Warframe is so funny sometimes. First game I’ve played that managed to add rhythm action childbirth minigame before tutorial quest for modding your arsenal. Also here’s a dancing mushroom. They hyped this as “Unannounced Fall Update” for most of the lead-in. There’s now an underground network beneath already explored caves on Venus. The tutorial has retroactively added clearer foreshadowing for various plotlines and two cinematic explosion escape scenes. This game is 12 years old.
I feel like a lot of Gen Z don’t know that the ACA/Obamacare was the compromise.
The Democrats wanted Medicare for All. The Republicans wanted Free Market Healthcare (aka poor people die). Obama took a plan initially conceived by the Heritage Foundation (those project 2025 fuckers) and implemented by Romney for Massachusetts to say “hey, you can have a little free market, but we gotta cover other people too”.
It was already a compromise. And the Republicans lost their shit and have proceeded to spend fifteen years crying about their own plan being rampant socialism and repeatedly trying to repeal it despite never actually having a back-up plan for healthcare, simply because they never really wanted compromise to begin with. The moment Obama got elected, they got into a meeting and vowed to tear down everything he tried to build no matter how much it agreed with their so-called values. Because racism, let’s be honest, but also because any compromise they put forward is just a show.
“Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man” isn’t just a hypothetical. It’s literally what happened when we tried to meet Republicans in the middle with healthcare.
