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8 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Goomboss is notable because he's the only Mario character who has ever crossed over from the RPG Mario universe to the mainline Mario universe.
In general, there is a one-way wall of separation between the mainline Mario games and sports spin-offs, and the Mario RPGs. Characters introduced in the former can cross over to the latter, but not the other way around.

Goomboss is the only exception to this rule.
This is why characters like Nabbit and Petey Piranha can make their way into Mario & Luigi titles, but Fawful and the Shroobs won't be in Mario Kart anytime soon.
I do wonder why Goomboss is the only character to defy this rule. He wasn't even that notable in Paper Mario, but then he got a much more significant role in SM64DS and cameos in MKDS.

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They can't because they don't have any actual fix for it.

Republicans in California are just as NIMBYish as wealthy Democrats, if not more so.
If you try to pin down CA Republicans on what they'd actually do to reduce housing prices, they'll just hand-wave about repealing some unspecified "regulations." MAYBE they'll say CEQA if you press them hard enough for a specific one.

That's not a real plan.
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Lindsey Graham has been in the Senate long enough to know this wouldn't work. The Texas legislature has a 2/3rds quorum requirement. In the U.S. Senate, a quorum only needs a simple majority.

The GOP leaving DC would not shut down the Senate the way the Texas walkout is doing.
Another problem with Graham's idea: to dissolve a Senate quorum, you would need one Republican to stay in the Capitol to raise a point of order. So if all Dems were present and the one Republican to raise a point of order, that's 51. Clearly a quorum.
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Dems didn't do this because, just like Graham's threat now, the math doesn't work.
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Moving day!

The adventure begins.
Packing is finished, now I have to load up the car.
Eighteen months ago I stood in front of this arch and vowed to face this new adventure head on.

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Republicans claim they are bullish on winning back Nevada because Clark County is "trending right."

Okay, let's look at the actual numbers here. Is that really true?
What the numbers actually say is a lot more complicated. From 2000 to 2020, we see a steady trend *up* in Democrats' topline each cycle. Republicans' topline, meanwhile, has bounced around all over the place and if anything has gone down very slightly.
So why, then, are people claiming Clark County is trending right? Because they're starting the clock at 2008. Obama massively overperformed in Clark in 2008 and 2012, then there was a reversion to the mean in 2016 and 2020.

That's not a "trend." That's a cherry-pick.
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Pretending Blexas happened to own the libs.
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No, he wasn't. Thanos was just recycling the same Malthusian crap that's been used by hundreds of years of politicians to justify forced sterilizations in America, famines in British India, and China's one-child policy.
Malthus has been proven wrong time and time again.

First of all, when societies face scarcity, families have *more* children because they need more capital to get the same resources. Fertility rates are negatively correlated with a country's level of development.
And second of all, the scarcities that cause these population pressures are a direct result of governments taking away people's power to act in their own interests.

If you look through history, you see a startling fact: famines do not occur in democracies. Ever.
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