lemme demo

if you think steve bannon was bad, trump's transition team now includes frank gaffney advising on foreign policy matters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-frank-gaffney-islamophobia_us_56eb11cbe4b03a640a69fc3b
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/frank-gaffney-jr
http://bridge.georgetown.edu/new-poll-on-american-muslims-is-grounded-in-bias-riddled-with-flaws/

that's why I just stick with yaboi john oliver

the most toxic players are the people who internalize criticism and stop trying/talking therefore ruining the quality of the game for everyone on both teams

I would much rather have someone who rages than someone who shuts down

the way I see it, people in cs only seem like "assholes" because they care more about winning than their own insecurities, which money and fame incentivizes, whereas in tf2 taking things seriously doesn't gain you enough for it to be appealing to most people

haven't some of ~the russians~ beat him a lot

it shows the level of contempt that these sorts of people have for the intelligence of the voting population

literally don't even try to hide it

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/campaign-finance-laws-poised-rollback-trump

#draintheswamp in action

at the end of the day, in most cases, the most dangerous person isn't trump, it's the people he is surrounding himself with

I truly believe that donald trump is still, on like 75% of issues, a largely apolitical person. but he recognizes that the right is fractured between moderates, tea partiers, and the alt-right, and so he's trying desperately to appeal to each of them in turn.

the problem is, while he might be wholly insincere, this will lead to people like John Bolton, Stephen Hadley, Jose Rodriguez, Myron Ebell and Jeff Sessions likely having power in his cabinet, not to mention Steve Bannon. because we have such a cult of personality around presidents (especially when they run on exactly that logic like a trump does), we often ignore the power that such individuals have.

in the first term of the bush administration, as we now know, almost all of the foreign policy blunders committed (the domestic stuff would've happened regardless) was due to a fairly small group of bush's inner circle- cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz, ashcroft/gonzalez, etc. it's likely we end up in a similar situation, only with even fewer moderate figures (colin powell, richard armitage, paul o'neill etc.) to push back

if you view MGE as an end within itself rather than a means to an end (improvement), this makes sense

if u care about getting better, especially if u main scout, suck it up and mge demos to get better movement

sick

let's hope we don't get the match itself overturned for some stupid reason

starting to look like the curse of the mustardoverlord 1st round playoff exit lives on

p.s. sucks for evil that they have the harder bracket in both cases because they got a forfeit loss to sparkle

from what ive been led to believe the first tiebreaker for playoffs this season is head to head

if that's true I think the playoff seedings will be

1. maemeyys
2. us
3. dunheon defenders
4. waddle r us
5. running with scizors
6. the baddies
7. sparkle gang
8. evil

if for some reason it's rounds for then it should be

1. us
2. maemeyys
3. dunheon
4. running with scizors
5. waddle r us
6. the baddies
7. evil
8. sparkle gang

in both cases literally all the first round matchups are the same, but it changes the 2nd rd quite a bit

on topic: it really ~~GRINDS MY GEARS~~ that so many people refuse to play against demos in mge

funnily, I've only had this problem with mgelords who never play comp at a high level, and not with invite players

almost like the invite players understand demoman is a class in the game that u have to play against sometimes. . .

I don't support the violent side of the protests (which is far from the majority of people), but the notion that we can't possibly start predicting what a Donald Trump presidency will look like is stupid

we have:

1. statements that he has made throughout his candidacy
2. his 100 day plan
3. early leaks about his likely cabinet

this obviously still requires a level of educated guessing, but I think it's a good thing to understand some of the potential worst case scenarios and call Trump out on them so he backs off at least a little bit