Mamdani won in NYC in a fucking landslide. By over 200,000 more votes than Cuomo
Democrats held onto the Governors seat in NJ
Virginia just elected its first female Governor, flipping the seat from Republican to Democrat. And it doesnt stop there. The Lt. Governor AND Attorney General also flipped from Republican to Democrat.
Pennsylvania voted to retain all 3 Supreme Court judges in its state preserving the Democrats 5-2 Majority
Maine elected to NOT pass a law that would force people to “prove citizenship” before voting. Which is good because only citizens can vote anyway and passing a law like that would only serve to allow discrimination of POC.
Colorado voted to tax the wealthy higher to fund free school meals AND use the excess from that to fund SNAP
AND Prop 40 is looking like its going to pass with flying colours.
It wasnt all wins. Texas passed a draconian Parents rights law that allows them even more control over their children’s lives - likely in an anti-trans bid and they passed their own version of the whole “prove citizenship” thing.
BUT LOOK!! LOOK AT ALL THESE WINS!!!
THE RESISTANCE IS THERE AND ITS LOUD!!! THIS COULD BE JUST A TASTE OF WHAT WE CAN DO COME MID-TERMS. If we all collectively keep up the energy and VOTE LIKE HELL we can make a Blue Wave happen and SERIOUSLY kneecap this attempt at an Authoritarian Regime!
I know that we get a lot of bad news and we get it every day. But the good is there! The regime is failing left right and centre and this can be the first glimpse at what we can do!
Dont let them win in your head! Dont let them silence you into complacency!! We have the momentum! Let’s ride it!
The user is not a specialist in psychotherapy or medicine, so the article may contain errors or inaccuracies.
[🧼] A subjective theory about what changes John “Soap” MacTavish would have endured if he had survived the end of COD MWIII(2023) + Visual sketch of the Au version.
Sketch:
⋘ 𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎… ⋙
A gunshot wound to the temple is an extremely severe injury with a high risk of mortality, but if we assume that Soap survived due to surgical intervention and modern medicine (given the Modern Warfare 2022/2023 setting), the consequences would be catastrophic and multifaceted. Here is a scientifically based hypothesis based on neurosurgery and neurology, divided into physical and mental complications:
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[⚠️] Physical/neurological complications (short-term and long-term):
1. Hemiparesis/hemiplegia (right-sided paralysis): Damage to the motor cortex and conduction pathways in the left hemisphere will result in weakness or complete paralysis of the right arm and leg (if the patient has been injured in the left temple). Recovery of movement (if possible) will be slow, incomplete, and require a year of rehabilitation.
2. Broca’s Aphasia: Lesion of the speech center in the left frontotemporal region. Soap will understand speech, but his own speech will become:
Difficult to articulate (dysphagia): Muscle weakness on the right side of the mouth/tongue + neurological deficits make speech unclear.
3. Visual impairments:
Right-sided hemianopsia: Loss of the right half of the visual field in each eye due to damage to the visual tract/paths in the left temporal/parietal lobes. He will “not see” everything to the right of the center.
Agnosia: Difficulty recognizing faces (prosopagnosia) or objects, especially if the associative areas of the temporal lobe are affected.
4. Complex partial:
“Freezing”, automatic movements (chewing, pulling at clothes), confusion after an attack.
5. Chronic headaches: Highly intense, resistant to conventional analgesics, due to damage to the meninges, scarring, and hydrocephalus.
Trauma to the temporal and frontal lobes + the psychotrauma of the event make mental disorders almost inevitable:
1. Severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD):
Vivid, haunting flashbacks.
Nightmarish dreams.
Hyperarousal.
Avoidance related to trauma/isolation (This can include avoiding direct contact with loved ones from TF141, as the first symptom described above is present.)
Emotional numbness/Denial.
2. Alien Hand Syndrome(It is extremely rare, but it is possible due to damage to the connections between the hemispheres and the frontal regions.)
3. Organic hallucinosis and psychotic disorders (schizophreniform symptoms):
Direct damage to the temporal lobe (especially the hippocampus, amygdala, auditory cortex) and thalamus (failure of sensory information filtering) is a classic cause of organic hallucinations and delusions.
4. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS - Alice in Wonderland Syndrome):
Highly likely! Often associated with damage to the parietal-occipital cortex (visual-spatial processing), the temporal lobe (time perception), or the parietal lobe (body schema). A bullet that penetrated the temple could have affected these areas or caused disruption to the connections between them.
5. Cotard’s syndrome.
Denial of body parts: Belief that his paralyzed right side is “dead,” “rotting,” or belongs to someone else. May refuse to look at or care for it.
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[🫂] Result:
This hypothesis paints a very realistic and bleak picture. The chances of surviving such an injury are slim, and the chances of leading a meaningful life afterward are even lower. Soap would have become a profoundly disabled individual with a severe combination of physical, neurological, and mental impairments. His courage would have been channeled into daily battles with his own damaged biology and psyche, rather than against his enemies.
There is something to be said when one of my favourite fandoms right now is CoD and I have never played a single game of it. But gods damn do I love the characters.
