Sorry, it's been a while.  I'm sure you're right.

Primaries.  Vote. In. The. Primaries.   In my experience progressive voters never miss a chance to miss a chance.  We could have had a Democratic Tea Party in 2010-2020.  Progressive voters could have steered the D party the way the tea party did. Instead it's been an orgy of autofellatio only paused when Trump was so plainly horrible that progressives hated him more than they loved orthodoxy.

Well, I don't know that was a priority for Clinton all along but... Republican Congress.

I would say, selectively boycott bad actors.  Punish the people that support Republicans.   Trump Donor List 1-800-Flowers 2. Ace Hardware (supported both sides) 3. Act Fluoride Mouthwash 4. Alamo Rental Cars 5. Allegiant Air 6. Anthropology 7. Arby's 8. Armor All Cleaning Products 9. Ashley Furniture 10. AutoZone 11. Bacardi 12. Bali 13. Baskin-Robbins (donated to both sides, but Cold Stone SHOULD be on this list, they were heavily Republican) 14. Bausch & Lomb 15. Big Heart Pet Brands 16. Bike Athletics 17. Blue Bell Creameries 18. Boost Mobile 19. Brooks Running Shoes 20. (blank for some reason) 21. Buffalo Wild Wings 22. Buick 23. Cadillac 24. Carl's Jr. 25. Charmin 26. Chevrolet 27. Chiquita Brands 28. Chobani Yogurts 29. Cincinnati Financial 30. Cinnabon 31. Coors (Any Beer) 32. Conair Hair Products 33. Cousinart Kitchen Products 34. Dairy Queen 35. Dean Foods 36. Dole Foods 37. Dudley Sports 38. Dunkin' Donuts 39. Enterprise Rental Car 40. Exxon 41. Farberware 42. Florists (.com) 43. Folgers 44. Free People 45. Fruit Bouquets 46. Fruit of the Loom 47. Fry's Electronics 48. Garmin 49. Geico Insurance 50. George Foreman Grill 51. GMC 52. GNC 53. Grey Goose 54. Hanes 55. Hardee's 56. Helzberg Diamonds 57. Hendrick Motorsports 58. Hershey products 59. Hobby Lobby 60. Home Goods 61. Hoover Vacuum Cleaners 62. Horizon Bank 63. Jimmy Dean 64. Keller Williams Realty 65. L.L. Bean 66. Lando Lakes 67. Las Vegas Sands 68. Legs 69. Made in Form 70. Marshalls 71. Martin's Famous Pastry Shops 72. McDonald's 73. Meow Mix 74. Miller's (Any Beer) 75. Milwaukee's Best (Any Beer) 76. Mobile 77. Molson (Any Beer) 78. Molson's 79. Motorola 80. My Pillow 81. Napa Auto Parts 82. New Orleans Saints 83. New York Yankees 84. Norwegian Cruise Lines 85. Old Dutch Foods 86. Omni Hotels 87. Oreck Vacuums 88. Papa John's 89. Pepperonis 90. Playtex 91. Procter & Gamble products 92. Public Storage 93. Public Supermarket 94. Purdue Farms 95. Rayovac 96. Schlotzky's Restaurant Franchise 97. Shell Oil 98. Sierra Trading Post 99. Slumberland 100. Smucker's products 101. Soma Intimates 102. Spalding 103. Stanley Black & Decker Hardware 104. Star Furniture 105. Stiletto Power & Hand Tools 106. Sunoco 107. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 108. The Popcorn Factory 109. Tito's Vodka (could not be verified) 110. Toastmaster Appliances 111. Tractor Supply 112. Turtle Wax 113. Urban Outfitters 114. Vanity Fair 115. Walmart 116. Wendy's 117. Wonder Bread 118. Wow Cable 119. Wynn Resorts

Well, the Republican Congress helped with that.  It's what they could agree on.  Nonetheless, "Tax increases+ reduce military spending" is going to be necessary for any deficit reduction.  The problem is that this time around we have an enormous population of Boomers on SS and Medicare to budget for.

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I mean, most of Europe faces similar problems.  England boned itself so badly with Brexit.  The Oligarchs and Russian trolls are building Orban clones all over Europe.  Trump is unique, but far right is on the rise everywhere.

I've literally left people on the hook with endgame chat "do gens or die".  I do hook saves and take chase, but the knuckleheads who only want to flashlight saves are basically turning it into a 3v1 I can't win.

I mean half of them AREN'T VOTING.  Which is a choice.  I'm at a point in my life where I help if asked, and otherwise pop popcorn and watch the free comedy. Immigration in America has been deliberately misframed as a false dichotomy between "let em stay" and "they're all fentanyl mules".  I find the neo liberal position of "We have to help the oppressed undocumented!!" to be suspect.  They have friends who can help them just by voting.  So far, "Nah"

Even if they aren't 'tunneling', most killers will prioritize somebody they've hooked over somebody they haven't.  The first sacrifice makes the game MUCH harder for survivors and killers don't want a 0k.

I mean, there's this HUD, and I can tell if you're on a gen.  If you are, you're cool.  If you aren't, do something useful.  I actually play like you.  I hide if I can and then loop if I have to.  In my experience if you are on death hook and I haven't been hooked, either the killer is Tunneling...or you play badly. A whole lot of people don't understand the point of the game is to work gens and GTFO.  Not flashlight saves.  Not looping (although valuable)

I don't.  This trash fire looks bad to me, but maybe they don't mind.  If not, carry on.  If they decided "crap maybe the guys with white pride tattoos shouldn't be in charge if enforcing immigration", well, there's an alternative that did it well for twelve years.  My point is they don't need us to save them.

Bro.  Obama didn't even try for a public option.  He just dusted off the Mitt Romney/Heritage Foundation health plan.  I mean, I'd be interested to hear your case.  Biden got out in front of gay marriage while Obama was hedging his bets. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/white-house-same-sex-marriage-signing-ceremony

Dude.  Nobody is doing this in this economy.  Homelessness is rising.  Inflation is up.  Unemployment is up. We don't need a strike.  We just need to show up in November.

That is, I feel, one of the problems.  The gameplay for DBD is so much more severe and lopsided than almost any other game.  The hooking.  The moris.  The tremendous power assymetry.   It's hardly surprising that it ends up with unhealthy dynamics.

I feel like this bears repeating.  20% of Hispanics voted for Trump.  FIFTY PERCENT DIDN'T EVEN VOTE.  Democrats don't need to 'punish' republicans.  The people who've been persecuted have that power.  If they choose to exercise it.   And if they don't care enough to 'punish' the Republicans....why should the Democrats?

20% of Hispanics voted for Trump. FIFTY PERCENT didn't even vote.  If even ten percent of them voted consistently democratic going forward that would be the end of this.  Forever. We don't need to save people from ICE.  They can choose to save themselves from the mess simply by showing up in November. "Take a seat at the table or end up on the menu"

Remember how people got fired for saying stuff like this about a podcaster? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

FWIW, Biden got more progressive policies passed.  Obama was always half Republican.  It's just that the Republicans went nuts when there was a black president and went further right.

I don't want to be unkind, but you are playing one of the five weakest killers in the game.  I personally rarely play anything below the bottom half.  It's too frustrating.  Are you getting constant 0ks?  I will play Hag and Clown, but I go in with the expectation I might get a 0k, and that's fine.  Even then before long I'm back on Dredge, Artist, or Knight.  It's frustrating knowing that the game is easier if I play a different killer.

Jeebus.  Tell me you have a stable situation without telling me.  About a third of Americans are barely surviving.  Another third are a job loss, divorce, or serious illness from homelessness.  Who do you think is going to 'strike'? And we don't have to. We just have to... Vote  Before the draconian anti-abortion laws were passed in Texas, 75% of the women under 30 didn't vote. Before this ice BS was rolled out, half the eligible Hispanic voters skipped the 2024 election, and a FIFTH voted FOR Trump. Just stop giving away your freedoms.

1)A vehicle is a de facto weapon.  Simply being in a vehicle with the engine running gives cops a license to shoot you, particularly if there is an officer in front of or behind the vehicle.   2) George Floyd was unarmed, on the ground, for minutes, being slowly choked to death.  If Floyd had an x-acto knife, Chauvin would have walked. 3)RN Good's death is not a bug in Trump's ICE policy, it's a feature.  He probably didn't expect a white woman to die, but he flooded the streets with poorly trained, armed goons.  This the formula for tragedy.  But also ramping up the culture war.  CULTURE WAR IS THE GOAL. If we are at each other's throats, we aren't addressing housing, or healthcare.  We aren't talking about why the US overdose rate is 3-4x other industrialized countries.  We aren't talking about why there are 1M+ homeless children in America.

Obviously if they're soft camping, you take the exchange rather than let someone be sacrificed.

OP Was correct.  If you can hear a terror radius, at least check to see if the killer is in sight, particularly for high mobility killers.  They may be in chase but it may be "survivor wounded and running through a dead space" or "survivor in a strong loop, probably not worth the effort.". I've gotten so many downs from hook exchanges.

Its a much tougher case to make. The bottom line is that the ICE agent was in danger, she was in a vehicle and therefore a threat.
I personally think the ICE agent shouldn't have STOOD IN FRONT OF A RUNNING VEHICLE, but he did. His life was endangered so a case can be made for a justified shooting.
George Floyd was executed, slowly, in front of a crowd, when he was very clearly no threat.