It always amused me then parallels you can draw between America and Iran in some respects. You have the highly educated moderate progressives in the urban centres and the religious conservatives propped up by the rural vote. Then you watched Bush and Ahmadinejad playing to their base banging on about the “evil…

I’d have to bone up on the subject before I debate you, but I don’t think “increasingly belligerent Iran” is accurate. There was international pressure that stepped up when Iran was on the verge of getting “the bomb”, but that’s not 1:1 with Iran being more warlike.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Iran is not a threat to the US, except vis a vis Israel. Iran is more “western” in outlook (secular, industrialized/tech-y) than our busom buddies Saudi Arabia (religious, free-lunch oil potentate economy), for starters. Despite all the scimitar-rattling and anti-carrier rocket…

Jorah the Explorah

All the more reason to get some advisors and start prepping for 2020!

Cena is also an incredibly intelligent person outside of the ring. The man has been teaching himself Mandarin because he understands how big of a market/population/world influencer China is.

1. In the World Cup teams have one star per World Cup trophy on their jerseys (England, France, Spain have one star, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy and Germany have a couple, Brazil have about 36). It’s cool.

No one is forcing ministers, rabbis, priests, muslim clerics, shamans, pastafarians to be forced to officiate any weddings. The orthodox religions are still free to say they won’t officiate to those that don’t share their faith, that are divorced, mixed race, that are pregnant, that failed their personality test…

Sam’s scheme didn’t work. He and everybody else in Houston was hoping to get a few Bucks for this.

As always, smiling and not sharing the rock.

Just had to make a meme on the cat. Probably won’t work in isolation by itself. But works with article above.

Oh.

Only an asshole would complain about shortcuts and say U instead of YOU.

Straight Up.

What Nintendo is doing is not censorship. It’s content curation that they’re entitled to do on THEIR product. They’re not curtailing anyone’s speech.

Reminder: It’s not censorship if it’s not the government doing it.

So wait, they’re angry that unnecessary objectification and sexualization is being removed from their games, so they’re accusing one of the people who works on the games of... sexualizing and objectifying characters?

“Little late now, but a fine idea”—Leeds