Um- because his “opinion” is not an expression of taste, but an assertion of fact. He isn’t immune from people saying “that’s stupid” just because he prefaces an incredibly stupid statement with “I think”

The Hebrew looks like it checks out tho? Unless the foreign language education I stopped receiving at 13 somehow fails me, it says “Da-ra-kuhn”

Their law school is downtown too. Nice building from what I’ve seen.

Yes, revenge is a dish best served while punishing yourself financially.

Oh wow - it is that story, isn’t it? Never occurred to me.

Fair enough - does that look like it’s going to happen? (Not from the area and am not up on the race.)

I hear you, but to a certain extent it makes sense for Dems in vulnerable swing state seats to keep their powder dry until they have majorities that can actually get things done. Why vote against an essentially inevitable (under current legislature makeup) cabinet pick and risk alienating gettable GOP votes?

Right? Next thing you know he’ll be rolling out new, gigantic olive-drab hats for his cabinet and insisting they carry little notebooks around and feverishly jot down his fits of spontaneous genius.

So what’s the upshot of that? It’s still a fairly large chunk of the electorate - what does it mean to decide they are a lost cause?

Based on that lead photo, I’m a little concerned Prince William and Stephen Miller might be converging into a single being

My understanding is that they’ve even abandoned the “soccer” pretext and will now just play the Mayan ball game (with losing teams sacrificed after group play ends and after the now-more-literal elimination matches, obviously)

You’re forgetting “cause public funds to be used for religious purposes” and “set things up to encourage parents to choose religious over secular education, thereby swelling the ranks of the evangelical right” (though maybe that’s covered by the “line the pockets” item? Either way - point is we’re fucked!)

No, no -in this case both work, because it was per what Beltran had to say. (I’ll show myself out.)

Never heard of Heroes of Ruin - what system was it for and did it get a US release?

Yeah, totally agree - a “bad vibe” is a very real survival signal (and you should usually listen to your gut on stuff like that), but it’s also exactly the type of thing that’d get her labeled as crazy/unstable/difficult and hurt her career, isolate her. She can’t be faulted for keeping it to herself - it’s such a…

There she is

Really? That’s nuts! How long ago/where was that (if you don’t mind me asking)? And what about an unmarried woman?

It is, in fact, one of the only two things that can be charged as “treason” under the constitution.

Yeah - but then you’d usually have to explain what a moor is. Just say Europe. People get that

I think his point was that “white” was not the right choice of words to evoke the real hurdles you identified - nothing more than that.