minnow

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minnow ,

Cults are about power, specifically for the leader of the cult. It's reasonable to assume that the mayor of the town and most of his cronies are cult members themselves, willfully working with the cult for mutual gain, or the cult has some kind of leverage over them.

Let the sorcerer get a mob, which while enroute to the cult to rescue their friends will be joined by the sheriff etc.

Meanwhile, the rest of the party will want to fight their way out or die trying, and it won't be fun for them if you railroad their actions in another direction. So, let them! The cultists won't kill them without orders (because maybe it's okay to kill these people, but maybe not, and none of them want to take the initiative and risk upsetting the leader)

The party successfully breaks free just as the sorcerer shows up with the mob lead by the sheriff who's on the cult's side. He then "legally" arrests the party for attacking the towns citizens. The civilian members of the mob are easily quelled and dispersed by the sheriff's men, leaving the party to fight a proper mini-boss battle (the sheriff and his men) OR let themselves be arrested (maybe by the suggestion of the NPC friend?) as a means of getting closer to the truth and whoever is REALLY in charge.

If they fight and win, they'll have a blast and earn their escape.

If they let themselves get arrested, you can advance the plot or have a sympathetic townsperson help them escape stealth fully.

Either way they should have a fun 🙂

minnow ,

Trickle down economics, as a theory, has been around well over 100 years, and it's never been believed in by everybody. Hell, a presidential candidate gave a speech against the idea in 1896

You're correct about misinformation having been around forever, but access to and ease to create misinformation is greater than ever before thanks to the Internet.

minnow ,

The author assumes the Court doesn't understand the consequences of what it's doing, but I really don't think that's a reasonable assumption. It's entirely possible they know exactly what they're doing.

minnow ,

IMO you should report the things to the labor board and let them decide. You never know what you might be missing with your own read through of the rules.

Dems who censured Rep. Tlaib over Palestine comments largely silent on GOP Rep's call for nukes ( www.thehandbasket.co )

I reached out to spokespeople for all 22 Democrats Monday morning with a simple inquiry: I wanted to know if they planned to make a statement or take any sort of action—like a censure—against Rep. Walberg for his call for the destruction of Gaza....

minnow ,

Democrats are not "so called progressives".

Some progressives are Democrats, but not all Democrats are progressives. Most Democrats are not progressives, in fact. Things make a little more sense once you accept that.

But only a little.

minnow ,

Because there couldn't be any legitimate reason to do the things they're banning, like cloud seeding, crop dusting, air dropping seeds for reforesting, I dunno, literally releasing anything as you fly over even like CO2 exhaust as mentioned by the other commentor.

Literally all matter is a chemical, chemical compound, or substance. IMO this law is going to be struck down super fast just for being overly broad. Not that that would stop Republicans from passing it and spending millions of dollars in public money defending it in court.

minnow ,

I'm starting to wonder if they're putting her in the limelight as setup for her being Trump's VP pick.

minnow ,

man who is able to think things out for himself

Otherwise known as a man who ignores people who have actually worked things out for realsies instead of just playing at mind exercises. A man who has "thought it out for for himself" that the earth is flat, modern medicine is poison, and immigrants are lazy criminals here to steal his job.

minnow ,

This is America, we don't go back and redo things just because they were done illegally! Trial results, elections, arrest records... Once they're done, they're done! Nothing to be done about it! Except taxes, they can always redo your taxes.

I wish I could add a /s I really really do

minnow ,

I think it’s pretty authoritarian to seek to stifle any speech.

Ohhhhh you're a free speech absolutist. Gotcha.

There's a fuckton of philosophy and case law behind why free speech absolutism is a bad idea. Maybe you can spend some time looking into that, you might gain some insight into why everyone is shooting you down.

Also, words mean things and while authoritarianism always shuts down free speech eventually, not all restrictions on free speech is authoritarianism. This would be the nuance that you claimed other people refuse to see, that you yourself have eschewed in this case.

Turning Down Food Aid for Millions of Children Reflects Shocking Political Callousness ( www.nytimes.com )

Fifteen states — all but one run by Republican governors — skipped the deadline to apply for a new federally-funded program that will provide $120 per child for groceries during the summer months to families of children who already qualify for free or reduced-price lunch at school.

minnow ,

These people stopped looking in the mirror a long time ago.

minnow ,

Can't be prosecuted unless Congress acts first? Detain Congress before they can act. Easy peasy, dictator for life.

minnow ,

Yup, it's taxpayer money.

The logic is that shit like this will cause voters to demand change and vote in people who will make sure stuff like this doesn't happen again. But the reality is that most voters simply don't care, and there's a non-zero number of voters who are unhappy because they want the black man to stay in prison whether he's innocent or not.

Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity ( thehill.com )

Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution....

minnow ,

Congress would impeach Biden SO FAST so he could then be prosecuted.

... Unless Biden also made it impossible for Congress to meet to impeach him. Which is obviously against the Constitution, but there's nothing to be done about it as long as Congress can't impeach him.

Checkmate, fascists.

... wait

minnow ,

You're 100% correct, but don't think that's enough for Meta. It's inherent to the nature of corporations to sell to grow, ie increase market share. If Meta thinks it can increase it's market share, even a little, by destroying mastodon.social it will.

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