Even if you adopt a purely cynical view of the Democratic party’s motives, a lot of this stuff is handy for getting Democrats elected (particularly expanded voting rights) and undercutting Republican power (like scaling back big money donations - Democrats have had a distinct advantage for awhile now when when it…

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?

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…

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?

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

BOOK SPOILERS

Counterpoint: ‘The nation’s top researchers concluded that you can’t hide how stoned you are and that you should be freaking out if you aren’t already.’

CYBERTRONIAN DANCE PARTY!!

I think it does serve a purpose beyond “just because we can.” It’s a tiny but significant refutation of the “this is grimdark Star Trek” complaint: despite the fact that they’re in a bloody war and are being forced to make hard choices about their principles, Tilly and Stamets are still fundamentally driven by the…

I took Sansa’s admission that she doesn’t tend to catch on quickly and call back to his “little game” of imagining the worst to mean that his plot was actually working just fine right up until then.

“It just so happens that your democracy here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do.”

My lady friend and I now always refer to her as Hermione Clinton. Both because of the reasons you mentioned, but also because she’s the one who actually saved the day time and time again yet almost never got any credit for it.

You’re absolutely right that the “free” college thing was a wild exaggeration, I should have known better to put it that way and will own up to that. It’s a complicated plan overall, but here’s a general overview of what I was talking about: http://time.com/money/3990445/…

Yes, which is despicable. You know what? Find me a goddamn president of the United States in the last century who shouldn’t by all rights be brought to trial for war crimes. Anybody involved with major decisions at the international level in this country has blood on their hands, and even if Jill Stein were to win the…