The Devil Went Down to Georgia is not that much of an inversion of the Faust myth. Goethe also has Faust pull a fast one on Mephistopheles. In the end of part II, he goes to heaven after winning the bet with Mephistopheles. It is a Deus Ex Machina moment, as angles just sort of declare that he redeemed himself because…

Oh come on now, you know that all he meant was that 2001 was a mediocre piece of cinema that will likely be forgotten to time due to the lack of technical skill on the part of its director. It certainly wasn't meant to disparage the absolutely stunning modeling work, which launched modeling into a new era of styrene…

The idea was good, but IMO the script was way too ham-fisted. I felt it could have made its point without also inducing eye-roll strain.

Bring me the King of the Jews so that I might meet him, this Supply Side Jesus.

I was shopping for a new phone and reading reviews (like a good white person)

That's true, but on the other hand the MX unit seemed to "die" after being shot, clearly has many capabilities that require the head (speech, vision, probably most of its sensor package), and the loss of it would at a minimum result in a diminished ROI for the unit for the time it was out of commission.Even if it…

Well, throughout U.S. history there were substantial efforts made to integrate Native Americans, to place them in restricted territories, to make lasting treaties, and to co-exist peacefully. With the exception of Andrew Jackson's presidency, which had a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing on a large scale, U.S.…

What exactly about that link illustrates an act of genocide committed by the U.S.? All it says is that there were cases of individuals murdering Native Americans. That's incredibly horrible, but it isn't genocide. We don't even know the context of what happened in those cases. Without that, how can we say there was a…

They weren't both genocides. One was a genocide, the other was ethnic cleansing. This is why I see it as important to make the distinction.

Well nobody is saying any of these things are anywhere near as bad as the Holocaust,

"Man, I could really go for a Starbucks."
"I don't really think we have time for a handjob, Joe."

Oh false equivalency, how I've missed your rough and undiscriminating touch.

Spend five minutes in /r/historyporn on Reddit and you suddenly won't be able to avoid them.

Well, certainly the Serbs didn't ever forget about Croatian support of the Nazis in the form of the Ustaše, though they do often conveniently forget about some of the shady alliances and pro-Nazi factions in Serbia. The war was incredibly brutal in Yugoslavia, and had a lot to do with why things went so crazy after…

Really, the Holodomor was all just one big comical misunderstanding.

Man, I haven't thought about that show in ages. What an outlier that one was at the time. Now, it would hardly merit comment. Ah, aging, what a mysterious and hideously awful thing it is.

The whole episode seemed to be rather campy. There were so many moments that were comically over the top, even beyond what we have already seen. In particular, the opening scene with the anger management discussions and Kennex shooting that MX so casually, not to mention the way Maldonado handles it, all just seemed…

I can begin to understand now why the Syndicate is such a successful and well funded criminal enterprise. If the government were really that careless with our money, I would be chipping in a few dollars to the local Syndicate chapter now and again.

Germany is singled because they really did something uniquely horrible in human history.

The point is that nobility is worth shit if you don't have the means to enforce it. If my insistence upon "nobility" costs the world millions of lives, is it really nobility, or is it prideful delusion?