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High five. Not the only one going Fallout here.
We need humor. I need humor. Can't drink because of health problems. Haven't been gaming nearly as much since Trump started since I need to save the source of my games before I can consider devoting whole days to them again. Which isn't likely, but I did get a few hours of Crusader Kings 2 in in between posts here and chatting with others.
The good fight has its own rewards. At least I'm doing something about this stuff instead of sitting on my ass being one of the mediocre shits like I used to.
edited 25th Jan '17 4:00:06 PM by Journeyman
In the event of societal collapse, gold will become worthless. Gold has relatively little intrinsic value and was basically fiat currency all along.
Buy things of practical value, like canned goods, tools, energy (batteries, gasoline, ect), toilet paper, ammunition.
@Big Earthquake: Damn. Big Earthquake? This is sounding oddly biblical. Can the rapture happen already, please?
edited 25th Jan '17 4:02:37 PM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34I've been living here in California for more than 10 years, and have rarely experienced earthquakes, so I'm not too alarmed by that. Also, Yellowstone could erupt, which would take out the Republicans... as well as most of the rest of North America and probably parts of South America, Europe, and Russia.
edited 25th Jan '17 4:14:42 PM by Bat178
: I can also vouch that California doesn't get an lot of strong quakes too. But I blame the one that burnt San Francisco for giving the state it's reputation.
And about Trump bringing Fallout X to life, aren't there bureaucratic safeguards to prevent him from launching nuclear ICB Ms at the push of an button?
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I've lived in California for my whole life, so I've seen my share of mild ones as well. But it's not about the number of quakes, but the potential intensity of just one.
I'm not gonna get hysterical about it. Just want people to take proper precautions.
That's going to be significantly harder when Trump succeeds at making the lives of the people they hate even worse than their own. Because then their lives are better by default.
edited 25th Jan '17 4:20:10 PM by Eschaton
There's no incentive to give them their jobs back anyway. Machines do things quicker, safer, cheaper. If they break you just fix or replace them. They don't complain, they don't ask for more (except when they're wearing out and you have to put more maintenance work into them to keep them going) and they don't join unions to bring you to your knees when you're keeping too much money and not giving enough to them.
The only win in using humans hinges on the current market system where you're selling a product. If the Republicans switch their thinking from sales to accomplishment instead, then the workforce either learns computer jobs and stays out of the way of the "Great Ones" or they get smashed into tiny bits.
I honestly think big business always wanted to veer towards an accomplishment focus instead of sales. They just didn't have the sort of economy or political power they could use to get it.
But dammit, for a second I thought I was either going to die or will have to fight for my life in a ruined city!
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000A18674100&page=6780#169488
If you're worried about Net Neutrality, that's a good place to start. Put it in your own words or add to it as you see fit and slam something like it into an email to each of your representatives. I stay away from mentioning protests on these things because saying that sort of thing is likely to tweak anyone in office who can stand Trump.
So guys, want to know what Trump's proof for fraud is?
Non-citizen couldn't vote while suspect Hispanics could
When one of the Democrats protested, Mr. Trump said he was told a story by “the very famous golfer, Bernhard Langer,” whom he described as a friend, according to three staff members who were in the room for the meeting.
The three witnesses recall the story this way: Mr. Langer, a 59-year-old native of Bavaria, Germany — a winner of the Masters twice and of more than 100 events on major professional golf tours around the world — was standing in line at a polling place near his home in Florida on Election Day, the president explained, when an official informed Mr. Langer he would not be able to vote.
Ahead of and behind Mr. Langer were voters who did not look as if they should be allowed to vote, Mr. Trump said, according to the staff members — but they were nonetheless permitted to cast provisional ballots. The president threw out the names of Latin American countries that the voters might have come from.
Not even hiding it.
lmfao
New Survey coming this weekend!Washington Post: D.C., other ‘sanctuary cities’ defiant in the face of Trump’s threats
The comments section is stuffed to the brim with "The government is only enforcing the law" and ". . . but they're still illegal immigrants amirite?"
Anyone got any tips on how to respond to that tactic in a face-to-face conversation?
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How can you tell an illegal from a legal one by looking?
Would you rather I presume you're guilty of being a criminal without evidence based on your looks alone?
The government was just enforcing the law at Ruby Ridge and Waco too, were they right to do it?
Drying the funds for those cities also harms US born citizens regardless of their heritage
The US was founded by immigrants and immigration has been a net positive in the US society and economy Okay they won't listen to this one though.
Collective punishment for citizens who stand for their beliefs is Un-American.
If you think that immigration is a problem, then you should knock on the door of the big business that hire them in the first place
If you don't want to work the jobs the immigrants do, then don't complain about them picking up the tab
Unlike Fox News told you, illegal immigrants can't enjoy things like the ACA or Obamacare as you know it, the EBT and many job and securities you do, so they aren't a drain in those resources
edited 25th Jan '17 5:01:52 PM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent legesWould you rather I presume you're guilty of being a criminal without evidence based on your looks alone?
These are the first things that come to mind.
Like you can't be Trump and make up a bullshit statistic about how many illegal immigrants there are in the country (or to be more specific, that the people who voted for him are obviously illegal so they don't count), that's the sort of thing that's tough to gather data on and needs some very rigorous research to make claims about.
Likewise unless there is very rigorous evidence about voter fraud it is not wise to assume it is going on just because you feel threatened about the people who are voting against you.
edited 25th Jan '17 5:07:12 PM by Draghinazzo

On a more serious note, for fellow Californians, at the rate things are going, "The Big One" will finally hit too.
And it would be the exact kind of crisis that Republicans will exploit for their own gain, and use to thoroughly eradicate any means of opposition or resistance.
So I would take disaster preparation very seriously. Or develop the ability to simply get out. Family, a job, study abroad, anything.