Lauchs

I've fallen out of star wars as the recent stuff has been mediocre (or Andor which was "quality television" but felt, to me out of place in a galaxy ruled by space wizards with laser swords) but damn, seeing that wolfman dude and the notion of Urkel... Well, I'm tempted!

Fair enough!

I'm still not sure I get this. Is it just odd for them to be looking at a hangnail?

I don't think he's a genius but knows one game very well, and it's treating the Left/media the same way I treated my younger sister when I was an asshole; wind her up, watch her melt down, over-react and get in trouble.

And we take the bait EVERY. GODDAMN. TIME.

He's not imitating Nazis by accident and he's not doing it because he's a Nazi. He's doing it because it makes us make ourselves look like hysterical children.

Edit: It's not 78D chess, it's the easiest game to play. Couldn't be much more simple as far as politics go.

That's an.... interesting opinion.

That's why we have to vote in primaries for non-evil.

But we get outvoted, badly, by senior citizens so old time politics reigns supreme.

Oh no, I get that. I think he's echoing that stuff intentionally but more to make us cry fascist etc. He loves our reaction to the dictator but only on day one schtick, his side sees it as a joke, we take it deadly serious and I worry median voters think "he was already president, we still have a democracy, these guys are over-reacting."

We can be simultaneously right AND lose the persuasion game. I'd rather win the persuasion game.m as that matters more than being right.

I think about Jan 6, with horrifies Democratic leaning folks but to a large swathe of the public, it doesn't seem to register as a concern compared to inflation etc.

Fair, I play more RPGs and whatnot where a knife takes 4 years to injure someone. (Though, a bad sword can take just as long because, I dunno, it's too dull to chop through this peasant's leather tunic? Goddamnit Ultima.)

"He knows what he is doing,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history who studies fascism and authoritarianism, said of Trump’s statement. “He chooses his words carefully.”

Yeah but not in the way this person thinks. I firmly believe a large chunk of trump's success is his ability to bait the Left/media into frothing at the mouth and making us seem like we're blowing things out of proportion.

It's why he uses stuff like lying press, to a student of history, that's a pretty clear Nazism. To a casual American, he's just hating on the press. Similarly with this, to a casual American, he really means deporting illegal immigrants back to their home countries, whereas to this author, well, you read the article.

I think back to the debate and how well Harris baited trump, it was so nice to see it go the other way and it worked beautifully. Hopefully, we can be wiser than trump and avoid taking his latest and future bait attempts.