In my experience, talking about kids on dates is something you need to get out as soon as other basic compatibility is established. It’s an immediate dealbreaker for many, and it’s a critical component of a future relationship. If your date doesn’t want kids and you do, you basically skip GO and are straight to “okay well guess we’re just friends now” or “nice knowing you”.

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You seem to like to use historical references but with absolutely no respect to their context. I think you need to look again at the intention of the original term rather than the literal meaning at the time. A petite bourgeoisie today would be those people making maybe 200k usd a year who bought their houses 30 years ago and are now so paranoid of the evil leftists coming to tax their money that they consistently vote against their own self interest because they identify with the “upper class”. “Petty bourgeoisie” does not just equal “small business owner”. It’s the people who help put fascists in power because they’re scared of the poor and working class.

Again, Graham identifies with the working class.

If he came from a political background or was groomed by other congress critters I might better share your skepticism. However he was specifically approached by a leftist organization to run because of his activism against a corporation trying to open a large scale commercial fishery in his town. I highly recommend you watch some of his town halls and hear him speak for himself

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GLEftvgSBJs

There was an interview posted just a bit ago that actually addresses those concerns.

https://lemmy.zip/post/65885461

Specifically, his response to the interviewer asking about him getting to DC and not being effective. In summary, he is not just looking to empower himself, he’s looking to empower the working class as a whole. He is attempting to organize and build the power of normal people by uniting them and enabling them to better pressure ALL politicians. He is building a network who is ready to fight against the billionaires and he is under no illusions that he can do it alone.

People mindlessly parroting back today’s talking points for the anti-left smear campaign does make you look like a shill, yes.

How about you actually go do, let’s say, 5 minutes of listening or reading to what Platner actually believes or has to say before you speak? You can even set a timer if you like.

This has major “name three songs” energy.

11,000 volunteers just for his campaign sounds like a decent start. He has also been proactively approaching and getting the support of various unions, like the nurse’s union, united auto works and electrical workers to name a few. Don’t worry, there will be more.

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I’m confident that he will flip a lot of disillusioned repubs.

That narrative make absolutely no sense the second you pick at it. If he’s bougie and a rich kid protecting his own business interests, then his interests align with mainstream DNC and the DNC would back him, not Mills. If his interests were fascist and authoritarian aligned, then he would be in step with current Republican rhetoric and he could just run as that and completely trounce Collins because she’s ancient. Either one isn’t what we’ve actually seen. Instead, entrenched DNC establishment paid big money for attack ads to prop up Mills, and billionaires have been giving millions to Collins to keep her in her seat. If he’s a nazi fascist bourgeoisie plant, why would the fascists and bourgeoisie fight so hard to keep him OUT?

You just sound silly when you repeat this. Tattoos aren’t what make people nazis. What they believe does. The more the media and billionaire funded bot campaigns screech that he’s a nazi while he’s simultaneously praising diversity, urging solidarity and decrying genocide the more it makes an absolute joke of the label when people currently in office are merrily building concentration camps.

Said like someone who has absolutely no idea what Graham stands for aside from what billionaires have paid big bucks for you to see.

Here’s some things Graham stands for:

Getting money out of politics
Ending American imperialism and cutting military spending/waste
Standing by and with LGBTQ people to defend their freedoms
Ending the attacks on minorities and immigrants

https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

The simple fact is that without anything looking like nazi beliefs or idealogy it makes every person calling him that look like a paid agitator or an ignorant mouthpiece of the right. Call me when he scapegoats minorities and talks about the master race and then maybe I’ll agree he’s a Nazi candidate.

Haven’t seen anything actually substantiate the abuse allegations and they come from an extremely questionable source. People aren’t buying the bot propagated bullshit. Tattoos don’t make people a nazi, glorifying authoritarianism and violence while scapegoating minorities and being wildly racist does. The fact that he’s decrying genocide, praising diversity, and saying he will stand up for LGBTQ+ people makes every mention of him being a neo-nazi sound like a ridiculous joke.

Ok I’m happy to offer up an argument for Platner that is not just “he’s better than Republicans”.

People are sick of the status quo and milquetoast dems saying they’re going to reach across the aisle when the other side of the aisle is tearing apart our democracy like meth heads looking for copper in the walls. Graham says things in his town halls that resonate with the truths that normal, working class people see: the system is rigged against them, it’s the billionaire’s fault, and we aren’t fixing anything without the working class standing together. If you genuinely aren’t aware of what he stands for, just watch any of his town halls (here’s one).

It’s simple really. Tattoos aren’t what make people nazis. What they believe does. If someone glorified authoritarianism, toted violence as the only viable solution to any problem, scapegoated minorities and was wildly racist then the idea they didn’t know would be indefensible. As it is, despite dozens of interns scraping over his public social media posts they weren’t able to find anything like that. The more the media and billionaire funded bot campaigns screech that he’s a nazi while he’s simultaneously praising diversity, urging solidarity and decrying genocide it makes an absolute joke of the label when people currently in office are merrily building concentration camps.

Reading the article I thought to myself “why the hell is this news?”

Thinking about it for a second, and thinking about the content, it’s still trying to paint Graham as similar to Fetterman because as it is it’s just two guys calling each other assholes. It has nothing to say about the differences in their platforms, values or stances, and is trying to make Graham look inarticulate and uncouth. Anyone who has seen him speak in a town hall or a proper interview can recognize this for what it is. More billionaire owned bullshit.

I haven’t been able to get it working with winetricks, bottles or lutris. Any tips?

They still keep servers up and even do minor patches for Guild Wars 1 twenty years later. I am optimistic that we will have plenty of time to enjoy the current Guild Wars 2 content.

There’s tank/support/dps in GW2 for sure, but pretty much every class can build for any role and it’s only relevant in raids.

My Mesmer (a mage with the lowest health and lightest armor) is my best and toughest tank in my character line up.

It tastes a little like a honeysuckle smells, but lighter and not cloying. It’s a very floral taste, sweet, complex, fairly unique. You can get elderflower syrups or liqueur, or sometimes fancy sodas, and it’s a very distinctive and unmistakable taste. One of my favorites.