Nah. Criticizing Bernie doesn’t mean you’re implying that Hillary is better. Criticizing the way he talks about race doesn’t mean you’re implying that social democracy is the wrong way to go.

Agreed — the mini-map is occasionally useful for making sure you’re on the right road, but having a compass or being able to set a pointer toward waypoints would be much more useful and elegant. Maybe even a Shadow of the Colossus-style manual pointer.

Yep!

Peridot, but not Lapis — for now. The devs said on Tumblr that they’re working on a DLC eighth character.

Too much here to argue with, but I’ll take on this one point:

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What...? He was a Jew, and therefore Semitic — so he almost certainly looked more like an Arab than a white person.

I think it’s a joke.

1) I assume you mean bipartisanship. Yes, it is a new idea. Not necessarily a bad one, but the idea that liberalism and conservativism are two sides of the same coin and need each other is fiction, and IMO that kind of left-right thinking only contributes to political polarization.

1) Conservatism is not a “nebulous concept meant to balance out [my] own ideology.” I assume you’re saying I’m a liberal, but conservatism and liberalism were never meant to balance each other out — they’re just two ideologies that took on their current names in the nineteenth century, and that vehemently opposed…

Yeah sorry — didn’t mean at all to imply that Canada is a post-racial utopia without a history of slavery. I meant instead that the slave trade had a different history there because (a) slaves never reached the concentration that they did in, e.g., pre-Civil War Mississippi, where African slaves outnumbered whites,…

They don’t have our racial issues per se, but definitely have some racial issues. They don’t have the history of large-scale slavery that we do, and their interactions with the First Nations were different from ours (though they also have a pretty terrible track record on that front), but they have some of the same…

Jesse Williams gave a pro-BLM speech, JT responded saying he was #inspired, Ernest Owens responded to that calling JT out on cultural appropriation, JT tweeted back: “Oh, you sweet soul. The more you realize that we are the same, the more we can have a conversation. Bye.” Basically some Pepsi-ad-style erasure, but…

Being a “a self avowed liberal, and a Canadian socialist voter” doesn’t mean you’re not socially conservative on some issues though. As we’ve seen in recent days, people on the political left are sometimes willing to cover the asses of abusers.

No, semicolons are supposed to be used like periods, but with less semantic distinction between the two sentences. A comma would have been correct.

Bill Clinton criticized Obama a lot during the 2008 primary, including saying that Obama “played the race card” on him. Maybe that’s what it’s referring to?

? DS9 didn’t come after Babylon 5 though?

Specifically, I think “Far Beyond the Stars” dealt really well with the blend of serialized and episodic television. It ended on a similar note as “The City on the Edge of Forever,” but its consequences played out over the rest of the show — without beating you over the head with it or getting bogged down.

And the difference between the two is whether or not they’re documented — same as how an illegal gun owner could be called an unlicensed gun owner, or an illegal driver could be called an unlicensed driver.

Yeah — he claims to have thought she was awake, but then later on indicates that he was somewhat surprised when she spoke up.