Conservatism can easily be a form of liberalism, and can even be considered progressive. It sounds contradictory but conservatism of progressive traditions, customs, and values is a component of many liberal societies. That’s your Teddy Roosevelts, the Southern New Deal Democrats, and the Blue Dog coalition.

there is no necessary overlap afaik.

As long as it is recognized that overlap isn’t a necessity, I think this is fine. The important thing to remember is that none of these terms are wholly exclusive to each other. Discussion just needs to agree to the context of used terms.

Plenty of (big C) Conservatives want to conserve the social institutions of racial segregation or other regressive concepts. But you can also legitimately say Xi Xinping is a conservative in the context of the PRC. So there’s a wide field for the context of the terms to get stretched around and (mis)used and (mis)interpreted.

Liberalism too. It is a concept that has existed and been applied to right wing monarchies and left wing republics. The entire French Revolution is exemplary in how these terms have no strict limit and so a baseline of agreed context is what is necessary.

There’s not a lesser of two evils argument there, so it makes sense it’d be unconvincing.

This is more of a ‘judge him by his enemies’ type thing.

This is barely Sabra hummus.

As far as political streamers with fanbases under 30, he’s one of the few alternatives to the manosphere types and groypers. People can have a kneejerk reaction to defend someone those groups routinely target.

So you know our creepy uncle who runs a corner store? Has he met a customer for you!

C&C needs to reboot ant mode.

Yep. Back around 2013 when the national credit rating slid down it became legal/not prohibited to do so after a lawsuit.

There are actually a few twitch streamers that have political experience who stream about politics. They’ve run for office, or worked in D.C., so they have some interesting insights.

But that’s not Asmongold by a longshot.

I kinda like it. It’s just neat enough.

A lot of old city plats follow the exact pattern of that square, so I’d be curious what the sequence of development was.

DS2 exists for when you don’t want to play DS1 or DS3 anymore but you want more souls game to play.

It is also the roughest game to get started in but also by far the best game to cycle into New Game+ multiple times. It’s weird like that.

Disco Elysium.

First go was after finally playing Planescape : Torment and I just wasn’t in the mood for another text heavy game, even though it came highly recommended and had some voiceacting from some podcasters I knew about.

Then the Final Cut came out with all the professional voice acting and it was absolutely excellent.

I can feel the stress and exhaustion emanating from this image.

It was a neat Warcraft 3 custom map.

Then it got weird.

They’re a nobrainer anywhere they’re allowed, yes.

Yeah, water is fuckin’ sick. Thermohydraulics is awesome.

It’s been over 20 years, but I do remember the acupuncture was beneficial. The physical therapy exercises helped with a shoulder injury, and it was accessible for a laborer without insurance.

I should also mention they were also religious and gave you a pocket bible every visit. It was a very different time and location in my life.

Yeah I think he also said he fixed a deaf janitors hearing by popping a neck vertebrae into alignment, if I remember the lore. This was ‘drink heroin for medicine’ era too.

Yeah I was using common nomenclature. I don’t recall if they were licensed dietitians or not.

The one sold supplements and vitamin tinctures his wife made, so they weren’t far off from the unlicensed category. But they were both also licensed/certified physical therapists and masseuses. He had done some kind of sports medicine if I recall correctly before starting his business.

The other guy was really into the whole gambit of chinese herbology and such, but he kept himself grounded with physical therapy regimens and promoting tai chi every other sentence.

I mean, that’s kind of the implication.