Ah - You must be referring to the ones that funded and backed Hamas’s rise to power over the secular moderates with predictable results…

Israel.

That’s bound to work out great with their history of crashing…

Canva’s UI is somehow more fiddly than Word for making edits, but they’ve always seemed like a pretty decent company to me.

…of course that only holds true until it doesn’t - I’m looking at you, Google.

I couldn’t agree more.

The guy is certainly far from perfect, but I think he’s pretty reasonable overall, and that the complains above are nonsense.

He certainly slowed up on the debate prep over time, but he’s also basically stopped debating. From what I understand, his rationale was that you can’t get across all statistics, and that the people he was debating weren’t meaningfully backed by the data in any case so it’s fairly easy to find and debunk those syats/studies on the fly, which he frequently did. I don’t think it negatively affected his performance all that much.

It’s a valid complaint to make, though I don’t personally think it’s particularly material, and certainly has nothing to do with the nonsense complaints that were made above.

I guess I’ll link this and ask for specifics, because I’ve observed quite the opposite.

Given you seem to have taken your quote about personally getting Biden into office seriously, I think it’s pretty reasonable for anyone to be questioning your take here.

It’s also a hell of a lot easier than explaining your political position from first principles. There’s a good, simple reason we have and use labels - they’re useful.

K

Common goals, with a strong unifying purpose for 1.

In no way reliant on a benevolent dictator, and using authoritarianism to push a purpose generally results in outcomes like genocide and the annexation of neighbouring territories.

Opportunities for significant advancement.

The opposite is typically true as autocratic leaders use their power to entrench their power, enforcing strong hierarchies.

Significant investment into medical care.

This one is a mixed bag, but also isn’t remotely dependent on an autocrat.

Strong leadership direction.

That needs to point in a positive direction for it to be a positive - something that’s almost never happened for long

An extremely egalitarian society.

The opposite is almost invariably the case - preferential treatment (generally paired with bloodshed) is necessary to keep the powerful in power.

Filtering of those in power.

Who filters the dictator? That would mean they’re not a dictator.

A “benevolent dictator” funnelling public funds and lives into an offensive war effort to keep the populace unified in hate sounds, and is meant to sound hellish. It’s an unnecessary waste of resources and lives that comes at the direct expense of providing for your people.

What are the advantages?

Calling opposition to genocide antisemitic is one of the most anti-semitic things one could do - it paints genocide as inherent to Judaism - a ludicrous position that is about the best reason one could find to justify exterminating the Jews.

I happen to be something of a jizzard myself.

What? Oh- uhh - yeah - I meant denim too.

But he’s not in a car wearing speed dealer sunnies…?

I was - I watched the Jodorowsi doco a while back and mixed it in with the Lynch version - thanks!

I’m in a similar boat, but I haven’t really switched because my watch history is all in Plex. Have you solved for this, or just lived with it?

I’ve tried jellyplex sync (I think), but config got to be a bit much.

It’s also that Disney own almost all the known IP, and will roll it out time and again as a safe bet with predictable returns - art by focus group simply isn’t a thing.

Capitalism, baybee!

Jodorowsi’s Lynch’s Dune was great in its own fever dream kinda way - don’t get me wrong, I’m over the moon we have the new movie, and prefer part 1, but the older movies are a thing.

I’m pretty sure you’re threatening him with a good time.

His affinity for homoeroticism and drag is even stronger than your average manosphere chud.

Is this the most terminally online possible way of saying “gender is a social construct and I’m a gender abolitionist”?

Hey now - Texas has the state guard too - do you think the entire weight of the Pentagon, it’s carrier strike groups, and multiple branches of well-funded modern military is any match for ~1,600 good ol’ boys?