Fair point. But I don't think very many Brits fly the battle flag of the continental army off the back of their fiestas.

It's all over New England. Maine, Vermont, Mass, NH, once you get off the main tourist roads and into the woods, trailer parks, or certain neighborhoods they're everywhere.

In my experience in confronting them there's definitely a racial component, but the flag is not seen in the proper historical context because the people who fly it, by in large, are interested in neither context nor history. The flag is seen as a cultural identifier like a gun rack, or a Jeff Foxworthy shirt, or…

Haha, that's right! Romans, not exactly objective about their own history.

I live in rural New England and I intellectually understand that the idiots who fly confederate flags around here likely have no concept of the injustice (and that word doesn't begin to cover it) that the flag represents. And that they use it merely as a signifier to assert their own pathetic and failing identity in…

They would have raped and killed a lot of people. Then left.

If you're interested in some alternate histories of the Russo-Japanese War, I have some animes starring inappropriately clothed middle schoolers you may hate. If you're interested in the Sino-Japanese War I also have some deeply troubling pieces of nationalist historical blindness that are also anime.

How weird. You spelled "an annoying shithead" as "cheerful".

I remember watching it for the first time on Canadian TV. Funnily enough, Doctor Who partially owes it's existence to a hockey strike. See, the NHL went on strike and the CBC needed something to fill the hours of airtime that would normally go to the sport. Thus, they threw a ton of money at the wall and filled their…

What? That was their reaction? Not the song or the dumb motorcycle action or stupid shot of Scotty on the cliff? How can you even pretend to be a Star Trek fan, watch that trailer, and find that your biggest problem is that there's not enough racial purity? What. The. Fuck. I hated that trailer (loved the movie) but…

There's so many worse episodes. What about the one where a bunch of women tie Harry up, blindfold him, and beat him with sticks, but not in a hot way?

And Robert Beltran's attempt to become an inanimate carbon rod was an unparalleled act of non-violent resistance to those scripts.

Yet again, the Simpsons proves that the lowest common denominator is always a good predictor of both comedy and tragedy.

I know I shouldn't, but I'd love to see some Voyager write-ups around here. Handlen's increasing lack of patience with Neelix would be amazing to read.

I'm pretty sure that the only people arguing that slavery and the resulting disenfranchisement of African-Americans wasn't a massive moral, spiritual, and political mistake are nightmarishly racist morons.

That REALLY depends on your definition of "Liberal." There's also a lot of arguments that the American Revolution succeeded precisely because it didn't get bogged down in what is considered to be "liberal" values today like economic equality, social compassion, and extensive suffrage. I take these arguments with a big…

I can't disagree with you on that, I just think it's an over-simplification to claim that exceptionalism as a concept is inherently flawed. It very well may be, but honestly, that's true of every policy or form of government. I mean, that's a big part of The Republic, the first political theory book ever written.

There's a strong argument to be made that exceptionalism (which people often use interchangeably with imperialism) has, on the whole, provided the world with decades of relative peace and stability. There are obvious missteps and failures both moral and political, but exceptionalism as a policy is not inherently more…

The long-term goal of a strong inheritance tax is not about funding government, it's about preventing the rise of a permanent aristocracy. How the Republican Party convinced America that it was about anything except that is nothing short of genius.

Huge reams of clunky expository dialogue in an anime? Sir, I call you a liar and demand that we meet at Renoji Academy for a comment competition. As we both know Renoji Academy was funded during the Showa Era as a place for exceptional internet commenters to mingle with other such individuals. Now I, Nerd Paragon,…