…when was the last time the democratic party ran a legitimately progressive platform?..i’m not talking about vacuous platitudes, i’m talking about articulated commitment backed up by tangible, substantive, follow-through changing the nature of established paradigm?..
…the electorate can vote or not vote for whomever the f*ck they see fit: that’s the fundamental point of democracy…
…the most-effective way to win those votes is to earn them, not to berate the electorate with a presumption of entitlement…
…the funny counterpart is that when liberals run a full-throated embrace of populism, their greatest threat isn’t the surge of new progressive supporters, but establishment democrats desperately afraid of losing conservatives who’d never support them anyway…
…was there one before?..
…you don’t win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992…
…i’m not sure that’s how one builds a coalition…
…i should clarify: upgrades from windows 7/8 were free…
…windows 10 was free to a lot of people; it’s a pretty solid OS and i’d be happy to pay a fair price for ongoing support…
…how about bluetooth in an '81 98?..
…my game gear did fine with the external rechargeable battery pack, which was admittedly cumbersome but wasn’t to extend battery life so much as it was to save the expense of buying batteries, but even using AAs i never had a problem with them not lasting through a full play session…
…well, depending upon how you take retcons, there’s the t’au: i think they work best as a force for good doomed to fail in an uncaring universe, personifying tragic loss of innocence…
…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…
…my wife came home from a chemistry demonstration with a cooler full of dry ice: we thought it would be fun to fill the master bathtub with hot water, dump it all in at once, and watch what happened…
…besides the obvious violent commotion, our entire house filled with a waist-high impetrable fog, enough that we panicked and quickly evacuated the cats lest they be overwhelmed by carbon dioxide…
…that’s exactly where my imagination went first, and then onward to the league of extraordinary gentlemen, and then i started brainstorming elements for my eberron campaign…
…i think that’s why it says elderly french pirate: he was formidable in his youth, but that was four decades ago…
(revolvers may rule the day but a well-timed flintlock will still f*ck you up)
…IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…
…well he’s not…
…“baby steps” they called that corporate handout, fomented by a groundswell of apologists that patience would be rewarded in due course…
sixteen.
f*cking.
years.