But also if you start sounding too radical, you're a Fed.

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Damn, can't believe Cromwell happened again.

No no no. Economics is when there's an evil ghost and you have to beat it with the power of being horny for a girl that's not into you.

Kathy Hochul having to answer multiple questions about Peanut during the governor's race would be very funny

they would run the same campaign

I'm waging they would have simply not pulled Biden off the front of the ticket and let him take the L, so Kamala could run in 2028.

This year it's nothing. I say that I'm with the people of Palestine and it's like I said the secret word. Immediately it's "Ok, thank you." and they hang up. What is up with this?

They're trying to hit a call-quota. The people on the other end of the line don't actually care if you vote or who you vote for. They just want to make their 1000th call and go home. You'll notice you still keep getting called so its not like anyone is registering what you're saying.

When I dabbled in electoralism I used to see this on the other end. There would just be a line of phone numbers getting dialed. 90% of them wouldn't pick up. Anyone who answered the phone promoted you with a "R / D / Undecided / Other" option menu. If someone on the other end of the line is saying "I won't vote for genocide!" what do I select? Undecided/Other. But that doesn't take you off the phone list, it just spits you into the "Try again later" queue.

The best way to get these calls to stop is to identify who is making them and say you're staunchly supporting the other one. That still doesn't work too well, because you're getting called independently from Presidential, Senatorial, and House phone bankers who don't bother to coordinate because that would mean functioning as a party rather than a random assortment of self-centered egomaniacs. But it does at least get the network you said "I'm voting for the other guy" on to flag you as "Opposition, do not call again".

Rocket League will be banned because it contains the ability to explode cars

Killing children is one thing. But they attacked cars. Cars. They didn't know who they were messing with.

Stop trying to get me to vote for Trump by threatening gamers.

Almost forced to wonder if they're all racists. Like, it doesn't have anything to do with Trump at all. They're merely looking for an excuse to say The Word.

Why can't these dumbfuck gamers just stop playing the game they hate

Because they don't hate the game. Its all performative. They love the attention that lashing out at Popular New Thing provokes. And they love riding the algorithm, wherein anyone talking about Popular New Thing frequently enough gets promoted to the top of the automated attention queue.

This is all about generating influence through attention seeking behaviors. The game itself doesn't matter, save that someone is spending a fortune to promote mentions of it and that offers these shits an elevated platform to say provocative shit.

What consumers? It's one guy with a Twitch stream whose audience mostly just laugh at how weird and gross he is.

Go the Exo-Squad route. Colonize Mars and genetically engineer a race of superhumans to survive the harsh conditions. Then become terrified of your Mars-Engineered Children, reclassify them as a hostile alien species, and spend the next five years doing interstellar pogroms in cool mechs.

William Shattner went to space and it just made him sad.

What a waste. You could be using it to build a guillotine instead.

Spending millions on a PR stunt with the surplus income you siphoned out of your victims? Literally vampirism.

how dare I like the easy thing that just worked for normies.

In fairness, Win8 was just about the last version that did do easy things and work for normies. Even that was bloat and spyware ridden. But it's become exhausting to fumble for the hidden setting that turns off the wall of ads in my start menu every time my company pushes a patch that resets my startup settings. Nevermind Microsoft's decade long crusade to fully obscure the file directory.

The correct answer was "Anything big enough to pull a boat"

"Wow you make a lot of interesting points, I'll have to think about that" is my go-to escape hatch.

Repeatedly demurring to respond, because anything else they say is just too confusing, is another approach.

My mom loves to swerve the conversation in a completely different direction, to try and deflect the conversation to another subject. I just remember her opening on "Why aren't you voting for Biden?", getting a response she didn't like, probing a bit further, balking, and then producing a book of baby pictures I swear to God from thin air to talk about how cute I was when I was younger. I think the transition was "The 1980s? I remember when you were just a little boy back then!" and then insisting we talk about a road trip from when I was 4.

Why hide your hand when you're sitting on a royal flush?