I have to call BS on Baraka’s bet on the Ice Dragon. It is massively unfair to let people bet after the week the bet first aired; there is so much more knowledge now than then (there WAS NO ICE DRAGON when that bet was created!)

Wow, Turkish prisons. And 3 months to 2 years for “insulting”? That’s a pretty harsh crime. Half of the users of the Internet (well, okay, 2/3rds) would be in prison for that one.

Maybe if you could figure out an angle to convince them that enacting a specific democratic socialist goal here and there in bits and pieces somehow “owns the libs”.

It’s the party in love with the death penalty. But wouldn’t apply it to Hitler.

The purpose of pointing out the 83 vs 88 percent, in this case, is to prove that not only was what DonJ tweeted was a false stat, but that he chose 88 deliberately. No where in the article does the writer point this out to disparage the Dem.

Fuck your “Well actually” horseshit.

It’s true! We’re so lame!

It’s a wrench that covers the entire nut, rather than a portion like a regular wrench. It has a ratcheted handle that turns easily. It’s excellent for nuts in hard to reach places, like engines, because you don’t have to get as far down as with a conventional wrench. It might also give you better leverage, but I’m not…

This is what popped into my head

The first thing she suggests at the bar is jalapeño poppers, because she knows they’re Jason’s favourite.

Personally I think Chidi arriving at Eleanor’s room in one second and holding a mystery socket wrench (so that’s what that thing was? Okay then) will turn out to have been due to as-yet-unseen machinations of the afterlife, that it literally *was* one second, and that Chidi will come to realise this and get…

Theory:  The rules that determine who goes into the Good Place are so strict that no one has ever been placed in the Good Place.

- The last five minutes of that episode really rescued it.
- I realize that Trevor was supposed to be dragging down the group, but he was also dragging down the episode.
- So what ultimately happened to Trevor?
- I swear that I heard that door knock as well.
- BLAKE BORTLES!
- “I think that this is a real gun.”

Too much goddamn Trevor, not enough core-4 group dynamics.

Trevor was doomed to fail even if Michael didn’t get involved. Everyone was bonding over their dislike of him.  Jason and Tahini went straight to their mutual attraction. Chidi wasn’t doing anything he doesn’t already do, and Simone was always going to get him and Eleanor back together.

Theory 1: The four will find out…

“Brave” doesn’t mean “good guys”.

Yeah; I don’t think the point is invalid. Suicide attacks are the opposite of cowardice and more the ultimate example of how zealotry can compel people to do things that go against basic survival instinct. The coward is the one who orders others to execute the attacks for him, not the people who actually carry them…

The take, is subtle and not smarmy. “We underestimate our enemies - at our peril - by calling them cowards. They are very brave lunatics willing to die for God” is the another way to state what he was saying.  

Kevin Kruse is a great person to follow. Especially whenever Convicted Felon trots out “More Republicans voted for the Civil Rights bill than Democrats” ignoring that all the Southern racists Dems then switched parties.

One of my current favourite genres on Twitter are actual historians dunking all over D’Souza with actual history and actual sources while he diligently hand waves it all off when he doesn’t ignore it completely.