Well yes most anyone here knows he's 1/100th as bad as trump. and honestly in practice as president, I have to say he may actually be the best president in my lifetime. Doesn't change the fact that his age was a huge problem in his campaigning. and put simply the democratic party's obvious coverup of his age, that all fell appart on debate day did a pretty awful weakening to the image of the democratic party, which I would say, contributed to a good portion of swayable voters staying home or voting for trump.
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Always good to know a strong political movement being lead, when the creators, don't mention a single policy stance, state their past sides were based on which party hired them first... and formerly helped the tea party. So in short, their goal is to find districts of low turnout where voters aren't arsed to show up... giving an independent candidate a shot, with no indication of what that candidate will stand for.
If I had to be a betting man, I'm going to assume, it's going to be just like the tea party with a new strategy. IE it's stances will be determined by the same money that dominates the existing 2 parties, given the false air of being "independent", just like the tea party did.
Well I mean the bulk of the features they are railing about aren't even currently in most cars, Emergency breaking seems about 50/50 on protecting you vs others (hits the brakes if it detects you mindlessly driving towards something), and then the system that prevents people from leaving babies in the back seat.
awesome good to know, fingers crossed this is actually a direction that may happen. still have to question if it's enough to force johnson to bring it to the vote, and possibly needs a fillibuster breaking majority. (before we even talk about the senate).
It's something I find kind of amusing about Catholicism.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
I mean to me the whole concept of the catholic religion believing this is one of the 10 commandments. Then simultaneously praying in front of crucifixes or Virgin Mary statues etc...
I mean Jesus you could half way go with assuming trinity and considering him god... but it explicitly says "in heaven" and doesn't give any kind of "except of me".
Actually something kind of funny to me, it says "in heaven", "on earth" or "in the waters below earth". Assuming christian theology... the biggest exception that comes to my mind... is things that are in hell.
I mean pretty large parts of it are, also why they are part of the writers internal game to see how ridiculous they can make the tech scenes in crime shows go.
Like the famous 2 idiots one keyboard scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
where on top of hacking apparently being a huge visible thing that flashes stuff all over their computer screen to make it blatent something is happening, somehow they try to fight back... and type faster by having 2 people on the same keyboard.
am I missing this article, last I heard, trump was talking about extending the cuts... followed by Mike Johnson saying no we aren't interested in that at all.
Which then I guess further follows up the question, does Mike Johnson even need to bring it up to a vote at all? Like hypothetically even if they whip the votes and get 10 republicans to defect... would anything actually force johnson to bring it to a vote at all?
The political consiquences of this are unknown. Could mandami be a snake, absolutely, is it possible that behind closed doors he said to trump "I don't actually believe anything I said, go ahead and send ice in and do whatever you want"... can't rule it out, wouldn't be the first time we've been screwed (cough fetterman).
But at the same time... it's also possible they just said a bunch of platitudes. He just stuck up some charm, redirected his ideas in a way that trump thought they were his own.
Point is trump is going to have impact, and getting trump to moderately like you, is a good thing and will make enacting your goals easier, even when your goals are directly going to go head to head against trump. Mandami has a lot of goals, and he cannot get them all passed unilaterally. When he actually changes his rhetoric, or doesn't push for any of the things he said he would, that's when we call him out. Talking with other leaders, is kind of what politicians are supposed to do.
Haven't played it but in some google searches on it, the added cutscenes retcon away 2 deaths that normally happen in the plot.
https://hardcoregamer.com/biggest-changes-in-yakuza-0-directors-cut/
doing some searching, it sounds like it's 90% improvements (IE fixes, improved framerate, returning some music that was removed from the US version), additional cutscenes
There apparently were also some story changes... which can be disagreed upon... mainly all deaths were removed.
Though ignoring the differences in the versions, I think the main objections are the price. IE after the sale is discontinued, the long term is the $20 version is no longer for sale, with the note to buy the $50 version instead. (IE right now it's buy the cheap version on sale, and get it upgraded to the expensive one... but say someone decides to get the game in january, the only option will be the $50 game.
I mean I guess the concept is that they are using a system that may not be so well trusted. On the surface there is some potential good, but it boils down to the government buying stocks. The fact that they are index funds make it a little less daunting, but at the end of the day it's kind of a door to stupid corruption. IE company bribes politicians, government chooses index funds to drive up the stock prices they want. Stocks they want go up... politicians and croneys dump their stock in them at a high price, those stocks go down.