Underwhelming? Really?

Yes, it is clear from the massive consensus on your viewpoint that I, the person who thinks two regimes based on white supremacy are similar, am the crazy one.

The Swastika flag was also one of two national flags of Germany, 1933-'35. From '35 to '45 it was the only national flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

1. How do you know the South was not expansionist? They were certainly violent and racist, and the entire country was "expansionist." I fail to see why the incumbency of a system changed the fact that it was monstrous, or what the flag stands for, in a meaningful way.

Done. Don't see a meaningful response to the points I raised. This is more than a passing resemblance: Hitler himself knew, approved and was influenced by American attitudes on race. Other than being 80 years removed from each other, being from different countries and one regime being genocidal while the other was…

No, they couldn't. The way you pay someone less than a slave wage is you pay them no wage at all. Paying someone zero dollars per lifetime is less than paying someone anything more than zero dollars per lifetime.

It's pretty similar. Where do you see the distinction? It was the flag of an oppressive regime that enslaved and murdered enormous numbers of people for racial reasons. The regime itself was explicitly racist, and in speech after speech and proclamation after proclamation made clear that the goal was the…

This is a dumb argument, because I was pointing out that you were wrong in what you actually wrote, and you just want to talk about how you KNEW season one was great from the opening note of the opening theme and this season Just Doesn't Have It. If you want to believe that season 1 was instantly recognizable as…

I kind of love that you call one of the goyest actors in Hollywood McChanukah.

I would love to know how many writers have ever actually attempted to drink—or seen anyone attempt to drink—an actual bottle of whisky. It takes a seasoned alcoholic all damn day, and will land most people in the hospital.

This is a dumb argument. If you liked S1E1 from jump, great. Most people thought it was between "okay" and "promising", as evidenced by its reviews. That's the reality. If you want to redefine "instant" to "about half a season," then okay, S1 had "instant cultural icon status".

It makes a difference because what you wrote is: "True Detective Season 1 was pretty much a masterpiece. (Not just in my estimation; it's one of the most highly-regarded works of the decade, achieving instant cultural-icon status.) And, it was clear from the very first minute how good it was."

Are you being serious? I love the hell out of True Detective S1, but this very website gave episode 1 a "B", and the first paragraph of the review read:

McChanukah?

Yes. Yes, I will do exactly that. Starting about fourteen years ago.

I love how weather, once the most straightforward topic possible, has become this perpetual hype machine swaddled in the world's most irritating graphics, presentation, naming conventions and advertising blitzes whether on TV or the internet.

Could we get some more JPEG on that final image? I can kind of read some of the entries, and I'd rather it were just completely illegible and unclickable wasted space.

He started out with a lot of money and began investing in real estate, in New York, at the start of a rally of epic proportions. I have trouble imagining how someone with several hundred million dollars and a real estate company, investing in New York, could not do spectacularly well over the course of the '80s,…

My initial reaction to this is "who cares?" James Bond wears a tuxedo, all manner of other movie badasses wear suits and ties that in terms of durability absolutely blow away every suit I've ever worn and soldiers from every era are constantly taking off their helmets and leaving them off for the entire movie. …

I checked. The bath is, the dragon eggs aren't.