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Has McDonalds kept the jingle so long because its a good jingle, or is it a good jingle because McDonalds has played it for so long?

Yea agree with that, mainly just saying a writer could potentially virtue signal AND agree with virtue.

I dont think hypocrisy is a fundamental characteristic of virtue signaling. It just means that the speaker is communicating something solely for the purpose of letting the reader know theyre sympathetic to a cause or belief. I agree that most things are political and social issues and art are always related and I also …

The “point” of the book, so to speak, is how many different philosophies there are floating around, and that we build up these myths and alliegances based on whatever random facts came into our point of view. They’ll describe Hagbard’s politics in one way and then come up with an entirely different POV on his belief…

Bless you sir, so heartened by this thread. Illuminatus has so much value still and i fear its disappearing from popular culture. 

Can I assume that last part refers to things like Universal Healthcare? How much of your opposition to such programs stem from worries about whether its affordable or that it would necessitate raising taxes? What if I told you that we could pay for everyone’s healthcare tomorrow and there would be no reason to raise…

This dumb troll thing you guys are doing now is really the best use of your precious time on this earth?

Yes, exactly! The original three are adventure films and the prequels/new trilogy try to be action films.

Videogames are like sports, for a lot of people its the only thing they put a lot of effort into thinking strongly about. They want to show off that they’ve formed an opinion about something and its hard to convince them that even if what they’re saying is 100% correct, its just not something worth caring about either…

Remember when AVClub used to make fun of badly photoshopped PR material?

Hot Take: for all this golden age of television nonsense that’s been driven into our heads for decades now, Deadwood is the only thing that comes close to rivaling film for artistic merit. At least in drama, comedy I would say has always been comparable.

Read this in a Review with Myles Barlow voice

I associate any overarching King mythology with Dark Tower, is that not going to be a big part of this show?

You know it, my friend!

That debt is payable in US currency not the currency of the countries that buy the treasury securities

Yea this is the standard comeback. The Weimar Republic owed debts in a currency it did not control and like Zimbabwe or Venezuela suffered a number of crises. 

No, the taxation of corporations or the rich or whoever DOES NOT IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER, affect the ability of the federal government to afford things. Affordability is not a concept the federal government, which issues the currency that can be used to pay for the social programs you want, has to ever worry about. The…

No, it’s easy to do if you’re a monetary sovereign and the thing you want to pay for can be bought in the currency you alone have the infinite power to create. Then your only worry is hyperinflation. Now, how exactly is forgiving student loan debt or providing universal health care going to cause hyperinflation? The…

Capitalism doesn’t reward hard workers and innovators. Capitalism rewards people who are lucky enough to be born to people with capital. You think any rich person works harder than 90% of poor people?