We seem to be living in a time of technological transformation. Dragons ruled the land for 1000' years, nobody could kill them. Cersei figures it out in 2 months. Sam cures greyscale in a night.

In the prophecy, Cersei is first told that she’ll be queen, and then be “cast down” by someone “younger and more beautiful,” then Cersei is told that after she’s become very sad, she’ll die:

That’s different, Bruce Wayne’s parents were murdered.

Them: All I know is, if you’re gonna tell me that a child is going to travel the world for eight years training and learning to become a master fighter, I’ll tell you’re being ridiculous.

Trump feels a strong kinship with people who spray liquids on things.

You don’t see how criminals might vote against the interests of their communities when it conflicts with the interests of their criminal pursuits?

Personal theory. At some point Cersei’s hired army, The Golden Company wll face off with whomever survives the Battle of Winterfell. And it will seem like the odds are hopelessly against what remains of the good guys...

I might be late on this...but I think we’re gonna get a scene in the Godswood where Jon is trying to defend Bran, and he’s surrounded by the dead, maybe even the Night King himself is there...and then Dany swoops in with a dragon and torches the dead. But she also takes the opportunity to torch Jon with plausible…

I had the same reaction with Arya and then I thought about how I’ve watched her brutally murder people in countless violent ways and not felt the same apprehensiveness and realized that we live in a pretty messed up society.

This random tweet summed up my thoughts pretty well.

God, I could only read a bit of that newsletter and skim the rest. It’s a story I’ve seen far too many times in the last few years.

I like to imagine those private investigators are still in Hawaii living off an expense account. sitting on the beach with aloha shirts and fedoras.

I’m not really into trucks.

Well, that’s always been the knock on Warren, hasn’t it? Whether it’s by her nature as a woman, or by the nature of her progressive politics, something* about her just riles the heck out of Republicans, and the conventional wisdom is that the best candidate is the one that un-riles or de-riles the Republican base.

I’m going to try to give you a somewhat more thought-out response than your slippery slope argument really deserves. You’re starting from the same flawed “centrist” position that the GOP likes: that capitalism is always good and that “free market solutions” will always produce the best (or at least most efficient)…

I was hoping coins would spill out of my monitor when I saw that.

But when the guy showed up to his house he just wanted to watch a bootleg DVD.

Correct. Marxists and other types of communists view socialism as a necessary evil stepping stone on the way to true communism. Communism’s ultimate goal is to eventually get to communal ownership of all means of production and abolish government. Unfortunately they never get to this step, mostly because they have to…

If I remember correctly ( which, it has been a couple of decades since I read up on it), socialism was the first step towards communism in the Bolshevik revolution. The seizure of the government and industry was necessary in their mind and Lenin was supposed to be a “custodian” until things were stabilized and could…

on the one hand I think you’re right about pretty much all of that...but on the other a part of me mourns the fact that so many bits of theory & terminology have been saddled with various kinds of baggage that it’s a genuine hindrance to serious & sincere discussion...