Resistance in France and Italy was extant, but this is some pretty delusional wishful thinking. Were it not for the efforts of the victorious powers, the Third Reich would still exist today, and those resistance movements would have been eliminated or very contained.

You should read Why the Allies Won by Oxford professor Richard Overy, which details exactly what the title suggests more concisely than many other works.

He is probably named Tommy in the credits because British soldiers of the era were nicknamed “Tommies”

Yeah, but your extreme stance is garbage too, for both argument’s sake and civility’s sake.

Yes, it’s the same guy. No, he was not awful; he just wrote for a different iteration of deadspin.

There’s nothing wrong with having “delusions of Alabama” when you’re Texas since Texas’ program is still the highest revenue generator in college football and the University of Texas is a lot larger, richer, and generally more important than Alabama.

Wypipo here. It doesn’t bother me at all. Why would I give a shit?

This is the same website (or whatever y’all are together) that over on Jalopnik defends the right of neighbors to have a full time mechanic’s garage on a residential street with a deed restriction

Stannis was the previous occupant of Dragonstone and he abandoned it when he got his new army from Bravos and attacked the wall.

Billy Beane is not a fraud. He is in a league whose teams are now run by 29 other Billy Beanes, and his budget is lower.

Just because you like to pretend that genders aren’t real, doesn’t meant the normals have to as well

I lived in London in 2002 and would come back from a bar at like 2am and turn on the TV.

The LBJ precedent basically

Y’all lost one election by not much. That does not indicate a systemic problem with your strategy. That indicates that the political process goes in cycles

Wipipo here. This is really good—thank you

The guy was unstoppable in the 2015 playoffs. I still have his bobblehead in my office.

He’s the only Stark and he leads the only still-extant army in the North (a coalition he built personally) and he has a great record as Lord Commander and he just killed the rival claimant

Jon is king because he is the only surviving son of Ned Stark as far as anyone knows and because he has experience and a great record in a position of executive leadership and the rules for bastards are bendable in emergencies and throughout the Westerosi history and because he leads the largest surviving army in the…

Is that where we take something with a native spelling, like “Colon” and Anglicize it to something like “Columbus”?

You’re the reason no one does anything nice