Thorium Brotherhood, Gates of AQ supplies, and Bronze Dragonflight rep to ring the gong were legit grinds. But very few individual people had to do them and guildmates could and did contribute.
Personally, the daily quests you mentioned are among the absolute worst things to ever happen to WoW and gaming, IMO, along with loot boxes and paid cosmetics (also sort of began with the WoW TCG in TBC).
Perceptions of the average normies -- who are in self-imposed television, social media, and sportsball escapist-cognitive-dissonance prisons -- aren't a reliable or reasonable metric for how open totalitarianism is.
Normies lack defiance. Normies don't cop to recognizing tyranny because they're too afraid to confront the possibility it exists, and they're too afraid to confront themselves about what their responsibility is in the face of tyranny. They delude themselves to escape notice or they side with it and pretend or believe it's good without thinking too hard. Ever watch those "interviews" of Chinese citizens on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square? How they pretend to not know, how they're terrified of the implications, and/or how they want to be left alone? That's Western normies now.
Tony, you're as naive as ever. Yesterday, you said the AfD were the winners in a crushing defeat. Now you want to downplay this mess, and you don't think these parties will work as a united bloc on the big picture stuff? Why the fuck wouldn't they? They're all basically the same party anyway. Come on, man.
Exactly right, IMO. I just disagree with using terminology like "crushing defeat" when it's, as you say, a good foothold and not actually a crushing defeat. I also think language like that can get people relaxed when moments like this are actually the most critical to push hardest.
This is a bit sensationalized, isn't it? In neither state does a coalition between these parties even create a majority. "Crushing defeat" ????
I think the Le Pen approach is better here -- the tide appears to be turning, lots of ground gained, but acknowledgement that there's so much more work to be done.
They're actually going to disembowel the Emergencies Act ruling, aren't they. Fuck that Wagner faggot.
Edit: I also want to say that the "surprise" travel mandate lift in June 2022 is awfully suspicious given the timing of the rulings on those cases just a couple months later. What do you want to bet that there was some warning or collusion on behalf of the judiciary to the executive?
If you don't vote for Trump, you are technically contributing to a greater likelihood of a Kamala win. How do you square that?