ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

What a huge amount of words to say so little: The feeling is changing based on a few polls that are trending down.

Ok, I disagree. The polls are settling, bottoming out, in a place much higher than they should be. Trump is shock-and-awing successfully. People are disoriented, but the Overton window is shifting very quickly.

And the game isn't "vibe" or approval. The game is authoritarian takeover. And that game is effectively over. Yes, they stopped following the rules but as we argue about those rules, they're collecting all the pieces, and putting them away in the box. They. No. Longer. Care. About. Polls.

All this to say, this copium isn't even high-grade product, it's too heavily cut with delusion.

I remember it was not really a surprising set of metrics: gameplay, graphics, and fun.

It was about having an experience you couldn't have at home (or anywhere else) because the games were always noticeably ahead of the curve.

Graphics were what was most attention-grabbing. It's hard to communicate how impressive it was since we're in the diminishing returns era for graphics. But a jump from Pac-Man to Rush 'n Attack or Contra, and from that to Street Fighter II, and from that to Ridge Racer, and that to Daytona USA, and so on... Every step was so imagination-bending.

What would it feel like now? Maybe like if you could play an actual Pixar movie as a game? Something like that, but there's nothing that really expresses it, photorealism isn't even that impressive anymore.

Welcome! Yep, I like this place a lot more - higher quality, lower volume.

I check back over on Reddit every so often and it's exactly as you say. It's probably impossible to stop the quality death spiral over there.

Jesus christ. Unidentifiable people just kidnap you for expressing an opinion. This was a legal resident, so we're watching the rule of law disappear.

I hoped I was being dramatic when I made a comment a few months ago how Hitler took full control in only three months after being appointed. I thought we'd have a few years at least.

But here we are, two months in, and right on track.

What most people don't know is Republicans have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, Schumer sent wave after wave of Americans at them until they reached their limit and shut down.

We've been "defending" a large part of the world for 70 years without owning Greenland.

Yes, but I think Trump doesn't understand the very concept of voluntary agreement. He only feels right when he has power over a thing and they don't have a choice about it.

He'll occasionally accept something given to him without strings, but only by casting that person as a "sucker" (his voters for example). Everything is adversarial and zero-sum to him.

Help, help! Someone call Dunning-Kruger Man! Please, Dunning-Kruger Man, confidently tell us it's someone else's fault without actually understanding anything! Hurry, we're trapped in this news cycle with no way out!

Exactly as Project 2025 envisioned.

Good job. Keep up the folo. It's the only way to have repercussions, to keep this story alive through Trump's attempts to supersede it with media-bait nonsense.

My first thought too. The timing is just too perfect.

My second thought? This means that Trump's team probably has executive orders just waiting in the wings, since they know how this all works. The only thing needed to supplant even awful news cycles are even worse news cycles.

My third thought? This means every time Team Trump royally messes up something, our only reward will be Team Trump doing something even worse, because it's the only move they have, ever.

Until we're all dead by their or our own hands, presumably.

Slamming Trump? That's a paddling.

Trump brain: I clearly didn't use enough gasoline.