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His position His age His health/weight Those are the three big factors for why he's going to the hospital. The flipside is Pence doesn't have the cult of personality that Donald has. Pence would need a personality for that to happen. Just like there are people who are voting for Biden purely because he's not Trump, there are people(Probably even more people) voting for Trump purely because he's Trump.

Hopefully somebody tells them that the US is currently in pandemic-induced poverty before they get here and realize they traveled all this way for nothing. Which move in Trump's 4D chess game is this? I don't remember seeing "Piss all over the debate stage like a baby and then get angry that everyone saw" in the playbook.

If the new debate rules aren't just "Trump gets shot every time he interrupts", then it's not going to matter. If they cut his mic, he'll just shout louder. Even then, I doubt Trump would remain silent while bleeding out all over the stage.

Until Dawn. I had been growing to hate the Telltale/Quantic Dream-style of adventure games, and I also hated that Sony was pushing so hard for their exclusive games to be super cinematic. But Until Dawn is just a fun, playable B-horror movie, and there is a surprising amount of variability in how the story plays out(Even if the climax always plays out the same aside from just who survives).

Same mindset that tanked Resident Evil for half a decade. Chasing COD money was such a bizarre period for Japanese developers.

This has already gone on longer than I intended and I'll concede several of those points, but the only point I'll tackle right now is the Iraq War thing: Again, I'm not saying being against the Iraq War wasn't a mainstream idea. But there are a number of mainstream ideas RIGHT NOW that democrats don't fully support, so we definitely shouldn't take the views of the democrat voter base as the same views that democrat politicians have. So what I AM saying is that a lot of the democratic heavy hitters that voted for the Iraq War were still big players in 2008, and both Clinton AND Biden voiced some support for it during the 2008 primaries. Clinton infamously refused to acknowledge that her Iraq War vote was a mistake during the primaries despite saying the war was a mistake(She wanted to have her cake yadda yadda yadda), and Biden more or less argued "Yeah yeah, the Iraq War was a mistake... but hey, we're already there, so we might as well keep at it!" Obama arguably got his big break during the primaries because of how much he hounded the other democrats(Clinton specifically) for their support of the Iraq War. And it was a talking point all throughout the primaries.

I don't know why you'd mention Hillary when she didn't win. She lost the 2008 primary to a candidate who was much further to her left(Again, FOR THE TIME), and then lost the 2016 election. She's not an example of moderate policies winning. You're comparing 2008 Obama to 2016 Clinton and 2020 Biden. There's nearly a decade rift between them, and you don't have to look very hard to find that both Clinton AND Biden supported staying in Iraq in 2008, and Obama took them both to task regularly over their votes in favor of it during the Bush administration. Being vocally against the Iraq war in 2008 was not a moderate position because, surprise surprise, most big name democrats, who were still around in 2008, voted in favor of invading Iraq. Again, I'm looking at these campaigns within the context of the times they took place in. Biden and Clinton were so much closer to the center than Obama was in 2008 that their positions then are nearly unrecognizable to the campaigns they ran in 2016 and 2020. If it took nearly a full decade for Obama's policies to be considered this supported within the party, doesn't that indicate that he wasn't just another moderate(At least during the 2008 primaries) and a fair number of his positions were... "progressive", for lack of a better term, for the time period?

Clinton is fair, but he also had Gore as his running mate, who is much closer to the left than Clinton was. But Gore wasn't running and he wasn't crazy lefty, so that's besides the point. And Obama certainly was not a moderate during the primaries. Certainly not actually a huge leftist, but even within the democratic party, he was labeled as a radical leftist compared to Clinton, who was seen as the safe bet for the election. He ran on ideas like universal healthcare(Which he later altered to a public option), something Biden doesn't fully support 12 years later, he rejected PAC and lobby money, was anti-war, was pro-choice and supported stem cell research, supported a public healthcare option, supported more aggressive taxes for the rich and easing taxes on the poor and working classes, and was for aggressively tackling climate change. Some of these seem like common sense now, like tackling climate change and some form of affordable health care, but those were not the overall opinions of the democratic party in 2007-2008. Hell, it was still 50/50 on whether the Iraq war was a good idea, even when there was ample evidence that Cheney, Rove and Bush just lied to get it to happen. He had some more moderate opinions on things like gay marriage, but his very first primary campaign was not focused on courting moderate voters, but again, it was a more progressive stance than many of his democratic peers at the time. If the argument boils down to "Only moderates can win, because one single moderate democrat has won in the last 40 years", then I really don't see it.

I think a lot of the problem is the talking point of "Only moderates can get elected" keeps getting regurgitated every election cycle. And only democrats keep believing in it, even though the results have been pretty hit or miss. Hilary presented herself as a moderate in three election cycles, and she lost in every single one. Even the one where she made it past the primaries. Biden's positioned himself as such every time he ran, and we're still waiting to see if he can win against a literal authoritarian fascist.

I feel attacked. I went for Jill in 2012 when the election wasn't nearly as dire and she wasn't loudly courting anti-vaxxers. But I went for Clinton in 2016, and I'll go for Biden in 2020, even though I hate both of them as people and as politicians.

Anyone wanna start a new political party with me? I'm thinking of calling it the Guillotine Party.

FE4-6, 10 and 16 all have solid first chapters. I think 6 would be my least favorite out of those, and 4 would be the best. As you said in the OP, 4 is just a whole-ass chapter. A bit more on-rails and there are some features in the castle locked to you, but yeh. It even demonstrates the most important message of the game to you perfectly: Foot units are trash. Worst would probably be FE7 or 8. 7 is just nothing. Flat map, one normal enemy, and a boss. 8 straight up is like, 8 tiles you can utilize, and it borderline plays itself.

Are you saying you didn't kill two people when you were 17? But give Don Jr. some credit. At least he admitted what the Kenosha shooter did was stupid, which is better than what a number of conservatives are doing.

I tried to explain it in my other post, but I couldn't word it right. This words it right.

This. We blew our chance to have this mostly under control by summer, so now having things contained by fall is the best bet. The federal government would really have to enforce things like interstate travel bans.

I haven't been crazy active on this site in a while, so checking in and seeing "The Race Issue" made me do a double take. It's like a half-step away from seeing a threat titled "The Jewish Question". Seriously, Ana. Just take a few steps back and try to look at it from a different perspective. This whole argument comes across as extremely sheltered and ill-informed at best, and down right malicious at worst. This same argument was happening 60 years ago. Your "Why do they really have to target the things I like?" is the 2020 version of "Why do they have to be so uppity?" comments from frigid housewives during the Civil Rights protests. Black people are being murdered for essentially no reason by a militarized police force that is completely above the law and see themselves as warriors rather than protectors. They're still largely being marginalized in media and the country is being run by a white supremacist who used the police to attack protesters so he could do an awkward photo op in front of a church. And yes, he's a fucking white supremacist. He tweeted a video of some old white dude shouting "White power!" just a few days ago. He just put out merch for his 2020 campaign that parodies the goddamn Nazi Reichsadler. Sorry you voted for a white supremacist, but you did. He wasn't very secretive about it back then, what with having Steve fucking Bannon on his campaign team in 2016, but he's really blatant about it now. So no, it's not going too far. You're going to have to deal with some of the consequences of uncomfortable(To you) protests by groups who are desperately trying to do everything they can to show the rest of the country that they're people, too. It must totally suck for you that some stupid ride at Disney is being changed, but I'm sure you'll get over it. Or you'll just die bitter over some ride not having a racist minstrel song anymore, I don't know.

Trump choosing to pose in front of what is EASILY the most liberal Christian denomination(Except maybe Unitarians) just shows how little he gives a shit about Christianity. He took a photo op in front of a church that was guaranteed to oppose everything he stood for, but it didn't matter to him because he couldn't tell an Episcopalian from an Evangelical.

Real glad I got to be ground zero for the LA riots 2.0. Definitely really happy about it. Totally not worried about friends and family who live further into the cities.

Garon's Goonsquad. They actively make Fates's story worse, due to how bad it makes every character in their vicinity. TWSITD are just kinda... there.

The thing is, IS didn't develop 3H. They gave their directors and writers to Koei Tecmo to consult for the game while KT made it. That's why people think it's pretty probable that IS was also developing their own FE while KT muscled through 3H, since IS hasn't released a major project themselves for quite a while. Could also be a Paper Mario project, but IS has largely been MIA for a while.

7-8 is the ideal if you've got a JRPG longer than 40-50 hours. Otherwise 5-6.

Thracia or one of the Tellius countries.

I would say Hubert is Lawful Neutral to a tee. He will do whatever needs to be done so that Edelgard can see her dreams come true. He himself is a bit of a dick, but yeah. If Edelgard needed him to pet every puppy in Fodlan, he'd do it. If Edelgard needed him to kill every puppy in Fodlan, he'd do it.

There's evidence that these protests are largely fake events to give the impression that ending the lockdown has more support than it does. The fact that all of them were organized at the same time in about the span of 1-2 days really should have made it more obvious.