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Musk is also a profoundly stupid man with the emotional maturity of an unloved 13 year old boy. He'll do anything to try to fill the void in his heart. Well, anything except be a decent person, I guess.

It's the "conservatism has one rule: there must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and outgroups for the law to bind but not protect" thing.

You're probably not telling the total truth, but maybe consider that one person being unpleasant 30 years ago isn't a good reason to abandon an entire form of media for your entire life. Let it go. The librarian is probably dead by now, and they don't have to matter to you anymore.

I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can't have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn't ever work. When they're going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn't work, it's the same

As more people are laid off, "I gotta go to work" becomes less compelling.

Show your work.

We really should be organizing to fight the right wing, because they're pretty unified.

It does feel like unrest is coming. I don't want to live in a world with car bombs in the US, but I do want all the republicans dead, so.

Good. More.

There is truth here.

I think rich people will have assets, like stock, and they'll get a loan out with the stock as collateral. They pay like 2% on the loan, but they get like a million dollars cash. If that was treated like income, they'd pay a lot more taxes.

Not sure the best way to address this, but it should be addressed.

I feel like if we had spent the money lost to tax cuts on enforcing existing laws, like really throw the book at tax cheats, like put them in orange jumpsuits and make them rot in a cell, we'd have had better outcomes.

The ultra rich should be afraid.

Meanwhile, the US is trying to go to 60 hour workweeks and 6-day workweeks.

Labor needs to organize, and the rich need to be broken.

I don't know PBTA well but I believe so.

Basically, every scene and character can have 'aspects', which are things that are true about them. They're free form. Sometimes they're just there, like if you're in a bar it might have "Bubbling with drunk banter" or "Loud Pop Punk Soundtrack". Aspects can then affect what makes sense in the scene. "Loud Pop Punk" can make it easier to move without being heard, but harder to make a speech because no one can hear you, for example.

You can also explicitly create aspects. Turn off the jukebox and the aspect might change to "Weirdly Quiet Bar" or whatever. In a fight, you can use the "create an advantage" move. That's for stuff that isn't about taking them out of the conflict right now, but setting things up. Like pushing them off balance, disarming them, screaming "LOOK! A DISTRACTION!" whatever. If the roll comes out if your favor, you can create an aspect that's true and can also be invoked for a numeric bonus on a dice roll. So if you pants the guy you're fighting, he can't run full speed to chase you because his pants are down. You can also invoke that if you want to kick his ass, for a bonus on the dice roll.

These are all free form and it's up to the group to decide what it actually means. Most groups probably wouldn't let you invoke "I'm literally on fire!!" as a bonus if you're trying to sneak through a crowd.

Typically, as I understand it, you're either trying to take them out of the fight or trying to create advantages for side of the conflict. On a dramatic success on trying to take someone out, you can also create a small advantage.