Yeah but the EU is accountable to an electorate. Several in fact. The European Parliament which has its own elections and the Council, which consists of ministers/prime ministers, most of which are either directly elected or from the parties that won the national elections.

You sound like a white person who gets called out for being racist.

Being an asshole isn’t necessarily the result of some social disorder. Some people just have a shitty personality.

Irrelevant. The DMCA is not there so you can protect your brand, its there to protect against infringement on your copyright. What youtubers do is not an infringement of that copyright its fair use, using the DMCA strike system against a youtuber for playing your game is abuse of the law. If you allow this to happen,…

Well, there is more than one way to advance through history. Europe’s advances are all very particular advances that heavily favored the nation state. Its why Europeans came up with the modern nation state and not China or the Ottomans.

Or perhaps people generally don’t respond well to being told to fuck off whenever you fail to come up with a actual response. Yeah, you’re a really great example of someone who believes in human dignity. Can’t even be bothered to grant others the dignity of having a different opinion than you.

What is organized religion other than a largely accepted world view that marries narrative with factual statements and ethical judgement? Liberalism is as much an organized religion as Catholicism.

I would say that the arrival of the Targayens stopped progress dead in its tracks.

What makes you think that? The World of Ice and Fire the untold history of Westeros is pretty clear in saying that at the start of that 8.000 year period, human civilization in Westeros is living in a bronze age.

Human civilization has been around since roughly 10.000-8.000 BC. So basically, it took us 10.000-12.000 years to go from nothing to the digital age. Its the typical Eurocentrist mistake to only start counting Western history from 0 and pretend we advanced to the digital age in only 2000 years.

Well fuck, thats a shame.

Its not exactly bad reasoning. Nationalist xenophobic anti Islamic discourse in a country can create a distance between mainstream society and the Muslim communities within society. Add that these communities often have a much weaker socioeconomic position with much less opportunities to get ahead in life and its not…

Well, Dragonball is pretty lazy and shit. Roughly all of the shitty shonen anime tropes make an appearance in Dragonball, and its use of filler is legendary.

Yeah but did she know? Do all these people that bought into Trump really know what they were getting into? Or the people that got burned by one of Trump’s many failed businesses, did they know? And the people that got tricked by other con artists, did they really know?

It is bad writing written by bad writers. And because they are bad writers they write bad characters and stupid superweapons into the lore, thus turning the lore silly and dumb. And that sucks for the entire franchise. Overpowered characters and weapons aren’t necessarily a bad thing, but more often than not they…

The point isn’t that an extremely powerful force user can do all those things. Its just that Star Wars legends is absolutely littered with planet destroying superweapons and Jedi with god like abilities in the Force. The more planet destroying super weapons and the more god like force wielders, the cheaper they get.

If having fun comes at the cost of story and characters, it quickly stops being fun and just turns into silly and dumb.

Because its a science and not just a bunch of authors that go around collecting stories and publish those stories verbatim into a book. On top of that, anthropology does much more than simply study the obvious stuff like history, religion, myths etc. Its easy to note those things down as stories. But once you start…

Its not the letter itself thats inappropriate, its what it suggests the museum does that is.

It is censorship because you are diminishing the artist ability to reach an audience. She is no longer capable of expressing her thoughts and ideas through her art to other people. And, if this becomes the way to operate, then other artists will also be unable to express certain ideas because saying something that…