Vilageidiotx

Rigging the Election: The Clinton Campaign and DNC incite violence at Trump Rallies

@Vilageidiotx You say old news, but that article was literally posted today, which is the same day this video was posted. And yeah I suppose, but maybe some of Hillary's supporters who had been fooling themselves up until now will see how crazy she is.

@The Dow Dragon

Woops, I picked a new article from a nest of old ones. Here is one from a major source.

I very very much doubt Trump will shake much from registered Dems, and certainly not any meaningful number of people who supported Hillary since the beginning of this cycle. Things like this aren't brand new. (Cite1) (Cite2). And of course, beyond that there is the haunting memory of 1968. Not to mention decades if not centuries of politicians accusing others of faking votes from the dead, or voting multiple times, which proceeds from the old Machine Politics era of the late 19th and early 20th who's corruption makes the Clinton machine look like the boy scouts.

But that's the background. Needless to say, it's going to take something absolutely unthinkable to break Clinton's core support. For this to affect her it has to hit supporters outside the core; the Never-Trump people, the until-recently-undecideds, and the unaffiliated Bernie supporting her would need to be so loosely supporting her that they are looking for a reason to defect. That could very well be true; considering that her favorability level is low. Polls a week from now will tell. I won't make a confident prediction, but lets just say this; if you held a gun to my head and forced me to guess how this would play out, I'd say I expect this to glance right off her numbers like they were written in stone. I think at this point, the only remotely possible way of her losing this thing is actual prosecution.

Rigging the Election: The Clinton Campaign and DNC incite violence at Trump Rallies

This is a regurgitation of old news. I can remember this story back when the KC Trump Rally went sour in, like, February or March or whenever that was.

Despite being a copy-paste, it could be interesting if it gets traction. I feel like elections involve a sort of natural pull for equilibrium, so if there are some people nominally supporting Hillary or undecided because they can't find an excuse to support Trump, this could be their way back to their standard team.

But that really depends. Strict polling says Trump is up pussy creek without a paddle. But could there be a lot of reasonable Trump supporters embarrassed by the guy and his main base? Or are there some who cannot jibe Trump's behavior with their values and are abstaining from voting? (I know a few of these). If that is a significant enough group of people, maybe we might see some poll fluctuations based on this.

On the other hand, there is the possibility too that, with all of the talk about Hillary's character over the years, the right may have accidentally inoculated the general population to her seedier side. As in, everyone who isn't going to vote for Clinton because of corruption is already not voting for her, and nobody is particularly shocked when a bad Clinton story breaks

This has been a fun election year either way.

College Stress and Advice

@Vilageidiotx

But words of wisdom as well come for the person as well. But its not as easy as to just buck up.

@Beelz129

I understand depression complicates the bucking up situation. The important thing for that is to start moving in a direction, even if that direction isn't college quite yet.

College Stress and Advice

I've got an AA, duel-BA, and a JD. A fiancee, two kids and another on the way. I come from meager means. So it is do-able. You can survive community college. Especially, if you are not working in the mean time. All you need to do is build yoursel a scedule. You know what you have to do - stop crying about it and do it. Otherwise you need to drop out of college because all you are doing is wasting money.

@ELGainsborough

listen to this man. he has, like, three different types of batteries.

College Stress and Advice

I might take that advise or a vet assitant

@Beelz129

And if you need to placate your parents, sell it as experience. Because it seriously is. I remember when I was looking for my first real job and talking to a career councilor, when they asked me what experience I had to put on a resume I told them... you know, none. They told me that most people have experience and don't realize it because they don't know how to spin it. Volunteering for an animal shelter tells a future councilor or employer that you aren't just looking for the paycheck, but that you really care about animals. Like, a while back my mother was freaking out that she couldn't get a job because she hadn't worked since the eighties, I told her to put on her resume about how she had taken care of her father and was taking care of her mother. A few weeks later, bam, she got a gig as a personal assistant for the elderly.

College Stress and Advice

well what kind of job that could include animals or wirting that doesn't need a digree ?

@Beelz129

Whoop, I edited in earlier. Volunteer at an animal shelter. It's low pressure and might be a good way to ease you into these sorts of real world responsibilities.

Writing isn't really a career goal such much as a lottery ticket. Journalism is getting streamlined as newspapers fall to aggregators and low-effort articles increasingly become written by bots. You can get a job there, but you can't really bet on a career. Fiction writing is totally a lottery ticket, in that most people who try to get published only ever make a tiny bit of money, but there is also a small chance you might win the pot and become very successful. Just, you know, you cannot hope to bet on that small chance.

Animals are a different matter. You can make a career out of 'em, albeit the good jobs are behind a paywall. Animal shelter or a pet store seems like a good starting place.

And for long term goals, here you go. Links

College Stress and Advice

I don't even know what I want to do or what job I would be good at. I'm only 21 and my parets so much to do things their way and not my way. I already knew college was going to be a struggle but with my struggling depression and everything its becoem harder and harder to keep myself motivated. Thats why I often roleplay to get away grom the reality of falure.

@Beelz129

Start with a job first. Move from there.

Like I love animals but I love writing as well.

@Beelz129

Volunteer at an animal shelter. It's low pressure and will help you feel used to responsibility.

College Stress and Advice

Get a job and chill for a while. If you are not in a good place to be going to college, don't force it, that'll just waste your time and money. If your parents don't understand what you need to go forward, shoot for independence first and college next.

How not to crossgender roleplay

Well, unless you overexaggerated her femininity or basically just made her a man with a vagina.

@Proxi

Where would the middle-ground be? Not being difficult, I'm legitimately asking, because I think that is probably going to be the answer to OP's question.

I always felt it would be awkward to focus too much on referencing physical differences ("She felt the weight of her breasts as she jogged") for the same reason it would be awkward to overuse male differences ("The jungle was so humid his testicles stuck to his legs"). Actually, this reminds me that there is a women who writes historical fiction short stories from the perspective of a gay military officer in the 18th century (I forget her name or the name of the stories), and when reading one of those I was pulled out of the story when she used a line sorta like "As he climbed on the horse for battle, the fear made his scrotum pull tight". It was weird because, though I've been scared of shit plenty of times in my life, I don't think i've every consciously thought about what my scrotum was doing while I was afraid. I feel like it was one of those things she wrote because, as a woman, the idea seems like it would be pretty noticeable and worthy of mentioning, but for men it's sort of a tertiary thing. Likewise I always figured over-focusing on female physical traits can end up distracting.

And I also think too that the line for femininity is kind of complex. There is a line that I figure we all kind of know, but it's difficult for me to try and put into words, so it is difficult to know when I've breached it. I've also, like the OP, been told before that my female characters didn't seem very female (by a woman as it turns out), but she couldn't tell me why, and I can't exactly pin point it either.

For OP, I agree with everyone that a sample would help.

Hunger Games: Halloween Addition

Knew the reaper had a conspiracy going with Diablo to get Trump up there.

@ArenaSnow

Mike Myers took out Hillary, the Reaper took out Obama, and tsukune took out Lincoln. That is the Democrat and Republican establishments right there, at least as far as this game goes.

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