I don't think that the issue is that they're expected to support it, it's that, if one may generalize, they're categorized as having been pretty strong supporters of multiculturalism for a good long while now.
(Yes, yes, not all Jews, etc.)
If your complaint is that too many immigrants are intolerant and haven't sufficiently assimilated into their host culture, well... Okay. That opinion has been floating around out there for a while now.
I imagine you're familiar with the counter-arguments to it.
If you insist on a comment that is somewhat more straightforward, I'll point to something I said back in 2020:
To what extent should we expect immigrants to assimilate?
If the answer is “No, not at freakin’ all!”, then that leads us to a handful of places.
If the answer is something like “well, we should have expectations of a certain amount of tolerance on their part… they can move here but they should know that homosexuality is okay here and homophobia should be left back in their shitty little country”, that’s another thing.
And if the answer is something like Denmark’s harsh laws for immigrant ghettos, that’s another thing entirely.
To what extent ought we expect immigrants to assimilate into their new culture?
And, golly gee, wouldn't it have been swell to hammer that particular point out *PRIOR* to millions and millions moving in?
The brie and apple one is positively divine. I don't want to say that it's my favorite, lest I indicate that I'd be disappointed with one of the others.
But if you haven't tried it, it's very much worth looking for while you're in the freezer aisle.
I can understand being anticompetitive in order to make people buy your singular product that they either have to pay out the nose for or pay a subscription for.
But even casual gamers buy more than one game a year.
It makes no sense to buy out InXile to sell more copies of Halo. Wasteland and Halo have zero overlap!
It's like cornering the market on frozen pizza in an effort to hope that people buy *YOUR* dino nuggies when they get hungry.
The Omnicause thing is getting in the way and there seem to be two basic opinions on the Omnicause:
1. The Omnicause is important because it maintains solidarity between everyone in the group.
2. The Omni cause is important but we need to allow dissent on my pet issue while policing all of the others.
The whole "someone who votes with you 80% of the time is not a 20% enemy" position that seems to be held by normal non-online people doesn't have a seat at the table and it's weird that making one is contentious.
Microsoft could screw up a two-man parade. They went out of their way to buy a bunch of interesting game companies to take over the online GaaS niche and what have they done with it?
Rare (GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark), Mojang (Minecraft), Bethesda (Elder Scrolls, Fallout), id Software (Doom, Quake), Arkane (Dishonored, Prey, Redfall), and Blizzard (Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo), Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword, Devil May Cry, Hellblade), and InXile (Wasteland, Bard's Tale IV, that Torment spiritual sequel).
If you are like me, you winced a couple of times as you wandered down memory lane going through those.
The Trump McDonald's thing was one of the craziest moments during the campaign.
He put on an apron while still wearing his signature tie. He salted fries and served them up to carefully vetted customers. He waved.
It was the dumbest photo op imaginable... DUMB LIKE A FOX.
Even Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, when talking about the stuff she did to make sure that kindygardy teachers could peel oranges, looks weird and off (but in a charming way!).
I think that there's this weird thing where different people who are good at this or that are weeded out at different levels of the game and so by the time you reach the level of having a recognizable name, only the blandest porridge is left.
I do think that a handful of the less dumb Democrats have started to notice that Trump won for a reason beyond Clinton/Harris being awful, awful candidates and are wondering what to do with this cursed knowledge.
I'm wondering what Whitmer is thinking... Whitmer vs. Vance 2028? Siphon off some of the Trump support and, seriously, where in the hell are the pinkos going to go? Jill Stein?
No, not removed from office. No, not impeached. Just banned from speaking or voting.
What makes this so awesome is that Republicans are constitutionally opposed to doing something like this in Republican states so there's bound to be zero unintended consequences!
The guys building the thing figure that they can get from Gilroy to Palmdale by 2045 if they can secure funding. Might be a good investment for people thinking about retiring around then!
A handful of questions itching in the back of my head:
1. Is she stupid? (Quite possible!)
2. Is she crazy? (Almost certainly!)
3. Has she been looking at internal polling? (The answers to #1 and #2 might inform this one.)
And the ever popular:
4. Am I in a bubble?
YES! EXACTLY! This is the exact sort of story that I was wondering would be on the same level as a "bar complaint"!
The lawyer gets back from lunch and the receptionist says "you got two more bar complaints from Ms. Bottleblond."
"Throw them in the circular file."
"Already did."
"Thank you, Gladys."
Or if it's something that it's actually rude to ask about.
I now know that it's something that's actually rude to ask about.
It's a question that I didn't know the answer to. I assume that most of the non-lawyers on the board don't know whether a "bar complaint" is a trivial thing that even the best lawyers attract every couple of months.
Like, if a guy in the military mentioned his squaddie got an LOC versus an LOR versus an LOA. One of those is one that everybody gets and they tell funny stories about. Other ones are mentioned only in hushed tones.
I mean, until this particular incident, I don't think that I'd ever heard of a "bar complaint".
Wait, was that what they got Clinton with after The Incident? So, I guess, maybe I had heard of one. Is this the same thing that Clinton got hit with?
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
I don't think that the issue is that they're expected to support it, it's that, if one may generalize, they're categorized as having been pretty strong supporters of multiculturalism for a good long while now.
(Yes, yes, not all Jews, etc.)
If your complaint is that too many immigrants are intolerant and haven't sufficiently assimilated into their host culture, well... Okay. That opinion has been floating around out there for a while now.
I imagine you're familiar with the counter-arguments to it.
"
What did you think "multiculturalism" meant?
Vibes? Papers? Essays?
If you insist on a comment that is somewhat more straightforward, I'll point to something I said back in 2020:
To what extent ought we expect immigrants to assimilate into their new culture?
And, golly gee, wouldn't it have been swell to hammer that particular point out *PRIOR* to millions and millions moving in?
"
Maybe the LGBT group should do a better job of respecting London's culture.
On “Weekend Plans Post: Found a New Dinner to Add to the Rotation”
The brie and apple one is positively divine. I don't want to say that it's my favorite, lest I indicate that I'd be disappointed with one of the others.
But if you haven't tried it, it's very much worth looking for while you're in the freezer aisle.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
I've heard rumors of the IBS conventions but I think that the people talking about them were full of crap.
On “A Backlash Is Coming”
My main thought when looking at the title is "we're already in one".
Followed by "we've *BEEN* in one."
On “POETS Day! Things from William Carlos Williams”
One I wrote back in 2016:
I have eaten
the chickens
that were beside
the red wheelbarrow
forgive me
so much depended
upon them
On “Weekend Plans Post: Found a New Dinner to Add to the Rotation”
If you know what kind of dogs she has, maybe a driver cover with that type of dog on it?
If your budget is only $20 or so, golf balls.
"
Feed it to the AI. Humans may not reach other planets but Earthlings will. Make sure that they're populated with your stuff too.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
I can understand being anticompetitive in order to make people buy your singular product that they either have to pay out the nose for or pay a subscription for.
But even casual gamers buy more than one game a year.
It makes no sense to buy out InXile to sell more copies of Halo. Wasteland and Halo have zero overlap!
It's like cornering the market on frozen pizza in an effort to hope that people buy *YOUR* dino nuggies when they get hungry.
On “A Backlash Is Coming”
The Omnicause thing is getting in the way and there seem to be two basic opinions on the Omnicause:
1. The Omnicause is important because it maintains solidarity between everyone in the group.
2. The Omni cause is important but we need to allow dissent on my pet issue while policing all of the others.
The whole "someone who votes with you 80% of the time is not a 20% enemy" position that seems to be held by normal non-online people doesn't have a seat at the table and it's weird that making one is contentious.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
Microsoft could screw up a two-man parade. They went out of their way to buy a bunch of interesting game companies to take over the online GaaS niche and what have they done with it?
Rare (GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark), Mojang (Minecraft), Bethesda (Elder Scrolls, Fallout), id Software (Doom, Quake), Arkane (Dishonored, Prey, Redfall), and Blizzard (Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo), Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword, Devil May Cry, Hellblade), and InXile (Wasteland, Bard's Tale IV, that Torment spiritual sequel).
If you are like me, you winced a couple of times as you wandered down memory lane going through those.
How in the hell do you drop that ball?
"
And it looks like GiantBomb is going under as well.
Rock Paper Shotgun got bought out last year.
What's left? Kotaku? Aftermath?
"
Erstwhile brother Ethan Gach reports: Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs
That's right, Vox Media sold Polygon to Valnet. Valnet owns, among other webpages, GameRant. (Some accuse GameRant of being clickbaity.)
This comes with layoffs, unfortunately.
On “US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collection”
They should set it up so that paying for your student loans with Trumpcoin gets a 10% extra payment.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
The Trump McDonald's thing was one of the craziest moments during the campaign.
He put on an apron while still wearing his signature tie. He salted fries and served them up to carefully vetted customers. He waved.
It was the dumbest photo op imaginable... DUMB LIKE A FOX.
Even Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, when talking about the stuff she did to make sure that kindygardy teachers could peel oranges, looks weird and off (but in a charming way!).
How in the hell do you bottle charisma?
"
I think that there's this weird thing where different people who are good at this or that are weeded out at different levels of the game and so by the time you reach the level of having a recognizable name, only the blandest porridge is left.
I do think that a handful of the less dumb Democrats have started to notice that Trump won for a reason beyond Clinton/Harris being awful, awful candidates and are wondering what to do with this cursed knowledge.
I'm wondering what Whitmer is thinking... Whitmer vs. Vance 2028? Siphon off some of the Trump support and, seriously, where in the hell are the pinkos going to go? Jill Stein?
"
Oh, and Maine is doing something freakin' *AWESOME* to stick it to transphobes.
Maine's Speaker banned Rep. Libby (R-HD90) from speaking and voting unless she recants her views about Maine allowing biological males to participate in female sports.
No, not removed from office. No, not impeached. Just banned from speaking or voting.
What makes this so awesome is that Republicans are constitutionally opposed to doing something like this in Republican states so there's bound to be zero unintended consequences!
(The Republican Supreme Court is probably going to squash it, though.)
"
So a mere "not smart, not canny, and certainly *NOT* looking at internal polling"?
"
Good news for High Speed Rail enthusiasts: California high-speed rail leader pushes state to support private investment
The guys building the thing figure that they can get from Gilroy to Palmdale by 2045 if they can secure funding. Might be a good investment for people thinking about retiring around then!
"
A handful of questions itching in the back of my head:
1. Is she stupid? (Quite possible!)
2. Is she crazy? (Almost certainly!)
3. Has she been looking at internal polling? (The answers to #1 and #2 might inform this one.)
And the ever popular:
4. Am I in a bubble?
On “Cats Are The Best: An Annotated List”
The cat distribution system is no joke. There should be someone that we could write a letter to.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
YES! EXACTLY! This is the exact sort of story that I was wondering would be on the same level as a "bar complaint"!
The lawyer gets back from lunch and the receptionist says "you got two more bar complaints from Ms. Bottleblond."
"Throw them in the circular file."
"Already did."
"Thank you, Gladys."
Or if it's something that it's actually rude to ask about.
I now know that it's something that's actually rude to ask about.
"
It's a question that I didn't know the answer to. I assume that most of the non-lawyers on the board don't know whether a "bar complaint" is a trivial thing that even the best lawyers attract every couple of months.
Like, if a guy in the military mentioned his squaddie got an LOC versus an LOR versus an LOA. One of those is one that everybody gets and they tell funny stories about. Other ones are mentioned only in hushed tones.
I mean, until this particular incident, I don't think that I'd ever heard of a "bar complaint".
Wait, was that what they got Clinton with after The Incident? So, I guess, maybe I had heard of one. Is this the same thing that Clinton got hit with?
On “Cats Are The Best: An Annotated List”
Those are just toothy kisses.