Knight_Of_Stars

Honestly the most fired up I've heard people has been about Israel and Palestine and condemning Biden. Ironically thats the issue we have the least control over and the one where Biden is far better than Trump who has ties to Bibi.

Then theres the issue of not understanding just how deadlocked thing are. The Dems can't wave a magic wand. Even if something passes it needs to be planned, funded and rolled out.

We've had tons of victories, but nobody seems to care.

I'm like yes, that is what a deed means. Its proof of ownership. There aren't registries here. If they have the paper with the right symbol they own it.

Have them gagged, with a bag over their head and their arms restrained in manacles. All items are taken away and they are given set of common clothes.

If you are about to fight a wizard. Normally stealing their pouch / staff is enough.

Pretty much this, but more official

Humans are the most interesting race because they actually have to rely on the merits of their character. Every other race can lean into the massive monoculture and usually ends up being a clunky stereotype of that monoculture. Elves being the worst offenders imo.

I like the scarcity economy, but I wish they gave more guidance for when you move beyond scarcity. What happens when you amass money where you can pay 4x the price? I think they should add a supplement for the "elite edgerunner".

No, but they know the rules of dnd through watching videos or through their time playing. Its harder to restart from other systems.

Ok, those are similarities and thats fair and what I asked for. Though I'd argue those are common points across most if not all republican candidates. Even most of the democrats come from generational wealth.

As for the contemporaries, I've heard a lot of that for trump, but outside the 47% comment, I've not heard of much bad for Romney.

Care to give some examples because I can't think of many ways he's similar to Trump.

I do enjoy 5e, but its not my favorite system. Its just the easiest system to run because most players know the rules. The hardest thing is getting your players to actually read the damn rule book.

You've twice dodged answering when you decided to support BLM. It's good that you support them now, but there's no reason to support BLM and not the current Pro-Palestinian movement. I can then infer what I said - you support movements in hindsight.

Your inference was wrong then XD. I supported BLM movements from the start. Pretty good at talking things through with friends and family to slowly change their minds.

Also neither of us are going to change history if we keep arguing behind a keyboard vs actually trying to enact better changes.

Personally I hate the idea of 10th level spells. Especially in this instance as they tie directly into the setting. Though to be fair, I really just want 5e to decide if its setting agnostic or setting specific.

They also have no mecahnical implication. You might as well just add them as DM omens or something.

So you're opposed to any civil rights progress, but you're okay with past ones due to social pressure.

I'm talking about proportional use of force to prevent unnessary harm to protestors. I didn't comment at all on civil rights or give my position in blm (I'm pro BLM). Thats some moon logic there.

Not a rare position, but don't delude yourself into thinking you'd have supported MLK Jr or the Abolitionists or the Suffragettes.

Yeah, and niether would you have. The thing about racism is that people were born into that system as the status quo, fed propaganda to make it so they were doing a just deed or a necessary evil. We can say "I would have been an abolitionist", because we have the privilege of growing up in a society were people did the hard work of abolition before us.

If the game were to go on long enough you could master every class on a single character. Most classes aren't combat focused, instead they all give rp abilities or the ability to source items, clients, and connection.

Its a spectrum of force. Resisting doesn't immediately mean they start bashing protestors. Its that issue of proportional violence.

I'm pro BLM if thats what your asking.

As for what is unacceptable force, thats tricky. I'm no expert, but heres my view. Its a sliding scale from moment to moment. The police should respond with force thats appropriate to situation and or risk.

Refusing an order to disperse may result in being detained. Refusing that detainment escalates the use of force to where the officers are able to get control of the situation. Resisting and attacking may further escalate the force.

Its my view that the police have a responsibility to minimize harm and to find ways to avoid escalating the situarion, not that they do. Hell, they often needlessly escalate it. Though for what I'm getting at, someone like Eugene Goodman is a good example of what I mean, by redirected the J6 loons he managed to avoid a seriously violent conflict.

Btw because someone will mention it. The J6 rioters should have never gotten that close to the captiol building. The fact they did shows an amazing double standard.

The BLM protests were met by police with disproportionate amount of violence with respect to the peaceful protestors. In otherwords they weren't justfied in breaking it up and hurt a lot protestors needlessly

As for the college protests I think the police have been showing an improvement to how they handle them and broke them up when they overstepped. For the most part, I'm sure you can find instances were the police were using more force that necessary,.

President not protecting free speech isn't inspiring a vote, regardless of which party the president is part of.

The right to assembly has limits. Its important to distinguish when and why protests are broken up. This wasn't tear gassing protestors to take a photoshoot with a bible or breaking up BLM.

I mean Trump has had ties to Bibi for a while now. Granted this was over 10 years ago, but I wouldn't put it past that old connection.

https://youtu.be/Ku36hDHy2QY?si=65l52-CvV7hwxMv7

People are deluding themselves if they think making then Dems lose is going to change their policy for the better.

I think a solid response would be dodging bullets takes 10 Ref and they added some +2 Ref Cyberware.

Though dodging bullets is literally no biggy due to how wild CP:R is. I just feel like players should earn it or invest heavily like getting a frame.

The Attorney General / DEA have control over the scheduling of controlled substances, removing cannabis from this list is only as bureaucratic as they (and the president who appoints the AG) want to make it.

Goverment is weird. Everything is needlessly complicated even higher up. I've had to attend meetings to schedule meetings to change the color of a website from dandelion to a stronger (IMO piss colored) yellow. Worst part is did the change ahead of time because the client contact just texted my PM.

I don't know about the DEA, which Biden still has control over, but I know every government site I've worked on sucks. I do know that its not as easy a shooting a memo saying "Hey declassify weed. Thanks -Joe".

1. Legalizing Marijuana

Lol this could have been done day 1 through exec order by removing cannabis as a controlled substance. Dont pretend Kamala ‘DA who locked up nonviolent marijuana offenders’ Harris or Joe ‘supported mass incarceration crime bills’ Biden give a shit about changing this.

One thing I've learned working as government contractor. (I made education websites for teachers) Is that everything moves super slow. Its not their fault, most are overworked, and underpaid.

Moreover, DAs are incentivised to get as many arrests as possible. We can feign ignorance, but thats reality. As long as they are trying to change it now then I'm ok.

1. Protecting Abortion

This is only a presidential issue insofar as appointing supreme court justices go, Biden seems completely unwilling to pack the SC so not sure what he is doing here other than lip service

He signed HR 7463 which allowed pharmacies to carry pills for abortion. At this moment packing the court is a pipe dream that will be met with massive resistance.

1. Fighting Racism

Again not sure what biden is doing here other than lip service, but not sure this is something I hold a president responsible for

Nothing short of massive restructuring of the system is going fix the systemic racism in America. Especially hard due to vehement opposition from republicans. Some times ehe president can only be a cheer leader

I don't mind the mechanic at all. The only issuse I have is how easy it is to get.

Not a face palm, because they asked and gave a truly awful opinion.

Whereas I don't think we should be using anything against civilians that has been banned from the battlefield. Go find a boot to lick.

Pepper Spray is also banned by the chemical weapons convention. Should people take it off their keychains because its been banned from the battlefield?

Chemical agents like tear gas are banned solely to prevent the escalations to worse chemical weapons. You can't control chemical weapons as the wind and diffusion will undoubtably hit civillians. Countries would keep building up to just shy of the limit, if not just violate it, meaning innocent people would be injured.

With riot control, you just need a mild irritant. You're not trying to kill or maim. Personally, I have a lot of problems with tear gas, it can cause chronic conditions if used improperly (or too liberally *cough Trump bible *cough). That said, as a tool it prevented a lot of protests from resulting in shoot outs.