THIRTY MINUTES.

thirty goddamn minutes.

User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.

"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."

Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":

I don’t know if they have to take the same ethics training that we do, but goddamn this is just so disgusting.

In a nutshell. 😊

Will 6 Trans Men Agree With Each Other? | Them YouTube video by them

This video is great! Especially the discussion about how masculinity is weaponized against trans men

youtu.be/wcRKYXxHlAs?...

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Credit where it's due, even to The Mouse: This is a VERY positive thing to do and was also probably incredibly difficult 👍

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Also mood:

Autistic man who had one good night's sleep will never, ever be able to replicate it Image of stressed man lying awake in bed

“I don’t know which specific combination of my 782,839 sleep items was the winning one,” Brereton continued. “Logically, I need to try every possible option. That should only take me… um… uh… I’m going to need a bigger calculator.”

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I personally think that having a labor secretary that wants to kill unions is much worse than that time Biden helped rail workers get what they wanted without not getting paid and pissing off the public but what do I know

A black and white picture from A Christmas Carol movie of Ebenezer Scrooge looking out the window with the words “You boy, are the Straits of Hormuz open or closed today.”

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development:

dearamericaletters.org

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

I said it before and I'll say it again:

Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

It’s not law enforcement
It’s ethnic cleansing

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.

Apparently like every day.

Fuuuuuuuuck. ICE.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

SCOTUS Hit by Bombshell Leak of Secret ‘Shadow Docket’ Memos The Supreme Court has increasingly relied on ruling on high-stakes policy through the “shadow docket.”

The origins of the Supreme Court’s secretive “shadow docket” have been revealed, providing a glimpse into how the justices began bypassing traditional procedures to issue rulings.

This really makes me miss when politics was normal. (Complimentary).

The worst part of how crazy and radicalized American politics has become is that is not contained to just America.

Good things are still possible, never give up