The term was created in irony, and used very briefly by progressives to poke fun at terminological revisionism. Essentially all subsequent use (and almost all examples) was by right-wing commentators creating a straw man to criticize. In any kind of popular use it refers only to the imaginary phenomenon of rampant…

Additionally, asserting trademark doesn't mean C-and-D and a lawsuit. It could also involve permission (that is, the trademark holder can simply issue permission and still have a defensible mark).

Like most libertarian philosophy, it all works out fine when you imagine a bunch of stuff that isn't actually the case (in this case, a libertarian would likely posit the existence of a bunch of other drugs that do the same thing you could pick instead, because government has gotten out of the way of the plucky…

Why does the Middle Ages all have to be England or France? Why not do something with the Mali Empire or Ethiopia? That might add a bit of surprise or difference anyway.

Names don't really mean anything, regardless. There's no requirement that your last name matches your ethnicity. I've known Nguyens and Chins with no hint of Vietnamese or Chinese blood, through marriage or step-parenthood or even stranger stories.

Correct, he was punished for tactlessness, not his actions.

You wouldn't call someone who abandoned medical school a "trained doctor," would you? And his lightsaber is rather conspicuously unstable.

Exactly. The stormtroopers never hit them because that was the plan.

As explained again and again, the stormtroopers on the Death Star were letting them go and couldn't shoot them.

What makes you think Ren is a "trained Jedi"? All we know is that he abandoned his training and is strong with the dark side of the force— he is good at mind-reading and throwing people around. He handles his light saber as a blunt instrument and throughout the movie does more damage to consoles and unarmed victims…

Your second two flaws don't really bother me. All the re-treading felt like something done to heal rather than provide continuity and I'm okay with it.

I was wondering that, too—as in, "Is a sensitivity to the Force the thing that set Finn apart and made him 'wake up' from being a stormtrooper"?

I agree with that; after all, all the little jerks at school "spoiled" The Empire Strikes Back for me but it was still a good movie.

This seems to be roughly the consistent usage in science fiction, the only place this applies.

Oh, it's pretty explicitly a "do-over" of Anakin's story, like "Oh the prequels fucked this up, we'll try again." I mean, a bit later down the arc, but still.

Rey is shown to be a very practiced fighter herself. Ren is shown to basically hack at things and use his natural Force powers, which is appropriate for where he is in his training.

I got a TV antenna for things like that (actually I got two, because I got one, took it down, forgot about it, then raced around Thanksgiving morning to get a replacement so I could watch the parade with quarterdavid, found a Radio Shack (!) which was open at 8am on Thanksgiving (!!) in a sort-of holiday miracle).…

The Twi'lek and that fat multibreasted woman were his dancers.

Could it be… Satan?!

"Big McLargehuge" is still my go-to fake name.