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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Really just sounds like he took Roosevelt’s speech and just gutted it. Roosevelts 4 Freedoms: Speech and expression, worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Bidens: Freedom to vote and have your vote counted, freedom of choice, freedom to have a fair shot, and freedoms from fear.

    Freedom of worship -> freedom of choice is fine, they’re not really equivalent and the latter is way more relevant atm.

    Fear remains unchanged.

    Speech and expression -> vote and have your vote counted also kind of not equivalent, but if we’re generous and assume he means having actual democratic power thats fine. Don’t necessarily believe thats what he’s going for but there will be a lot more to the speech I imagine.

    Freedom from want -> Freedom to have a fair shot is really pathetic. This is so watered down. From you have the right to abundance in your life to you have the right to get rolled over by a corporation and live in servitude as long as you’re equally as likely to get fucked as your peers.

    Also the fact that this article mentions him linking the conflict in Ukraine to freedom but not Palestine is horrific.






  • This concept goes so well in a spelljammer like setting. Imagine the Laughing Beholder with large Luigi doing this. “Okay, what sphere are you from again? Okay, next I need your planet, then your species, then your age.”

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    Noncombat or low combat adventure idea that just came to me based on this. A group of grifters has conned Large Luigi or your version of this bar owner by posing as an interplanetary or interplanes alcohol enforcement agency. They pulled a fake sting and made off with something precious of the innkeepers as a fine. The party either hears this from the barkeep when they order or from the other patrons who are fed-up with the arcane ID system and long waits on drinks. Only recovering the fine or capturing the grifters can the situation be set right.