of what's happened, and maybe not even an accurate one, and the hope is that people are trying to portray it as accurately as possible and checking their assumptions, but...
and... there's a big part of me - and maybe this is just coming to mind more because of some stuff I've dealt with the past few days - that worries about how the internet, or even just stuff like emails/texting, has made things even more ephemeral and unclear; there's obviously infinite amounts of communication happening that would have never happened before, but also many little and surprisingly important things in so many little communities that will never be recorded or will be remembered falsely because there was instant revisionism that spread
As much as I'm impressed by Alex's drumming I'd give more money to see him talk over a movie marathon..
Stoked for the Alex drum extravaganza this year
I would be really into this as well.
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