Unfortunately, we would love to be civilized with these people, but their way of operation requires being dragged down to their level to solve. Their only goal is overwhelming power, so our goal should just enough overwhelming power to stop them.

The modern world desperately needs government designed to deal with people operating in bad faith and being able to more easily prosecute people for bad faith politicking. We shouldn’t have to sink to their level, systems should be in place to prevent this kind of horseshit getting traction to begin with, “free speech” be damned. It shouldn’t be free speech to be lying, duplicitous, have an ulterior motive, gaslighting, or speaking publicly about perceived enemies with dangerous hyperbole.

I just don’t want to be playing the stupid mind games with these people because it never stops. I don’t want to be having to get down and dirty because they can’t be negotiated with. If they can’t be negotiated with, they shouldn’t have a seat at the democratic table to begin with, because they obviously don’t like the concept of democracy. Which of course they will accuse us of hating democracy from taking their abusive use of it away, but fuck them, they’re using it abusively and controllingly, not because they want to make a better world.

Probably seems old hat, and seems unaffordable but perhaps take in a play, or a musical, or if you’re lucky enough to be close to one still operating, take in a drive-in movie.

I always found that finding a reason to dress up at least a little and go do something fun together as a shared activity helped alleviate the boredom of the norm.

The TV show on HBO wasn’t, which may be what they’re referring to here.

…because of course it is.

I mean, at this point, they’re not entirely wrong. We can’t count on this obscenely broken system to save us by “voting harder” like we’ve been doing for 3 solid decades with nothing but things getting worse and corporate democrats barely fighting back against the worst excesses of the Bush and Trump administrations (and frankly being part and parcel to the worst excesses of the Clinton administration).

It’s time to follow the lead of groups like the Black Panthers. They understood the assignment. We cannot count on a system designed to be anti-democratic with anti-democratic institutions like the Senate existing to actually resemble a functioning democracy. We have to turn to Mutual Aid and helping one another.

I get it, a lot of those Trump voters would be shitty candidates to bring into Mutual Aid groups, but their broken cynicism is part of being left behind politically for decades coupled with lack of education. Some of them may still be redeemable and find their skills valuable in Mutual Aid and may start to grow in positive ways that they themselves would have never dreamed.

The citizen observers watching ICE are by and large average citizens, they are not our politicians, who more likely sit in comfy warm offices while the citizens freeze their asses off trying to protect one another. That’s the reality, is even though we have a handful of good politicians fighting for us, they are fighting within a broken non-functioning system. That is not their fault and that does not mean their fight is pointless, but we cannot expect them to do the fight alone, we also must protect and support each other… and that means trying to find the least shitty Trump supporters and bring them into the community fold.

Well, looks like we got ourselves a reader!

Someone who sucks because the second half doesn’t even fucking rhyme. Like that’s the best you could do?? You’d be second in a poetry competition/rap battle as well.

The slaves for sure, but it also creates a situation where the powerful may not be giving enough food to their security forces, and their security forces turn on them, joining the slaves in outright rebellion.

Not that this will bring more food in, but it could result in some of those “powerful” people suddenly not being so powerful.

Security through obscurity isn’t security.

There goes my excuse for not giving up and just paying for Unraid.

If you have a quality PC, I always promote emulation over hardware, just because modern PC hardware can do things like let you play old games at higher resolutions and framerates.

Also, if you want to use those Wavebirds on PC, you can use receiver for them in something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RSXRLUE

I like hacking the old systems, but I have more fun hacking them than actually continuing to game on them since using my PC and streaming the games to other screens is just more flexible for my needs.

Dolphin is really solidly built at this point, it’s one of the most well put together emulators there is, imho.

FUCK YEAH

I’ve only been pirating Nintendo games since the Wii era. When they released the Wii and stopped providing support for the old consoles they were dead to me. Before that I was able to get my NES serviced for $35 at Nintendo of America in Redmond, Washington and that included new parts and my games all getting cleaned.

I did find a 3DS on the side of the freeway once, but I firmware hacked it and loaded up a 128gb SD card with about 60 pirated games.

Yet Nintendo games will still never go on sale and Nintendo will charge more for worse quality controllers than any other company in the business.

Second verse, same as the first.

Oh no, “criticism!” Unless we do far more than criticizing these fuckers, it’s just business as usual. They need to be ejected from their seats in government.

You don’t make history by selling quality copper or following through on a deal, that’s for sure.

Yeah these chucklefucks aren’t talented enough to build that shit. Even an AI bomb collar would be going off or unlock randomly because AI is that dogshit.

Oh just now it’s a mockery of American democracy? I’ve been feeling pretty mocked for a 25 years now, ever since 9 fucking 11 and shit like “three hops,” Room 641A, the creation of the DHS, and the creation of the 4th amendment crushing TSA.

This just in folks, the government has been wiping it’s ass with the constitution probably since Reagan at least.

If all your squad mates are queers and leftists it’s not like you’re in it alone, either. They just gave a whole squad of you weapons and training…