Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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I picked the wrong election cycle to stop sniffing glue.
You're in Texas. How else are you supposed to be able to participate in local elections if you aren't actively destroying your neurons by huffing noxious fumes?
That's been a lot of these people.
Philadelphia area news mostly.
Hmmm. I don't remember which outlet I saw it on, but I have a selection of national media sources. At least two of them focused on the fact that the man who reported him was Sikh.
Should it have been widely reported if it was a Hindu immigrant? How about Daoist? Or are you just wanting to bring attention to the immigrant part, since there's a lot of anti-immigration ideas going on right now?
Mostly the immigrant part, particularly since the bloated orange peel is blaming refugees for a bombing committed by an American citizen.
Pedanticbeard wants to point out that one can be both an immgrant to the US and a citizen of the US. Indeed, the bomber is one such example.[DOUBLEPOST=1474493647,1474493423][/DOUBLEPOST]
. . . And I just realized the funny bit, here. As in "I feel the need to laugh at this ignorance or my soul will be crushed by the realization that people are stupid"
(It's a fact I'm deep in denial about)
Considering Trump has spoken out against birthright citizenship, I wonder if trying to curtail the rights of existing naturalized citizens could make it onto his agenda as well.
I wouldn't put it past him.
Not that I think he has anything approaching an agenda beyond "what pops into my head, I'm just gonna say. If y'all like it, well do it."
I'm trying to decide how I feel about this. A big part of my feelings on it are influenced by the shitty ass job I feel our state government already does with managing money. So if you like reading political documentation, read this and give me your opinion. 
http://www.coloradocare.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/amendment-reformatted12.27.15.pdf
http://www.coloradocare.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/amendment-reformatted12.27.15.pdf
Seems like a lot of power concentrated into one entity with no real plan, other than to set up a single payer system and hope the board is somehow able to create regulations that save money while providing adequate care.
On the other hand they are making money hand over fist with drug taxes, so perhaps they can afford it without bankrupting the middle class.
On the other hand they are making money hand over fist with drug taxes, so perhaps they can afford it without bankrupting the middle class.
We are not even going to get into a discussion about the pot taxes. Making money hand over fist doesn't mean shit when a big chunk of it got refunded to the populace due to terrible budgeting. (See TABOR) I am really bitter about pot taxes for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the terrible education funding in this state.
Time to reconsider buying that VR device: Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey has been funding Trump's Alt-Right meme machine.
Didn't he sell the whole thing? He doesn't profit off it anymore if he sold all the rights and such.
True. Still, in a market so saturated with options, there really isn't a reason to get one when I have other options.
And the Vive is better, anyway.
Don't need to tell me; I think that about VR in general
.Well, it looks like it doesn't matter: VR Devs removing Oculus Support until Founder steps down.
Apparently he still works for Oculus, even if he doesn't own it anymore.
Apparently he still works for Oculus, even if he doesn't own it anymore.
not just beiing a neo nazi, but using your wealth, power, and influence to strengthen and spread neo nazi shit
I agree with this. I wouldn't call it sad, just... dumb. It's their game, those devs can do whatever they want with it, but it's still dumb.
No different from eating/not eating Chick-fil-A, or using Israeli products, or half a dozen other boycotts.
Eh, not eating Chick-fil-A is a choice of the consumer, though.
It's the end result of capitalism in this country: when money and it's uses are considered a form of free speech, the ultimate (legal) expression of displeasure can only ever be denying your business/patronage to businesses that back causes you don't believe in. And... there is nothing wrong with this, morally or otherwise. People and companies have the right to spend their money on what they want and to work with who they want. To suggest otherwise is to imply that people have a moral obligation to ignore the harm their money/labors may do if doing so may affect the prosperity of others. There is no such obligation in capitalism. In fact, it would be anathema to all it stands for; it's up to the market to decide if political beliefs are relevant market forces and apparently they are.
All arenas are political because political beliefs are forged through everyday actions and interactions. And to be frank, this sort of thing is still way better union riots, abortion center bombings, or armed uprisings.
Businesses have the right to choose who they work with. If they believe that protecting their beliefs is more important than full market penetration, that is their right... and really, it's no different than a third party dev deciding not to make a game for a console for any other reason.
Not a lot of people calling for the head of Miyamoto though, I'll admit...
I agree it's their right, I'm not saying they should be forced to, I'm just saying it's dumb. It's a knee jerk reaction that in the end changes nothing, and hurts only the audience that might want to play their games. The console comparison didn't quite fit because it's a peripheral, it's like saying I want to make sure my stuff doesn't work on Dell monitors.
It was a shitty thing to do when oculus tried to do it by locking the Vive out from running oculus games, and it's a shitty thing to do now.
Though, I haven't looked to see which devs are doing this, maybe they all suck anyway so who cares.
Some of them are small guys. Some of them, like Insomniac, are large veterans of the industry.