Citizens United could end up backfiring. People have been forced to move away from piecemeal campaign finance reform to addressing the issue on an amendment level. It might be twenty years to go from drafting to campaign to passage and legal challenges but it would be worth it.

The problem isn't lack of votes, and I know that my vote had importance in local races. The problem is that the national parties, especially the current DNC, don't really respect local races. If the local race functions as a proxy battle for president or a big ticket issue, then fine, they'll show up. But if it's a…

As an Oregonian I have to say that national absentee voting would be amazing. Oregon keeps on increasing its voter turnout in nonpresidential elections. You get to take your time, researching candidates and issues, with no standing in line and you can either drop your ballot in the mail or off at local library with…

It's still better than whatever they use in Britain.

It doesn't need to be real. It needs to look convincing, just as any actor needs to be convincing, otherwise it's camp at best.

The nice thing about those other movies is that they keep on aging and will comment of their prior stupidity or pretensions, so they're less of a relic of a certain age and place.

I love it all the arguments in favor of the changes and this episode have all relied upon false equivalencies, strawmen and moving the goalposts. If anyone wants to argue in good faith, I'll wait.

the future is unwritten.

false equivalence.

Straw man argument.

But that's not true at all. I've read all the books at least twice and I read a lot of SF/fantasy as well. However, I've quit the show because the show is failing at the fundamentals. I'm all for Game of Thrones being Game of Thrones but at some point last season they decided they didn't want to be that either. Also,…

The really great movies amplify the risk and humanize the robots.

that's the sole topic of a thread two comments down.

The show has shown an incredible disinterest in the Wall since at least season two, which is a shame because that's where the real thrust of the series is.

Yeah, D&D's constant references to GRRM is bullshit, because whenever someone asks GRRM he uses two metaphors: a butterfly effect from one small change, and two roads diverging in a dark forest. So while Martin might have said that this one thing happens to so and so, that doesn't actually equal what happens on the…

not true.

Perfect.

He's Before Midnight while she's Before Sunrise.

This is one instance where I wish I could see downvotes.

He's been pulling an Eddie Haskell. Selina would've looked pretty much the same if the show had been focusing on the previous president.