It’s easy for them when we live in a free market utopia where it’s the right-wing and the super right-wing.

Sooooo... organize to get people to vote?

... wait, what?

Yeah, when I was referencing Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, it certainly wasn’t meant to imply that multiculturalism = utopia. “Migration” is a term used by scholars to encompass all kinds of human movement, and plenty of it has been (and continues to be) all too involuntary.

Hell, Transylvania in particular was on the front lines between the Hungarians and the Ottomans (both empires had dizzying amounts of migration), and it’s that conflict that gave us the actual Vlad the Impaler!

So here’s the thing about taking the Asshole Route to getting what you want: yes, it can be more immediately effective than Basic Decency. But any gains you get by being an asshole can only be held by continuing to be an asshole. And you can never let up for a moment, because you’ve pissed off enough people who are…

they didn’t introduce old characters in TNG till about S3 or 4 if I remember right

One of my few criticisms of the book series is that the main villains are mostly little more than crazy assholes. The TV show seems to be doing a lot better at giving them some nuance.

So, what I’m about to say could be considered a book spoiler, but technically the TV show did show us the thing I’m about to talk about, it just hasn’t emphasized it yet:

Medical intervention for artificial insemination is only really necessary when there are fertility problems. Otherwise all you need is a male donor, a turkey baster, and a decent sense of humor.

This is what I particularly appreciate about this kiss - romantic plot lines in games usually strike me as forced and shoe horned without any real point. This works BEAUTIFULLY as a framing device for the game’s brutality. ‘They should be very, very scared of you.’ Yuuuuuuup!

I actually thought something very similar (though I was admittedly not exactly sober myself)! I’m starting to think that the maze is an actual physical trigger of some kind. Maybe Arnold put something in the hosts’ code that makes the image of the maze something that a host can remember after a memory wipe.…

Does the lack of “spark” render the body unable to transform into anything except its last assumed form?

Dammit, I was hoping to find out that he’d gone back to being a replacement for Santa Claus.

My favorite subtle touch for the episode: when Naomi radioed the Roci at the end, she was speaking with her non-Belter accent.

Very well argued, even if I somewhat disagree with her skepticism that Disney might actually be purposefully emphasizing the First Order’s lack of coherent ideology in order to mirror Mussolini’s Fascists.

Excellent points! My main concern was trying to untangle the confusion that pops up whenever people talk about creoles and pidgins and (Louisiana) Creole and (Hawaiian) Pidgin, but I wasn’t aware that the pidgin-to-creole theory was quite so controversial (the texts I use when teaching my intercultural communication…

I love how this show gives small but important clues about things that aren’t completely obvious. For all the doubts the show builds up that Holden might really just be hallucinating Miller, there’s one key thing that proves immediately that this isn’t something he’s imagining: Miller’s goddamn hat. We the audience…

It’s a creole language - lower case ‘c’ creole is a fully developed language that emerges (often very suddenly) from a mish-mash of parent languages. It becomes a bit confusing because upper case ‘C’ Creole refers to a specific creole that emerged in Louisiana.

This makes me feel a little better about my experiences with Tinder. My partner and I both find it to be weird and frustrating. We’re in an open relationship and figured people on a supposed “hookup app” would be more down for being non-exclusive (we date separately and aren’t hunting for threesomes), but well over…