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I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

— @IamRageSparkle, 2020, on the microblogging site that later let the fascists in.

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

— Karl Popper, 1945

They're blocked because they're tankies, not because they're left (I'm not even sure tankies can be considered left wing, as much as they claim to be).

(And others because of trolling; and others yet haven't been blocked, they defederated themselves.)

They are here. 🤷‍♂️

Never seen any since these vanished from the shelves two or three decades ago.

They were practically a drug for kids. Some other companies copied the format, but they weren't as good (and I haven't even been able to find those, lately).

They also had chips cut like this..:

... which were delicious, but I can't find a picture of a bag. 😭

Damn, now I'm going to have What's Up stuck in my head all day...

Yeah, that too.

Sure, but one doesn't exclude the other. Trump's got both.

I mean, the dementia and the neurosyphilis and the chronic drug damage don't help, of course, but Trump has been mentally challenged all his life.

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Hurts when you fall asleep and drop it on your face, though.

They mean gamers of old. That is, currently old gamers, but back when we were young, and had time, and not a lot of games to fill it with, so we appreciated a longer game.

Current young gamers have vast libraries of games to choose from, and shortened attention spans due to social media.