First thing that comes to mind is Warframe. It's a co-op third person looter-shooter, with full crossplay, so you can all party up across your platforms. It's all very controller friendly, with lots of shotguns, SMGs, melee weapons and space magic that are all really forgiving of imprecise aim. It cares less about twitch reflexes and more about movement.
The scifi setting and "space ninja" aesthetic may or may not be to your taste, although I promise if you take the time really sink into the world it's actually one of the most refreshingly different and unique scifi settings out there. There's a lot of weirdness, but as you dig deeper into the story that weirdness all makes sense. And, like, it's the good kind of weird if you get me? Stuff that makes you go "Holy fuck I want to know what the deal with that is!"
It does have a lot of MMO elements, so it can get grindy at times, but in my experience it's a really solid game for hanging out and chilling on Discord together. Plus the game itself is free, with no paid DLC or add-ons, and for an adult with an income a few bucks here and there skips a LOT of grind, especially if you check out the third party market website where players will sell you a lot of the rare drops you'll want for less than a dollar.
Added bonus, it's made by the original developers of Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes (there are actually a bunch of UT references squirelled away in the game).
Easily one of the most braindead takes I've seen.
"Oh but he didn't mention voter fraud."
Yeah, because he won. There's no value in questioning the ref's call when it's in your favour.
I too am old enough to remember Bush, and honestly... I think this person is seriously underestimating how much more dangerous the Republicans have gotten in the intervening time.
Bush had nothing remotely close to the project 2025 agenda, and Bush didn't have a supreme court willing to tell him that he was literally above the law.
Bush was terrible, no doubt about it, and the people who've been trying to rehabilitate him can fuck off forever. But Trump, and the version of the Republican party behind him, are so much worse.
I think my next step is going to be to sign up for NDP membership, so that I can use my voting power to push that party into a more explicitly progressive direction.
That and, as you said, getting involved in local advocacy and education. That part is going to be trickier since I just moved to a new province so I'm basically starting from scratch.
The war on drugs only failed if you truly believe its goal was getting rid of drugs.
To quote John Erlichman, one of its architects:
“The Nixon Campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
By the strandards of what it was created to do, the war on drugs was fantastically successful.
The war on porn will be successful in exactly the same way, because Republicans have already spent decades redefining all LGBTQ content as "pornographic". This is will be a tool for disrupting queer and trans communities, for erasing queer and trans resources and tearing down queer and trans rights activists. Stopping porn isn't the point, and it never was.
And to be clear, this isn't supposition, it's already literally happening in Florida.
Florida is the model for what they want to do everywhere.
Oh yeah, that list is going to be an absolute goldmine for scammers.
And honestly, if crypto people had any self reflection at all, the fact that being overtly a crypto person makes scammers flock to them, because they have hard data showing, statistically, how gullible they are should really make them reconsider being crypto people.
Not fucking great buddy. Not fucking great.
You're assuming that there will be a free and fair election in 2028.
I don't think that's a given anymore.
"Ukraine was always friendly with the Trump crowd, I think."
Timmy, what the everloving fuck are you smoking?
This brings me back to a point I keep on making; I really do not care if the vast majority of people vote selfishly. In fact, I want you to vote selfishly.
Just for the love of God be smart about it.
You're hurting? You're feeling economic pain? Absolutely take those feelings into the ballot box with you.
But why in the absolute fuck would you vote for the guy who has promised to make everything more expensive?
The problem is not that people are selfish. Selfish is fine, selfish is good. We can work with selfish. But what we need, desperately, is to teach people how to act effectively in their own self interest, instead of being lead around by the nose by billionaires.