DrRocketScience
DrRocketScience
DrRocketScience

There’s more than enough information in The Force Awakens to piece together enough to get the story across. The heavy use of Imperial tech signals they must be an Imperial Remnant. The fact that there’s no open war between the Republic and the First Order tells us that the Republic has decided to allow the First Order

Yes, because detailed political dramas about the power structures of the galaxy worked sooooooo well in other SW movies. That’s why Attack of the Clones is everyone’s favorite.

Yes. And another mystery-that-isn’t-really-a-mystery solved!

They had multiple first-hand reports from victims and witnesses, as well as and second-hand reports, all from people who would not go on the record with them. That’s very different from “no verified facts”.

And yet, somehow, Bernie managed to spend a whole lot of money, and still couldn’t get the votes. Weird, that...

Junkrat: skateboard cricket edition.

She doesn’t have a Winter Wonderland skin

As an administrative punishment issued by a private organization to which both parties are voluntary members? IANAL, but probably. Hence their lawyer being unable to get the restriction lifted.

ITT: “Fuck you, I got mine!”

Except I never said I wanted a third party. I said that if a third party wanted to be taken seriously, this is what it would have to do. It has nothing to do with my support. The Libertarians have the same problem as the Greens in this regard, and I wouldn’t vote for them on a bet.

So, when you say “realists”, who are you talking about?

Well, the Greens may be completely ineffectual politically, but at least they have their purity.

So you are going to tell me what I think. In that case, kindly go fuck yourself.

Please don’t tell me what I think.

<insert RDJ eyeroll gif here>

That would explain why Green candidates are running for office, and handily winning, all across this land.

I question the depth of your grasp of US political history

Duopoly is closer, but it’s not really a market. It’s a political system that, due to its design, strongly favors a two-party system. The addition of a viable third party wold only create a three-party system for maybe two election cycles, before one of those parties is subsumed by another (or splits and is subsumed

Which guys? If you mean Americans, and you’re a Brit, I’m gonna laugh. If you mean Americans, and you’re a Canuck, I’m gonna point at Quebec, and wait. You’re an American, then... well, then I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, sorry.