They did the shooting in Venezuela that day.

Alright then, the fake friendliness that their employers require. Especially in customer service.

The assumption that the American legal, political, and cultural context is the "default." They say "X is illegal" without specifying jurisdiction. They assume a "right wing" or "left wing" party must be like their Republicans or Democrats. And so forth.

There are multiple mass shootings per day in the United States. This page keeps track as they come in.

Yeah, much as I dislike how it turned out and how China has been ignoring what post-unification rules there were on Hong Kong, the return itself was above board. Had I been living in Hong Kong in the years leading up I'd have taken the opportunity to get out if at all possible.

At least with Iraq the US pretended to be following international norms. The presented lies to the UN to justify their actions, they gathered allies into a "coalition."

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point.

Who's asking the bird and the worm? We're humans discussing this here, maybe a few bots in the mix.

Someone who's 18 years old now was 9 years old when Trump was first elected. Their whole awareness of American presidential politics is under his shadow.

I tend to be involved in very long-running campaigns, so it's been a slow and excruciating process of attrition to peel myself out of D&D and into a more diverse landscape.

I play with a couple of groups, and everyone can be divided into two distinct groups:

• Those of us who are the most active movers-and-shakers - the DMs, the really invested players, the ones who actually organize the sessions - and who are completely sick and tired of D&D both from a mechanics sense and in terms of the legal/business nonsense.
• Those of us who are casual players who equate "D&D" with "Roleplaying game" because they don't really think about it all that much but who will just go along with whatever the table is actually using.

I'm in the first group, as evidenced by the fact that I'm posting on a niche RPG community.

They voted for "whoever the other guys want."