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I am not sure the answer to a worldwide gambling epidemic is to make more gambling but what do I know.

$900,000 3 bedroom homes made of paper, wood and plastic you mean!

Whoever said you get what you pay for never bought a house in the US in the 21st century.

according to white, straight, cis male Americans with money and inherited property

ftfy a lil' more

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For some of our population, the green line has been in a very rough place for a very long time. If anything it's only gone up for some people since WW2, despite recent setbacks. Still a long way to go, but I have a feeling there are more than a few families who are looking out at the US in disarray right now and shrugging because it's always been like this for them.

I mean, he SAID he wasn't a crook, and by today's standards of critical thought, that's an ironclad defense.

The MAGA base is almost entirely people who are so reactionary to their own feelings that they will never, ever listen to arguments from places of reason like the joke in the meme OP posted.

"If it makes me feel good, it's good. If it makes me feel bad, it's bad." - American conservatives broadly.

What they don't get, and will never understand, is that the narratives for how they feel are being supplied to them from outside sources. A tactic that only grifters on the right seem to have the balls to employ, despite it being the easiest thing in the world to change how these clowns feel and thus what direction they're pointed at.

Smartphones have been worse for people by a thousand miles.

At least lead can be taken out of the system with enough advocacy and effort. How do you get people to stop wanting to see interesting things? How do you get people to regrow their attention spans?

They are the same people who have real tangible stakes in the media, the media is just them also. They are the media.

I am upset that there are absolutely no regulations and checks on corporate expansion or rules about neutrality in informative media.

Wait, a man's laughter is illegal? I THOUGHT THEY MADE COMEDY LEGAL AGAIN

It's also illegal to rape kids, but here we are in 2026.

Having delved a little into that lore myself out of the same curiosity I learned that it's actually a very appealing temptation in the warhammer 40k lore, it's a promise of painless immortality and a perpetual celebration of the cycle of life and death. You don't mind that you become a rotten, bloated monster filled with bugs... because you feel great and feel the warm embrace of a divine being that you know you will become a part of one day. It's like distilled religion, with all the body-horror that goes with religion amped up to eleven.

Also, the people who are convinced to pledge their perpetual loyalty are usually victims of Nurgle's own plagues and horrific diseases so the people who succumb are a bit "motivated" to make the pain and suffering end.

As with everything in the franchise, there is a direct allegory here to the way religions or imperialist ideologies spread, cause direct, targeted harm to the people, and then forces those people to either be consumed by the movement that is harming them or be killed.

Edit: I'll add more, after thinking about this more, and my experience watching a friend fall completely down the evangelical christian whirlpool, and how they now address every issue in the world and society with a weird smile and an incantation how it's "all part of God's plan" I think there is a definite, intentional juxtaposition between the peace and divinity that followers of Nurgle feel despite the fact that they are literally rotting, walking death. It reminds me of that weird bliss that Christian converts in particular feel after successfully convincing their own brains that everything positive they feel is a direct result of God, not their own brain just following instructions to make them feel better after meditation/prayer, despite so much wrong with the entire world and their own belief system.

And it will go in history studies the same was as the civil rights pictures. We are seeing history happening and tend to forget it because so much of it is SO dumb.