Never even heard of it, but just did a search. I tried one of the other animated SW series a while ago, and didn’t make it very far.

If this one even semi-matches the description of my last post, then fuck yeah, I’ll give it a shot!

The first bit of the campaign in EA’s SW Battlefront II was great largely for NOT doing this. Stormtroopers were depicted as well trained and professional, and it was pretty great until the light side arch started to kick in.

I’d LOVE a SW TV series that focuses on a squad of stormtroopers. Pull inspiration from shit like MASH, Saving Private To Ryan, Jarhead, etc, and you’d have a pretty good cocktail of serious/intense/a dash of humor. Humanize then - make us set their indoctrination, and even root for them against the rebel ‘terrorists’.

The Trump-loving libertarians are a weird batch. Typically the trumpanzees I deal with are GOP, and my strategy is to actually talk up the LP in an attempt to use Chase Oliver as more benign trash can to drop would-be Trump votes into.

For actual libertarians who are already planning on voting Oliver, I point out that a fascist victory would be fatally damaging to every party except the fascists - 3rds are fucked right along with everyone else. Their best strategy is to nudge the current system into a model more conducive to a 3rd party victory, specifically via ranked choice voting so people can feel safe voting for a 3rd without worrying about the spoiler effect. To do that, they need to vote blue to keep the fascists out of power, as a vote for more time to refine their party of preference and preserve a political model that could lead to that party’s victory.

Trump LPers are harder to speak to, to the point of being a lost cause in most cases, but I can understand wanting to give a little extra to help out a family member. Start digging into policy questions - less who he wants to win, and more what he wants to accomplish. Assess those goals, and consider if someone other than Trump would be better to achieve them.

This debate technique is called “steelmanning” and requires putting yourself in the other side’s shoes, and building their side up in a way that’s compatible with yours, vs the usual talking points nowadays, which are usually just strawman bullshit that will never get anything done.

Good luck!

I wouldn’t mind a default vote option.

Like when I hand in a ballot, my vote is exactly as I submit, to include abstentions.

But if I don’t turn in a ballot for any election I’m eligible to vote in, my vote just defaults to a solid down-ballot of the party I’m registered as, or following a custom party ranking to auto-fill ranked choice ballots.

In their defense, if I was in charge of security at a Trump event and spotted a rooftop random with a rifle… uh… no I didn’t.

Y also SK…

Surgeons don’t run background checks on patients. You actually have four kids w/ 3 fathers and you feel like you’re losing control of your life. You’ll be on that OR table faster than you can say ‘snip snip’.

If lying is what it takes to get healthcare, fuck it. Stupid problems call for stupid solutions.

Idk… someone asked him recently, and he could only rattle one off the top of his head.

Veteran here. Donald Trump fucking hates us.

If you want to ‘support the troops’, vote blue.

Damnit. Jack Black is one of those people I never expected to lose any respect for.